Ain't anyone got a "good guy "story?

[Matt1911]

Maybe it's geography,but i've never seen,heard of,or known anyone thats ever been harassed,thier dog shot,ticketed,or otherwise hassled without cause by the local LEO'S,county,state or town.Some of the younger ones(cops) may be a little gung-ho,but are still professional.
Who/where else doesn't have a problem with cops?

 

[Boats]

I don't have any general issues with the police and in fact I served as a volunteer reserve deputy for awhile.

It is not an easy job. It is not easy to keep one's cool in a lot of trying situations. It's stressful and it's boring all at the same time. My brother is on 50% disability for the rest of his life from the job.

However, the job is one of service and the dog shooters and kid thumpers in the ranks have forgotten that.

 

[Art Eatman]

The majority of my non-social "involvement" with LEOs has been traffic-related. Even in speed-trap areas (e.g, driving a sports car in Florida back in the 1950s/1960s), the behavior toward me was okay. I've probably been let off more often than I really deserved.

Overall? No hassles.

About the only truly egregious stupidities I've seen in Texas involved doofi from the Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Gestapo-like. The agency once was the Liquor Control Board, but it was changed because "ABC" was easier for the agents to remember, compared to "LCB".

Art

 

[Tamara]

I don't think I've personally ever had a bad experience with the cops. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen; if you want to hear the worst police horror stories, go drinking with a bunch of 'em. Especially guys nearing retirement, as they tend to have "You wouldn't believe this dumb rookie..." stories that'll curl your hair.

 

[cordex]

I've posted my stories a couple of times. My personal involvement with police has been overwhelmingly positive. Which is part of what makes some of the negative experiences out there all the more disturbing.

 

[Ian]

My experience with police (in their official capacity) has been neutral overall, and all initiated by me. One officer tried to chew me out for asking about places to hold Airsoft skirmishes ("you'll put your eye out"), and another was supportive but unhelpful when I tried to get a CCW. And one time at work I got into a discussion about neat guns with a cop, while we were right in front of our county commissioners' secretary. Made her quite uncomfortable, for some reason.

 

[El Tejon]

Oh, Ian, the stories I will tell you someday about PUPD training daze!

No problems here, even when they show me that I am number 1 is their hearts.

 

[jsalcedo]

One time my 77 Nova had a cracked radiator and I was parked on the side of the highway letting it cool off.

A cop pulled up and handed me a road flare and drove off.

I guess that was pretty ok.

I still have the flare BTW.

And there was the time the illegal immigrant ran his camaro into
my pristine grand marquis in the apartment parking lot and didn't tell me.

Since I had a oxidized red mark and he had the only oxidized red car I called the cops.

Much to my surprise a swarthy gold toothed hulk of a cop answered the call and told me he couldn't legally do anything on private property.

After a short discussion it ended up he knew one of my female co-workers. He said If I gave him her phone# he would go harass the camaro owner and try to get him to fess up and pay for the damage.


Happy ending.

I get my car fixed, illegal alien gets deported
Cop has an affair with my married co-worker.

Life is good.

 

[TheeBadOne]

A Deputy saved my boat and truck. I heard a knock on my back door late one night and imagine my suprise to see a uniformed Deputy! He seemed aggitated, and then I understood why. The neighbors garage was on fire, and it's 3 feet from my boat and truck. He helped me put the trailer hitch on the tk and get the heck out of there. If not for him, more than a garage would have been lost. The fire dept got there in time to save the slab

Oh, I almost forgot...... He was a Deputy from the bordering County. He had slipped into town to meet the local cops when he spotted the garage fire from 2 block off of main street. The garage was only smoking at that time (good eyes).
What's important is that he took action knowing he could have been beefed for being outside of his area. The safe thing would have been to keep driving and look the other way. He didn't, and thankfully he didn't get beefed by anyone. I still remember his face and it's been 15+ years.

 

[Dorrin79]

I have never had a negative encounter with a police officer, as an adult.

One did write me a ticket for something stupid once, but he was nice about it, at least.

A couple of times as a teenager I was treated unfairly by police; in Friendswood, TX and in Williamson County. Cars searched with no PC, field sobriety tests, etc. I guess you can't drive to Sonic for a hamburger at 10 PM if you're 16-17.

