# How could a police officer be this wrong? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 30, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759 "2012-06-30T00:54:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/81 "2012-07-04T15:10:35Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > On what subject; the abuse of handicap parking? IDK, in the more than year that I’ve been here…three. Heaven forbid. :rolleyes: It seems to be taking a toll on your being. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/82 "2012-07-04T16:11:00Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Jamie, if I had as much trouble as your seem to at gyms, I’d take up something a little less stressful. Like bungee jumping. He can’t get a parking spot near the cliff. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/83 "2012-07-04T18:14:19Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > It seems to be taking a toll on your being. Go on… ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/84 "2012-07-04T18:16:26Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I’m not telling you to stop calling when you see a violation. > > Some fish get away. Let it go. If they keep using the spots illegally they will get caught. “Let it go”? What are you talking about? If you aren’t telling me to stop calling when I see a violation, what exactly are you telling me to “let go”? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/85 "2012-07-04T18:37:15Z")
It should not matter one whit if the OP has legal use of a handicap spot. Able bodied people can, and do, report violations. It’s called being a good citizen. If you saw someone getting robbed, would you not call because you weren’t the one being robbed? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/86 "2012-07-04T18:41:50Z")
> [@tapu](#): > > If you saw someone getting robbed, would you not call because you weren’t the one being robbed? Well see the thing is, some people seem to think parking illegally in a handicap parking spot is so trivial and inconsequential of a transgression that no one should even waste their time making sure that those who commit said transgressions be held accountable. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/87 "2012-07-04T18:44:51Z")
Clueless ones, if someone parked over your driveway on a public street three times, would you figure, eh, they’ll get caught someday, I won’t call? ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/88 "2012-07-04T18:46:14Z")
The predominant attitudes on this infuriate me. It’s part of the hidden prejudice: “These people should be glad we’re giving them anything. How dare they demand their rights?” So much for fighting ignorance, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/89 "2012-07-04T20:02:52Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Go on… It was self explanatory. You repeatedly start threads on the subject. It bothers you a great deal. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/90 "2012-07-04T20:11:04Z")
> [@Kiwi\_Fruit](#): > > Why does the police department deal with apparently private parking spaces? Around here it would be the property owner or manager that would deal with that situation. Private business are required by local law to maintain handicapped parking spaces and use of those spaces is enforced by the police department. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/91 "2012-07-04T20:11:48Z")
dele ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/92 "2012-07-04T20:12:49Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > It was self explanatory. You repeatedly start threads on the subject. It bothers you a great deal. Well each individual thread had specific subject matter that was unique to the circumstances surrounding it and was started simply as a way of sparking discussion (seeing as this is, you know, a _discussion board_). And you are correct, the abuse of handicap parking _does_ bother me a great deal. I know you and _some_ other ABs think that the matter doesn’t deserve any attention but it _is_ a real problem in the lives of many disabled people. And just to keep this reigned in, it _has been_ only three threads. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/93 "2012-07-04T20:25:14Z")
> [@tapu](#): > > The predominant attitudes on this infuriate me. It’s part of the hidden prejudice: “These people should be glad we’re giving them anything. How dare they demand their rights?” > > So much for fighting ignorance, huh? It’s not even that hidden, really. Some people openly express this attitude. “These people should be glad we’re giving them anything. How dare they demand _anything_?”…Is how I’d write it. Some people view the disabled as a burden on society, so since society is gracious enough to provide anything at all, they (the disabled) should be grateful for it. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/94 "2012-07-04T23:47:25Z")
That is probably the furthest thing from the truth I have seen in a week. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/95 "2012-07-04T23:50:35Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > That is probably the furthest thing from the truth I have seen in a week. You should change your seat. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/96 "2012-07-04T23:55:54Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > That is probably the furthest thing from the truth I have seen in a week. You are saying _no one_ expresses this attitude? Oh please. It’s especially common in online gathering-places where people feel protected by anonymity in order to spout out this kind of crap. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/97 "2012-07-05T00:01:49Z")
Small minds often assume that if they don’t know about it, it must not exist. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/98 "2012-07-05T00:50:56Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > It’s not even that hidden, really. Some people openly express this attitude. "These people should be glad we’re giving them anything. How dare they demand _anything_ > [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > That is probably the furthest thing from the truth I have seen in a week. Really? In my lifetime I’ve heard this sort of thing said about handicapped people, the poor, racial and religious minorities… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/99 "2012-07-05T01:39:09Z")
> [@tapu](#): > > The predominant attitudes on this infuriate me. It’s part of the hidden prejudice: “These people should be glad we’re giving them anything. How dare they demand their rights?” > > So much for fighting ignorance, huh? You don’t seem to be all that familiar with **Ambivalid** , are you? ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-a-police-officer-be-this-wrong/626759/100 "2012-07-05T01:42:35Z")
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