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This is not meant to bash police officers. My spouse and I know firsthand how difficult it is to raise children and to keep them on the right path. Parents can only give the children the right tools to make the right choices, and then must hope the child grows up to use them. Still, I can't help but to notice that MANY children of police officers are hoodlum-like. I would even venture to guess that a higher percentage of police officers have problem kids than do the general population.
For example, I know a retired cop that has an adult son that has been convicted numerous times for drugs, theft, and even a manslaughter charge. That adult son also has a son that has been convicted several times for drug and theft charges.
I know another family in which both parents are cops. Their 14-y.o. daughter snuck out regularly late at night/early in the morning with boys in cars that drink and smoke pot, and has been caught at least twice by her parents.
You may recall about a year or so ago when a police officer from southern Maryland (I think it was Calvert) that taught D.A.R.E. had a son that got busted with a fairly large amount of marijuana.
So, am I correct that police officers tend to have more problems with their children than the general population? If so, what are the causes? Is it because their children think they are above the law? Is it because police officers have jobs that interfere with their ability to raise families? Please help me understand this.
Did you,by chance, grow up in PG County?Granted I only knew a handful of kids who had cops for parents when I was growing up, but every one of them became drug addicts. Some still are.
All that because the woman gives her opinion? Pretty harsh if you ask me.Well, if you were to stick your hand in a bucket of thousands of pingpong balls, and pull out three or four balls all of which were red, wouldn't you guess that there are many other red balls in the batch? Besides, the key word in my OP was "seems." Still, I see that some in this thread can't even acknowledge that cops are prone to the samee shortcomings as the general population. I'm sorry I'm not the kind of woman that likes to unquestionably get on my knee and suck up to cops (sometimes literally).
Well, if you were to stick your hand in a bucket of thousands of pingpong balls, and pull out three or four balls all of which were red, wouldn't you guess that there are many other red balls in the batch? Besides, the key word in my OP was "seems." Still, I see that some in this thread can't even acknowledge that cops are prone to the samee shortcomings as the general population. I'm sorry I'm not the kind of woman that likes to unquestionably get on my knee and suck up to cops (sometimes literally).
I don't think cops have any more problems with their kids than anyone else. I think we just hear about it BECAUSE they are children of cops.
You're a big man sitting in front of a computer screen, and I'm proud of my daughter.
Ah, I get it...so the cops are just being picked on, huh? Of the cases I mentioned, the only one I heard about in the media was the one about the D.A.R.E. officer. The others I have firsthand knowledge.
Were not talking ping pong balls dearie, your talking about human beings. I grew up in Southern PG,went to school with two kids whose fathers were cops, they did the usual b.s. high school kids did back then, skip school, break curfew, that type of thing. No drugs, no arrests, I still talk to tand see them about every other month. One is with FBI, the other works on Pax River for a contractor. They have never been in trouble nor have their kids.Well, if you were to stick your hand in a bucket of thousands of pingpong balls, and pull out three or four balls all of which were red, wouldn't you guess that there are many other red balls in the batch? Besides, the key word in my OP was "seems." Still, I see that some in this thread can't even acknowledge that cops are prone to the samee shortcomings as the general population. I'm sorry I'm not the kind of woman that likes to unquestionably get on my knee and suck up to cops (sometimes literally).