Joe speaks out

[HarleyDog]

(05-30-2020, 03:10 PM)Whatever Wrote: It's hard to stop the cops that come from that "high school bully" archetype because both recruitment and retention for most police departments is so poor.  The very job itself requires people who are not afraid of confrontation and a lot of those types get off on wielding power over others.  Ideally, you'd like to be able to fire them, but then you run your department short on manpower.  

The thing people need to realize is that you aren't winning an argument with a cop.  If they want to ticket or arrest you badly enough, they're going to ticket or arrest you.  The more you argue, the more they're going to want to get you for something.  If you did something wrong and just admit what you did, they're way more likely to show leniency.  If you didn't, fight it in court, not with the officer.  

Cops are human. They deal with a lot of disrespect and unnecessary BS. I've given a few police officers some unnecessary grief myself in my younger days and very surprised I wasn't taken to the woodshed. There are several issues which should be addressed. Although not much of this pertains to the case at hand, maybe some of it does. Who knows? Such a crazy, sad, unfortunate and unnecessary situation we find ourselves in right now as a nation. We are looking in a mirror and we don't like what we see. Unfortunately, Chaos does nothing but lead the discussion in a different direction then where it should be. Once the streets are cleared and the fires are extinguished and the shattered windows replaced, we can then address the wrong which was done to George Floyd. Right now, it's no longer about him because violence silences reason and many who are doing the rioting probably don't even know his name. Sad really.