The LEO isn't SUPPOSED to get any of the money. I'm sure there are times when there is a difference between the amount taken and the amount reported.
Yeah. Sure. 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.
I wonder how many of you get equally worked up when the officer asks where you're coming from or where you're going.
OK, ok, ok. I apologize for offending some of your tender sensibilities. So, the next time I see Homey and his G's cruising through someone's neighborhood in the middle of the night, looking at the fairly high priced homes, I won't get proactive, find a reason to stop them and get their names in the system. No, I'll just smile and wave them on. Surely, I will.
Can you get in trouble if you tell a cop to **** off?
Nope. You sure can't. Go right ahead if it makes you feel good, I've heard it about five thousand times anyway. One more won't make a difference.
Anything more than a question about license and registration, I will respond with a polite "Is this a fishing expedition? Am I being detained? If I am, let me call my attorney (I have prepaid legal insurance), while you get your supervisor. Otherwise I assume I am free to go?
Get one thing straight, bucko. If you're pulled over in my jurisdiction, I don't do so unless one of the following conditions exists:
1. Your car's plates come back to the wrong vehicle.
2. The vehicle is reported stolen.
3. I have witnessed you commit a traffic infraction or criminal traffic offense.
When I activate my overheads behind your car for the purpose of pulling you over, that is a detention. I am detaining you for the purpose of investigating why you committed the traffic infraction that I observed. Drive off if you want; congratulations! You have just turned what was more than likely going to be a warning into felony eluding. Have a good day.
The policeman is not your friend.
The policeman is not your friend.
The policeman is not your friend.
The policeman is not your friend.
The policeman is not your friend.
Nope, I'm sure not, and I could care less about you.
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.
That's why I usually arrange rides for people who are driving while suspended, especially if they are on the way to or from work--because I know what it's like to live from paycheck to paycheck.
That's why I will change your tire for you, in the rain, mud, snow or wind while you sit in my car and keep warm. Because I don't give a rip about you.
That's why if you say your child is missing, I will spend all day and all night walking the streets, walking through the woods, climbing the hills, WHATEVER IT TAKES to find the child. And, it's why when you call and tell the department that your children have been just over at their friend's house, I breathe a sigh of relief--instead of getting mad about it.
That's why, during one of the worst cold snaps this State has ever had, I spent most of my patrol shift running firewood to our elders, to make sure that they were warm and safe.
Folks, there are some bad apples to be sure. But for you to sit at your keyboards and type this garbage that paints me--and the other good, honest cops out here--as a thief, a druggie and a LIAR, crosses the line.
I've had enough. If any of you fine, upstanding citizens have the guts, I challenge you to do a ride along or two with your local police. Since you know how cops are already, I'm sure that you'll be surprised.
Until then, screw off. And if I get whacked off of this board for saying so, so be it. You folks just take the cake.