Dunphy Grand Slam

For those who don't know, Jack Dunphy is the pseudonym of an southern California cop who writes for a couple of conservative publications. He's been around the block and has a vocabulary that rivals our own. He's also a reader of this blog and his latest article is a thing of beauty:

• Seldom does one see the folly of timidity demonstrated so quickly or with such clarity. Would that police managers across the nation heed the lesson provided this week in Baltimore.
  
  Here’s what happened: At 1:16 a.m. Tuesday morning, a police officer was on a traffic stop in West Baltimore. Without apparent provocation, a man passing by in a silver SUV tried to run over the officer. The officer escaped injury and broadcast a description of the car, which another officer spotted about a mile away. When that officer made a traffic stop, the driver exited the SUV and began firing at the officer with a handgun. The officer was not hit and a car chase ensued, with the SUV leading police on city streets until reaching Interstate 295, at which time a police major ordered the pursuit terminated over “safety concerns.”
  
  The officers involved in the pursuit, indeed officers everywhere, were flabbergasted. Here they had a suspect who had attempted to kill two police officers, and yet he was allowed to escape because some desk-bound major was afraid of what might happen if the chase had continued.

You should hop over and read the whole thing, but to summarize it, after the Baltimore police major terminated the pursuit, the felon who attempted to murder two officers resurfaced later and managed to wound both a police officer and an innocent female bystander. Dunphy describes the police as follows:

• Real Cops, 
• Slugs, 
• and Climbers

We'd call them Good Cops, Dogs, and Suckasses (you may have variations). Guess what this police major is? His entire purpose is to remove himself from the "chain of accountability" and hang the Real Cops out to dry. That another cop was injured by gunfire and an innocent woman caught lead isn't his concern at all - which is a sad state of affairs, but what too many departments have been driven to nowadays.