Typical Cop!

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

[Pat Riot]

God bless him. 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Yaeh, don't you just hate cops?

 

I sure as hell don't.

[Badlands Bob #61228]

$82 is a lot of money to a street cop.  

[Rip Snorter]

20 minutes ago, Badlands Bob #61228 said:

$82 is a lot of money to a street cop.  

BS, not even in 1968 when my salary was $8,500 a year.  You is or you ain't.

[Hashknife Cowboy]

This stuff really does take place.  Then one day some bureaucrat of a  administrator will get word of this and create a policy and reporting guidelines for a simple act of human kindness and if not documented, the officer gets disciplined.   I almost 3 decades of law enforcement I saw this exact scenario too many times.  So we continued to do what we had to do and told no one.  Whether well meaning, malicious or just ignorant, police administrators create more problems when there is not a need to.  I will always support the men and women who are the unsung heroes and know and do the right thing when the situation presents itself.  God Bless them all and thank you for being there.

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 minute ago, Hashknife Cowboy said:

This stuff really does take place.  Then one day some bureaucrat of a  administrator will get word of this and create a policy and reporting guidelines for a simple act of human kindness and if not documented, the officer gets disciplined.   I almost 3 decades of law enforcement I saw this exact scenario too many times.  So we continued to do what we had to do and told no one.  Whether well meaning, malicious or just ignorant police administrators create more problems when there is not a need to.  I will always support the men and women who are the unsung heroes and know and do the right thing when the situation presents itself.  God Bless them all and thank you for being there.

 

That's why I titled this thread "Typical Cop!" I'm fair certain sure that things like this happen thousands of times every day across our republic.  LEOs doing everything from stopping to shoot hoops with kids, or play a few minutes of catch, buy a guy a burger, give a guy with rags on his feet his spare pair of shoes, buy a kid a bike, buy a family a load of groceries, change a tire in the rain so the woman doesn't have to get soaked.  Even arrange for Shaq to come play basketball with kids.  These are the things that should be shouted in the headlines, and be the lead in story on the evening news, not the statistically rare bad cop that gets trumpeted for weeks.  

I'm not saying that all cops are angels, in any population of ~1,000,000 you will find a few bad apples.  And, being human, even the good ones will sometimes make a mistake because they are human.  With between 50 million and 65 million contacts per year with citizens there are bound to be a few mistakes.  Even 1/10 of 1% yields 50,000 to 65,000 mistakes.  Which then get exploited by the certain people to paint all cops as bad.