SCNDLS said:

DaveT said:

There are some great men and women working in the police both here in the UK and in the USA. They do a tough job for not a great amount of pay....

....but....

...there are also some complete and utter jobsworths, complete a-holes. Remember, just because they have the uniform doesn't make them geniuses or better people....like any job or walk of life there are gonna be a sizeable amount idiots. That includes the police. The police should use stuff like this to identify who they are and give them the elbow...tell them to go clean the streets for a living!

Reminds me of when I got the bus home from work once. There was this coloured guy who had clearly been missold the wrong bus ticket earlier in the day. He'd paid his money but was given the wrong ticket. The driver wasnt letting him on though and wasnt gonna drive away until he left the bus. The guy stood his ground though, fair play to him. So we had a stalemate and the driver rings the police.

Some people who didnt know what was going on were getting moody shouting "just get off the bus, we wanna go home". Next thing you know three police cars turn up (like they were attending a terrorist threat or something) and four heavy set police thugs get on the bus and start dragging the men off, no questions asked. I was sitting near the front so got up to remonstrate, but one of the cops just growled at me to sit back down. I gave him some language and he threatened to take me off as well!! I was so angry! When I got to my stop I told the driver he was a complete prick and I was gonna report him to his company...I did but I got fobbed off with some b*llshit excuse.

True, but I think that often a certain type of personality who seeks to control others and be violent without discretion/impunity is drawn to the badge. I'd be interested to see personality assessments/screenings of people in law enforcement.

When I was a kid and my druggie cousin got interested in front of me, the cop said, after punching him, "that's why I took this job, so I can fuck up niggers like you!" It all started with a traffic stop. Busted tail light and my cousin having the audacity to ask why he got pulled over. You don't know your tail light is out until its dark time anyway.

HotGritz said:

SCNDLS said:

True, but I think that often a certain type of personality who seeks to control others and be violent without discretion/impunity is drawn to the badge. I'd be interested to see personality assessments/screenings of people in law enforcement.

When I was a kid and my druggie cousin got interested in front of me, the cop said, after punching him, "that's why I took this job, so I can fuck up niggers like you!" It all started with a traffic stop. Busted tail light and my cousin having the audacity to ask why he got pulled over. You don't know your tail light is out until its dark time anyway.

SCNDLS said:

HotGritz said:

I will keep saying it. PEOPLE NEED TO FIGHT BACK! A cop is nothing but a thug/gang member with legal authority.

I hate to agree with a sweeping generalization like that, but where black and latino men are concerned too often that's the case.

i learned not to be a white female driving ALONE at night in tampa fl..many years ago.. it seemed to be a steady thing for a while..scary thing is, always a single cop, and never gave much of a reason after he had pulled me over.. you see, he couldnt see the kids asleep in the back seat until then..always going home from grammas house..

it really comes down to he had no real reason to do it,and usually they tell you..the reason. i've been pulled over for a reason,and for no reason and they are very different..

funny thing is, except for one time, these police were all white officers.. go figure

but glad i never had to find out for certain, what might have been on the mind..and of course it wasnt ever the same one twice..even more scary really