PAX Centurion - November / December 2014

www.bppa.org PAX CENTURION • November/December 2014 • Page 21 Representing and providing counsel to members of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association since 1993 regarding critical incidents, criminal and departmental investigations, and civil rights matters. Many members have also sought our guidance and representation in a wide variety of matters, particularly personal injury claims on behalf of injured officers and/or their family and friends. We also provide representation in criminal and civil litigation, real estate and estate planning. We invite you to learn more about Byrne & Anderson, L.L.P. by visiting our website – ByrneAnderson.com JAMES E. BYRNE KENNETH H. ANDERSON ERIC S. GOLDMAN • JONATHAN E. TOBIN • ANDREW H. MILLER 50 Redfield Street, Boston, MA 02122 (617) 265-3900 • Fax (617) 265-3627 What happens when they say, sorry, it’s too dangerous, you’re on your own.You hate us anyway, so do as you see fit. YOU stand in front of the bullet and protect your own family.You pry your mangled wife out of the wreckage you caused while drunk and give her CPR in front of your children.You stand in the pouring rain in the dead of night on an expressway and protect your own car from being hit by a semi until the tow truck gets there.You unlock your own car you left your keys in.You change your own tire when 8 months pregnant in 102 degree heat.You stand in front of your own abusive husband and his weapon and his fist and tell him to leave your home without harming you. You get in your own car and race to stop someone who stole from you or hit your car a few miles back.You enter your neighborhood store and approach a masked man with a shotgun and reason with him not to kill you or those in the store.You go knock on the neigh- bor’s door who has a warrant, a house full of weapons and a sign on the door that says “don't tread on me.” You watch for drunks out of control on the highway in an ice storm.You pray they don't kill you.You respond to suicide calls and cut teenagers from makeshift nooses in their garages or scrape their brain matter out of the soles of your boots.You tell their parents what happened while they were out socializing, again. You walk into a house with no power in 105 degree heat contain- ing the bodies of an entire family, including babies, now maggot infested and unidentifiable by anything other than the stench of rotten death.You walk up to cars who have nearly run you off the road only You’re just a cop… for what it’s worth… From Just a Cop on page 20 to be met with a gun in your face and no time to react. You try and coax a brutally beaten and savagely raped teenager the same age as your own daughter out of the closet where she was left to die as she holds a knife to her own throat.You convince her tomorrow will be better. You hate the police?You have no use for them?You think they’re worthless? Do it yourself. Worry about it all on your own.You surely can do better.You surely are wiser than those lazy, corrupt, doughnut eating fools you don’t give the time of day to when you hear they were gunned down while you went on about your business. Please, give them a rest and do it yourself. You might want to hug your family and have your affairs in order before you head out, there's a very real chance you’ll never make it home, of course that’s no big deal… you signed up for that, and my tax dollars allow me to ignore your worth. After all, you're just a cop. Oh, and you sure as hell better do it all perfectly, every single time. After all, you're not human anymore.You're just a cop. No one cares if you get it right... but you sure as hell better never get it wrong... because a good cop who did get it right will get his head blown off in an entirely different state if you screw up. That goes for you too, by the way. Better pray all 740,000 do right by that badge today, if not... It's all on you, because all cops are bad cops, right? – Melissa Littles, Founder, The Police Wife Life, LLC *Statistics based on FBI full-year crime data reports based on lat- est three full years ended in 2012.