Then again, my only encounters with cops have been traffic-related, and in Austin or in my hometown of Alvin I've never had a problem. Professional and generally pretty friendly.

 

[AJ Dual]

Mostly traffic related, all professional and/or friendly.

Latest interaction. Kids put a Drano/Alumninum foil bottle-bomb on my front porch. (at random, because I'm convinent to a corner) Heard the bang, couldn't figure out what it was for an hour, finally smell the chemicals coming from the porch and call the West Allist non-emergency number to make a report.

Two cruisers were there in 5 minutes, driving very fast, took a report, collected pieces of the plastic soda bottle, took my suggestion to interview the neighbor girl who yelled something to the kids hanging out on my corner that evening, since she might know them.

An officer called me back a week later to tell me they caught the kid, couldn't tell me anything about him since it was a juvenile case, and wanted to be very, very, sure when I said I didn't have any monetary damage to my porch, since he was trying to put together a victim impact statment.

Granted, it could have been more dangerous, and someone could have gotten a face/eyes full of lye, but it was a lot of attention I recieved for what ammounted to a dumb prank that was ultimately less of a mess than eggs or getting TP'd would have been.

 

[Smoke]

Since this is the "good guy" thread I won't mention our local municipal dept.

Sherriffs office here is staffed by mostly normal guys doing their job. Some real gun guys in there too.

DPS serving this county are really good guys (well...2 out of three) one seems to have a smarta$$ attitude.

With the aforementioned exception, most LEO's I have encountered have been good people.

 

[Preacherman]

Here in Louisiana, virtually all of the LEO's I've met have been "good ol' boys", who are out to help rather than harass people. I was a "Special Deputy" with a parish sheriff's department for a while, and had a great time with them. Also, of course, in the Northern part of the state, most folks have a very relaxed attitude towards dealing with criminals. Two examples:

1. A few years ago, in a town where I used to live, three citified gang-bangers tried to hold up a late-night drugstore to get various narcotics without prescription. They were spotted, and the alarm was sounded. They popped off a couple of rounds in the general direction of the first police car. Within a matter of minutes, half the men in town had gathered, armed with their .30-30's and/or 12-gauge pump-guns, all set to have some fun. The local PD had more than half their force busy trying to stop the locals from getting in on the act! The gang-bangers took one look at the interested crowd and surrendered ASAP, rather than become the focal point of a "Dillinger"-style crime scene cleanup. There was much resentment among the townsfolk at the PD "hoggin' all the fun to theirselves"...

2. I had a run-in with a gang type while doing pastoral work one evening. After failing to persuade me to do something for him, he started jumping up and down and screaming that "he was going to kick the [excrement] (euphemism) out of me, 'cause he had a black belt". As I drew my Glock, I informed him that I had a black gun - at which he stood not upon the order of his going... When I reported the incident to the Sheriff, he wailed "But, Pastor, why didn't you shoot the @#$%^&*? Now we'll have to do it later!!!" Nice to have support like that...

 

[Moondancer]

Yesterday, I had my first incident with a cop since receiving my IN CHL over two years ago.

My truck was rear-ended yestedy on my way to work. (I live in North Central Indiana but work in the metro Detroit area.) I was sitting in a line of traffic waiting for it to move, when suddenly my seat hits me in the back of the head! To make a short story even shorter, a Dodge Ram deisel had hit the driver's rear of my truck.

After convincing the driver that he wasn't going to just give me his information so he could pay cash for the repairs, I called for the local LE to arrive.

We both had our licenses, registration, and proof of insurance ready. I also had my CHL in my pocket. After ascertaining that there were no injuries, and who was driving what, he went back to his cruiser. I wandered over and handed him my CHL.

Me: "Even though I'm from Indiana, I know I need to notify you when I have a concealed handgun."
Him: "Do you have it on you right now?"
Me: "No, it's in the center console."
Him: "Okay." (hands back CHL.) And as I start to walk away, he smiles and says, "You're right, you do have to tell me."

End of the CHL matter. Two minutes later I have his card with the incident number and I'm on my way.

The cop was youngish, probably late twenties, very courteous, friendly and professional. No issues whatsoever with me having the CHL. Now I wonder what he would have done if I'd said I had it on me???

