Most law enforcement officers are good, decent, and conscientious people. They do their jobs, do it right, try to do it well to varying degrees, much like anyone else. The difference for them is that their job puts them under a magnifying glass. If you screw up at work, your boss might give you a ration of crap for the screw-up. You might lose your job, sure, but if so, it’s not for any reason other than that’s the decision your now-former employer thought was best for them.
If you’re a cop, you might get fired or forced to retire, not because it’s best for the department so much as best from a PR standpoint. Just one bad decision can ruin an entire law enforcement career. It’s rough, and I’ve seen how it can go.
But on the same token, while law enforcement has it rough in a lot of ways, when it comes to guns, they often get special treatment. They can own things the rest of us can’t in some states, and they can carry pretty much anywhere in the country with just their badge to justify it, while we have to jump through countless hoops.
Do they always deserve that trust? Most of the time, it could be argued that it is. However, as all forms of law enforcement officers are people first and foremost, they are people, and that means they can be really, really stupid, too.
A parole officer with the Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) faces charges for allegedly failing to properly store a gun for the second time in the last six months, police said.
Wendy Vereen, 47, of Bridgeport, was charged with criminally negligent storage of a firearm after allegedly leaving a firearm in the fitting room of a store at the Connecticut Post Mall last Friday.
State judicial records show that Vereen had previously been charged on Nov. 4, 2025, with improperly storing a pistol/revolver in a motor vehicle by Stamford police.
Vereen was put on administrative leave the next day.
Now, I’m assuming that this is a personally owned firearm this time around, but it doesn’t really matter. Parole officers are law enforcement officers, and she can’t seem to store a firearm in accordance with Connecticut law.
Don’t get me wrong, the laws there on gun storage are stupid, and they shouldn’t be in place, but law enforcement officers are supposed to enforce the laws, which means they should also be following them, even if they’re dumb.
This isn’t the first example we’ve seen of a cop being irresponsible with their firearm, either. How common is it? That’s something that’s kind of hard to determine, mostly because no one seems to keep any real statistics on it, and we don’t know how many departments just sweep something like this under the rug, if any.
I’m inclined to see it as no more than what we see in the general population, because law enforcement officers are mostly a reflection of society as a whole. Absent any other information, I’ll assume it’s not exactly common, much like anywhere else.
Still, we often see gun control laws crafted to infringe on our rights, but then treat police officers of all stripes as different animals entirely. All animals are created equal, you see, but some animals are more equal than others. That’s all, I’m sure.
Police can be stupid, just like the rest of us. Never let anyone try to convince you that they deserve special treatment when it comes to the Second Amendment, simply because.
That ain’t how it’s supposed to work.
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