HamsterHider said:
have any of you ever been one on one in a house with a person hiding with a gun to shoot you? Kicked in a door to get the guy holding children hostage with a gun? walked into neighborhoods where 75% of the people would gladly kill you but you are there to take a 3 year old child away so he won't be raped by his brother? Have to worry even when you are not working or put extra locks on your door because there are death threats against you for doing the right thing and getting heroin off the streets? until any of you can say at least two of these things have happened to you I reccomend you can not see what some and I am not saying all cops or law enforcement deal with on a daily basis. Not 99.9999% are on power trips. Whre I work minimum of a ba degree is required to be in the division many have masters. So I go out to arrest serialk rapists barricaded with guns and risk getting killed to be on a power trip? Little charges are not even worth the paperwork many times. Once you all look death in the eye and get paid like shit to do it daily when the local car dealer would pay you double to work there tell me it is all about power , No it is about wanting to do the right thing for many. The stress put on officer and law enforcement is incredible, it is a job you are sworn to do 24/7 not at 5 you are done. why do you think the heart disease and suicide rate is so high in law enforcement? hmmmm just a little to think about. saying that 99.999 percent are bad is like saying 99.999% of bodybuilders use NUBAIN. Nonsense.
Save the drama for your mama.
There is a discernible difference between big city police and smaller town cops, and then there is a whole different segmetn called "traffic enforcement".
Traffic cops are the scum of the earth and I would like to drown them one by one in front of their families.
Small town cops are typcally a nephew of thejudge or town councilman or some bullshit that got appointed to the job. Most of these guys are on power trips doe to their own smallmindedness and being provincial little turds who suddenly feel important.
Big city cops are different they are exposed to hostile situations and the like. They could get shot, attacked etc etc., since urban aras generally have more crime and more concentrated poverty than smaller towns. In many cities there is also a proximity to wealth.
Tragically, most big cities are experiencing a shortage of cops and are lowering their standards. NYPD allows an Associates degree. So the dumb guys have the guns in many cases.
So get off your high horse. I know a lot of big city cops that just chase drugs around. They don't win the drug war. They move the drug war. Those guys that kick in doors and serve high risk warrants usually show up armed like a squad of Army Rangers (that was my old job, where I looked death in the face every day for no money) to get these guys.
I am not even going to address federal law enforcement. These guys are bozos of the highest order.
Police forces should be cut 75%.