Are you officers mostly conservative or liberal?

[TheHighwayMan]

I was just wondering if you officers
in this forum are conservatives or liberals?
A real high percent of the officers in
my area of California are very conservative.

Are the majority of peace officers
conservative?

[tcsd1236]

yes.

[retired]

Conservative or liberal in what areas?

Retired

[Blue Leader]

OVERWHELMINGLY conservative in my department and area. There's only a few chuckleheads that vote Democrat and they are given grief all the time (in a friendly way of course). I'm stereotyping here but "liberal" thinkers are generally more trustworthy of folks which isn't necessarily a good trait in our job. Heck, it's tough to trust everybody you work around much less the people on the street.

[JKT]

I have worked for two Republican Sheriffs with the same department.

Conservative, to say the least.

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[CalvinNhobbes]

I find that you will find 99% of the people working in law enforcement to be conservative. Most democrats or liberal types tend not to go into this occupation. I'm however neither.. there are issues from both parties I agree and disagree with. If I were to choose one party i'd have to say a very moderate conservative :\

Originally posted by TheHighwayMan:
I was just wondering if you officers
in this forum are conservatives or liberals?
A real high percent of the officers in
my area of California are very conservative.

Are the majority of peace officers
conservative?

[Sparky]

Conservative.

HA! Some woudl say that was a mild understatement.

But technically, while my views are generally associated with conservatism, they actually are not. (Dependning on how you define conservatism I suppose.)

On many things I am very conservative, but on many I am not. The best way I like to put it is this, "I am so conservtive that I am almost a libertarian."

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[Jim]

Originally posted by Blue Leader:
OVERWHELMINGLY conservative in my department and area. There's only a few chuckleheads that vote Democrat and they are given grief all the time...

I assure you that if Democrats were not constantly given grief over their beliefs, you would find out that there are a lot more of them than you thought. It only appears that there are more Republican cops because they are more vocal and quick to attack their opponents as weak on crime, very similar to the so called "moral majority", which most of us know to be neither. Although no one can say for sure if more cops are democrat or republican, one thing we do know for sure is that more police associations and organizations endorse democrat candidates than republican. While this certainly does not prove that the LEOs they represent all agree with them, it certainly disproves the myth that a "vast majority" of LEO's are Republican. CalvinNhobbes' claim of 99% conservative is ridiculous.

Originally posted by Blue Leader:
I'm stereotyping here but "liberal" thinkers are generally more trustworthy of folks which isn't necessarily a good trait in our job.

Yes, he is stereotyping, which is a conservative trait, and I can assure you that there is no truth whatsoever to that "more trustworthy of folks" remark. I'm rather insulted that Blue Leader would tell people that I am less prepared to do my job because I'm a liberal. I believe Blue Leader is confusing people who are being protective of individual rights as being "more trustworthy of folk".
"Presumed innocent" is a liberal principal, something a lot of conservatives have trouble dealing with. In fact, the famous liberal Thomas Jefferson helped create the most liberal document of it's time, The Constitution of The United States, because he was less trusting of the government than the people. We LEO's are the administrative arm of the same government that Jefferson was being so careful to restrict. When we LEOs are found to be violating someone's constitutional rights, it is up to the liberal defenders of that constitution to step in and do the dirty job of curbing us. Most cops hate the ACLU for that reason. No wonder the liberal cops are less likely to be found up on the soapbox in the guardroom, where our conservative brothers are often found. You think I talk this way at work? No way. Most of the cops I work with would be shocked to learn that I consider myself a liberal, because I have a rep as a tough cop. You'd be shocked to learn how many you are working with too.

We liberals presume people innocent until we have reason to believe otherwise, and we protect everyone's rights, even people we don't like. But this does not mean that we trust anyone.

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[WannaBeCopper]

Originally posted by Jim:

We liberals presume people innocent until we have reason to believe otherwise, and we protect everyone's rights, even people we don't like. But this does not mean that we trust anyone.

Hey Jim, you took the words right out of my mouth. I couldn't have said it better myself.

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[Glockarmorer]

I'm a registered Republican, but like the song says, I'm also a "walking contradiction".

I am definitely conservative when it comes to things like taxes, welfare, the death penalty, and GUN CONTROL.

I do have a few liberal positions though, particularly in the areas of art/music censorship, freedom of speech, and the abortion issue. Though I find same sex marriages abhorrent, I also think that consenting adults should be free to do as they please in the privacy of their own homes, I just don't want to hear about it, see it, or have them try to convince me that they deserve some sort of preferential treatment as a minority.

Basically, I agree with most of George Carlin's "Bad American" routine

G.A.

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[swatbwana]

Libertarian!!!!!

[ThaliaMoser]

We liberals presume people innocent until we have reason to believe otherwise, and we protect everyone's rights, even people we don't like.

No, no, no. That's what us CONSERVATIVES do.

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[Blue Leader]

What a bunch of crap!! Liberals by their very nature tend to be trusting and forgiving. Why do you think your boy Clinton survived all that crap.

You must live in la-la land as well if you presume the best and trust everybody until they give you a reason to think otherwise. That's how cops get hurt and killed. You come on down to my town and I'll drop you into a nice lil' place. Even though many are afraid to admit it, cops are "prejudice" (meaning we pre-judge) as part of the job. We assume things about people based of the way they dress, the tattoos they have, ect...

I'll stand by my statements!!

[Buddingnovelist]

GlockArmorer said it all for me.

[Watchman]

Constitutionalist....