Posted on 08/10/2006 9:24:31 PM PDT by freepatriot32
Yes, you seem to be one of the more realistic freepers on this thread. Out of all the freepers posting here, you are not high on the list of candidates for poster of the rude keywords.
Replace the battery in your sabre and walk away.
bzzzzzit zing!
The cop haters don't care about that.
I've made the mistake of calling 911. I've also made the mistake of stopping at the scene of an accident (now known as a "crash") to assist the wounded, dying, and dead.
I will never do any of those things again.
Time for an experiment:
Why don't you just call 911, let it ring once, then hang up?
Give us a report after you've gotten out of jail / the hospital, and put your house back together.
Truer words have never been spoken.
There is a LT. or Cpt in the Seattle P.D. that is going blind due to being hit with a metal marble from a slingshot during WTO.
The other half are nothing more than glorified street thugs themselves. They hide behind a badge and are generally miserable failures as human beings. For these guys a law enforcement career is nothing more than the opportunity to be in a legal street gang, albeit a street gang clad in bad polyester and driving Chevy Impalas.
I've met both kinds.
Actually this is the correct ratio.
75% of cops only answer 911 calls. 22% are proactive and go out and try to catch street criminals. 3% are suck up toadies who end being a Cpt or above.
The ones you think are "legal street gang" members are really those that are trying to take out the trash daily so it doesn't pile up. Half of those will stop doing that after they get screwed by the (a. dept. b. the media c. the public d. any combination of the first three) for actually doing their job.
It said "in the street" as in blocking traffic and causing a safety issue. If you needed an abulance and some losers were protesting IN THE STREET, not in front of some building, and the ambulance could not get to you, you'd have an issue with this.
I drove through an area that has a gang influence and started pointing out individuals who were gangsters. I specifically pointed out one who has stabbed a person in the neck.
Same said individual sees my rider has avideo camera and I jokingly tell him that if he, "wants to be on COPS, to start running."
2 minutes later it's broadcast that a group of hispanic males tried to carjack someone. Guess who is in that group?
Now that my rider knows some of the context in which I acted when I stopped this group he was not surprised at how I acted. 6 complied and one got very angry and vocal with me. He was grabbed up by me and a little roughly. The video, looked at by a person knowing the whole story, makes me look like a supreme professional. The video looked at by someone who doesn't know what was broadcast and who I was dealing with, makes it look like I just like to push around mexican kids.
And guess what? I joked about it later! That's right, I actually laughed at it when I looked at it later. I guess I'm a jack booted thug now.
Boy are you confused. If I end up using force on someone, less than lethal, I always joke about it later. It's called a tension realeaser. When I have to use deadly force on someone, it's my call as to whether I joke about it, curse them, pray for them, spit in their direction, cry, or dance for joy that I survived.
Since it was my life that almost got taken I get the option of choosing which behavior is appropriate.
And it may look bad on video.
You're right, I'd be sorely vexed.
Meanwhile, you wouldn't mind at all that your ambulance is blocked by six people in the street with the intent to grill some steaks.
All I gotta say is somebody could have lost an eye......
Guess what? I don't work for gang bangers. I work for the straight folk. I grew up a long time ago. Part of growing up means not believing in fairy tales and being based in reality.
For instance, I'm not dying because two gang bangers are shooting at eachother. I'm waiting until the shooting stops and then I'm finding a way to book the surviving banger(s).
I've found someone with their brains blown across the curb over 150 bucks. Everyone knows who did it (the street criminals that is) but won't step forward. Should I die for epeople like that? I know the correct answer.
So when some fool decides he wants to fight and gets tased, hell yeah I'm going to laugh later. So what. Am I supposed ot cry or say, "tsk tsk, what a shame"? I think not.
My priorities are: the safety of myself, other officers, then the general public. In that order. The city does not pay me to die.
My job has risks and I accept that. It doesn't mean I believe TV show cops are how we are supposed to act. Someone shooting up a school house (and active shooter) is the worst case scenario. Guess what? Our dept. policy is that going into that situation is VOLUNTARY.
I may or may not volunteer for that job at that moment, depending on which officers are going in with me and what the shooter is armed with.
Some of the public will be angry if we don't go in but guess what? They won't be reading to my son before bedtime.
We just had an officer killed less that 48 hours ago. Guess how long it will take for the public to forget about him. How about "tomorrow", which is the correct answer.
I don't get paid to take bullets for anyone. The Secret Service does that.
Yes and no. If a gang banger gets ripped off on a dope deal I don't take a report or search for the "suspect."
If, as if happened last week, 3 prostitutes go into an apt. with 3 guys and one prost. tries to steal a man's wallet, I do investigate and I do hook up the "suspect." And I do take her to jail (kiddie jail in this case as she was 17).
If you think I treat all persons with respect all the time you are living a fantasy. I do not respect, nor do I show respect, to those who try to injure me or my fellow officers. They get as much respect as they earn. Now, does that mean I beat them after they are in custody or steal from them? No. But if, as in one instance last week, a man lies to me about his identity (I was investigating him selling dope) and later that night I figure it out when I stop his brother, and realize he gave me his brother's Identity, well too bad for him. The next time I see him he gets no "please and thank yous." The way to do business with the average citizen is ask them politely, tell them nicely, and then if need be, make them do it. I've had to scream at woman, she is probably a very nice lady usually, when she refused to move out of my way. I was parked across the street from a bar waiting for backing officers to arrive on a brawl inside. She kept ordering me to go into the bar and "do" something. Well I'm not going to go into a brawl by myself. I'll just end up hurt and have to shoot someone. I told her to move in case someone came bursting out with a gun, I didn't want her in between us. She got angry, took 8 steps away and sure enough out comes a turd with a gun. Did I get a, "sorry you were right?" Nope.
And finally, some folks on the street believe that when you say please and thank you, you are weak. It is an invitation for them to assault you. I have to interact with the street culture and that requires understanding how you have to talk to some folks.
Boy you need a ride-along bad. And I'm the furthest thing from a park and rest or park and sleep or whatever it was you called me. I live for contacting the street criminals. I love it and answering 911 calls is just the dues I have to pay to get to do that.
"Good" cops never rally against the BAD cops the same way "moderate" muslims never rally against the militant supremacists.
Roger that. I wonder why ashamedtobefromparkridge never bothered to reply? Did I describe HER cop-relatives?
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