Posted on 06/12/2007 7:23:17 AM PDT by oakcon
That’s the ticket, get the cops out of your neighborhood and then wonder why the crime rate keeps going up. What a bunch of maroons!
Never send a trustafarian to do a father’s job.
This is a function of too many laws, pressure on the police to be tax collectors in addition to protectors and responders, and “the cop mentality” that is an odd mixture of high-handedness and fear of the people they are supposed to be serving.
I can see why some law-abiding people would be afraid of the police. Of course, this is all predicated on the fact that you are a generally law-abiding person. If you are a “bad guy,” you should be afraid of the police.
Respect for the law is not remotely the same thing as respect for cops, any more than respect for the Constitution is equivalent to respect for Bill Clinton.
Here's the video version of the pamphlet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEEWcsWk4E0
Quite frankly, the cops are not your friend, and that’s what I tell my kids too.
I’ve been stopped twice for suspicion of DUI and called on the phone twice over the years because my car matched the description of a suspicious vehicle. The lesson learned: if they think you’re the guy, they’ll use every trick in the book — including lie after outright lie — to browbeat you to try to get you to incriminate yourself, to inconvenience you to the point that you figure just playing along would be easier and you can straighten it out at a higher level (NO!), to avoid telling you the truth about what’s going on, and, while they’re at it, to try to pin something else on you.
(NB: 0.00% both times, ATM receipts proving it couldn’t have been my car. “Could I just fax these to you? And then you could call the bank?” “No we would really like to talk to you down here at the station.”)
And when all else fails, they’ll just try to pin something else on you anyway after all the trouble you’ve put them through *cough* by not making it easy for them to bag a suspect before dinner.
Related editorial:
Actually, comedic exaggeration aside, maybe more people should follow what Chris Rock’s talking about there.
So do the “Stop Snitchin’” T-Shirts in Canada also have to come in French?
Our local rag gave a lot of press to a recent shooting of a thug by a CCW-ed victim. Bottom line - the thug culture believes it is right to rob someone else if you have been robbed, and to shoot someone if they shoot one of yours. To the thug culture, the hoodlums are just "good guys" like everyone else in the culture. The Police are teh "bad guys" because they enforce a set of laws that run contrary to this culture.
If you are not in their circle of friends you are eligible for tickets.
Most people are not their friends. So I would say it is true, the Cops are not your friend.
But see, the issue is not whether cops are the nicest, best, or most fair people in the world. The point is society has something called the rule of law, and everyone needs to respect it.
The following week every time I pulled out of my road, there was a county cop on my tail who followed me to the school (about a mile away) just begging for a reason to pull me over.
Cops my friends? I think not. They're roadside tax collectors.
I have always told my kids...the police are there to enforce laws, and are always to be respected...but they are not your friends....never talk to them without your attorney present, even if you are a just a witness..
I would say that respect for the law infers respect for the police in general. Individual officers should be given respect, at least until the earn your disrespect.
While I have no respect for Bill Clinton, I respect the office of the President of the United States. If I had met Clinton while he was performing his official duties, I would have shown him respect out of respect for that office. Of course I'd likely have been respectfully disagreeing with him and his policies.
I've had some experiences with cops that very quickly earned my disrespect. However, the majority of cops I've met are good people. Of course I don't personally deal much with officers that are performing their official duties so it is the few that bring attention to themselves by acting like jerks that stand out.
I, for one, tend to agree with that statement more and more each day.
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