Cops....

battlegraduate09

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I'm all for giving them respect, but respect is not given because of your job or something your wearing.


bingo. Thats the main point in my opinion. I have quit a few jobs because the manager didnt understand this concept, only thing is you cant quit a ticket because the cop doesnt undersand it.
 

elvenhome21

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ive been pulled over at bar close while on the bike on the main drag in town (literally the drag strip) and being on the bike i pulled into the closest parking lot about a block down the street. Cop gets out hand on gun screaming at me not to run or make any sudden movements. I was like are you freaking kidding me, excuse me for protecting my safety on a known drag strip after bar close.

that same ***** just pulled me over tonight a year after the last incident for "license plate" again. This time he cited me for it so now i have grounds for harassment and filing a legitimate complaint against him.
 

dieseltwodoor

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that same ***** just pulled me over tonight a year after the last incident for "license plate" again. This time he cited me for it so now i have grounds for harassment and filing a legitimate complaint against him.

Wow. This guy sounds like a modern day hero. We all owe him a debt of gratitude. lol


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Kspen90

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I prefer to pull over before they ever hit their lights when I know they're going to pull me over, turn my dome lights on if its night time, roll the window down, then stare at them in the rear view like wtf? Then act semi annoyed that I was pulled over to begin with, and anything they say I was doing wrong I tell them I am fully aware that I was doing that with a sort of what's the big deal attitude. I know it sounds contrary to logical thought but I get pulled over all the time and I never get a ticket. My inspection has been out since march and my registration sticker as just been laying on the dash on the paper it comes on since last november and I hardly ever have a copy of my insurance and still no ticket:confused:
 

DAVe3283

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I prefer to pull over before they ever hit their lights when I know they're going to pull me over, turn my dome lights on if its night time, roll the window down, then stare at them in the rear view like wtf? Then act semi annoyed that I was pulled over to begin with, and anything they say I was doing wrong I tell them I am fully aware that I was doing that with a sort of what's the big deal attitude. I know it sounds contrary to logical thought but I get pulled over all the time and I never get a ticket. My inspection has been out since march and my registration sticker as just been laying on the dash on the paper it comes on since last november and I hardly ever have a copy of my insurance and still no ticket:confused:
This matches what I saw on the ride along I did. The more a person deserves a ticket, the less likely they are to get one...

Glad its working for you, but no offense, you should be getting tickets and the people who are nice/legal should be let go. Lol.

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DBUSHLB7

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I prefer to pull over before they ever hit their lights when I know they're going to pull me over, turn my dome lights on if its night time, roll the window down, then stare at them in the rear view like wtf? Then act semi annoyed that I was pulled over to begin with, and anything they say I was doing wrong I tell them I am fully aware that I was doing that with a sort of what's the big deal attitude. I know it sounds contrary to logical thought but I get pulled over all the time and I never get a ticket. My inspection has been out since march and my registration sticker as just been laying on the dash on the paper it comes on since last november and I hardly ever have a copy of my insurance and still no ticket:confused:

Youve got really nice cops in TX. Been pulled over in west TX multiple times and never been cited. One time I was driving back from Lubbock late at night pulling my enclosed cargo trailer and he said I was going 5 mph over. I was, 75 in a 70 cruise control set. He politely asked me to sit tight while he checked my info. As he is walking back to his patrol car, he walks behind my trailer and stops. In my passenger side rearview mirror I saw him takin a piss and was trying to hide behind my trailer for cover. I laughed and realized the only reason he pulled me over was because nature called. When you gotta go you gotta go.
 

Kspen90

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This matches what I saw on the ride along I did. The more a person deserves a ticket, the less likely they are to get one...

Glad its working for you, but no offense, you should be getting tickets and the people who are nice/legal should be let go. Lol.

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Hah you're telling me! When I used to be nice and polite and act like I didn't know I was doing anything wrong I always got cited so I just decided if I'm going to get a ticket I might as well get the satisfaction of being a massive ***** to the cops. When I started doing that I got nothing :confused
 

Kspen90

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Youve got really nice cops in TX. Been pulled over in west TX multiple times and never been cited. One time I was driving back from Lubbock late at night pulling my enclosed cargo trailer and he said I was going 5 mph over. I was, 75 in a 70 cruise control set. He politely asked me to sit tight while he checked my info. As he is walking back to his patrol car, he walks behind my trailer and stops. In my passenger side rearview mirror I saw him takin a piss and was trying to hide behind my trailer for cover. I laughed and realized the only reason he pulled me over was because nature called. When you gotta go you gotta go.

