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Carl Pickens said:
This clown deserved a good booting ..... He should just wear a sign that says " please... Beat the hell out of me"
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He'll run his mouth to the wrong person one of these days. And then be faced with the choice of whether to go to the police he despises so much and file a complaint against the person that whipped his douche ass or take it as a lesson learned to shut the hole under his nose.
 
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tumscalcium said:
You got trolled. That couple is white. Everyone knows cops only needlessly harass black people. This never happened.
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The Ferguson DOJ report made even a cynic like me realize just how over the top most of these cops are. They were funding a local govt on traffic tix and petty citations.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
The Ferguson DOJ report made even a cynic like me realize just how over the top most of these cops are. They were funding a local govt on traffic tix and petty citations.
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Growing up we lived near a town that almost its entire budget was on nothing but speeding tix. It was one of the worst speed traps in the country. We even saw national media come around doing stories on how bad they were. It never stopped them. I don't think it is anything like that now but we used to joke that it would take the city council dying off of old age and new people moving in to ever stop them.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
The Ferguson DOJ report made even a cynic like me realize just how over the top most of these cops are. They were funding a local govt on traffic tix and petty citations.
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You are joking and forgot your blue font, right?

You, of all people, claim to be a cynic and almost every post you toss out uses the term "pigs" when describing anyone LEO.

GTFO
 
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hndog609 said:
This jumped out at me.



This is becoming a really common theme and, IMHO, it strongly behooves all law enforcement to understand that when this happens it makes their job at least harder and at worst more dangerous. The "good" cops should absolutely detest those officers that put them in a bad light.
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Every time I hear the "You don't know how hard cop's jobs are" argument I always respond with... I don't think you realize how big of a part cops played in creating that situation.
 
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Cdywolfe said:
Every time I hear the "You don't know how hard cop's jobs are" argument I always respond with... I don't think you realize how big of a part cops played in creating that situation.
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Huh? You mean by doing their jobs and confronting people in potentially dangerous situations, they bring it on themselves?

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lawgator1 said:
Cops have everyone's medical records? I had no idea.
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He was aware that the man had a physical handicap by his license plate. Everybody knows that the handicap are extremely dangerous. Hell... That one handicap guy ran over that cop's foot with his wheelchair for god sakes. I can't imagine the bravery that it takes to put yourself in that situation every day.
 
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Cdywolfe said:
He was aware that the man had a physical handicap by his license plate. Everybody knows that the handicap are extremely dangerous. Hell... That one handicap guy ran over that cop's foot with his wheelchair for god sakes. I can't imagine the bravery that it takes to put yourself in that situation every day.
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Yes, it is common knowledge that when you get a handicapped plate for your car, you can never carry a gun, or commit an act of violence. Its in the Constitution.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Huh? You mean by doing their jobs and confronting people in potentially dangerous situations, they bring it on themselves?

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To which case are you referring? If it's the elderly couple grilled about drugs after being pulled over for illegal window tint that was not, in fact, illegal then it's really, REALLY hard to come away with the cop being the good guy in the scenario.
 
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Cdywolfe said:
He was aware that the man had a physical handicap by his license plate. Everybody knows that the handicap are extremely dangerous. Hell... That one handicap guy ran over that cop's foot with his wheelchair for god sakes. I can't imagine the bravery that it takes to put yourself in that situation every day.
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I had a mentally handicapped kid attack me at Walmart once. They're not as cute and cuddly as they appear
 
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hndog609 said:
To which case are you referring? If it's the elderly couple grilled about drugs after being pulled over for illegal window tint that was not, in fact, illegal then it's really, REALLY hard to come away with the cop being the good guy in the scenario.
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I don't disagree at all. But no one got hurt and they were minimally inconvenienced.

I'm not saying that the officer should not be re-trained on certain aspects of his performance. I think that might be merited. Would have to hear his side of it.

But where I have a big problem is lumping all officers or incidents into one big cauldron of mistrust, based upon those few incidents where you can find a real problem. You can't point to one interaction of the thousands that occurred across the country that day, as evidence of anything other than what occurred during that one incident.
 
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This particular cop has a history of going well beyond normal means of questioning people. When this story first broke my wife reminded me of this same cop a few years back going nuts on us at a nighttime DUI check. There was a multi-jurisdictional traffic stop at 8:30 at night on a four lane divided highway. This particular cop was talking to someone pulled over to the far left. We were in the right lane. The cop that checked us just had me roll the window down and flashed his flashlight into the car and waved us down. The cop from this story ran across the left lane, shouted us down to stop, and proceeded to yell at me about improper tinting on our minivan. I told him it was factory tint. He told me to stop arguing with him and that it was illegal. He told me I was lucky he was in a good mood and that he would let me go. Next time he would ticket me for my illegal tint. not sure how at night he was able to get a quick glance of my window that was rolled down from across two lanes of traffic to know it was illegal. I reported this as a complaint and got an apology. Needless to say the kids were scared to death and we had to talk to them about law enforcement not all being like this. Apparently, this particular cop sees an elderly couple with a rabid, foaming at the mouth drug dog cocker spaniel and automatically assumes drug dealer. When someone has a handicapped plate he continues to make the couple get out of the car without even blinking over the reason for the handicap. He makes them stand, walk around, and go through a few minutes of interrogation. The bad thing is this cop has had complaints against him and he's still employed by the department - even to the point of getting commendations. And there are more like him in WCSD.

