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| 947.1 | cops are idiots too | POLAR::WILSONC | Cars = Death | Sun Jul 16 1995 07:32 | 27 |
| I think we are all guilty of protecting those with whom we share
interests. It just seems worse when cops stick up for one another. I
personally think cops are pretty useless for protecting the common man
(business on the other hand get their money's worth out of them) so I
wouldn't waste your energy getting steamed.
Why do I think cops are useless? Well, one night about 8 years ago I
was walking down the street with my friend when all of a sudden I felt
a sharp pain on my right butt cheek. Not knowing what happened my
friend and I carried on walking, I assumed a big wasp or something
stung me. After a few minutes I realized that I heard a sound a
fraction of asecond after the pain in my butt began. I hypothesized
that I had been shot by a pellet of some kind. Well to make a long
story short I had been shot so I called the cops. At the station I had
to pull down my pants in order for the cops to view the evidence. Do
you think they were compassionate? I had quite the welt on my butt and
some bleeding and couldn't sit right for three days. All the cops did
was make smart-ass remarks about the gay guy that would like to see my
injury that he would like to lick it. They called in the female
dispatcher to take a look etc. After about 20 minutes of this
humiliation I told them to f-off. My friend and I went back to the
scene of the shooting and investigated and found three young teens with
a pellet rifle with a scope. We beat the snot out of them and someone
called the cops on us (same cops) nothing happened of course except
that the seargent was there and when I told him how this could have
been avoioded had only his goons had taken me seriously he shook his
finger at his men and said bad boys that was it. end of story.
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| 947.2 | | TROOA::BROOKS | | Sun Jul 16 1995 19:43 | 18 |
| ..or the story about the escaped convict (I think) in the Barrie area
that killed two cops before driving off. Eventually they found him.
and the story goes that when he was taken back to Barrie to face the
charges, he was black and blue from the boys in blue. (heresay only,
of course.)
Yes, you protect your own. I too believe Cops are dealt with under a
separate branch of the law, because they are the law. They are given
guns, etc. so that they can protect the rest of us. I always seem to
notice them getting 'suspended' for some infraction that would land you
or I in jail. I'm sur we all agree, however, that it is a very tough
job they have to perform (lot of stress-related problems there I'm
sure). But, if you don't keep your military and para-military in line,
you end up in political situations we've seen many times before where a
facist government/dictatorship arises that would *real* inequities
between the commonfolk and the 'law'.
D
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| 947.3 | if it gets ugly, call the cops. | POLAR::WILSONC | Cars = Death | Sun Jul 16 1995 23:16 | 6 |
| I dont envy cops they certainly have a ugly stress filled job. The only
time people want them is when their is trouble. Preferential treatment
is understandable, probably unavoidable.
chris
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| 947.4 | | POLAR::ROBINSONP | Waiting for the Sun | Mon Jul 17 1995 15:36 | 10 |
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Consider, if you will, what happens to police officers in prison.
I don't think I need to spell it out.
Serving time on weekends makes sense to me, that's when all
the monday to friday criminals are out on weekend passes. 8*)
Lots of background moves on these cases that the general public
will never hear.
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| 947.5 | breaks my heart | TROOA::MSCHNEIDER | Digital has it NOW ... Again! | Thu Jul 20 1995 02:40 | 3 |
| Gee whiz .... get treated badly do they in prison? Well seems like a
particularly good reason why they should be extra careful in obeying
the laws that apply to all citizens.
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| 947.6 | | KAFS31::LACAILLE | Half-filled bottles of inspiration | Thu Jul 20 1995 12:27 | 3 |
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Maybe they should have a prison for just the cops, sounds
like they could certainly make good use of it.
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| 947.7 | RE.3 COP LOVER OR STOOL PIGEON ? | POLAR::LALUMIERE | | Wed Jul 26 1995 01:31 | 20 |
| 947.8 | | TROOA::COLLINS | Careful! That sponge has corners! | Wed Jul 26 1995 11:59 | 10 |
| 947.9 | Nice Guy | TROOA::MCRAM | Marshall Cram DTN 631-7162 | Wed Jul 26 1995 12:40 | 11 |
| 947.10 | observation is not advocacy | R2ME2::DEVRIES | All simple things were done by 1950! | Wed Jul 26 1995 13:25 | 13 |
| 947.11 | | TROOA::COLLINS | Careful! That sponge has corners! | Wed Jul 26 1995 15:33 | 45 |
| 947.12 | | POLAR::RICHARDSON | Painful But Yummy | Wed Jul 26 1995 16:10 | 1 |
| 947.13 | | TROOA::COLLINS | Careful! That sponge has corners! | Wed Jul 26 1995 16:33 | 5 |
| 947.14 | Out come the jackboots | TROOA::SOLEY | Fall down, go boom | Wed Jul 26 1995 18:16 | 12 |
| OK Kids, I don't have the time for this.
I've received complaints about .7 and given that at least one of the
replies contains an unnecessary expletive and another violates
copyrights I've no choice but to wade in. You all know that I've
avoided censorship here and by in large we've kept things
without the bounds of what's approriate for the workplace, it's pushed
the envelope a little but nothing that makes me worry about my or
anyone elses career. This one's different. So here's the deal. This note is
write locked, .7 and the followups are set hidden. Topic closed end of
discussion.
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