Originally Posted by SaintMalaclypse

I have no problme with the Officers, per se. They're just working stiffs like the rest of us. No there is a huge difference, I don't work to promote fear and anger, police officers do. They didn't have to become police officers, they chose to. The profession itself is a bit unsavory..."Who want to sing up to carry a gun a boss citizens around?" The lure can draw in some unsavory types...but most of them are followinmg orders. If you have a problem with Police, keep in mind: they are part of the Executive branch(es) of City, County, State, and Federal Governments. The Legislative branch decides what is and is not illegal, so a cop has 0% chance of changing the laws you don't want to see enforced. but it was his choice to get a job enforcing laws they he did not support

However! I wish the law enforcement community would go back to their roots: respond to crime and quit pretending to prevent crime. If more cops really meant less crime, then we can just all carry guns and handcuffs and crime would go away. Cops very rarely prevent crime...and when they do, it's a matter of luck, being in the right spot buying coffee when someone was thinking about robbing the convenience store. But for the most part, a cop has NOTHING to do until AFTER a crime has been committed. So, we keep hiring more cops, they have not nearly enough crimes to respond to, so they are sent out in droves to collect revenue. I believe that the government is giving them the jobs because they aren't capable of doing anything else. Like I said earlier in this thread cops are just welfare cases but worse because after they take a free handout they wanna come harass you

Is that the cops' fault? Nah. No more than it's my fault when my employer wants to change my job to benefit his wallet. It's a job that feeds the kids. The big decisions are out of the cops' hands. exactly since most of the cops can't get a real job we as a people made up that job so we don't have to call them welfare cases or watch their kids starve, but I'll tell it like it is they are the worst of the welfare cases

The biggest problem with pretending cops are supposed to prevent crime is that they are CLUELESS about the Laws. How do you enforce a law you don't understand? and why would you enforce a law you don't believe in?

For example: I passed a cop parked on the side of the road handing out a ticket. Kentucky has a "Move Over" law, which is supposed to protect the cops on the side of the road. I didn't move over. Well, this bumfuck chases me down, refuses to listen to me, and gives me a ticket, saying I endangered his life. I asked him, if it's so dangerous on the side of the road, why do you risk people's lives handing out speeding tickets? He couldn't answer. I'll tell you why because he was too dumb and lazy to apply himself to getting a real job

Anyway, he gave me this ticket based solely on the nmae of the Law..."Move Over". Had he read the law, as I had, he would have known the law clearly says to move over is safely possible OR slow down, which his OWN car-camera verified I had done, and all charges were dropped.

I tried to explain that to him at the scene, but he was a neanderthal jerk who figured his gun made him right. like most cops thats why I hate em

If cops are going to pretend they need to do something before there's a crime, they need to have a solid understanding of the Law. And since that would involve learning Federal, State, County, and City laws...we'd have to employ lawyers as cops. Or, we could stop pretending cops prevent crime, and put them back to work responding to REAL crimes. or we could get rid of most of them since we don't need them

In my particular county, we have 1.3 cops for every violent felony committed ANNUALLY! That means if each of our cops would catch just ONE guy a year, all our violent felons would be off the streets. But no...they're too busy collecting revenue to finance themselves, because they KNOW the taxpayers won't pay for that many cops for so little crime. Exactly it's just a scheme and the cops are ugly welfare cases

But anyway, those are all administrative and legislative problems...I have little problem with the cops themselves. They mostly just want to feed their kids and not get fired each day. Same as all of us.