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kennykyle said:
Oh jesus, they have one of the few jobs where you are in constant danger and still have to deal with bitchy housewives, punk teenagers, and douchy guys on a regular basis.

As far as violating the constitution, cops that pull that stuff are the teeniest tiniest minority.
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Yeah, so do 7-11 clerks but we expect them to be civil.

And the cops that may pull that off may be in the extreme minority, but they are covered up by many people in their profession, hence the distrust by much of the population.
 
Nate505 said:
Yeah, so do 7-11 clerks but we expect them to be civil.

And the cops that may pull that off may be in the extreme minority, but they are covered up by many people in their profession, hence the distrust by much of the population.
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Cops are never there when i need em.... always there when i dont want them around
 
Nate505 said:
Yeah, so do 7-11 clerks but we expect them to be civil.

And the cops that may pull that off may be in the extreme minority, but they are covered up by many people in their profession, hence the distrust by much of the population.
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Nate. You're usually pretty reasonable in debates. Is this coming from personal experience, or something else?

I enjoyed the story. Nice to see things like this and the NYPD who gave the homeless guy some boots.
 
Boondocksaint27 said:
Nate. You're usually pretty reasonable in debates. Is this coming from personal experience, or something else?

I enjoyed the story. Nice to see things like this and the NYPD who gave the homeless guy some boots.
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Not personal experience (to be perfectly honest I've had all of two negative experiences with the police in my life, both as a teenager, and they weren't all that bad in relative terms...every other time cops have been nothing but civil to me), but if you're arguing that the blue code of silence doesn't exist (granted, the degree in which it exists can be argued) then I guess we just have to agree to disagree. Incidents like the Rodney King beating have just reinforced it in the public mind, and when cops are found to not stand up to it it builds mistrust in the public. Part of me gives cops the benefit of the doubt (or maybe to put it more accurately, I empathize with them a bit), mostly because peer pressure is (IMO) a very underrated and powerful force in any profession and walk of life. Plenty of accountants have got in trouble for either fudging the numbers for their bosses or looking the other way when it's going on. The reason why it's psychologically scarier for me when it's the police is because they do possess the power to make someone's life hell more than most other professions.

And to be perfectly honest, maybe it's easy for me to say all this in my lower middle class home as a person who doesn't deal with cops on a regular basis or deal with their job. On a general note I do wonder that the fact that most people's experience with the police force almost exclusively is with them getting a ticket has change the public perception of the police for the worse (at least since the 50s and 60s). I remember my mom telling me that in her neighborhood there were a few beat cops who patrolled the area every day, many times on foot, and would talk to the neighbors. That has been non-existent in every neighborhood I lived in. Wonder if that's due to neighborhoods being more spread out in suburbia or something.
 
As for my experiences..... I have been arrested for possesion of marijuana, and for mooning (called ludeness to the law).

Also been given a ticket for jaywalking, and i was given an alcohol related reckless driving ticket once... the cop wanted to give me a DUI but i passed all his field sobriety tests, and blew a 0.03 on the breathalizer (i had 1 beer with dinner over a 2 hour period while watching a playoff game at a sports bar). When i went to court i asked the judge why i received the alcohol related wreckless driving ticket when the law states that i have to be over 0.08 to be breaking the law... The judge answered by saying it is up to each individual officers discretion on whether or not to write the ticket. So apparently if the police officer is racist, has something against men or women, or young people, or old people he can just write tickets for whoever the officer wants....There is no black and white letter of the law for citizens to follow, and in my opinion that gives the officer too much power.
 
Duck Rodgers said:
Who were you mooning?
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One of my friends in high school.... at my school there were 2 full time cops patrolling the school at all times and i was goofing around and mooned my friend not know that one of the cops was in the hallway a little way back.
The wost part was that the cop yelled at me not to move and so i just stood there with my hands behind my back waiting for him and he grabbed my wrist from behind and slammed me against the brick wall, causing my head to get cup open.... Then he cuffed me and walked me to the pricipals office with my pants still down (underwear was back up at least) and sat me in a chair in the pricipals office with cuffs on and left me there.
This same police officer maced my best friend on another occasion while my friend was laying face down on the floor with the cop kneeling on his back...... dude was total dick.
 
Nate505 said:
Yeah, so do 7-11 clerks but we expect them to be civil.

And the cops that may pull that off may be in the extreme minority, but they are covered up by many people in their profession, hence the distrust by much of the population.
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So you are comparing gas station clerks to cops? Good call, did HeavenHarris steal your login info?
 
Nate505 - I guess 7-11 cashiers have to walk into classrooms full of dead kids, have to see dead bodies regularly, have to walk into situations where the person they are there to get might really want to kill them, have to have ******* people chew them out for doing their job, yeah 7-11 cashiers have it rough.
 
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