[thefactor]

yes you are right. the thousands of good cops who protect people like you and your family day in and day out should all have their images besmirched because the only cops you hear about from the media are bad. i fear you have fallen prey to the media we here at FR blast every day for only telling one side of the story.

i wonder what would have happened if you had come across an uplifting story about police heroism. would your first post have read, "Makes you wonder if there are any BAD cops out there, doesn't it?"

my guess would be that you woulnd't have even bothered to post the story.

[Veracious Poet]

I work in a VERY public capacity around City, State and Federal LEOs...

I think what REALLY pisses me off about this story is that I'm hearing WAY too many stories like this and given the thugs drawn to the job nowadays I can only see it getting worse.

BTW, in the 42 years of my life, LEOs have not once helped me, saved me, or come to my aid once...the only encounters I've had with them outside my official capacity is when they've inflicted their enforcement of the nanny-state on me for my own good.

Fortunately they haven't deemed me a recipient of the special treatment they gave this elderly, disabled widow...not yet that is.

[joesnuffy]

Thats what Frank Serpico said..bout the NYPD and the Knapp Commission....

My pop was a Provost Marshal at Great Lakes and what he saw about the "Chicago" PD was pretty dispiriting...

Same things I heard thirty years later by two different friends who were Chicago cops...

Same things I also heard about the Dallas PD..from a former cop they boyz swore to kill along with his blind wife....for testifying about an unrighteous shooting...

My little brother is a game warden...and as far as I know he is honest...

as far as protecting my family from bad guys?.....I can handle the chore just fine thank you...as my ancestors did...if the law would get the heck outta the way and let me....