These are the stories of the American Police Veterans.
America made a promise to take care of those that have protected America. That promise wasn't broken. It was empty words. Some of those words were turned into laws, where they were ignored. America Thinks that retired and disabled law enforcement officers are living large at the expense of the taxpayer. Read their stories. Then decide for yourself. Who is paying the ultimate price for safe American communities.
Disabled retiree's have been screwed over pretty well. We've been forgotten after making the Ultimate (lifelong) Sacrifice, and their is no end in site. I'd like to explore this idea with the readers. We have a police disability system with no professional management. It is balanced on the backs of disabled cops.
Every community and political organization employing law enforcement officers treats every instance of police disability like it is the only one. In my community, I'm the only officer to retire on line of duty disability in the history of the agency. I have to ask. Why should such an important life altering event be handled based upon the whims and experience in such a decentralized and inexperienced manner.
I think that we need to articulate a contract with America on a disabled law enforcers bill of rights. What I learned from 9-11 was that public safety will be the employee group that will suffer the most deaths and disabilities in the domestic defense of America.
