Cameras Capture Illegally Parked Cops

MSNBC ^ | August 17, 2007 | Bob Sullivan

[Saundra Duffy]

One time my husband got a ticket for parking facing the wrong way on the street in front of our house (which lots of people do in our neighborhood). So he went around with a camera taking pictures of all the cars in our neighborhood parked facing the wrong way - with no tickets on the windshield. Then lo and behold he went to the local police station and took pictures of several police cars parked facing the wrong way. Ha! Needless to say, he got the ticket thrown out. Sheeeeesh.

[gilor]

The law DOES NOT apply to “Johnie Law”.

[Moonman62]

So which, if any, laws do you expect our underpaid police officers to obey?

All of them, and I don't think they are underpaid in most cases. But in spite of the good pay, I see openings in just about every city and county I check.

[Moonman62]

My point is they make good pay right off the bat for an entry level job, and there are plenty of openings, so if you think you can be a better officer than what you've encountered, then the opportunity is there.

I think police should be held to a higher standard for obeying the law. Even of it's just a few bad apples, many people will assume it's all of them. And while some departments do extensive testing before offering a job, others are basically pulling from the general population, so there's going to be a regular bell curve of good and bad officers.

[goldstategop]

I dodged across the street in my hometown and two - TWO patrol cars stopped me near home. There are no traffic lights and I was being careful. But even if I was stupid, there's no law against it. The Nanny State now seems compelled to stop to question you even when there's NO probable cause to do so.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[paristwelve]

The videos remind me of the Looting Cops of New Orleans. haha

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Ah, the “everybody does it” defense. I guess it worked.

There is a reason that you don’t park the wrong way on a street. I figured it out because I live on a very dark street. Cars have reflectors on the back that let you seem them when parked (in the right direction), but they don’t on the front. It is VERY HARD to see a car parked in the wrong direction.

[traviskicks]

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lol

[CSM]

“One time my husband got a ticket for parking facing the wrong way on the street....”

I received a ticket for the same thing once. The funny thing is that my car was parked facing the wrong way, with jumper cables attached to it and charging a car that was faced the wrong way. No, the ticket was not thrown out.

[Turbopilot]

It is interesting how c**t has become the penultimate obscenity for women.

I gotta know...what's the worst?

[CSM]

It’s amazing how freaked out the police get around a video camera.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I think you’re right. What gets me is the spectrum of good and bad. The types that get hurt pulling a woman from a burning car, the ones who catch holy hell because they didn’t look the other way at a drunk on the force: they’re the ones who should be making good money and be treated right.

Then you have the lardasses that drive right up to a crime-in-progress with the siren blaring because they don’t want to confront the perp. They don’t want to have to chase him, arrest him, and do paperwork. They’re just clockpunchers that want to drive around and eat. They shouldn’t be protected, they should be run out on a rail.

The good ones are amazing and the bad ones are just so spectacularly bad that you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. When I deal with the cops about once every 5 years or so (traffic ticket, witness an accident, that sort of thing), I always seem to draw the joker in the deck. People can be real asses sometimes, but cops shouldn’t act like everybody is scum. If they’re that jaded, go get another job.

I know there’s damn good cops out there, it’s just too bad that the bottom 30% drag them into the mud.

[vigilante2]

No comparison between a cop and a soldier

My soldier has seen more rounds fired at him in one day than an average cop will see in his whole career

[domenad]

One is enough, wouldn’t you think?

[I got the rope]

Uhhh...where was the outrage for this...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8sBzs3ZBihk&mode=related&search=

[Malsua]

What do you wanna bet some policemen have bumper stickers on their real cars that say “I speed when I’m off duty”?

I lived in Ohio for 28 years, I've lived in NJ for 12+. A thing I didn't see in Ohio, I see in NJ. I see these badges bolted to the dash or back deck that are "no ticket" badges. It frankly is infuriating. Someone is allow to drive like a jackass if they have one of these bolted to their car? EFF YOU. My brother is a deputy and a federal marshall and I'll be damned if I'd pull out his card to get out of a ticket. These @#$%os use a badge bolted to their vehicle to become immune to it. DIE! Break the law, get the punishment...if some #$%^weed with a thing bolted to their vehicle gets a pass, EVERYONE gets a pass!.

[JeffAtlanta]

One is enough, wouldn’t you think?

The typical patrol cop is never shot at during his entire career.

In any event, do you think that being shot is the only way to die? How about other people that jobs that are even more dangerous?

[zeugma]

THanks for the post. Hadn’t seen that before. Excellent vids. Wish we had more Johnny Justices across the land. Maybe we could get things back under control again.

[ellery]

Cops aren’t even in the top ten most dangerous jobs — and they get paid considerably more than many in much more dangerous professions.

The 10 most dangerous jobs by fatality rate in 2006:

Rank Occupation Death rate/100,000 Total deaths
1 Fishers and fishing workers 118.4 48
2 Logging workers 92.9 80
3 Aircraft pilots 66.9 81
4 Structural iron and steel workers 55.6 35
5 Refuse and recyclable material collectors 43.8 32
6 Farmers and ranchers 41.1 341
7 Electrical power line installers/repairers 32.7 36
8 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers 29.1 993
9 Miscelleneous agricultural workers 23.2 176
10 Construction laborers 22.7 339

http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/16/pf/2005_most_dangerous_jobs/index.htm

And in 2005:

Rank Occupation Death rate/100,000 Total deaths
1 Logging workers 92.4 85
2 Aircraft pilots 92.4 109
3 Fishers and fishing workers 86.4 38
4 Structural iron and steel workers 47.0 31
5 Refuse and recyclable material collectors 43.2 35
6 Farmers and ranchers 37.5 307
7 Roofers 34.9 94
8 Electrical power line installers/repairers 30.0 36
9 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers 27.6 905
10 Taxi drivers and chauffeurs 24.2 67

http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/26/pf/jobs_jeopardy/