Re: what else do you collect?

Oh and for the record, I have the greatest respect for law officers that are
professional
but when you grow up in small towns you rarely get professionals, they go to
the bigger cities.
So what the little towns get are what the bigger cities don't want and the
smaller the city the worse it seems.

Dale


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That's right.... Don't trust ANYBODY!


I'm not sure if that is sarcasm but the police are just as
vulnerable as anyone else at applying their prejudices,
insecurities, and "what have you" at other people in an unfair way.
It is just that the police happen to have more power.

Most police officers do their job well but there are bad cops, and
enough of them, that they give the police a bad name. I tend to
find highway patrol are easier to deal with than city cops,
generally speaking. I suspect the requirements for fitness and
intelligence are higher for highway patrols.

I must disagree, having a close relative who is a city police
officer. His training was extensive and is ongoing. I can't imagine
highway patrolmen coming into contact with the same types of
situations that he faces regularly. This kind of grim, concentrated
contact with the human condition is likely to harden most men and
women somewhat. Then again, it might be a matter of our own
intersections with differing levels of law enforcement and our
perceptions of same. I'd not want to be the highway patrolman who
comes on the scene of some of the more grisly accidents. I don't
really think there is a final answer (here I go, again, shades of
gray). James


My personal experience tends to mirror PC's response in a majority of
my situations.
I don't normally have interaction with police but in the past, I have
had city police offer to
hurt me badly, gave me tickets for bogus charges such as license
plate too low to the ground,
factory window darkening too dark, too bald tires, and failure to
yield at a yield sign with no on coming traffic, offers to race me on
the side in city streets, and ragged windshield wipers.
I saw one draw a gun on a 16 year old in front of my house and make
him lie down on the ground,
and handcuffed him, his crime, 45 mph in a residential zone. The
Mayor is a friend of mine and we talked, that is what he told me
anyway.
I personally have seen one beat a person with a stick for mouthing
when the person had their hands in their pockets. I have never been
subject to anything other than curtsey by Highway Patrol even when I
was stopped for armed bank robbery. Which I didn't do, I simply had
the same make model and color of vehicle and resembled the perp. Oh,
he had his gun out but didn't seem to be suffering from excessive
adrenalin :-) Thank God!
At academy, 9 pm, as I was walking down the hall, I experienced a
loaded 38 (last day) sliding down the hall and went between my legs
because a trainee as he ran thought he saw a burglar and drew his
weapon. He passed.
Dale


That's odd. You have led an interesting life. You have had a city police
officer "offer to hurt you badly", give you tickets for bogus charges (at
least 5 times) and offer to race you on city streets. You were stopped by
a Highway Patrolman who thought you were a bank robber. You saw a city
cop draw his gun on a 16 year old kid and another beat someone with his
night stick for no reason. Not to mention the trainee who fumbled his gun
down the hall.

I must be doing something wrong. I worked in law enforcement for nearly
30 years (including being a city cop in St Louis for two years) and I
haven't seen half that stuff!! :-) I have been driving for over 45 years
too, much of it in some of the most congested and dangerous cities in the
world (including NY, LA, Dallas, Atlanta, Tokyo, Seoul, Frankfurt, Manila,
etc), and I have never so much as been pulled over by a city cop (much
less received a ticket). I did get a speeding ticket from a California
Highway Patrolman (in an unmarked Mustang) one time. :-)



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