Keeping our streets safe

Water Cooler
#1

A patriot is a guy who gets a traffic ticket and rejoices that the system is working.

I must be unpatriotic because I am mad as Hell that a cop saw it fit to give me a ticket for failing to stop at a stop sign when I am sure I did. I never make a rolling stop but I don’t stop for 4 seconds holding up traffic either.

Fighting the ticket would cost me more in lost time than the ticket itself. It will take at least 4 hours and even with the astronomical ticket amounts (~$400 average) for small traffic violations in California, the cost-benefit is against fighting it.

Yeah, I am sure the streets of my city are safer today because of this young punk cop. Too bad the same can’t be said for Oakland or Inglewood.

#2

Unless you always drive around with a dashcam rolling, I’m not sure how you could beat a failure to stop ticket. It’s your word against his and something tells me the judge will take his word, assuming you can’t demonstrate that the cop’s view was obstructed.

#3

I know, just venting.

#4

Sounds like you should cause $400 worth of damage to the city as retribution. Go knock over some stuff, or I don’t know. Maybe pee on something.

#5

^ Don’t get caught peeing in public though, that can land you on the sex offenders list if there’s a woman within 100 yards who might have seen your naked wee wee and felt threatened.

#6

+1

#7

gather some pee (not yours) in a small squeeze bottle, and the go around with cop car door handles

#8

Deduct it from your income tax as a charitable donation.

#9

I saw three “heroes” on the way to work today trying to catch speeders. As soon as the weather warms up, they hit the streets to rape the citizens.

#10

I caught a few staring at a few HCBs walking by. It’s a good time to be spending time outside.

#11

Cops are overpaid thugs with very generous retirement benefits. The ultimate example of bloated government spending.

The next time I hear some sob story about “putting their lives on the line” to justify a budget increase I’m going to go insane. Cops in my city have shot civilians about 8 times in the past 3 years “on accident”

#12

A lot of them have ego issues.

#13

There are a lot of good cops out there and a lot of them really do put their lives on the line just about everyday (go be a cop for a week in Compton, the Temple area of Philly, or Brownsville). Suburban cops, however, are typically DB’s who need to feel important.

#14

Unlike finance folk… :wink:

#15

And don’t pee on the Alamo. That got Ozzy kicked out of San Antonio for ten years.

#16

I keep hearing that. “Good cops.” If they’re good cops, why are they allowing corruption in their departments or covering up for officers who commit crimes?

#17

This. Underappreciated for the heroic stuff and overcriticized for the petty citiation issue stuff.

I can’t say I’ve ever been wrongfully accused. But it does suck going 11 mph over the highway speed limit and getting ticketed.

#18

^ that’s my biggest problem with cops. The law doesn’t matter when it comes to one of their own. If a cop is truly good, they will want all corrupt cops gone. But how often do cops co-operate with internal investigations?

*edit: my arrow is meant for two comments above

#19

^ So your position is that every police department in the country is rife with corruption and every officer is aware of it and does nothing to stop it? And, that every police officer in the country covers up crimes committed by fellow officers? Really?

Edit: Response to Stratman

#20

^ He’s canadian, lay off him. They are all socialists corrrupt wannabe cubans up there.