Do you think police in Southern Md. are respected?

[tom88]

Do you have respect for police officers in the County you live in or do you feel they do a poor job?

Explain your answer?

[itsbob]

By most but a few sociopaths..

[ocean733]

I respect anyone who has the authority to arrest me.

[protectmd]

I respect anyone who fears going into such neighborhoods as "the meadows", old school gallery place, bannister apt's at night, carrington in general, holly station.... and enjoys writing traffic tickets to speeding soccer moms that use crackheads as speedbumps once a week in waldorf or laplata. lol. j/k

[maxima87]

For the most part yes, but there are a few out there that really erk me. Especially the young, cocky ones...they are the ones that drive through my neighbor hood from dusk until dawn *harassing* people. I do not think that sitting on the back of MY car with a neighbor is reason enough to stop and yell to us "Yall got anything illegal going on?" And then they have the nerve to get pissy if you tell them "A Newport isn't illegal" WTF? You were talking to me! I have a problem with them speeding through the neighborhood everyday, not paying attention to the kids that are outside. Kids that *are* being supervised. Like I said...most of them are respectable...the young ones...they get no respect...mainly because they give none. And I don't care if you have a badge or not, you give no respect...you sure as hell aren't getting none from me in return. JMO

[protectmd]

I completely agree, respect is earned, never given. You might have been given a badge at that academy, but they gotta EARN respect from the community... not their peers. Cleatus the slack jawed yokel riding around in his nice shiney new crown vic asking local kids smoking cigarettes if they have anything illegal going on isn't a good investigative technique. lol. If they just had got done murdering their neighor do you think that they would honestly confess right then and there?

[maxima87]

Originally Posted by protectmd

I completely agree, respect is earned, never given. You might have been given a badge at that academy, but they gotta EARN respect from the community... not their peers. Cleatus the slack jawed yokel riding around in his nice shiny new crown vic asking local kids smoking cigarettes if they have anything illegal going on isn't a good investigative technique. lol. If they just had got done murdering their neighbor do you think that they would honestly confess right then and there?

I know, right? I may not live in the best neighborhood...some even refer to it as the new "ghetto" of LPC, but you would think by now that this same cocky kid would figure out that the cul-de-sac I am in is OK. If it was just a time or two that it happened it would be one thing, but to deal with these same few day in and out is just ridiculous. I know that when they come it isn't because of a noise complaint...I have a scanner inside...and the cul-de-sac is pretty empty. Most of the neighbors are always outside in the evening. And since we are always outside I know for a fact that the kids are supervised. He does it to be a jerk, he has succeeded in being a jerk and there isn't a damn thing that we can do about it.

[Dougstermd]

Originally Posted by protectmd

I completely agree, respect is earned, never given. You might have been given a badge at that academy, but they gotta EARN respect from the community... not their peers. Cleatus the slack jawed yokel riding around in his nice shiney new crown vic asking local kids smoking cigarettes if they have anything illegal going on isn't a good investigative technique. lol. If they just had got done murdering their neighor do you think that they would honestly confess right then and there?

Ya'll got anything illegal goin on?

Sounds like a pretty good Ice breaker. How else is a light hearted way to break the ice and communicate with citizens

[maxima87]

Originally Posted by Dougstermd

Ya'll got anything illegal goin on?

Sounds like a pretty good Ice breaker. How else is a light hearted way to break the ice and communicate with citizens

If it was occasionally I could see your point. If it was not always the same two I could see your point. But it is almost every day and it is always the same two...so I don' think that is a light hearted way to break the ice and communicate with citizens. Our cul-de-sac is mainly young, working families. All neighbors know each other...there is no drama. I understand patrolling through as a potential crime deterrent, but what I described in my previous posts was harassment.

[Dougstermd]

Originally Posted by maxima87

If it was occasionally I could see your point. If it was not always the same two I could see your point. But it is almost every day and it is always the same two...so I don' think that is a light hearted way to break the ice and communicate with citizens. Our cul-de-sac is mainly young, working families. All neighbors know each other...there is no drama. I understand patrolling through as a potential crime deterrent, but what I described in my previous posts was harassment.

I do not see it that way. If he is patroling the area he know who you are and knows you are not the problem. I think you are taking it all wrong


they are assigned thier area for usually a longterm