Cops, blow me.

[Radio Storm]

Usually, two things happen to bullies when they become adults: they either become drug dealers or they become police officers.

Which field the bully ultimately chooses into depends largely on whether or not his parents went to University. If Mom was a nurse and Dad was a big business executive, the damned bastard that threw a can full of soda at you in the stairwell will someday go for his shiny little badge. If Dad was never around and Mom sucked off random guys for food stamps, the little a-hole who mercilessly taunted and humiliated you in high school will eventually start growing weed in his closet. Of course, the only person who has a more predictable life than a high school bully is the most sexy-bodied blonde cheerleader on the skank squad. (She, naturally, will have gained 2-4 children and 80lbs by her 27th birthday.)

You have to consider the messed up ways in which their mind-bogglingly tiny brains work. Sometimes that means you have to consider what the nasty little s**t was doing in high school. Likely, he was bullying anybody he considered to be "beneath" him. Imagine the smarmiest little twit you went to school with. If he was dressed nice by his improbably rich parents, had an incredibly sissy sounding name, and nearly always backed down if someone tougher stood up to him, it’s likely he joined the force. Or imagine the "gangster" guy who beat you up every few days and said nasty things to you whenever you walked by, and openly humiliated you in front of anyone within a 50 foot radius. Yeah, he probably decided to go for a blue uniform too.

Basically, a cop is nothing more than an adult version of the average bully you dealt with in your school days, with a badge pinned on his chest. Stand up to him now, though, and you’ll find yourself sitting behind bars for a long time after 5 of them pinned you to the ground and shoved a taser up your ass.

A police officer’s job isn’t to ‘serve and protect.’ A police officer’s job is to give people hell for the pettiest crap and screw around with the average, every day John who forgot to buckle his seat belt on his way to work.

If you want someone to protect you from rapists, robbers, burglars, and murders, don’t call the cops. Get a dog.

[Blau]

Agreed, I hate cops.

[me]

that sucks that apparently all contact you've had with police has been negative.

ive been let off so many times for shit i could have been arrested and had my car towed for.... all it takes is the right attitude and obsessively polite manners for me

[Radio Storm]

well above all else, they don't really "protect" us from anything...

They show up at your house after it's been burglarized and your possessions have been vandalized or stolen. They show up at a store or a bank after it's been robbed. They come and talk to women after they've already been raped. They show up and talk to you after you've been jumped and severely beaten by some low scoundrel. They show up at the scene of a homicide after someone's already been brutally murdered.

...They really don't protect anyone from crime or harm. All they really do is weakly attempt to track down the perp and put him in the cage just so you can have some sense of "payback" and "closure" over what happened; but that's only if you're really lucky.

[Blau]

All good reasons to own a gun or carry a big ass bat around.

[Zeus.]

Originally Posted by J-Rod

well above all else, they don't really "protect" us from anything...

They show up at your house after it's been burglarized and your possessions have been vandalized or stolen. They show up at a store or a bank after it's been robbed. They come and talk to women after they've already been raped. They show up and talk to you after you've been jumped and severely beaten by some low scoundrel. They show up at the scene of a homicide after someone's already been brutally murdered.

...They really don't protect anyone from crime or harm. All they really do is weakly attempt to track down the perp and put him in the cage just so you can have some sense of "payback" and "closure" over what happened; but that's only if you're really lucky.

To be honest. He has a point.

[Molon Labe]

Do you give the cops a reason to treat you like that?

[Nas]

I've never had a negative experience with a police officer, nor has anyone in my family that I know of. You seem to only have had bad experiences with them.

[Berserker]

Originally Posted by Nas

I've never had a negative experience with a police officer, nor has anyone in my family that I know of. You seem to only have had bad experiences with them.

I've only have had negative experiences with cops and I enjoy spending my time following the law.

[flyboy2112]

Originally Posted by Ultros

lol, do you really think this?

Ask me the same question, and you'll be surprised at the answer.

The most I can really thank cops for is for pulling over drunk drivers and speeders in outrageous excess before either have a chance to really hurt or kill someone. But as far as preventing a violent crime from occurring, this happens very little. Most of a cop's work is done after the crime has been committed. If you want to prevent a burglary for example, having 911 on speed dial won't cut it. Buying a German Shepherd, an alarm system, and/or a shotgun is probably a better idea.

It's also a myth that cell phones will automatically give your location to 911 stations. The most it gives them is a rough estimate of your location based upon signal strength from adjacent cell towers, which gives decent accuracy under good conditions, but can be rather ambiguous under more typical circumstances. The result is, once again, a reduction in police response time.

[Radio Storm]

Originally Posted by flyboy2112

It's also a myth that cell phones will automatically give your location to 911 stations. The most it gives them is a rough estimate of your location based upon signal strength from adjacent cell towers, which gives decent accuracy under good conditions, but can be rather ambiguous under more typical circumstances. The result is, once again, a reduction in police response time.

Actually, they can also go to your telephone service provider, look up your number and get your exact address, and then proceed to your house and start crashing on your door like the world's coming to an end. I know, because they've done that to me several times. But even that does take some time, and obviously only is effective if the emergency is at your house...

[flyboy2112]

Originally Posted by J-Rod

Actually, they can also go to your telephone service provider, look up your number and get your exact address, and then proceed to your house and start crashing on your door like the world's coming to an end. I know, because they've done that to me several times. But even that does take some time, and obviously only is effective if the emergency is at your house...

To be honest, it really doesn't sound like an improvement.

[Radio Storm]

Originally Posted by flyboy2112

To be honest, it really doesn't sound like an improvement.

It certainly isn't.

[Zwitterion]

I can't say I'm a fan of the police either. I can agree with many of the points presented here - they always show up after the fact even when they're nearby.

I have a few stories here.

One Hallowe'en the police were patrolling the streets stop youths from ... doing anything, really, and one street away from where the "youths" were gathered, a man broke into a travelling butcher's van and destroyed. The police were in the village. When did they turn up? Two hours later.

Another one. We used to rent the house I'm currently in to a man whose mother was a sort of family friend. Now, we knew he was a bit shady but we didn't think he was storing his drugs and whatnot in the house. Anyway, the police raided the house once and that was okay, because they had due cause, right? Right. Then we terminated the contract with him and he had to leave. The house had been empty for months by this point and all the paperwork showed that he had no connection with the house. What did the police do? They raided it again. There was nobody inside the house because it had been completely gutted - the only internal walls that were left where load-bearing. There was nowhere to put anything, and they battered the door down. Then they phoned my parents being like "Come and secure your property." This happened very early in the morning and we'd only just come back from the airport. They also refused to pay for the door, even after admitting that they shouldn't have raided it in the first police. And several of the men were rude to my mother when she went there to secure the house.

I've got more stories but I can't be bothered to type them out. The police are often quite useless and they are very often bullies. Not all of them are, but I've had enough bad experiences to distrust police officers in general now.

[Prime]

i dont mean to target anyone.... but i believe bashing is not allowed here. mods should be a bit stricter with the vent zone =)