Please don't turn my thread into a police hating thread. If you hate the police fine, then don't ever call on them for anything. Thank you.
Something I found.
"Well, Mr. Citizen it seems you have figured me out. I seem to fit neatly into the category where you placed me. Im sterotyped, standardized, classified, grouped and always typical. Unfortunetly, the reverse is true.
I can never figure you out. From birth you teach your children that I am the Boogeyman, then you are shocked when they identify with my traditional enemy.....the crimnal.
You accuse me of coddling criminals.....until I catch your child doing something wrong. You may take an hour to eat your lunch and take several coffee breaks each day, but point me out as a loafer for just having one cup. You pride yourself on your manners but think nothing of disrupting my meals with your troubles.
You raise hell with the guy that cuts you off in traffic, but let me catch you doing the same thing and im picking on you. You know all the traffic laws but you have never have had a ticket that you deserve. You shout foul if you observe me driving fast to a call but raise the roof if I take more than 10 seconds to respond to your complaint.
You call it part of my job when someone strikes me but call it police brutality when I strike back. You wouldn't think of telling your dentist how to pull a tooth or tell your doctor how to take out an appendix, yet you are always willing to give me pointers on the law and the decisions I make. You talk to me in a manner that would get you a bloody nose anywhere else yet expect me to take it without batting an eye.
You yell something's got to be done to fight crime, yet you can't be bothered to get involved. You have no use for me at all but of course it is OK if I change a flat tire for your wife, deliver your child in the back seat of my car, spend several days away from my family to look for your son or give mouth to mouth to your daughter after she has been in a bad wreck.
So Mr. Citizen, you can stand there on your soapbox and rant and rave about the way I do my work, calling me every name in the book, but never stop to think that your property, family or maybe even your life may depend on me or one of my buddies.
Yes Mr. Citizen, its me.........the lousy cop."
