[searcher1]

Into what I feel like is an "officer freindly" zone and that they can do no wrong. Everytime I have logged in here, it is about police rights and not civilian. Am I correct in my quick analisyls or not?

[searcher1]

Please excuse typos its late for me

[Mark Tyson]

There are plenty of people who criticize the actions of police here.

[searcher1]

I have seen a few but most times I log in here I feel like I am defending the rights of people who's rights should never have been infringed. MP

[Holly76201]

Searcher,
there are LEO critics and LEO supporters on this board.
Since my dearly beloved and one of my steps are LEOs I am usually a supporter. However, when an officer has Obviously violated an individual's rights, I will be among the first to criticize that behavior. What I won't do is paint all officers with a that brush.
Most officers in Most departments joined in order to do their part to help make their communities a safer place. But, as in any other profession, there will always be a few officers who let the power of their position go to their head. They are the officers who need to be weeded out of the profession.
However, whatever your opinion of LEO in general or in particular, you are free to express it here.

Holly

[Sunray]

Most cops are a good bunch of guys and would be the first to want a rectal orifice gone. Cops have the same rights you do.
How you deal with a cop when you're meeting him professionally, his not yours, depends entirely on how you treat him. If you get stopped for a traffic thing, he's just a guy doing a job. A job you hired him to do. Polite always works.

[semf]

I am certainly no cop deifier. The majority of my face to faces with a LEO acting as a LEO have not been positive. I think a good portion of cops are bullies who took the job to hide behind their little tin star, or they were beat up alot in high school and now they're getting even. I have been abused by cops on more than one occasion, I've even spent some time in county (20 days) for telling one what i thought of him. (First amendwhat)

And I am not a cop villifier I think another good portion of cops are truly good people trying to make a difference or are trying to emmulate a figure from their childhood that they respected. The type people who would run towards a freak with a gun or a burning building with a plane stuck in it. Or even the type that would give a stupid kid with an outta gas truck and $2 to his name stuck in the middle of no where a ride to and from a gas station and buy him a couple dollars of gas. Or that would pull a young father for a bad tail light and scare his 3yo son enough that instead of giving the man a ticket he gave the kid a teddy bear and tickets to the circus (and don't think I ever forgot that officer whoever)

Whether we like it or not cops are people doing a crappy job and some get a crappy attitude and some are just trying to make a crappy situation better.

So if you came to THR hoping for some antiestablishment anarchists critical of all authority just because it is the authority,Then Yep you're in the wrong place. But if you're looking for people who judge a person and situation by the people involved and not by their career choice then you found the right place.

[Okiecruffler]

I'm not pro or con LEO, but I am pro self responsibility. If a LEO steps out of line, he/she should be busted for it. But if some dink comes to some harm while pulling the old "my taxes pay your salary" routine...well you won't find any sympathy at my door step.

[c_yeager]

I think you just need to pay more attention. There are critics aplenty on both sides in here.

[sm]

In any business/occupation there are those that do shed bad light and give said business/occupation a bad rep...

Like most things it's the individual, we have plenty of "officers" that have and will crticize there brethern/depts. Same with any business/ occupation on this board.

Oh , and ya know, we don't always know whom is what on this forum. I'm not LEO, I have been pulled over, and I have some good friends that are LEO. The weirdest thing I had to do, be a witness for a UC LEO against his UC LEO partner of 5 years...I knew them both...One decided the money was better on the other side.

[Don Gwinn]

As near as I can tell, it depends on you. If you just plain don't like cops, we're probably way too officer-friendly for your taste.

If you think the police don't make mistakes as a rule and that people shouldn't question them, we're probably way too "anti-LEO" for you.

We get accused of both about equally (that is to say, several times per day) so we figure we're walking the line pretty well.

[Mal H]

"Am I correct in my quick analisyls or not?"

No, you are incorrect. Seems to me the tide seems to run one way or the other in cycles. You may have been analyzing threads during a pro-LEO cycle. IMO, neither extreme is conducive to good feelings between LEO's and non-LEO's. Ideally both "sides" should have the "we are them and they are us" attitude; IOW, there shouldn't be any "sides".

[BHPshooter]

Well, you are wrong. There are plenty on both sides of the fence.

One the one hand, I cannot say that I've ever had a good experience with any LEO I've dealt with as an LEO.

On the other hand though, some of the people I like best or admire most are LEOs. One of them is actually the police chief in my town. Others are LEOs that I've met and conversed with on the internet.

There are very few pigeonholes on the High Road, thankfully.

Wes