Not all Cops are evil
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Law enforcement officers do more good than bad. I know for some here, that's hard to believe. Obviously, the bad get a lot more publicly than the good. This thread remind everyone that most cops are good people and do good things for their communities. If you know of an example of cops doing good, please feel free to participate.
First example is from about 10 years ago. This cop talked a man out of jumping off of the golden gate bridge. The would be jumper is now married with 2 children.
First example is from about 10 years ago. This cop talked a man out of jumping off of the golden gate bridge. The would be jumper is now married with 2 children.
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There are indeed some fine officers out there. I was released from a hospital several years ago after an suffering an injury to one of my eyes (the eye is fine now). I guess the hospital forgot they had medicated me when they released me and I was too out of it to realize I was not going to make the eight mile walk home uphill at night without shoes. A cop saw me stumbling along the road and drove me home. He was really cool- he kept asking if I was going to be alright. A really great cop.
Good thread, Last-12-Exit!
The story starts out....10 years ago....
The Hyundai looks like a 2002 so it's not every 10 years they do something good.
Do they keep a national database on incidents of cops doing good?
http://www.people.com/article/sumter-south-carolina-police-officers-buys-bed-gives-teen-bedroom-furniture
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/st-paul-police-help-homeless-woman_n_5844634.html
This thread isn't long enough.I could keep going for hours.Waaaaaaay more good stories then bad.that's for sure.Way to go Last-12.
http://news.yahoo.com/police-rescue-malnourished-girl-closet-kansas-city-161117342--abc-news-topstories.html
http://fox8.com/2014/04/29/officers-risk-their-lives-to-save-man-from-burning-home/
They deserve medals not protests you dumb asses.
I fully support this thread as long as people remember that it's OK to criticize police brutality and praise police efforts without offering blanket acceptance or condemnation.
My husband's cousin is a police officer for a suburb of Columbus. He is that guy who would go and play basketball with the kids, would go get gas for someone who needed it, share a lunch . . . Honestly, he is truly that great guy who you would want to be out serving and protecting.
My neighbor is not. He is that guy who would bust you for going 1/2 MPH over the speed limit. He is the guy who would abuse power. Several years ago, two township forces combined. He happened to work for one of them. Because of his track record, they opted NOT to include him in the combined force. He has been floundering for employment since. He stayed out of work for 4 years and is now a security guard at a local satellite ER.
My husband's uncle was an MP in Vietnam. He came back home and became a police officer for the City of Cleveland. He was driving through a neighborhood one day and a woman ran out of her house, screaming that she needed help. Her family member (I can't recall if it was a husband or brother) was on weekend release and he was going insane. He had a record with the police from prior abuse issues. This was not a call called in from the police department. He went to check in on the domestic abuse issue and long story short, he was shot by the guy. The guy then shot himself. There had been an exchange of gunfire between the two after he had shot himself. Three weeks later, my husband's uncle died as a result of his injuries.
Last year, before my SIL ran the Marine Corps Marathon, we all visited the National Policemen's Memorial. We wanted to take the girls to see the memorial, to have them show thanks and to teach them about the gravity of the situation and how we lost Uncle John. I'm thankful that we had that opportunity.
I'm not saying that every police officer is correct. I'm hoping, though, that instead of trashing the very people that we hope to be protecting us, that we consider the few "bad apples" to be such as that. A few. It's not that we need to excuse bad decision making. It's also not that we need to slap that label on everyone.
2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
With the amount of venom spit at police these days on this forum... it seems that many people think getting killed on the job while doing police work is simply par for the course. To the contrary though... getting killed while being a criminal is a sheer travesty demanding outrage.
I'm curious to know how the outspoken critics and undeniable haters would deny or dance around such a charge.
The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana
I can't wait to read some of your submissions.
I agree that it is important to recognize horrible things cops have done on the job; but one should not jump to one side of the fence and remain there- doing so reflects the poor quality of having a narrow perspective. Remember how I defended Wilson... yet was mortified at the conduct of those officers in Cleveland? I also wished nothing but the worse for the cops who assaulted and killed Kelly Thomas.
Don't you think you have your perspective misaligned?
My grandfather retired from the Indiana State Police. My OPINION has always been that the police are horribly underpaid for what they do. How will YOU dance around that?
The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana
Cops deal with the crappiest humans and they get unduly criticized. I've had good and bad experiences with police and get why the bad became bad.
As with teachers we should raise respect of both professions. They handle the worst human crap and are not appreciated or paid accordingly.
