I don’t hate cops. I just feel better when they’re not around.
Please, before you accuse random people of being imbeciles, make sure they actually are. Since you say so, I have no doubt that Hal really is an imbecile, but he is right and you are wrong.
The quoted post is saying that “Inbred redneck dickless assholes” is synomonous with “Cops”. So yes, it’s saying that ALL cops are inbred redneck dickless assholes, just like all things that are small are also little.
I agree that we should not label all cops one way or another. But ‘regretfully bad’ as a descriptor doesn’t quite cut it in some instances. And the ‘problem should be fixed’ will not happen unless the public* raises hell and scares them*.
There are police officers out there who are criminals. Not ‘acting like criminals’ but are, in fact, criminals with badges. I live in Los Angeles, amid some of the worst police corruption cases in the country. We have actually had police officers who were convicted of moonlighted as hit-men (at least 3 that I can find right now in a quick search. I thought it was just an LAPD thing. sadly, the internet has proven me wrong) We have had LAPD officers convicted of dealing drugs and robbing banks. And one instance of an LAPD officer killing another LAPD officer in a case of road rage.
I would offer much more vocal support of L.A.'s Finest if it weren’t for their despicable habit of protecting the corrupt cops in their ranks.
Someone here posted that they had no reason to be afraid of the cops. There are some cops that everyone needs to be afraid of.
Yes, that’s right. Helping someone is its own reward and if those people were really in their profession to help others, not set yourself up as being so important that you need better financial recognition, then they too should be happy on a minimum wage.
OK, you tell all those people to go work for minimum wage while I buy every house on the market and give the deeds to random homeless people on the street. Alright?
Awww! I’ve got a widdle stalker!
Isn’t she the cutest thing?
Why is a person enjoying their job such a silly notion to you?
Out of sheer curiosity, what do you do for a living?
I’m a student of life, currently unemployed, because if I had to work for someone else, unless I was stoned, I’d end up on a charge sheet for knocking someone out.
Yes, I have anger issues and avoid them the best I can by not putting myself in situations where I get angry.
There you go; a bit more personal information, for those who like to use such things as ammo.
Because almost everyone on this board that bitches about corrupt cops and how much the cops suck are people who feel like they are being violated with a metaphorical taser because they can’t concealed carry.
This “concealed carry” fetish tickles me. Does carrying a weapon give you some kind of a magic aura that stops criminals shooting at you, or do you just rely on your “quick draw” instincts?
I’ll forgo any fish-in-a-barrel comments and instead commend you for tossing an admission like that in a thread such as this. Gutsy.
Just to muddy these waters a bit further, if you want to look at a truly dangerous profession, look up the statistics on injury and death for construction workers. In North America, where we have OSHA and OHS, never mind in countries where life is cheap.
(From this site.)
I always think of statistics like this when people talk about how dangerous it is to be a cop, and make excuses based on that. Which is worse - killed by a criminal or killed because your project was behind schedule?
Playing devils advocate, Construction workers make up 20% of work related fatalities, yes – how many do cops make up?
What is the ratio of cops to construction workers?
I think there are probably more construction workers than their are cops (maybe 2, maybe 5 times as many), and I doubt that cops make up 10%, or even 2% of the total on the job fatalities, to give it an even stat by weight… I’m just curious, as you cited one out of four numbers needed to get an accurate understanding of the situation.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/1500/1/?redirectURL=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-08/the-20-most-dangerous-jobs/ Here are the top 20 occupations for injury. Cops are no.12.
Hm, no window washers on that list. Thought for sure they’d be on there.
I was about to ask if you meant squeegee kids, but then realized you meant the people who wash windows on high rises.
That’s a good question; I suppose you’d need to know construction workers per capita, cops per capita, and deaths in each field. Or look at gonzo’s link. 
My point is more general, though - we think of cops as having a very dangerous job and give them a lot of leeway for it, when in fact there are many other jobs that are as or more dangerous.
Cop stories have proven to be good TV. You don’t get wrapped up in programs about the work of a garbage collector . That is why people think cops have such a dangerous profession. But cop shows are dramatizations. they are not the truth. It is not nearly as dangerous as it is portrayed. But after 50 years we think they can solve any crime in an hour.
Doctor shows are the same. They have had incredible TV press for decades. That is part of the reason we think they are so special. People have been trained to believe it.
What’s really weird is that almost all of the time the camera footage is from the cop’s own cruiser…and rarely does it catch him being the abusive jerk many say he is!
And when it does…“you’re fired”
Amazing how that works.
A person enjoying a job? I have no problem with that.
It is a sentence that with 2 likes in it that is annoying. If you said they do the job because they like helping people .i would be OK.
I are a retired design engineer. I often was a liaison between engineering and manufacture.I kind of liked it ,except it was a life of endless deadlines that were nearly impossible to make. There was never enough time .