 

[fish2xs]

>>After a short discussion it ended up he knew one of my female co-workers. He said If I gave him her phone# he would go harass the camaro owner and try to get him to fess up and pay for the damage.
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>>Happy ending.
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>>I get my car fixed, illegal alien gets deported
>>Cop has an affair with my married co-worker.
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>>Life is good.

I needed that laugh...

That made my day

 

[TheEgg]

Mostly good.

Mostly good I guess. Some recent examples from small town America.

1.) A pig wound up inside our fenced yard (we think he fell off of a stock trailer). All by myself I couldn't corner the little sucker -- man was he fast! Called the town cop (we only have one) and he came over and helped me corner the pig and rope it -- then radioed the county animal control guy to come and get it (that was a big help all by itself, trying to get animal control to get off their behind is tough). Wish we had some pictures -- the sight of the cop and me running around trying to catch a pig (both of us somewhat girth challenged) must of been a hoot!

2.) A couple of months ago, had a drunk walking down the country road beside our house, shouting at the top of his lungs, at about 2:30 am. I went out to try to talk him into being a little less noisy, but no go. Called the county cops (it was the local guys day off) and they came over and got the guy. Turned out he was Army and had been celebrating graduation from boot camp a little too much. Cops took him to the jail, let him sleep it off, drove him home and did not file any charges. Decent of them.


Anyway, looking back on it, I guess almost all my encounters with cops has been mostly good.

By the way, one of my nephews starts training as an Arizona state trooper next week -- wish him luck!

 

[OEF_VET]

I had a great encounter with an Illinois State Trooper this past weekend.

I was heading back to TN after attending a wedding in IL. So, here I am cruising down I-57 South, around mile 69, going about 85 - 90 mph. I pass a little grey Mustang, and next thing I see in my rear-view mirror is this 'Stang with red and blue lights flashing on the dash and mirror coming up really quickly. First thing I do is take my foot off the gas and look at the speedometer, which is reading somewhere between 80 and 85 by then. I pull over and dig out my registration while waiting for the trooper to approach me.

He comes up on my passenger side and says "You nearly blew me off the road back there!", which to me sounds a lot like "You're going to go broke paying this fine!" He then asks for my license, which I give him. Before he steps back to his car, he says"101st, huh?", making a reference to my window decal of the division patch superimposed on a map of Afghanistan. I told him I had been in the 101, but got out in October. His reply was "Nuts.", which was what BG McAuliffe told the Germans at Bastogne. I said "Hooah" as he walked away.

He sits in his car for a few minutes, then comes back holding a clipboard and a pen. All I can think is that I'm going to go broke paying this fine. When he hands me the clipboard for my signature, I see it's a written warning.

After signing it, I ask if he knows my future FIL, who is a cop in West Frankfort, IL, the next town over. Trooper says, "Suing Sam(he's also an attorney), nah, don't know him." So we end up making small talk for a few minutes. In the end, he tells me he's flying out of Nashville next month, and asks for directions to the airport, which I gladly gave him.

All in all, it was a very pleasant encounter. I was definitly in the wrong, and by all rights should be trying to figure out how to avoid the poor house due to a fine. But, this trooper decided to be kind to a vet, and gave me a break. He's got both my gratitude and respect.

Frank

P.S. All you cops in Southern Illinois, if you know Trooper Pritchard, he's a great guy.

 

[brownie0486]

This certainly is a refreshing change from the majority of anti-police attitudes in this section of the THR.

Brownie

 

[WAGCEVP]

I don't, Got lots of friends who are retired/ active cops...
I don't like the seat belt road blocks, but.........

 

[QuarterBoreGunner]

Best LEO story I have happened hours after a self-defense shooting I was involved in. Bad guy went down and the local PD had me at the scene to videotape a recreation of the events. This occurred at the indoor range I was managing at the time and we had a very good relationship with the local PD (Santa Clara, Calif. PD if you’re taking notes). The officer in question was a regular in our store and also happened to be part of the crime scene investigation team doing the recreation. The firearm I had used was tagged and bagged for evidence. So the officer takes me aside and real quite like asks me if I had a spare handgun to carry, because if I didn’t he’d loan me one of his personal weapons.

Oh sure, questionable legalities, but I had just had to shoot a bad guy not three hours earlier and here was one of the investigating officers was offering to loan me a handgun if I didn’t have a spare. Well… I had a spare G23 in my locker, but…damn.

How cool is that?