Pernicious Pig on Patrol

I wish I didn't have to feel this way, but this is based on a lifetime of experience.

Pernicious Pig on Patrol

 

By Elton Camp

 

I want to hold law enforcement in high regard

But a certain percentage of them make it hard

On the police car it reads, “Serve and protect,”

And this, the public has every right to expect

 

At least where I live, there’s too many a time

When police themselves are doing the crime

It isn’t only the patrolman riding the street

At higher levels, dishonorable we will meet

 

Sadly, the word is now out that it isn’t far

To where a trooper stole items from a car

The newspaper tells us about a police chief

Who has been arrested because he is a thief

 

Police hiring practices we must begin to doubt

An officer at his home is arrested in a shoot out

True, these are exceptions, yet they aren’t rare

Law enforcement folks to do crimes will dare

 

There is the occasional cop who is a total a*s

One who loves the public to abuse and harass

He has been an ignorant loser all of his life

Now he wants to bully others due to his strife

 

Instead of seeking to arrest the serious perp,

Behind a sign will hide this smirking jerk

“Just a bit over the speed limit” he’ll glower

Because to give a ticket now lies in his power

 

He thinks that at last he is doing just so fine

Because he has a shiny badge to hide behind

Especially to minorities he feels so superior

Though to about everyone he is really inferior

 

To the vast majority of cops we say “Thanks,”

Yet, act against those who are bad in your ranks

A lesson that law enforcement has yet to learn

Is that respect you can’t demand, but must earn