Wow, you should be worried that something that little "completely disgusts" you. Who cares if they speed and dont get tickets. It wasnt hurting you any. I am sure many of us have gone through a radar a little to fast and not been pulled over...I know I have. You should focus your anger on something different. Ever walked up to a law enforcement officer and thanked them for everything they do every day? Its not all about shooting radar...
Completely Disgusted
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MMDad said:
I don't believe you are correct. Their are set procedures for responding "without lights and siren" up to so many miles above the speed limit. There is no way of knowing if a Officer is responding to a call.
u gotta love me
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MMDad said:
Pilots fly for free as do their family. A perk that I have reaped through my family, thank you very much.
BUT pilots are not paid to up hold the law and set examples.
POLICE OFFICERS ARE.
ironintestines
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Ponytail said:THAT'S what really annoys me! When one cop is holding up 3 or 4 lanes of traffic cuz no one wants to pass his slo azz.Speed on!
Or even worse when there's a left-laner who won't get out of the cops way..
When the boys in blue are rolling, let them roll.. They'll clear the path for others to get on with it..
You are soooooo wrong. That was not an undercover officer. It was the donut delivery man...special order on the way.
Dork
Highlander's MPD
Lexib_ said:
Things are not always as they appear. Give the cop the benefit of the doubt. Maybe someday, his speeding to get to your accident or call for service will save your life. The cops really are not the bad guys. We may not like it when they pull us over give us tickets or yell at us to leave a place where you wanna be but you have to understand it's done for a reason. Not too long ago, I saw a woman screaming at an officer because he told her she couldn't drive past him to get to her house. It didn't matter to her that a crazy dude with a gun was threatening to kill someone in her neighborhood. She just didn't want to be inconvenienced. People in this country have become spoiled and are out of touch with reality (liberals).
Complain about let 'em go judges or the screwed up media. That would make more sense. Walk up to a cop, get to know him. Some have crazy egos but most are just normal people trying to do the right thing, with very little thanks and a whole lot of criticism.
jackers
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My issue with this is something called Leadership by Example. When you hear stories like this it does make you just shake your head. Complete lack of leadership.
Don't make the excuse that he was going on a call with his lights off either. I guess every cop that rips down 235 at 65 mph are on a call too....
Don't make the excuse that he was going on a call with his lights off either. I guess every cop that rips down 235 at 65 mph are on a call too....
Ok, I don't know why you want me to respond but I will. First let me say that I don't write speeding tickets. But when I did, I was more inclined to give a warning to a person who was polite and honest. I never had a quota as many people presume, so it was my "discretion" as to who I wrote a ticket to or not. And that is the authority given to us by the State legislature when it comes to traffic laws and some other misdemeanors.dmh said:
Now, as far as writing a ticket to another police officer, I would never say never, but knowing that if I am on the side of the road, fighting with one or more suspects, (as I have seen in numerous training vidieos of real situations) the cop I might write a ticket to is the same cop who is going to risk life and limb getting to me to help, I probably would not be so inclined to give him the $65.00 speeding ticket.
Is this wrong? I don't really know. Probably it is wrong. But there are a lot of things in life we do that are wrong. We tell little white lies to make people feel better about their appearance, that is wrong but we do it. So morally we do things wrong, but a cop who chooses not to write any person a ticket has committed no crime, nor have they violated any policy or procedures.
Now before everybody gets up on their high horse and says cops are crooked, This is what I am saying. Speaking only for myself, and nobody else, I would not give a cop a break that I havn't given the ordinary citizen. By the way, when I wrote speeding tickets, I also didn't write tickets to Nurses, Doctors, Emt's, Firemen, and people who are serving in the armed forces.
johnycarcinogen
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smcop said:
That is all fine, I don't really care that cops dont write other cops tickets, im not saying that should. But he should have still pulled this guy over and said something to him rather than just letting him fly on by just because he was a cop, with other people all around the officer, im sure they weren't too happy either.
Skimming through all the complaining about cops and getting back to the original topic. Jumping out in the travel portion of the roadway to stop a speeding vehicle has always been a practice I am not a fan of. You will also find that many supervisors that catch their officers doing this will dish out one fine ass chewing.
It is a dangerous method of running radar. When I have seen them jump out in traffic, I swear my heart is about to fall out my butt.
But, they will not stop doing it until an officer gets ran over and the public goes ballistic and says see......
It is a dangerous method of running radar. When I have seen them jump out in traffic, I swear my heart is about to fall out my butt.
But, they will not stop doing it until an officer gets ran over and the public goes ballistic and says see......