Originally Posted by wvpeach

Whatever , you give them a inch and they will take a mile.

I built a home for a retiring police chief. A elderly man, but still fit, at about 70 yrs old. He had been the police chief of a mid sized city for 26 years. While designing his home it became apparent he didn't want to retire he loved his job.

I commented to he and his wife, perhaps he should work another few years, since he seemed to want to. He told me he was leaving because the laws were so silly now days. And what they are teaching recruits at police academies is beyond silly. He said in the day you stopped some kids with beer in the car and they weren't drunk, you hauled them in , called their parents and kept it off the books.

Busted a too loud party with neighbors complaining, you didn't storm the house because you smelled pot. You told them to keep it down or you might the next time.

Now with laws and new cops you have to bust almost everybody, or they can turn the law on the cops because they didn't.

The same goes with traffic check points. These are often done with multiple agencies involved. I have friends that are cops. They don't want to hand out $45 dollar tickets because somebody didn't know their car has a turn signal out, but they are forced to at these check points.






When the check points turn into can we see your identification please, what business do you have being here messes , then you will wish you had resisted while you still had the chance.

There are times and places for identification and searches to be the norm. On public transportation for instance.

But in the main , people are innocent till found guilty and the laws of probable cause for search have served us well.

You people must lead sheltered lives. I ran a convenience store chain as one of my first jobs many moons ago. Some of the third shift women were complaining about a black, nasty mouthed cop coming on to them.

I decided to have a talk with this cop, and to my amazement he was a pig, who didn't know when to take NO for a answer. I politely told him I was going to have to ask that he confine his visits to my UDF's to short ones and please don't ask my workers to have sex with you.

He started staking out the stores. Stopping little old ladies to look at their butter milk they had just bought. Pulling cars over leaving our parking lots, for who knows what reason? After this went on two weeks and I despaired he was going to get tired of his fun and just leave . I finally decided to make a formal complaint on this cop.

To which the police chief told me good luck, he is the worst cop on the force , we have been trying to get him out for years.

I know cops. Some are great, others are total and I mean total idiots on power trips.

You let them get too much power and things will go terribly , terribly wrong.