When I was driving into town today for work, I saw a cop had pulled someone over for not completely scraping the windows on their car and had just done the little circle in front of the driver crap. I thought about stopping and shaking the cop’s hand. It was about time one of those idiots got stopped for that stupidity.
A few months ago, I was walking home from the train station and had to get across a busy intersection. It’s one of those where you press the button for the walk signal, and in due time traffic in both directions gets a red light and pedestrians can cross any-which-way. The walk sign had just come on and I was about to step off the curb when an SUV (of course) zoomed through the red light. I didn’t even have time to cuss them out before a cop car that had been waiting surreptitiously in a bordering parking lot turned its lights on and gave chase. 
Sometimes cops give out tickets people deserve? I guess you can count that as “done good”, I kinda hope at least some of them are “doing their job”.
“Done good”, " Doing their job" = potayto, potahto. Let’s call the whole thing off.
It was just the first time I had actually seen them stop one of those idiots. They may do it all the time.
It says something about traffic cops that it does our hearts so good when we actually do see them doing their jobs (instead of just driving around breaking laws).
Not just traffic cops! Several years ago, when I was living in Baltimore, I was assaulted. Not a big surprise, even given that I was living in a “safer” area of the city. I was very impressed when one of the officers who responded to my 911 call stopped by a couple weeks later to see if I was doing okay.
Are you a hot girl?
Or a hot guy?
Are you [del]hot[/del] female?
Yesterday I took my dog in to my vet to have a minor wound looked at. My vet’s office is in a small shopping center. There was a bustle in the waiting room as earlier, two Dobermans loose in that parking lot had jumped an elderly lady’s Maltese (very small dog). She tried to intervene and was bitten on the arm. The owner of the Dobies got his dogs into his truck and drove away fast. Luckily, the vet was right there and took the Maltese in and saved its life.
Police part is that witnesses got the guy’s license # and the police immediately picked him up (turned out he had rap sheet, amazing), they called an ambulance for the lady, made sure to check after she got out of hospital that she was okay . . . I know all this because I was sitting there in the waiting room with her while she waited for her dog to be released to her.
And if so, are you okay?
Couple months back, I was on my way to lunch and crossing a pedestrian heavy intersection between my company’s building and a popular sandwich shop. There’s a also a constant traffic flow turning right, across the crosswalk. People seem to think they have an absolute right to turn right-on-red there, no matter how many people are in the crosswalk, and they do all sorts of dangerous things. Someone crosses so close in front of us I could have touched the car-- and then immediately a cop car lights up and pulls them over.
Pedestrians in the crosswalk and people waiting at both corners were cheering-- even some dude in a convertible at the light was clapping. I’ve never seen a crowd applaud the cops before like that.
I was standing on a corner with a crossing walk and nobody would stop long enough to let me cross. Even though I was wearing a full arm cast.
Suddenly a cop car pulls out with full siren and lights flashing and stops vertically right by me, blocking both lanes of traffic. I look around to see what the hell is going on. The cop points to me and lets his fingers do the walking. I cross the street.
I turn around to say “Thanks.” The cop straightens his car, says “Just for you” and drives away.
A few years ago I had one of my few experiences with law enforcement. I was trying to find an address out in the county south of Seattle and had got myself thoroughly lost (this was much before GPS). I had pulled my car onto the shoulder of a two-way blacktop road and a county sheriff’s car came driving along. I flagged him down and asked him if he knew where the address was.
He said “Sure, you just follow me and I’ll show you the way”. He then proceeded to pull his car across both lanes and motioned for me to make a U-turn as he blocked any traffic. We then both proceeded for about a mile when he pointed over to a house, and waved farewell. Impressed me no end.
And then later that day, back at a little mall near where I lived, I was coming out of a Radio Shack store. Walked right past a cop who had a suspect leaning against a car with both hands on the roof while patting him down.
I remember thinking that my impression of law enforcement was probably a lot different from that guy’s.
This reminds me of when one day I was heading toward a cafe and a couple of patrolmen were just ahead of me going to lunch. One of them held the door open for me and when I thanked he said in a perfect unsmiling Joe Friday imitation, “It’s our job, ma’am.” Then he unsmilingly winked at me.
well, I laughed anyway.
Last week, I was thrilled to see a police officer handing out tickets to the idiots who think our school zone is a great place to speed and do illegal u-turns.
It took me a little while to even figure out what you were talking about, but then I live where it doesn’t ever snow.
I don’t how you people live with that shit! 
my favorite “cop” story. Some (probably drunkass) clown was riding my ass one night and decided to pass me against a solid line. I was already nudging the speed limit which made it more irritating but he managed to top it off by suddenly turning left in front of me causing me to brake. Jackass couldn’t wait the 5 seconds for me to pass the intersection. Anyway, I was thinking to myself “where’s a cop when you need one”. Yep. The car behind him was a cop. I’m guessing the officer invented new code violations to write on the ticket.
I laughed all the way home.
Your police encounter was explained before you even posted!:
Early last spring I was driving to class when I came upon a police officer standing in the middle of the road, directing traffic. I didn’t see any utility work so I couldn’t figure out what he was doing there. As I got my turn to drive past, I saw what he was doing.
A very pregnant raccoon was very slowly walking across the street and he was directing traffic around her.
It might have been one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen.
I’m sure I’ve posted about this before but what the hell…
Many eons ago when my middle sister and I were in our early teens, her ex-boyfriend stopped by our house one day to harass her. He slammed so hard into our door that he actually broke it and bent the hinges. I called the police and one actually arrived in under 5 minutes (my previous experiences with the Worcester PD hadn’t left me with a good impression of them). The officer who responded took the time to fix our hinges and rehang our door before leaving.
Well of course. The pregnant raccoon was [del]hot[/del] female.