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Ive had a few altercations in the past and none that I cared for. When you are a cop on or off duty you are looked upon with a stigma that "he might bust me" or "all cops are assholes". More often than not being I live in the city and make no real effort to hide behind the "blue wall" of law enforcement I do come across people that I have interfaced with during the course of duty. Some are nice but most look at me as the cop who papered my friend or whoever it may be, I do have to live with that however I try my best to leave the job out of my home life so I can be the best dad that I can be. When was the last time you thanked a cop for a ticket?
Cops are cops we know this and no matter how you try a cop still looks like a cop. Dress in dirty clothes, drive a junker whatever its that "protocol" that officers often live by that gives them away. When I say protocol I mean the watching everything around you, taking mental notes of your enviroment and watching the person next to you to see if he is going to break some little law or worse. Unfortunatly we must also live in a moderated fear knowing the guy next to you may have been released from prison and is looking for a cop to get even with. It may not be the arresting officer however he doesn't care he just wants to "one-up" himself. Another thing all cops deal with is a prejudice from the general public especially from the minority communities over the racial profiling that has come to light in the past several years. I will be the first to admit my T/O was a prejudice officer to no end,(racist asshole!) his idea of thinking was "hes black so hes guilty of *some* crime so lets bust him", needless to say this officer has been reassigned to other duties that do not interface directly with the general public. When I was a young hot-head rookie I briefly took on this stigma however quickly learned this was not the case and the reverse was true. I wont go onto a tangent over race however I would like the USA to get over this color thing and start to live in peace, to me its the diffrence between a white 760 brick and a black 760 brick... only the color and its still a 760. My real reason for becoming an officer is to make an attempt at removing drunks from the road. After loosing loved ones to the hand of a drunk driver I can honestly say I have a personal reason for doing what I do. Call it selective enforcement or whatever you want but Im more inclined to make a DWI bust than I am a speeding ticket.
Some have asked do cops get tickets? Hopefully I can answer the previous posts and the 3 emails and one flame mail. In a word yes cops do get tickets. Parking, speeding whatever. Some cops will take advantage of the badge and use it as rank and file over the city cop or parking meter maid, whatever the case may be however it does come back to haunt them. Any officer under my command who uses his badge for personal gain gets some real hell from me and depending on the crime itself is subject to review or departmental transfer, read paper pusher. He may also get a shift he does not like or get paired up with another officer he does not like.
So in short cops do get tickets and the honest ones just take it in stride of being human. Just because I hold a badge that does not mean I am better than anyone else.
To address the flame of "Cops have small ****" my only response is it looks like the pot calling the kettle black. Oh and please dont email me again if you dont have anything nice to say.
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