:roflmao: that's hilarious
 

blk smoke lb7

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what he said, there are good cops and the power trip cops.
I had a gun pulled on me at 16 by a female cop because i reached under my seat to pull out insurance paperwork. Seems like the ones around my town are always hoping for the "big bust"
got pulled over cause my windows looked tined. Of course i was polite, never disrepsected him, answered all his questions with sir. He hastled me for my HID lights, window tint, tail lights, tires stuck out to far. 45 minutes later he comes back to the truck and gives me my 3 tickets. Asks if he can ask me one more question before i go, i said sure (its almost 2 am) his exact words were "do you have any guns, knives, bombs, grenades, drugs, or dead bodies in the vehicle?"
I reply No sir, he says "may i search your vehicle" I say no sir again
Then he asks why!? This part bothered me the most. I politely said because its nearing 230 am and i work second shift as a diesel technician, and if its ok with him id really like to get home and go to sleep.
However, i wasnt comfortable with the fact he asked why he couldnt search my vehicle.

Oh and when i hit a stopped car on the interstate going 65 mph, the cop came over and first thing he said was "sir can you roll down your window so i can check your tint"
I flipped out, i just hit a lady in a civic in my 7000 pound truck and hes worried about how dark my f*****g windows are !?
IIRC wasnt this the cop you asked if he got his badge in a box of cracker jacks?:roflmao:

I have a similar story Josh only I was the one hit. I was DDing for three friends one night. I was bone sober and took my responsibility seriously. Leaving downtown that night we were stopped at a red light. Around the corner came a POS civic hauling ass. He slammed on his brakes but was going about 30mph and couldn't stop in time.
Slammed into my truck. My trailer hitch pierced a hole in the radiator and the hood turned into an A-frame. My truck had not a scratch lol. The two guys inside were very drunk, they didn't even know what had just happened (I rushed to make sure they were ok) Airbags went off BTW. Cops came out of nowhere and immediately made me do 5 sobriety tests. Couldn't get me to fail and all the while his partner is yelling @ my passengers telling them "your buddy gave you up where's the open bottle" (my friends didn't fall for it). I was so disgusted they were hassling me and my friends after WE had just been rearended. Never asked if we were ok nothin. After I demanded a breathalyzer to prove my innocence, they obliged I passed and they said "get the F*** outta here". No accident report, no apologies for the hassle, no concern for my passengers. To this day I can't believe that went down that way. Such idiot cops. I laugh at the vivid memory of just how bad my hitch F'ed up that Civic. S*** was totalled for sure. I worry for smart car drivers....they have no prayer in an accident.
I would have been all over that the next day,thats totlly disrespectful ......like they are trying to make a good person bad.

Sir, can you please confirm your tape is on? who is the shift commander tonight? most of the time they will back off if they are out of the line, however you have to be prepared for them to go off the deep end. And you are not getting off with a warning at that point. If they guy is way out of line report it and follow though with it. But they have to be in the wrong.
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I was 110% Pro Cop for many decades. Even though I'd been hassled before.

What changed me?

A drive-by shooting (multiple passes while I was on the phone, the 911 operator heard the shots and told me to hide) took 45 minutes to respond. They are afraid of that area.

A beautiful 20'ish girl lying in a drainage ditch, bleeding out with both her legs nearly cut off. When the CHP finally arrived, he would not assist me in stopping the bleeding. He didn't want to get dirty. He let the driver who caused it go home. Didn't even give him a soberiety check.

A drunk parks on the my front lawn, and is so blazed he can't even shut the car off. The cops finally show up, and at first refuse to arrest him, and refuse to get a tow truck. Only after I got in their face did they do the right thing.

Someone breaks into our mailboxes constantly. Finally, the scumbag hurts himself doing it. The hospital calls me and says I they have some of my mail. I call the cops, the cops say it's a post office issue. I call the post office, they say it's a cop issue. The scumbag gets free medical on my dime and walks.

Some idiot is dumping their trash in front of my house. Why are they an idiot? They leave their mail and name in the trash. You guessed it, "Not My Job".

An employee steals some business checks, and is detained by security at the store when they try to pass one. The cops arrest her, and let her go with no charges.

All of these have multiple witnesses. It almost sounds like a bad movie script. But truth is stranger than fiction it seems.

I seriously have very little need for organized union police depts. For every time they do their job, I've been exposed to several where they don't want to be bothered.

As far as traffic tickets goes? In my community it's used only to generate income. Areas where there as serious accidents are ignored, but areas with hidden 35mph speed limit signs and lots of vegetation to hide in are where they hang out. I fought one of them, and it was thrown out. Why? The cops were breaking the law doing it. But no cop was cited for it.

