The next time you hear someone making excuses for why we have police abuse of power that “Oh, when you are a police officer, you are in the line of fire every day”, have them come talk to me.
The farmers you all make mythologies of for local food wake up every morning and stare down the barrels of fully loaded weaponized debt, ready to go off with a hair trigger notice when some executive decides the numbers on their shareholder reports aren’t quite good enough.
If you think being a police officer is a dangerous occupation, let’s look at the numbers. Let’s take a tour across rural Iowa and Minnesota where your food comes from, and listen to the stories of the family farms that no longer are, after a suicide or farm accident.
Then tell me what you think is more dangerous work.
Mayor Troy 