A lot of my conservative, Christian friends keep telling me that the vast majority of cops are good and it’s only a very small percentage of officers who get plastered all over the news and make a bad name for all the good cops. I acknowledge that most police/citizen interactions are peaceful and go unnoticed. But is never being on the news beating an unarmed citizen with a night stick all that is required to be a good cop?
A popular slogan among cops is, “I don’t make the laws, I just enforce them.“ That is the issue. A good cop can’t just check his conscience at the door and blindly follow orders. There are a lot of bad laws in this country–not just bad laws, but evil laws. A good cop can’t enforce an evil law. He must do something to stand against evil as all Christians are commanded (Ephesians 5:11). A cop who enforces an unjust law isn’t a good cop.
The first few minutes of the video below debunks the fantasy that a large percentage of cops are good. In it, you see dozens of cops arresting abortion protesters. The discussion in the video is about how the abortion protesters were treated unnecessarily rough. Every cop there was enforcing man’s law, and ignoring the fact that God’s law condemned them. The purpose of their abuse was to make a religious statement: “We have no king but Caesar.”
But to only talk about the broken bones is missing what may be the most important point. These abortion protesters are standing against the murder of babies, while the cops are standing with the abortionists. The cops are blindly following orders and protecting the business of butchering babies. That is not an option for a good cop. It is certainly not an option for a Christian cop. All the cops who were there participating are wicked cops.
If there had been good cops there, or Christian cops, they would have had no choice but to refuse to follow orders, leave the scene, or even sit down with the protesters.
The politicians and Supreme Court can decree all the evil laws they want, but those tyrants need muscle on the street willing to threaten, and carry out violence, or they’re just blowing hot air. Unfortunately, the tyrants have had no trouble finding plenty of bad cops willing to blindly enforce the law. And all too many of those bad cops claim to be Christians.
If, as my friends contend, the vast majority of cops are good, abortion would be over tomorrow. Christians could go down to the abortion clinic, block the doors, and the cops would stand with them against evil, because they’re good cops. We all know that won’t work, because cops and abortionists are allies. Abortionists rest easy at night knowing there are no good cops.