To Protect and to Serve...

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Obsessed said:
I understand my friend. I share your opinion. Just don't let it get to you too much The Leo's on this forum are stand up. ( except punkcat. He likes to gloat over his new toys :) )
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Thanks, Obsessed. You seem like a decent dude. Sorry for the novel, it just gets to me sometimes when the only thing people seem to care about is bringing us down.

I know a lot of people in this thread may not trust me based on what I do for living...but the Protect and Serve motto means everything to me. Its why I do the job. When it stops holding meaning, that's the day I give up the badge. However, although a lot of guys I've talked to on here may not trust me, I can promise you this...if it came down to it, I'd take a bullet for any one of them and anyone out there. That's the job and that's the life...but the motto isn't just some cheap lip service, believe me.
 
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BigOrange15 said:
The thread title is "To Protect and Serve." That's what I try to do every ****ing day and I get sick of seeing story after story of the bad things that officers do. Officers do good deeds every day, they help people every day, they may save a life if they are very lucky. I realize I'm asking a lot from some people but *******, post some positive **** every once in a while and acknowledge when something good happens. The motto is what it is for a reason. Good officers try and LIVE it and are willing to take a bullet for people like volmaverick that hate or distrust them. We aren't all like these dickheads that people just LOVE to post about.
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if police spent more time solving crimes and bringing in criminals than they do being revenue collection for a local govt then they might have a better rep. A better understanding of the rights of a citizen would help too.

I don't dismiss the job police do but most law-abiding citizens have very few interactions with them. When many of those are negative it's easy to see how the perception gets out there.
 
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BigOrange15 said:
Thanks, Obsessed. You seem like a decent dude. Sorry for the novel, it just gets to me sometimes when the only thing people seem to care about is bringing us down.

I know a lot of people in this thread may not trust me based on what I do for living...but the Protect and Serve motto means everything to me. Its why I do the job. When it stops holding meaning, that's the day I give up the badge. However, although a lot of guys I've talked to on here may not trust me, I can promise you this...if it came down to it, I'd take a bullet for any one of them and anyone out there. That's the job and that's the life...but the motto isn't just some cheap lip service, believe me.
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Thanks. I am decent

I understand your job. I never followed through with being a cop, deep down I knew I didn't have it in me. I have family in law enforcement. Everything from small town cop to secret service. (Step uncle worked for W)

Keep up the good fight sir
 
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utvolpj said:
if police spent more time solving crimes and bringing in criminals than they do being revenue collection for a local govt then they might have a better rep. A better understanding of the rights of a citizen would help too.

I don't dismiss the job police do but most law-abiding citizens have very few interactions with them. When many of those are negative it's easy to see how the perception gets out there.
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I would disagree that many or most interactions are negative. A lot of the time, when the interaction is negative, its because people bring it on themselves. I obviously cant speak for everyone but I try my hardest to treat everyone how I would want to be treated no matter how ****ty my day has been. I would expect any officer to act in the same manner and I hope that they would but I know that that isn't always the case.
 
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utvolpj said:
if police spent more time solving crimes and bringing in criminals than they do being revenue collection for a local govt then they might have a better rep. A better understanding of the rights of a citizen would help too.

I don't dismiss the job police do but most law-abiding citizens have very few interactions with them. When many of those are negative it's easy to see how the perception gets out there.
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I think more cops than most understand basic rights. A few bad apples spoil the bunch though and you end up with that dude in Tennessee at the DUI checkpoint which tends to make it bad for everyone.

Overall, most people tend to interact with cops after they have done something bad. Speeding or other traffic violation, get caught breaking the law, etc. So obviously most of the interactions are going to be negative.

Also, I tend to think cop shows in TV have ruined it for a lot of people. It isn't always CSI out there and many lower level cases such as theft go unsolved due to limited evidence as well as witnesses. Things like that just need a lucky break most of the time.
 
