As I mentioned in my prior posts, I will include, from time to time, my observations on the world - and the police world in particular. These opinions are not derived, I assure you, from scientific studies, nor are they the final results of much deep thought. They are just the stuff that gets shoved into a cop’s head after a decade or so.
Your Grandma Was Wrong
So your grandma told you people are basically good. Bull. In the last several patrol shifts, in neighborhoods that cross all socioeconomic barriers, the following have taken place:
1. A mother of three, living in a twin bed with all three kids, fighting violently with police who tried to arrest her. The kids were not hurt, thanks to the professionalism of our women and men in uniform. Well done, Mom.
2. A 90 year-old man with dementia left in his bed for weeks by his children. Bed sores, sickness, infection, etc. Thanks for raising me, dad.
3. A young man who wanted to join a gang. Nothing new here, except the gang didn’t want him. So they beat him into the ICU. He was fourteen or fifteen, at the oldest.
4. Finally, some common sense. These geniuses killed a cat and hung it from a tree on a public highway. Why? Tired of the cat messing up the house.
I once met a police psychologist who gave a good presentation on why cops are “different” than other people. His hypothesis was that all humans can take only so much “evil stuff” before it gets them in some way or the other. Cops, he said, get their dose for life in the first five years of their career. Not so far off, doc.
What do you think?
May 14, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I wanted to be a police officer right out of high school, I wanted to become one so bad! I love my community and the people in it. I started college and even took basic law classes. I got a job as security at a local Target (Which you should know is great with partnering with local police.) Soon I was stopping shop lifters and really enjoying the job. My boss got replaced with someone who was a Drug Recognition officer so I was even more excited. He liked the fact that I was so into the reports and really delved myself into the work. Soon I saw the real deal, yes sir what these “cops” really do. My boss told me stories of when he would stop women they would offer bribe and he would do it! He told me how he cheated on his wife with other officers and how he curb checked someone and made it look like he “ran into a wall”. He told me this laughing by the way. And no he did not get fired his wife worked as an STL at another target so he joined. Soon my boss changed too instead of spending time with me developing my abilities he was only concerned with HIS pay and what made HIM look good. He had this obsession with his image that was disturbing. I kept telling myself over and over that he is only one cop they are not all like this. BULL… When we catch shop lifters we call the PD to write a report and what not. Little did I know that this was fate and destiny calling me, I had one case where repeatedly during an apprehension the officers were radioing me turn the camera away when we make the stop. I thought this was fishy so I followed my heart and left it on the incident and watched. The perpetrator got caught and then spit on one of the officers. They put a spit gaurd on him but then I watched the officer take him to the side of the building and give him three blows to the chest. Kid fell crying. When they came in the OFFICERS told me to write in the report that the perpetrator ran and fell. I copied the tape and watched it over and over and you want evil that cop was evil, he even looked around before hitting the kid. I turned in the tape. One week later that officer resigned. I hold local cop watches and follow cops when they stop people, I put hidden cameras in my car, did some research on one officer and found that he uses steroids from a family friend by the way. (I got pulled over by the officer noticed he had tons of acne at like 35 and he was built… Good thing I wrote his name down!) I love seeing these new cameras at intersections, speed poles that catch speeders… Why because it’s making things fair again. AND my girlfriends ex boyfriend (Tried for marines, became a DOC officer, and now becoming a police officer in the academy as we speak.) Told my girlfriend via cell phone call, “When I see him driving I will stop him and some way he will go to jail.” So I hope this is a little insight and I’m happy to say I’m an upright citizen protecting the community from the corruption and hate that YOU know exists in the Department. You may protect and serve but who protects us from YOU!!!??? Yes the world is evil it always has been, If you are a genuinely good person that won’t effect your job or your life. America! Land of the free, free to the power of people in uniform! Thank you for providing your service to our country I am truly thankful for that.
I have a clean record by the way (Not even a speeding ticket.), but my record stands strong at 5 officers resigned/fired, and better believe i will raise the bar.