McGruff The Crime Fighting Dog Deserves More Respect From His Contemporaries

As I watch the playoffs this commercial comes on roughly 100 times every single game and it makes me sick. These cops openly admit they’ve got no leads on this case. Everything they’ve tried has produced nothing but dead end after dead end. They’re packing up and heading home ready to call it quits like the quitters they are. Meanwhile McGruff is out there pounding the pavement, dusting for prints, questioning witnesses, chasing down suspects, just doing his job as he has since July of 1980. Not asking for any special recognition, just maybe a smidgeon of long overdue respect from his coworkers.

And what does he get instead? Ignored. Belittled. Mocked. I’d suggest he take his complaints to HR but we all know he’d just get more of the same down there. A man of his stature who’s been on the force for nearly 280 dog years should be Police Chief by now, not the bottom of the totem pole. It’s an outrage and it makes me angrier and angrier every time it pops up on my television. He’s an officer of the law, just like you or me, who’s done nothing but dedicate his life towards bettering his community and he shouldn’t have to stand for this guff in the workplace.