If the politicians and the haters have their way, this could be in your future. And if this post doesn’t succeed, it will be in your past.

Thanks to the popularity of our “McKayla’s Not Impressed” post on Facebook, thought perhaps you’d like some of these more often.

We may be the most professional individuals in our departments, but tolerating unethical behavior is, as the Code of Ethics points out, tantamount to endorsing it as acceptable.

It is the humility that some of our athletes express that endear them to us and make us proud they represent our nation.

In warfare, if you underestimate your adversary, you are setting yourself up to fail. Likewise, in the arena of public opinion.

Finding the answers to problems requires the courage to ask questions and to assert your desire to learn.

If you have to convince others that you are what you say you are, it isn’t going to happen overnight. It has to be a perception of everyone at all times because when you really need others to see those qualities in you, it will be too late to change the perceptions when that moment occurs.

For any City Council to naively suggest that personnel reductions and other resource denials won’t adversely affect public safety just because “they say so” is ridiculous and in fact, dangerous.