As a police officer myself, these tragic events have deeply affected me, as well as everyone I work with. Most officers, at least most of those who I know and work with, are fundamentally good people. These recent crimes seem to be unprovoked attacks, urelated to a specific grievance held by the shooter towards the individual victim slain.

While there is no excuse, no valid reason, for the deaths of these officers, this situation gives me pause for thought. This thought is for more than simply the increasingly violent atmosphere in which I obviously work.

Like many officers, I have chosen this career because I genuinely enjoy serving and protect my community. I strongly believe that, while we all must face the consequences of our actions, and take responsibility for the same, ALL people (including all officers) are imperfect. I'm certain that, including myself, we all make mistakes. I know officers who have been convicted of the same crimes they have arrested for. They are good people; good, imperfect people. This fact reminds me that my position as a patrol officer does not entitle me to act as judge and jury as well.

For this reason among many others, I take great exception to certain existing "institutional viewpoints" within law enforcement. I have witnessed the proliferation of certain attitudes and behaviors within the past ten years, on the part of law enforcement, which are very aversarial towards the community and generally counterproductive to our mission.

I have also seen a marked response of righteous anger on the part of rank-and-file citizens to such prevailing attitudes.

These citizens I refer to are not the typcial "doper" or "dirtbag" commonly referred to among LEO circles, although this type of pigeonholing is indicitive of the problem itself. These are working moms and dads, white-collar workers and business owners. These people are outraged towards a clearly overzealous executive branch.

Much has been said and written regaring "community policing" and "partnering with the community". While such bromides inpire a certain hope towards the abandonment of the contemporary "us-and-them" phlosophies, these endeavors do not go far enough.

Without individual officers remembering, always, with each contact, to have the words of the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics in mind, this situation will only get worse. Words such as, "my fundamental duty is to serve mankind", which refers to all people. Others like, "to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation", also apply to an officer's own conduct, not just some random "suspect". Particularly poignant is, "I will enforce the law courteously and appropriately without fear or favor, malice or ill will." For officers who think they are somehow better than those they serve, they would do well to remember, "I will never act officiously or permit personal feelings, prejudices, animosities, or friendships to influence my decisions."

I listen to some officers harangue each good law-abiding citizen they contact, employing the "law of averages" to try to find drivers holding drugs or illegal weapons. Instead of being discriminating and using their common sense to identify and address specific instances of clearly-articulable unlawful conduct, some officers choose to treat everyone as a suspect. It is an inescapable truth that treating all of society as a criminal element will invariably lead to revolt. Under the above-described circumstances, such a revolt would be well warranted.

As for me, I will continue to treat ALL people in my community with respect. While I fully intend to offer the hope of justice to victims in my community, I realize that uncovering some rare, latent crime at the cost of interrogating (and alienating) everyone I meet is simply not a worthy endeavor I look forward to the day that I don't feel alone in partnering with my community, person to person. I look forward to the day that officers are once again seen with the respect we so desperately need to be giving to the citizens we protect.

None of this is easy. It's truly difficult to be the "bigger man" when dealing with a person who unleashes a barrage of profanity regarding your wife or mother. It is hard to restrain yourself when someone spits on you. It isn't hard to become jaded in this job. Not everyone can do it. Nevertheless, as a police officer, this is the sacrifice I make to wear this badge. Anything less than pure discipline and professionalism is beneath me.

I have faith that if I am ambushed, the only difficulty the investigating agency will have is dealing with the scores of witnesses who will flood their offices. I have zero doubt that the citizens would be on my side. Threats have been made on my life in the past because of the office I hold and for arrests I have made. These threats have been reported to me each time by citizens concerned with my welfare. I do not doubt for a moment that my community would "have my back" in a fight or a shooting tommorow, just as they have had in the past.

My only hope for the future of law enforcement is that we can put aside our egos instead of bolstering them with unnecessary "tune-ups" and arrests. That we can perform our duties for the love of our communities instead of increasing our "stats". That we can show people, every day, that we are there FOR them, not against them. Maybe then we'll have a year where none of us are ambushed.

Ms Malkin is right, this is not merely angst or even simple thuggery. This is cultivated, calculated hate directed against the most visible symbols of authority (and hence our civilization).

Among the key elements of the 60s radical movement were the creation of chaos, the demonization of the authorities, the dismantling of morality and decency, and the nurturing of hate into a violent weapon to be used against those in authority.

The media plays up anything with even a hint of white-on-black violence, even when a particular case turns out to be a hoax. But this black-on-white cultivated domestic terror gets virtually no play in the media.

Meanwhile, who does the current administration work hard to portray as "domestic terrorists"? Veterans returning from war, former law enforcement agents, anyone who attends a Tea Party or Town Hall meeting, etc. And when an actual terrorist guns down a bunch of cops? Crazy man who "snapped," even though the evidence shows that is far from the case. When an actual terrorist murders 13 unarmed co-workers at Fort Hood? Crazy soldier who "snapped," even though the evidence undeniably shows he's a terrorist.

Up is down, wrong is right, morals are just matters of opinion, good guys are really bad, bad guys are really victims, and no one is permitted to judge. That's not the result of foolish mistakes by the Left in America, an unexpected byproduct of their policies. That's part of the GOAL.

The fact that President Obama could even consider appointing a hateful, racist lunatic like Van Jones (not to mention Cass Sunstein and a dozen other radicals) to a position of power in his administration should frighten every American down to his toes. These radicals are not interested in a prosperous, strong and secure America. They view America as the bad guy, the cause of all the world's problems -- and their solution is to weaken this country systematically.

Obama doesn't attend the funerals of 4 police officers slain by a domestic terrorist because it's not a tragedy to him. It's a victory.

Huckabee's Willie Horton.