>Cops are helpless to stop criminals. But they are in complete control in making new criminals
Had me until that. The statement is patently false on every level.
please explain how my statement could be false?
Had me until that. The statement is patently false on every level.
Ever been pulled over in small town Texas? I hadn't been pulled over in the twenty years I'd lived in Austin, then moved to Moody, Texas. Between Moody, McGregor, and Bruceville-Eddy, I got pulled over something like eight times in the ten years I lived there. You name it; didn't think I stopped long enough at a stop sign at 11 pm when nobody else was in view, license plate light out, didn't think I signaled long enough when changing lanes, didn't drop speed fast enough at the change from 55 to 45 (was going 48 when I hit the 45 sign), whatever. Never got a ticket, cause they never had anything on me, but they were just bored and fishing for a felony. Course, Moody is the meth capital of south Mclennan County, and Bruceville-Eddy should just have a chain link fence thrown around it and be declared a prison, but most of the lawbreakers are kids of the town big shots, so the cops ignore them (if they don't they leave real fast) and try to catch people driving through. It's a lot better than it used to be. When I was a kid they'd pull you over, make you stand by the car and go through your vehicle without a second thought. I had that done to me in Henderson and Waco.
This is not to hammer all cops, as my dad was a cop and I've got a lot of cop friends. Unfortunately, a lot of guys that want to be cops shouldn't be cops, and the reason they shouldn't be a cop is because they want to be able to pull people over and humiliate and intimidate them with no fear of retaliation. Good cops hate those guys, but there are still some of them out there.