Personal Narrative Essay: Stop The Cop

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Stop the Cop Is it acceptable that our town’s tax money goes towards gas for a cop and his cars leisure? There are many unacceptable reasons that can be brought up but, the most important are that the car is drove anywhere and everywhere even off duty, by allowing this to happen a very important contract is broken, and it takes an intolerable amount of time to get to our town in an emergency. Many residents including myself are very displeased by the problem and the misuse of their tax money. “There are many other things that we can spend our tax money on”, says a lifelong resident. The problem is very easy to solve but, nobody wants to speak up about the problem because it is a law enforcement car. Our voices need to be heard. One way to solve the problem …show more content…

Many have had this experience including my uncle who has been a life time resident. “One night I heard knocking on my door it was probably around 1 am”, says Kade. The knocking was so loud that it woke up him and his kids who then stayed by his side all night scared for their life. The knocking stopped so Kade decided to look out the window only to see a man in black clothing knocking on the neighbor’s door. This didn’t only last one day but weeks. After many sleepless nights and attempts to get inside of the houses from the man he decided to call the cops. By the time the cop arrived it had been an hour since he had last seen the man in black clothing. If this incident would have been any worse such as a successful break in the cop who has to drive 20-40 minutes to get here wouldn’t have made it in time. We should feel like we can be safe through all hours of the day not just in the light. Instead of knowing the cops will get to us in a few minutes we have to wonder if our cop will show up in 20 minutes or an hour and 20 minutes. It’s

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