Dear Editor,
With reference to your editorial of 26.5.08, ‘Middleton Street,’ I would like to ask if you were an unarmed policeman and you came under rapid gunfire would you pursue that criminal without backup? If you saw an offence being committed blatantly in front of your eyes would you ignore it? Are not policemen and women human too, and don’t they have families?
Everyone wants the police to do their job but when they do, they are confronted with condemnation, or else it is not mentioned by the media or so-called politicians, who instead of backing the lawmen, always find a negative side, especially that coming from the families of so-called innocent people. This makes the police’s job difficult.
We should support the police in their job because God knows it is not easy; you could get killed just doing your routine job or going home from work in your uniform. I would like to make mention of how much the American system supports lawmen in their work, such as in the case when policemen opened fire on a bridegroom coming out of a club unarmed shooting him with fifty-two (52) bullets. The policemen were freed of that crime. I think that was wrong but that is how the system works in America.
We Guyanese are too quick to ‘bad talk’ the lawmen and women of this country who are not the ones that make the laws but just enforce them. Keep up the good work all lawmen and women of Guyana, one day better will come.
Yours faithfully,
Elizabeth Gordon
