Something like this actually happened to me while in high school. I was a passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over. One officer was questioning the driver. (pulled over because his car had fog lamps. Yes I'm serious.) Out of nowhere a second officer starts starts questioning me and has me exit the car. He starts asking me crazy questions. I ask him, "he was pulled over for a traffic issue, on what grounds are you questioning me?" He then gets in my face and says, "I don't think you respect authority. Maybe we ought to take you to jail." I explained, "no sir, I do respect authority, which is why I'm very concerned about why you are reacting this way." Fortunately my other friend, the driver, was out of the car and witnessing all of this." They finished up with their antics and let us go citing me for underage drinking even though there was no alcohol in the car, and no field sobriety test. What the cop didn't know is that my friend's dad was a judge.
The ticket had his badge number. He immediately relayed this story to his dad who then contacted the officer who refused to drop the ticket. My friend's dad knew this officer had previous problems and contacted the judge assigned. This judge interviewed the second officer. I was asked not to show up at court. I was told that the judge then humiliated the officer in front of the court, threw out my case with court costs waived and said he'd have him on desk duty if he ever wasted the court's time with trumped up charges.
That said, one of my friends and roll models was a local officer who always went out of his way to help kids. The truth is like most occupations, there are some people not qualified to the do the job.