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Obsessed said:
Thanks. I am decent

I understand your job. I never followed through with being a cop, deep down I knew I didn't have it in me. I have family in law enforcement. Everything from small town cop to secret service. (Step uncle worked for W)

Keep up the good fight sir
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Thank you, sir. :hi:
 
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BigOrange15 said:
I would disagree that many or most interactions are negative. A lot of the time, when the interaction is negative, its because people bring it on themselves. I obviously cant speak for everyone but I try my hardest to treat everyone how I would want to be treated no matter how ****ty my day has been. I would expect any officer to act in the same manner and I hope that they would but I know that that isn't always the case.
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no matter how polite the officer, things like getting a ticket are negative interactions. I see 2-3 cops set up running radar (in almost the same spot) every day and my commute is only 16mi total. Meanwhile I can read about unsolved shootings that happened just a few miles from their speed trap. Which one is a better service to the community and which one adds more revenue for the city?
 
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utvolpj said:
no matter how polite the officer, things like getting a ticket are negative interactions. I see 2-3 cops set up running radar (in almost the same spot) every day and my commute is only 16mi total. Meanwhile I can read about unsolved shootings that happened just a few miles from their speed trap. Which one is a better service to the community and which one adds more revenue for the city?
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Okay, I see now what you mean by a negative interaction. My mistake.
 
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BigOrange15 said:
Thanks, Obsessed. You seem like a decent dude. Sorry for the novel, it just gets to me sometimes when the only thing people seem to care about is bringing us down.

I know a lot of people in this thread may not trust me based on what I do for living...but the Protect and Serve motto means everything to me. Its why I do the job. When it stops holding meaning, that's the day I give up the badge. However, although a lot of guys I've talked to on here may not trust me, I can promise you this...if it came down to it, I'd take a bullet for any one of them and anyone out there. That's the job and that's the life...but the motto isn't just some cheap lip service, believe me.
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Would you do it for free?
 
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BigOrange15 said:
Yes. I have. Pick a fight with someone else today, hog.
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Not picking a fight.

I love my job have worked without a check for short periods in the startup but it doesn't mean everything to me. If I stopped making money at it, I'd move on. My family means everything to me.
 
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hog88 said:
Not picking a fight.

I love my job have worked without a check for short periods in the startup but it doesn't mean everything to me. If I stopped making money at it, I'd move on. My family means everything to me.
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It's a figure of speech. More than one thing means everything to me. My family means more than my job for instance. I've done this job for no pay and then from the bottom rung of the ladder but its what I love and if we could get by, I would do it with no pay again because protecting people and helping those that can't help/protect themselves is the best feeling in the world job wise. That's my opinion of course.
 
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Its cool, I don't expect people to understand what I'm talking about and I don't mean to wax poetic or make this about me. I just wanted to post my feelings on this particular matter. Have a good day, guys.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Yes because every time a cop shoots a dog that weighs less than him it must be wrong. This in turn means all cops should allow themselves to be bitten by any dog, anytime, anywhere.
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That's quite a leap of logic you have there.

For someone who gets so bltchy about guns, you sure are cool with an officer killing a jack russell.

A ****ing jack russell, LG. Come on.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Yes because every time a cop shoots a dog that weighs less than him it must be wrong. This in turn means all cops should allow themselves to be bitten by any dog, anytime, anywhere.
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So if Joe Public CCW were to shoot a 12lb Jack Russell and claim he "was in fear for his life" you expect everybody would find that a perfectly viable explanation?
 
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http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/us/police-officer-saves-dog
 
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lawgator1 said:
Yes because every time a cop shoots a dog that weighs less than him it must be wrong. This in turn means all cops should allow themselves to be bitten by any dog, anytime, anywhere.
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How about close the door?

Where was the homeowner? I assume she was close by so the PO endangered her life by firing his weapon inside the house. Not to mention other lives, I can't see a 12lb dog stopping a bullet and the walls of a trailer wouldn't slow it down either.
 
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There is absolutely no way any person would feel threatened in that manner by that small a dog, especially a three hundred pound cop.

Therefore, if we can correctly assume he felt no actual threat, we have to ask why he would kill it?

Occam's razor, he did it to cause emotional distress and trauma, for his own pleasure. That's pretty sick. That kind of behavior is usually reserved for psychopaths.

Conclusion: the man is probably a psychopath. Gotta wonder how many more are out there in uniform.
 
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utvolpj said:
if police spent more time solving crimes and bringing in criminals than they do being revenue collection for a local govt then they might have a better rep. A better understanding of the rights of a citizen would help too.

I don't dismiss the job police do but most law-abiding citizens have very few interactions with them. When many of those are negative it's easy to see how the perception gets out there.
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