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Originally Posted by Baz
I agree Paul - most cops do a good job and are careful with their authority.
As in many a situation - it's the bad ones (and there are many, no doubt) that give the entire force a bad rap. You'd think the good cops would realize this and do more to resolve this.
So yeah...I think what chaps most of us is the reluctance for those good cops to weed out the bad ones. There's a code they follow not to rat on each other. That's my biggest issue aside from individual instances like this one.
I support law enforcement in general, but won't hesitate to call them out individually where applicable. Like this one - that lady cop is a complete dumbass and a disgrace to the force.  |
The real problem is the entire police mentality of escalating situations instead of de-escalating them and then the complete lack of real punishment when they get out of line. I've been in one or two situations where I knew the cop wanted to escalate things and I had to be the one to de-escalate. Such cops should be in another line of work. Fortunately, I recognized the situation and was the cooler head. But anything other than a cooler head could have ended up in a real bad situation for something very minor because the cop "was having a bad day" or "wanted to go home at the end of his shift" or one of the other excuses we hear. And how many family dog-killing cops have lost their jobs and gone to jail? So this one gets desk duty until the news cycle forgets about her. Then it's right back to the old beat.