Look what this cop did to this shoplifter..

[Silver Rocket Bitches!]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4ofcq4lLYc#t=55

[gunDriller]

for every 'good cop' story, i have about 1000 'bad cop'/ police brutality stories (Youtube's & articles collected.)

but yes, there are some good cops out there.

[Hitch]

for every 'good cop' story, i have about 1000 'bad cop'/ police brutality stories (Youtube's & articles collected.)

but yes, there are some good cops out there.

I disagree, there's more good cops out there than bad ones. The bad ones get all the attention. For every bad cop that everyone focuses on, many good ones just don't get noticed.

Good story.

[gunDriller]

I disagree, there's more good cops out there than bad ones. The bad ones get all the attention. For every bad cop that everyone focuses on, many good ones just don't get noticed.

Good story.

actually, we're close to agreeing.

i am judging by incidents that get reported, which may not account for a 'silent majority' of good cops.


i agree, in many towns, there are many good cops.

the exact number ? i don't know.

in towns where bad cops have some power, good cops are often forced to keep quiet if they want to keep working.

[StreetsOfGold]

In my town the good cops far outweigh the bad ones. Thank God

[Cebu_4_2]

I don't know any cops in my town.

[Hitch]

in towns where bad cops have some power, good cops are often forced to keep quiet if they want to keep working.

I've been ponder this point, and I think you might be correct. Almost like most of LE is on the surface, but underneath, there's something sinister going on. If you stay on the surface, you can be a good cop and have a good career. But, if you allow yourself to dip under, it's very deep down there. I don't know how to explain that in words.

[Cebu_4_2]

I've been ponder this point, and I think you might be correct. Almost like most of LE is on the surface, but underneath, there's something sinister going on. If you stay on the surface, you can be a good cop and have a good career. But, if you allow yourself to dip under, it's very deep down there. I don't know how to explain that in words.

Evil.

[midnight rambler]

I disagree, there's more good cops out there than bad ones. The bad ones get all the attention. For every bad cop that everyone focuses on, many good ones just don't get noticed.

Good story.

So called 'good cop' providing cover for the misdeeds of a bad cop/turning a blind eye with respect to the horseshit many cops do to innocent = BAD COP! (the truth is, there are VERY few 'good cops')

[Hitch]

So called 'good cop' providing cover for the misdeeds of a bad cop/turning a blind eye with respect to the horseshit many cops do to innocent = BAD COP! (the truth is, there are VERY few 'good cops')

It's not 'turning a blind eye', it's how do you do the right thing while working in a corrupt system. You answer that question, for me. I don't have to worry about it anymore, personally, I can kick my feet up.

You want to cast a lot of judgment, cast a net of generalizations. Well sorry to disappoint you, real life doesn't work that way.

[midnight rambler]

how do you do the right thing while working in a corrupt system...?

You quit, even if that means well before your retirement, like my APD cop buddy John B. with whom I did the most ride-alongs with and spent the most time with, both at and off work. Best advice I ever got from a cop was from John B. while riding in his patrol car: "Midnight, in the future avoid ALL contact with the police...it doesn't matter what it concerns, just avoid ALL contact." He was emphatic about that. John had the foresight to see what was being implemented even back 20+ years ago. John ended up becoming an OTR truck driver rather than raking in the bucks and getting a retirement from APD by being a professional thug for the corporate state (and my friend John would have made a REALLY good thug...IF he didn't have a conscious lol).

[Hitch]

Midnight, you did ride alongs, were you pursuing a career in LE? Or was is just to learn about it?

I like the advise you got from John B. My advise, and what I tell my friends and family...stay the fuck out of the city I was on patrol in. Don't even go there.

[General of Darkness]

Give a man a fish you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish you feed him for life. The mother had money for tattoos and what looked to be popping out at least 3 kids. They should sterilize her instead.

[iOWNme]

Give me a fucking BREAK already!

How many INNOCENT people has this Cop accosted, extorted, kidnapped and caged in her career as a STATE Mercenary? God damn people have no morals whatsoever.

Im sure there were NKVD Officers who occasionally 'helped' out people, when they werent VIOLENTLY suppressing innocent people everyday. Im sure there were NAZI Gestapo SS Officers who may have 'helped' out a person in between stopping people for papers and shooting people on the side of the road. Im sure there were enforcers of despots and tyrants all throughout history that would sometimes 'help' someone in between all of the chaos, blood and torture they were spilling, BUT NONE OF THAT HAS ANY BEARING ON MORALITY, and they were all IMMORAL and UNJUST CRIMINALS.

Not to mention that STEALING IS A CRIME! A REAL crime with a REAL victim. Now this Cop thinks she has the 'Authority' to not arrest a CRIMINAL caught in the act of THEFT? Who the fuck does she think she is? I'll tell you: She IMAGINES she has the power to alter human morality with her OPINION. This entire country has been turned upside down. What if it was YOUR stuff she was stealing?

Holy CHRIST this country is fucking RUINED.

[midnight rambler]

Midnight, you did ride alongs, were you pursuing a career in LE? Or was is just to learn about it?


In the early '80s I got drawn into LEO circles in a very big way, it's just how things turned out. One cop (worked his way up in APD becoming an Asst. Chief) I became friendly with early on tried to recruit me, but my gut said, "Not no but HELL NO!" I politely declined. I did ride-alongs to hang out with my cop buddies, it was something to do however on some nights I was bored to tears and slept in the passenger seat of the patrol car while the cop I was with was doing cop stuff with other cops at some cop scene. I was trusted enough amongst them that each and every one of them would give me the key to the shotgun rack and they fully expected me to 'take care of things' for them (i.e. to either pass off the shotty to them OR provide backup under fire IOW they made sure that I was armed when riding with them - they also were counting on me to have a few rounds of buck in my pockets as well). What was most interesting about my ride-along experiences was watching the evolution of how arrestees were treated - when I first started doing ride-alongs in the early '80s there was no cages in the cruisers or even partitions between the front and back seats (in a fairly large city) and when someone was arrested they were placed in the front passenger seat and buckled in, and I had to seat in the back seat. Now, in the very same city not only are there cages in the back seats those cages are partitioned off left and right with hard plastic seats and there are even bars on the windows of the doors. Day and night difference in the way people are treated. I think it's pure evil.

[Hitch]

I got into LEO because of a "be all you can be" add in a local newspaper. I was testing for fire at the time, but as the saying goes what do cops and firemen have in common? They all want to be firemen. The add asked us to join, to help the community, and I believed it. I've tested for dozens of fire depts, got in, only to have academies cancelled right out underneath me. Test for one PD, get accepted right in. Figures, life is ironic that way.

No ridealongs, no clue what I was getting into...and I admit, that was an adventure. I wouldn't pass on any experience I've had, some good, most bad, but I'm still here living, learning, and growing.

[Jewboo]

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