Thank a cop when you see them.
One can criticize the actions of one police officer and still have total respect for the police by demonstrating such. I had you for a pitchfork bearing cop hater. You've never offered a balanced perspective that I can recall- and I try to read all your entries. I mean... with the scathing attacks that have been prevalent on these forums and given your intimate knowledge of the character of most cops throughout this country... you would have been a perfect candidate to honour your grandfather's life's work by offering a slice of personal perspective showing respect for a profession that has been heavily under attack.
If you have done this already and I've missed it... can you direct me to it so that I might apologize for confusing you were an unabashed police hater? As it stands... you'll have to forgive me for assuming so much- but it's fair to say the overwhelming majority of your posts have not been, shall we say 'positive', towards police work.
The second part is only relevant in relation to the first, because if you, me, or anyone else was killed unnecessarily, even while being a criminal, it WOULD be a travesty. The Michael Brown case was 1 case and you can't let people's reaction to it paint the entire portrait of police brutality vs admirable service for you. If some people didn't agree about MB but they do agree about Kelly Thomas, it is just a difference of opinion, not hatred of all cops as you imply.
You are correct though that some of us share more words in the negative than positive, and as I said in the other thread, it is a symptom of debate on the AMT that perhaps we should work on.
I've said plenty of times on here that our gun laws are driving a lot of this bad view of the police. When virtually every contact they have with the public potentially involves someone carrying a firearm you can't fault them for turning into a mini military.
It seems like the right wingers are usually the ones carrying the police/military banner yet the majority of police chiefs in this country will tell you that our gun laws make their jobs much harder which is a liberal position.
The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/victoria-police-praised-in-mentally-ill-man-s-arrest-1.1619880
And again... it might be just me... but when a profession my grandfather spent his life's work in is under such an assault as we've seen the last month or so... as critical as I might be of one particular officer... I'd be coming to the defence of it when the need arose. Maybe I need thicker skin?
I'm not a right winger and I agree that the degree to which your country is armed leaves police in an extremely challenging position when they do their work.
how about a thread about piece a shit criminals that try to hurt,rob,kill,rape,assault and the people who put their lives in front of us without hesitation to stop such evil scum.I think JC during one of his sober ramblings said a cop shoots a person every 28 min.I don't know how factual that is but if it is I would say how many of those shot put themselves in position to be shot.Im sure it is a really high number.
if a cop shoots an innocent person without good reason or not in the line of duty,then he/she should be held accountable and is no better then the scum they are to be protecting us from.This is not broad blanket.But the vast overwhelming majority are hard working good people who truly want to do good and they should be celebrated.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Police-shut-down-Ore-bridge-detain-13-bearded-men-167986556.html
You found the root of my distrust! There was a great kerfuffle between the Society of Bearded men and the RCMP and ever since then, I have been acutely aware of the ongoing conspiracy to criminalize beards!
I honestly agree with many points made here. But, kudos to Last 12 for this thread. I think often times we get caught up in one scenario or another, and then our opinions get rooted into a pint that we consider them a fact; we believe them so strongly. And in that stance we often don't see things clearly. It seems though that you have brought up a great thing to remember in this day and age, and that is that the majority of officers get into the field because they WANT TO HELP. They want to do good things with their lives. When I was a child, my mother kidnapped my sister and I from our dad. She sold drugs out of her bedroom window, and eventually the Riverside Police Dept. Set up a raid. They did their homework! When they crawled through our window in the middle of the night, they knew our names, they made us crawl out and go sit in a police car, whole they apprehended our mother and her boyfriend. ( she blamed everything on him, and he got 25 years in prison, for that and ' other' much worse crimes- let's just leave it at that) she got off Scott free pretty much by going to rehab and becoming a Corrections Officer as her ' sentence'.
They beat the shit outta my mother that night.. And I can remember the officer in the car with us, radio'ing the guy inside to please close the door so we didn't have to see it. I was terrified of cops after that..( I was 8 when this happened), but when I got older, I realized that bat shit stupid crazy as my mother was, she brought that beating on herself. She didn't assault any if them but she sure wasn't going quietly.
Then I knew a police officer in college, who once almost arrested me for public indecency, and instead, made me take a class on tape and domestic violence. So I've gotten to see both sides of the record. And can tell you, I've inly seen a few of the bad guys.. And the good far outweigh them. Thank you Last 12 for recognizing this, and starting a thread that represents the majority of officers in the field!