I still recall walking down the street in Midtown a couple years ago and this cop was just happily towing cars away. I knew that the parking garage gate wasn't working properly so a bunch of extra cars were on the street. I told him to quit being an ass and explained that the garage was broken. He told me to come over to him and subsequently arrested me for jaywalking.
I'll never forget the time I swerved to miss a pothole and was pulled over then after taking my seat belt off to get my wallet for the officer was given a ticket for not wearing my seat belt.
So, if a guy breaks into your house and you shoot him, you think the police aren't going to get involved? If a burglary happens while you're away, you think you're capable of investigating it and bringing the criminals to justice by yourself like some vigilante?
All of the training cops go through go out the window when they see a turban on a guy with a beard. Unbelievable! I agree with the consensus...they should get their due process and then they should be fired if what they are accused of doing pans out. Police intolerance is inexcusable.
so is this the official police brutality thread that we should bump every time there's an incident with a bad cop? because everyone's talking about the Sikhs who got harassed last December...
Everyone can say that they dont like them, but when you need them..."Thank you officer, thank you." I'm not a huge fan of police but Im not gonna let several jerk offs ruin it for everyone.
Not surprising that some pigs are totally ignorant. It's probably relevant that most of these officers have only high school education.
The same ignorance and generalizations these police officers made are being made by so many in this thread toward cops, lol.
Yeah but we aren't really hurting anyone, unlike those coppers that harassed a family for no apparent reason. To be honest, some cops have been very nice to me and let me off with a warning, etc. But some have been the complete opposite. When i was 17, I got arrested for something so ridiculous. Needless to say that the case was dismissed one week later.
have you really ever been HELPED by a cop? i've only beckoned an officer for help a few times: once when my apartment got broken into, another when my girlfriend was harassed at a gas station and once with a flat tire. First, told me there weren't enough officers to dispatch one unless i could prove there was more valuable theft. Second, wrote a report but did absolutely nothing. Third, watched me sit on the side of the road, told me he wasn't allowed to help me change a tire, or even lend me a jack.
my views of cops have been different ever since they threatened accusations of white substance in her car... and stealing my moms wedding ring... .. and handcuffing her to jail, all that for an unpaid traffic ticket from the 90's which she though was already paid.
I'm not gonna play the Police's police. But yes, several times...at our business and our home. Like I was saying, I'm not going to let several idiots ruin it for everyone. When I was younger I couldnt stand them because....once got taken to jail for not carrying my license and another time I got stuck on the side of the road and they kept passing me by. I also knew a couple of them and they were a-holes. Now I do what Im supposed to do and call a friend or relative if I need help. Id rather them try and stop a crime than to help someone on the side of the road with a flat. I dont expect them to help me for every little problem I have. Just my opinion.
It's apparently difficult to fire a police officer and have it stick. There was an administrative hearing in Dallas yesterday where a judge had to consider whether to reinstate an officer who had been fired THREE times for various offenses (violating chase policy and killing an innocent in a resulting accident, misuse of police property, etc.) He wasn't reinstated this time, but even though his previous actions (violating police policy) directly resulted in the death of an innocent bystander, he was reinstated twice before.
This is deflection. What "ruins it for everyone" is that a cop who pulls this type of crap is almost never properly held accountable and punished. He gets a slap on the wrist, a desk job for a few years, and then is put back out on the street. Accordingly, there is no way to trust an officer - they tacitly endorse and protect this type of behavior. Those "several idiots" didn't ruin it for everyone. The whole damn police force ignoring those "several idiots" ruined it for everyone.
