Posted on 04/16/2018 4:58:51 AM PDT by servo1969
Cops are people.
There are good cops. I have yet to meet any, especially on duty.
I’ve met retired cops and there are many friends of my family. But when the badge is on, nope.
Its the 90% of them that give the other 10% a bad name.
As if this is news. It's not.
What's news is the utter gutting of standards in the last 30 years, and also that today's officer can kill someone and get away with it.
To not trust the cops does not mean you yourself are a bad person.
Just a careful one.
I’ve said this before on FR and I’ll say it again.
Example: Since I traded in my Honda Civic (With a spoiler, modifications, flashy accessories (Yes, I like that sorta thing)) for my Suburban I stopped getting pulled over daily. My suburban isn’t inspected. No sticker. Cops wave.
I rode a Harley and a Ninja. On the Ninja, I would get pulled over. On the harley ? They wave as I speed by.
It’s not the cop. It’s not the person. It’s the SOP. There are a set of rules that make them evil the moment they check into work. Some of the older guys realise that but the rookies jump right in.
There is an SOP that makes the citizen their enemy. And they behave that way almost all of the time.
#BlueLivesMatter
Dad was a patrolman … NYPD. From the mid 40s till the late 60s. He chose NOT to advance because of more corruption the higher you go.
He was happy to take his pension and go. He was a good cop. Though I’m sure he probably took a corned beef sandwich from a local shop keeper on occasion. They were happy to have cops look in on their businesses.
It was a different time
The few times I bothered calling the police I nearly regret it.
I know what’s coming.
They fill out a report and that’s the end of it.
They could catch the person that robbed me..if they wanted to..but it’s not high enough on their priority list ..if they bother to do anything anyhow.
Just like any other schlub at any other job.
> There is an SOP that makes the citizen their enemy. And they behave that way almost all of the time. <
Lots of truth there. I try to say hello to everyone I pass. Thirty years ago, when I’d say hello to a local cop, I’d get a friendly hello back. Now I usually get a stern, why-are-you-talking-to-me look, and no response.
It’s not the biggest deal in the world, of course. But you betcha, something has changed.
They are only as good as the worst cop they know about and tolerate.
Actually it appears that the opinions are rather uniform
What you said.
I like David Clarke and I agree with MOST of what he says in this article. In six decades on this earth, I’ve come into contact with cops (all misdemeanors). Some were good experiences and some were not good.
But, I’ve also been successfully involved in business along that path and “some” of my associates in business were a good experience and some were VERY, VERY bad.
I think the public in general should just lower their expectations of “COPS”.............some of them, or most of them I think, are good but some of them are VERY bad.
I think they call that “LIFE”.
>>Cops are people.
People who can take lethal action under color of authority. They must be held to very high standards, just as I was when I was a 20 year old nuclear propulsion plant operator in the Navy. I once had to write an essay on Zero Defects to keep from getting written up for accidentally opening the wrong valve becuase with great power comes great responsibility. Cops get the ultimate power so they have to be held to ultimate standards. If they can’t handle that, they need to find safer work.
So the cops who shot up random pickup trucks (of a different color than the perp’s) in CA during a manhunt for a murderous rogue cop were ‘excellent?’
So the cops that shoots family pets just because it is convenient are ‘excellent?’
So the cops that grab people’s money (RICO) because they have ‘too much’ of it are ‘excellent?’
For me, Cops have burned through 40+ years of goodwill.
“For me,Cops have burned through 40+ years of goodwill.”
I’m sure they will be saddened to hear that.
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No. Sometimes they lie, cheat, and steal. In fact, they're encouraged to lie; it's a trained "interview" technique. Sometimes they break down the wrong door at oh-dark-thirty and then kill innocent people. Sometimes they scream contradictory "orders" and then kill innocent people. Sometimes they scream incomprehensibly and then kill innocent people. Sometimes they kill dogs just for existing. Sometimes they cower in the parking lot while deranged lunatics are killing people in schools.
I suppose we're supposed to forget all that ...
“When a cop gives you a lawful command, obey it”
Fine, Sheriff Clarke. But what about when a cop gives an unlawful command?
What then????
Yup. And I like Clarke.
Yes.
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