Yeah, there are people who lump all law enforcement into the 'jerk' category. But when you see repeated stories like this and results that nothing is done to rectify the situation? Police departments can easily lose support for the people they serve. Trust for law enforcement is dropping. And it is not because of the people themselves just pulling that conclusion out of thin air. And this is not people in high crime areas who grow up hating police either. The drop in trust occurs among people who grew up supporting LEO's.
 
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lawgator1 said:
I don't disagree at all. But no one got hurt and they were minimally inconvenienced.

I'm not saying that the officer should not be re-trained on certain aspects of his performance. I think that might be merited. Would have to hear his side of it.

But where I have a big problem is lumping all officers or incidents into one big cauldron of mistrust, based upon those few incidents where you can find a real problem. You can't point to one interaction of the thousands that occurred across the country that day, as evidence of anything other than what occurred during that one incident.
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That officer showed that he had no problem manufacturing probable cause in order to illegally detain an elderly handicap couple. So this time it was a minor inconvenience (which is completely irrelevant btw) but what about last time and the time before that.

Forget re-training… this is where cops need to stand up and say this isn't who we are and flush jerkoffs like this out. Instead, the sheriff gets on TV with that sh** eating grin on his face and talks about how he "may" have gone too far and that they would "council" him. So basically nothing will happen.

All the while that gentlemen, along with the majority of people who watch that video, will lose just a little bit more trust in law-enforcement.
 
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Lady called the cops to help her escort her son to the mental hospital. Apparently they reported that they "feared for their lives" and used guns instead of tazers (when they probably didn't need to use any force).

The situation obviously didn't seem that crazy. The Mom was super cavalier and then they shoot him in like 2 seconds. FILM THE POLICE!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aALArJP4rw[/youtube]
 
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CSpindizzy said:
Throwing this gem in here....

Elderly couple from NC complains after traffic stop turns into drug interrogation | myfox8.com
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Again, tinted windows? Just like the Eric Garner cased escalated into someone dying over something as minor as loose cigarettes, this couple (or at least the driver cancer patient) could have died over a minor infraction.

Is this really what we want cops in the USSA doing? We are being nitpicked to death over minor infractions like rolling stops, 39 mph in a 25 mph, dark tint, violating cigarette tax law, walking in the street, and seeds and stems.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Again, tinted windows? Just like the Eric Garner cased escalated into someone dying over something as minor as loose cigarettes, this couple (or at least the driver cancer patient) could have died over a minor infraction.

Is this really what we want cops in the USSA doing? We are being nitpicked to death over minor infractions like rolling stops, 39 mph in a 25 mph, dark tint, violating cigarette tax law, walking in the street, and seeds and stems.
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Exactly... I'm a 30 year old father of three. I have a respectable job, pay my taxes, and I'm not a criminal. Even still... 9 out of 10 interactions I have with law enforcement are negative (I'll admit most are minor inconveniences, but still what I would consider negative interactions nonetheless). That shouldn't be the case.

When I see a cop, usually my first thought is… Am I currently doing anything that's going to give this guy an excuse to mess with me. Seeing a cop should create a feeling of security, not the exact opposite.
 
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Cdywolfe said:
Exactly... I'm a 30 year old father of three. I have a respectable job, pay my taxes, and I'm not a criminal. Even still... 9 out of 10 interactions I have with law enforcement are negative (I'll admit most are minor inconveniences, but still what I would consider negative interactions nonetheless). That shouldn't be the case.

When I see a cop, usually my first thought is… Am I currently doing anything that's going to give this guy an excuse to mess with me. Seeing a cop should create a feeling of security, not the exact opposite.
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Maybe I'm the weird one. When I see a cop I never think am I doing something I shouldn't be.
 
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jp1 said:
Maybe I'm the weird one. When I see a cop I never think am I doing something I shouldn't be.
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I never said that I feel like I'm doing something I shouldn't be. I said I wonder if I'm doing anything that gives the cop an excuse to mess with me. There's a world of difference.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Lady called the cops to help her escort her son to the mental hospital. Apparently they reported that they "feared for their lives" and used guns instead of tazers (when they probably didn't need to use any force).

The situation obviously didn't seem that crazy. The Mom was super cavalier and then they shoot him in like 2 seconds. FILM THE POLICE!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aALArJP4rw[/youtube]
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Awful

Dallas police open fire on schizophrenic man with screwdriver
Asked if the officers could have employed nonlethal force, he said no.

"This is a deadly force encounter. You respond to lethal force with lethal force. A Taser is a less lethal item," he said.
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