The cop may not be your best friend, but all of them aren't out to get you by a long shot.
Absolutely wrong! It
is his job to compile any evidence he can find of a crime. No, he's probably not targeting me specifically, because he doesn't know me. But he is targeting me
if he interacts with me because he's required to gather all the evidence he can. I don't take it personal.
What the hell, I'm a JBT, a taillight chaser and a road nazi. I'm brutal. I might as well be a liar and a thief too
Noone EVER implied you personally were a bad guy cop.
Why are you so defensive if you have nothing to hide? See how inflamatory that logic is? (And it's used by LEOs pretty often)
I won't get proactive, find a reason to stop them and get their names in the system.
Guilty until proven innocent huh? LEOs
should be reactive, not proactive. Unless you have an error-proof crystal ball to tell the future, then you will will end up targeting innocent people AND criminals.
Are the innocent people just acceptable casualties to you?
I am detaining you for the purpose of investigating why you committed the traffic infraction that I observed
Doesn't matter why, YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW my motivation. All you need to know is that you saw me commit a crime, and I'm guilty. There is no reason to get further information from me, except that
you are trying to collect further evidence against me. People need to be aware of that.
That's why I get out of my nice warm car to walk through your neighborhoods on foot, to make sure someone isn't trying to burglarize your home.
That's why I go out on patrol when I could be spending time with my wife.
Because I don't care.
Nice try. You do these things because they are part of your job. You have a job because you want a paycheck. Taxpayers are paying you to do the job they don't want to do. If it was such a wonderful job, no PDs would ever hafta pay anyone. Don't get me wrong. I appreciate some of the things law enforcement does for us, but
to pretend your only motivation is care is simply an untrue smokescreen.
I usually arrange rides for people who are driving while suspended,
Maybe sometimes you just don't want to book 'em, 'eh Danno?
change your tire for you, in the rain, mud, snow or wind while you sit in my car and keep warm.
It's not about my comfort, so don't pretend it is. My car is equally as warm as yours. It's about the public's safety of me rolling around on the ground on the side of the road. Mine and the other drivers on the road. By maintaining safety you are "doing your job", not "being nice to me". Although you love it when the any media makes you out to be the hero right?
this garbage that paints me--and the other good, honest cops out here--as a thief, a druggie and a LIAR, crosses the line.
Again, noone said you specifically. Why are you so defensive if you have nothing to hide? That seems suspicious to me...I guess we have PC and RS to believe you're crooked. (THIS STATEMENT WAS ONLY SARCASM DESIGNED TO SHOW THE STUPIDITY OF THE REASONING.)
Personally I have nothing against LEOs. I've been treated better AND worse than I deserved. I'll give you guys the benefit of believing that you guys are doing your job to find evidence of every crime you can. But as long as you are trained to "build a case", (and LEOs always will be), than Deanimator said it best:
Here's the bottom line, Powderman:
What's the worst thing that can happen from me assuming the worst about all cops? I can prolong an encounter, maybe even be falsely arrested on a charge that probably won't stick. I might end up suing the city.
What's the worst thing that can happen if I DON'T? I can incriminate myself for something I DIDN'T do. I can end up in jail based on my own words, which the police and prosecutors will cheerfully use against me.