It's a sad day when you wake up to realize that cops aren't what you were told they were. They are often folk who couldn't get a real job so must suck on the gov't teat instead.
Wow thats bad

Basically the same thing GMC_2002_Dmax said.

I worked for CA state parks in high school, doing maintenance. I called the rangers (who are state police) on our radio about people training attack dogs in the park (seriously, WTF!?!). The ranger shows up, and treats ME (the guy in a state parks uniform who reported it) like sucm, no better than the people with the dogs. At least he kicked them out, but no other punishment for them.

Then again, I did know 1 (of the 5+ in our district) ranger who would ticket the people who deserved it, give breaks to those who weren't endangering others, and was nice to everyone, even the criminals he arrested. I have the utmost respect for him and the cops like him. He risked his life just as much as (often more than) the other rangers, and still respected people. This shows they can be nice and effective; this is how they should all act.X2


Heck, earlier this year a guy was totally stoned and racing down our road. He went off the (perfectly straight) road and took out 300 feet of fencing. We called 911, and 15 minutes later an ambulance was there to take the driver to the hospital. ANOTHER 20 minutes later (we're only 15 minutes from town), a cop finally shows up, and didn't even want to make a report. Took us 10 minutes to convince him to write down the damage just so we could give it to our insurance. He split as soon as he handed us a copy of the report, and wouldn't get the wrecked vehicle towed. The dirt bags friends end up showing up to get the vehicle, and in the end we had to load the wreck up for them... :confused:
That would never fly around here cops will go out of there way to write tickets make arest and impound Cars and trucks.....must be because we are in ILL and our state is broke as a joke


I give respect till its not given to me.Treat others how you want to be treated, a cop being a dick.....guess he wants to be treated like a dick then.
 

battlegraduate09

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IIRC wasnt this the cop you asked if he got his badge in a box of cracker jacks?:roflmao:

Yea, i may or may not have also called him an incompetent ****, i was escorted by another cop to calm down while my truck was towed. I also didnt get a ticket for window tint though, instead he gave me reckless driving. even though it was raining, i was going under the speed limit, and the car was stopped on the interstate over a hill, but when we went to court they through it out anyways:thumb:
 

McRat

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There are a lot of good cops out there doing their job right. But the current system keeps their mouths shut when their coworkers are *****s. And the chief backs it up.

Last year in Florida, a cop took his cruiser home at night. When he drove to and from work, it was routinely over 100mph, often WAY over 100mph. Citizens were complaining. He evaded attempts at being pulled over and had been cited in the past.

Finally a FHP officer chased him down. He did not pull over at first, but could not outrun her, and PULLED INTO THE CENTER MEDIAN. What a dickhead. She pulls her gun, not knowing if he was a real cop or not. A REAL cop shouldn't be that stupid.

Guess what? Nearly all the Florida LEO's including the guy's chief sided with him. Called her every filthy name in the book.

That is bullshit. Nobody gets to drive like a dick on a daily basis, and no cop should say it's cool.

Update: Recently the cop in question was recommended for discharge by Internal Division. But in order for him to actually be fired, a group of officers must sign off on it. In the mean time, multiple cops ran the arresting officer's data through the state computer in an attempt to harrass her and her family. They were mildly reprimanded.

They really need to fire the entire Miami PD and start from scratch. While officer Lopez was caught dozens of times driving 120 mph to work, 38 other officers were doing the same thing with no interference. No significant punishment was given. If a private citizen gets caught going over 120 dozens of times, you will spend time in jail and never drive again. These officers were off-duty, hence private citizens at the time of being caught on camera in the triple digits.
 

adeso

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There are good and bad, I worked with some cops before, some are out doing the right thing, and were pulling people over for sort of BS reasons, but what they were really doing is trying to get a look in the car for stolen stuff. most stolen items were recovered in traffic stops, walk up and there is 10 dvd players in the car, start asking questions and take the guy in. you could tell in 30 seconds if you needed to snoop around or just tell the person to get the tag light fixed and move on. Of course it left the guy wondering WTF why did I get pulled over for a tag light but that was the real reason.

Some departments give a large proton of tickets back to the department, so they are the ones always running traffic to get nice toys. Not the cops fault, it is the city government that puts them in that situation. What I hate is the 10% of dickheads that go on power trips, the kids that got picked on in HS and now have a badge and gun, or the other 10% that are shady and use the badge to hide criminal activity. Then you have the 15 year guy that has watched all his hard work to take bad guys down just get thrown out of court and the bad guy end up back on the street 10 days later and wonder WTF do I keep doing this for.

