Posted on 03/13/2015 8:35:23 AM PDT by HomerBohn
It’s funny, I made the same decision in the seventies for many of the same reasons, especially the one where they were ambushing police officers. Oh and the fact that I probably wouldn’t pass the psych eval. I would be too tempted to deal with racists, child abusers and murderers with swift justice.
I'm a 65 year old reserve police officer. You couldn't be more wrong.
I am agree with the other guy.
My guess is you open your wallet and they see a badge. You have “that decal” on your car.
I have been harassed more often than I can describe due to my job. I needed to be where they were. Or at least where they did not want you to be. And talk to them? Ha! Good luck. They don’t wanna hear anything.
Nope, the days of the cop finding the kid and walking him home are over, or they may exist in rural America. It does not exist in 99% of America.
Cops are to be avoided.
Nope. Never took a penny of welfare. I’ve never spent a day on unemployment.
I taught my kids to be respectful and follow orders. I taught my kids that if they were ever “rounded” up with other kids to keep their mouths shut, answer no questions other than your ID and call me as soon as possible.
Nope, the days when cops were your friends are over. I would respect them if I saw the cops doing anything in my town except stopping “speeders”, writing tickets, and rousting me when I drive by them at 2 AM.
We just called them Cops as a kid. Never called them pigs.
Once in a while when we were driving around, someone would refer to smelling bacon.
I am about the same age as you, and never called them anything but Cops. Must be a regional thing.
And, no, the kids today do not have much imagination.
It’s a complicated issue. Yes on one side there’s a bunch of people wishing ill upon cops for no good reason. But on the other side you’ve got a bunch of cops that act like an elite club that gets to do whatever they want, including shooting anybody or any dog, because they’re the precious “thin blue line”. And really the problem started with the cops, that’s where the whole us vs them, citizens just don’t get it, not to mention graft and corruption began. It started a long time ago, well over a century, eventually the citizenry was going to accept those terms. Even people who don’t wish cops ill don’t trust or like them, between the fraternity thinking and the long list of laws you could find out the hard way you’re breaking interacting with cops is just not worth the risk anymore. Which keeps the us vs them mentality.
“Yes, there is a whole lot of needless police brutality in the United States in 2015,...”
Really? On 3/13, there’s a “whole lot” already?
When I was a child back in the 1960s/1970s, police officers often acted like our friends and family, and helped us out when in need, without throwing their authority in our faces or attempting to intimidate us simply because they wore a uniform and carried a gun. Back then, police officers had more discretion and seemed less interested in making an arrest, than making sure that we got home safely. Routine traffic stops and checkpoints were extremely rare, and when a cop did pull us over, it was not to raise revenue, but to enforce the law. And even when they did pull us over, they often issued warnings instead of tickets for violations. Only a few big cities had SWAT teams back then, and they were only deployed in extreme situations. I don't recall ever reading or hearing about a cop killing a dog or an old man reaching for his cane.
What are these police officers being taught today?
yawn. Being a cop isn’t even in the top ten most dangerous jobs. Sorry but I can’t work up a giveadamn for them.
Let's say you pull over a car. You don't know who's in the car. As you walk up to the car, are you trained to treat the occupants as your friends or potential murderers?
Same thing. As a civilian I never know what kind of cop I'm going to be dealing with, so I must take precautions to protect myself.
It's safer to never, ever trust a cop.
Understood. That's old school policing. Sadly, that type of policing is just that --old school.
I've had cops lie to me to gain my trust, ("If you tell me what happened, I'll cut you loose") only to arrest me when I told them the truth.
I've seen cops lie on the stand in a court of law. ("No, your Honor, he volunteered to open the trunk of his car so I could search it.")
Cops have pulled over my daughter under false pretenses (lied) in order to check her age via her driver license.
Etc.
Police work today amounts to being a radar technician.
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