Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Once again the bullets fly....

Customs and Border Protection has had another shooting incident. This time in Brownsville, TX.
Once again, a subject in a vehicle being pursued by the police tries to run over CBP Officers, in this case several times. Several shots were fired and the bad guy was killed. One Officer was injured trying to get out of the vehicle's path.

A couple of weeks ago, it was in Douglas.

Just before that, it was Blaine.

Ask yourself, do you really think that a sixty or seventy year old should be doing this job?

Is that the individual you want protecting the borders?

This agency captures more wanted persons than all of the rest of the federal agencies combined.

It seizes more narcotics than all the rest of the federal agencies combined.

This is the only agency to catch a terrorist in the act, (Ressam12/99-Port Angeles, WA)

The men and women in this agency deserve "6c" law enforcement retirement of 20 years.
In no later than 37 and out by 57. They have earned it and it is better for the nation.

In a couple of days, I will be working with a bunch of new trainees. Some will be in their 20s and some in their 50s or 60s. There is no question that the more mature of the group will bring in good life experience, unfortunately, they will also bring in broken bodies. The worst part of it is in a couple of years, the young Officers will move on to other agencies that offer law enforcement retirement and CBP will end up with the old folks. They do bring life experience, but what they don't bring is job expertise in this field. Then they will stay a few years and be gone as well.


BT