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Parking Lot Practice

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A badge doesn't make you right, usually it just makes you an asshole.
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I would say that a badge, winning the lottery, etc doesn't make you an asshole. I think the asshole was there long before.
Somewhere on BARF I made a comment about the fact that I hate it when people run stops signs or can't wait for people to cross the street safely. It particularly irritates me when a LEO does it. Private citizen is breaking the law. LEO is break the law and an Oath to uphold the law.
I think LEO's have a tougher job than most people credit for. But it's not an excuse by some to ignore their duties.
In in a group you are going to have a segment that doesn't follow the rules, but these are the examples that stand out in peoples minds. But, they are examples, especially to kids, so if the LEO's are speeding or not making complete stops, etc, that is what sticks in peoples not the time the took the drunk (potential killer) off the road or consuled a grieving mother whose child was an innocent bystander killed in a driveby. I don't envy their job, their duty and all the death, blood and heartache they see and carry around with them. But it's not an excuse for upholding all the laws, even if it was thankless. That is the choice they made.
 
crank1000 said:
If you deny that any cop ever takes any action based on power and not judgment, you're delusional. I hear you guys saying that cops are just humans like everybody else, but then somehow you're immune to getting drunk on power. :rolleyes

I'm not saying all cops are like that. But you CAN'T deny that some are.
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Female cops are always like this, i never here anyone getting off easy with a female officer.
 
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But, they are examples, especially to kids, so if the LEO's are speeding or not making complete stops, etc, that is what sticks in peoples not the time the took the drunk (potential killer) off the road or consuled a grieving mother whose child was an innocent bystander killed in a driveby. I don't envy their job, their duty and all the death, blood and heartache they see and carry around with them. But it's not an excuse for upholding all the laws, even if it was thankless. That is the choice they made.
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Yeah, like the time one of my best friends was murdered in his own home, and his mom called the police who didn't enter the house for 5 hours after they arrived. They called her and told her to come out, and that they weren't going in because they didn't know if the guy was still in the house or not. Very brave group of soldiers with so much blood on their hands those guys were. They made my friends mom feel for a pulse so that they could guage how urgent it was for them to enter the house. After finding he had already passed, they figured "what's the rush?" Meanwhile my friends mom is sitting in a laundry room for 5 hour looking at her son bleeding on the ground waiting for someone to help her. I commend those fine officers for their work that day. I wish I had taken footage of the 11 officers standing around their squad cars eating pizza outside the house that had a woman scared to death and her dead son on the ground next to her. I'm just saying being a cop should be more than just following the book and finding any reason to/not to do something.
 
Congrats on completely derailing this thread. Its now closed.
 
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