So there are good cops, bad cops and shit cops out there, sad thing is us as normal citizens don’t see the “good cops” that much b/c they are out doing their job and not harassing people they know won’t try to fight back and kill them
 

Texas Chevy

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Two years ago me and my wife stopped at a accident in (LA on the 405)with air bags deployed and we called the 911 and watched three city cops drive by drive by and stare at the old woman bleeding from her face. thirty min later chp shows up and says well it wasn't there jurisdiction.



In vista we called the cops cause a lady had someone beating the crap out of her in the parking lot 45 min later of me having the guy in a arm bar they showed up and detained me. 45 min. Wtf
 

MACKIN

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WOW are there alot of cop haters on here! If you think about how many police officers there are your bound to get a basket or so of that do not belong in the profession!

Some way cool stories and bad experiences but it's only a drop in the bucket of bad verses good. I agree you get some rookie patrolman that are gung ho can be very frustrating ,been there done that, but to say cop are useless? Really ? I'm aware there is a shit load of Gun toting Cowboys here I'd also defend my family and property but you cannot be everywhere all the time to protect your entire family. Certainly they have also outlawed vigilantes so stop watching Death Wish reruns!

Cops have a job to do like you and they are far from perfect . IMO cop haters are just jealous because they want the license to speed the badge to drink and drive and get away with it! :D

There are a lot of X servicemen that become police officers! I don't even know why I'm even sticking up for some cops perhaps just the broad statement of cops are useless just makes no sense that gets me

Carry on tough guys! :D
 

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WOW are there alot of cop haters on here! If you think about how many police officers there are your bound to get a basket or so of that do not belong in the profession!

Some way cool stories and bad experiences but it's only a drop in the bucket of bad verses good. I agree you get some rookie patrolman that are gung ho can be very frustrating ,been there done that, but to say cop are useless? Really ? I'm aware there is a shit load of Gun toting Cowboys here I'd also defend my family and property but you cannot be everywhere all the time to protect your entire family. Certainly they have also outlawed vigilantes so stop watching Death Wish reruns!

Cops have a job to do like you and they are far from perfect . IMO cop haters are just jealous because they want the license to speed the badge to drink and drive and get away with it! :D

There are a lot of X servicemen that become police officers! I don't even know why I'm even sticking up for some cops perhaps just the broad statement of cops are useless just makes no sense that gets me

Carry on tough guys! :D

It's hard to really call me a Cop Hater. I have the same opinion of them as DMV clerks. I don't hate them, but Adam 12 was put in the car crusher a long arse time ago.

Now if there are any LEO's reading this: I'm referring to Riverside County, California, from 1995 until today. That isn't all my observations of LEO's not doing what their job was created to do. Nearly all crime is petty crime. Nearly all scumbags start out there. Busting a shoplifter or an auto thief could save a life later on. It's better to deal with them before they shoot a citizen or a cop, than afterwards. Policing works on fear. If you think you'll have a shittty day if you break the law, you are less likely to do it. If you break the law and they ignore it, it sends a serious message that might not be able to be fixed.

I currently expect them to perform exactly like all other civilian government employees. Do as little as possible for the highest possible pay. This is not based on a couple of bad experiences, it's based on personally watching the parade for 40 years. Most cops are "good" people, but most people working at the DMV are "good" people too.
 

DAVe3283

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WOW are there alot of cop haters on here! If you think about how many police officers there are your bound to get a basket or so of that do not belong in the profession!
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I don't even know why I'm even sticking up for some cops perhaps just the broad statement of cops are useless just makes no sense that gets me

Carry on tough guys! :D

Someone's got to stick up for the cops here, lol.

I like the idea of cops, and what there SUPPOSED to do, it just gets me when that isn't what they really do.

I think the problem is the good cops go unnoticed because they don't harass normal people, and don't end up on the news. The bad ones do.

I don't think people expect a free pass to speed, etc., we just expect to be treated like humans when we do screw up. And it only takes a few bad experiences (especially with few or no good ones to balance it) until people hate cops as a rule. Perhaps we can get some stories of cops doing their job right to balance things out?

I'll start: my dad (before he retired) and his partner recovered more abducted children than any other cop in the state of CA. He would go all over the country, and occasionally out of country, to get the kids back. He got a California Legislature Assembly Members Resolution commending him. Authored by Sam Aanestad; Members Resolution No. 1301, dated May 6, 2001.

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Sorry about the forwarded cell phone photo.

So, anyone else care to share a story of a cop doing good?

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dieseltwodoor

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Your dad sounds like an awesome guy. The work would be a better place with more like him.

The bulk of my bad experiences have been with traffic/highway cops. The only good cop I know is so good that he was promoted right past traffic/highway and works accident recreation, and crime scene investigation. It sounds like your dad was a good cop.


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