Why don’t you walk up to a cop and say that, tough guy?
I’m sure nothing improper will happen.
Of course not so long as the people two towns over think it’s totally fine for them to be fucking around on my property whether I like it or not.
To be fair if that cop was a uniformed Capitol Police Officer everyone in this topic would be calling him the Greatest Hero in American History.
No good Union except the police Union, no bad cops except the Capitol Police.
Check.
I did see an amusing video where a police officer did deliver a Door Dash delivery. “Your driver just got arrested, so I thought I’d complete the delivery for you.”
Sorry, but nitpick: many of the officers who faced down the attempted coup were MPD. Mike Fanone, for example, was MPD.
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Right. Even if it’s legal, and even if his department is okay with it, he is threatening people by showing up in their property in uniform. That’s improper if he’s (theoretically) just helping out his wife, in effect, free lancing for an insurance company. If he used an unmarked car and if he dressed in ordinary civilian clothes and left his gun at home, i don’t think anyone would care. But threatening innocent strangers in the course of doing routine work is inappropriate.
I think some people see it as reassuring rather than threatening, and can’t understand why not everyone does. And possibly vice versa.
Many of the people in our neighborhood I’m sure genuinely believed there was nothing threatening about a cop visiting someone while off duty but armed, in uniform and in an official vehicle. Even my wife thinks that having so many police and police families (with sons, daughters, brothers and sisters who are police) increases the safety of our neighborhood.
Of course if it’s a common thing. But we never see police up here. As mentioned up thread when a neighbor called it took 4 hours to get assistance (people camping in road blocking his driveway.) Neighbor told them to leave. It took them about 2 hours to do so.
I was wondering what the heck we could have done to have an unmarked cop car show up. I couldn’t imagine that it would be benign, or good news. It does get your heart racing.
So long as they aren’t violating laws about the use of police property, i see no problem with police visiting friends and family armed and in uniform. Those people presumably know why uncle Joe or aunt Mary is there, and don’t find their showing up to be threatening. And while I’d rather people didn’t wander around carrying loaded firearms, sadly, this country’s laws and customs allow that, and at least police officers are all trained in how to carry a gun without getting into trouble.
But enipla was not expecting that person. And showing up in uniform is announcing “something bad here”. Even if you aren’t personally afraid of what the cops will do to you, it suggests there’s been violent crime in the neighborhood or something. It’s just inappropriate to threaten random people like that.
A K9 cop lived across the street from me for a few years. The dog lived with him and he drove the car home and parked it in front of his house. Obviously I had no problem with Steve walking around.
If I opened my blinds in the morning and saw a uniformed cop on my front lawn taking pictures, my first reaction would be fear. If I found out later that it was a legitimate criminal investigation that needed immediate attention, I would be understanding. If I found out later that they were helping out their spouse on a side job, I’d be outraged. If I got a phone call first and the whole thing was explained to me, in this case I would grant permission and it would be fine.
No I don’t give a flip what the excuse is, and it’s not about fear it’s about taking advantage of one’s position to moonlight a second/third job while using taxpayer funded resources to do it. Hell he could’ve been on duty while trucking around taking insurance photos.
Can I flag a cop to deliver something for somebody or to run an errand? Yes ? No? Then no is the answer he should tell his wifey.
I saw that too, that was nice.
Hehehehehe.
I do keep a loaded gun in my house. It takes the cops hours to get here, so I am prepared the best I can be. When an unmarked SUV with tinted windows pulled up my drive at 6:30pm, starts to turn around, and then stops blocking both of our cars in. I almost went to get a gun just in case.
Like I’ve said, we do not get unexpected visitors except maybe someone lost about every year or two. Those are easy enough to figure out.
This was real weird though.
I was on VERY heightened alert. I did not get a gun though. This could have turned out very, very bad.
I then saw it was a cop and thought that everything was probably OK.
I donno. Probably perfectly harmless to take a photo or to for his wife’s sub-contracting business.
But wait a minute, I asked him where he lives and it’s a town way south of the town he works for. I live north. So he wasn’t going home for the evening…
Aroundabout 2004, a guy I knew through the Overgrow Cannabis Website had a scare. He was doing a micro-grow and his plants were close to harvest. He lived in a lower middle-class neighborhood in Ohio. Sitting on his porch, he noticed a car parked near his house that seemed out of place. Then he saw someone get out of the car, walk down the block a bit, then talk to someone in another car. Neither car belonged in the neighborhood.
He was sure they were cops (and indeed they were). He rushed into the house and began chopping and flushing, chopping and flushing.
Police were there to serve a warrant on someone else in the neighborhood. 
Which brings up a good point. What if the moonlighting cop thinks that he sees something illegal through the window and proceeds to fuck up your life?
I was pulled over once at 2 am. I was sober, and I saw the police car well ahead of time, so I was doing the speed limit. The cop was obviously fishing for DUIs. Once he looked at my license and insurance paperwork, he told me he pulled me over to thank me for not speeding through his town.