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SocketWrench posted:That's great. Really, it is. Now when you see overwhelming vitrol for them, then I can understand the complains about "why isn't there a thread for X?". Besides, I don't see the cops get worshipped like firefighters have ever since some Muslims blew up a few towers despite them being involved and loosing people too. I hardly ever see them mentioned when it comes to all the "Never Forget!" specials and shows. There's entire TV channels devoted to how great cops are and politicians can lose elections if they don't praise cops enough. How many more TV shows and movies about heroic cops saving the day need to be made for you to feel appreciated?
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I don't understand open container laws. I've never seen them enforced ever.
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katlington posted:This poo poo is great, is your dad a cop or something? Waaahhat about all the good things they do? Like the time a cop did a thing any normal person with means and opportunity would do or the time i benefited from their corruption when they let me go for some sort of infringement, boy i was gratefull for that! Oh my yes, because I defended the idea of seeing a thread that wasn't a repeat of gently caress the popo I must be a cop loving a cop from a long family line of cops. Grow up. ReV VAdAUL posted:There's entire TV channels devoted to how great cops are and politicians can lose elections if they don't praise cops enough. How many more TV shows and movies about heroic cops saving the day need to be made for you to feel appreciated? Are you talking about Cops? Or that True Stories show? You know, the two shows that either look staged to gently caress or embellish the gently caress out of the situation.
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Arglebargle III posted:I don't understand open container laws. I've never seen them enforced ever. You have to have an open container and act like a complete horse's rear end before cops give a poo poo.
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SocketWrench posted:Oh my yes, because I defended the idea of seeing a thread that wasn't a repeat of gently caress the popo I must be a cop loving a cop from a long family line of cops. Grow up. You seem really upset about those uppity firefighters getting all the 911 love. You also said something about there not being enough garbage man hate? I was being generous trying to figure out where your posts are coming from, if dad was a cop that would explain it. Where else do you get the idea that cops are being unfairly shat on in society, idk maybe you're just an idiot? e: SocketWrench posted:Are you talking about Cops? Or that True Stories show? You know, the two shows that either look staged to gently caress or embellish the gently caress out of the situation. Like how do you see these programs and still say what you just did? But the shows are scripted edited to make the police look good and the bad guys look bad, this is evidence of a bias against the police. SMILLENNIALSMILLEN fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Nov 2, 2014 |
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katlington posted:You seem really upset about those uppity firefighters getting all the 911 love. You also said something about there not being enough garbage man hate? I was being generous trying to figure out where your posts are coming from, if dad was a cop that would explain it. Where else do you get the idea that cops are being unfairly shat on in society, idk maybe you're just an idiot? I think you best reread. No where did I say there wasn't enough, just that there really isn't compared to the mountains of gently caress the police stuff. You're basically trying to change what I said. quote:Like how do you see these programs and still say what you just did? But the shows are scripted edited to make the police look good and the bad guys look bad, this is evidence of a bias against the police. I personally think it manipulates the retards of society and makes the cops look like morons or paid off actors, myself. One show you've got Sheriff what's his name embellishing and lying about video, the other you've got cop cameo go bust the rednecks/black guys. Neither really does anything positive except give people some action to watch or to laugh at the worst of society.
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PT6A posted:You have to have an open container and act like a complete horse's rear end before cops give a poo poo. Or be black.
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Ratoslov posted:Or be black. He said "you" not people he doesn't listen to 
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SocketWrench posted:Are you talking about Cops? Or that True Stories show? You know, the two shows that either look staged to gently caress or embellish the gently caress out of the situation. I'm talking about shows like that that consistently portray police as the Good Guys and the multiple procedural shows that show the police as heroes. Teachers, firefighters, paramedics, child protection workers and even soldiers are lucky to get a show praising them, police get multiple a year and still you feel they're persecuted. Similarly several of the highest grossing movies each year lavishly praise the police, one might criticise them. Could you detail how much more disproportionate the praise for police needs to be for you to feel satisfied?
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Homeland and NCIS are probably the worst examples of cop love shows.
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Radbot posted:Homeland and NCIS are probably the worst examples of cop love shows. NCIS is more troop love than anything else. That sounds similar but it's a very different field of worship, especially since quite often the antagonists of an episode are either the FBI, the CIA, or Mossad (also usually some random terrorists but that's assumed).
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Ratoslov posted:Or be black. You still have to be acting like a prick in general. The problem is that most of North America, regardless of race, has an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, so most people with an open container will be acting like a horse's rear end at any given time.
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I don't understand where all the cop hate is coming from?? Look, as a white male in America, I
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I once spent the night in a police cell (I should have been there). In the morning the police gave me back the best part of 5g of Plantfood / Bathsalts that they had taken from me when I was locked up for the night, because it was a couple of weeks before that stuff got made illegal in the uk. it was literally 5g of white powder in a bag like this:  and the cops gave it back to me.
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Xibanya posted:Once in Madrid a friend of mine was walking down the street smoking a jay. A cop saw him and told him to put it away. My friend put it out and the cop hosed off and didn't fine him or anything. They tend to leave you alone as long as you're not being obnoxious and if you're (white) Spanish. If you're an obvious tourist or immigrant they're far more likely to give you poo poo. They love busting Brits in particular, which is good, because Brits in Spain are garbage and poo poo
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once in a bust a policeman held me by my neck and almost threw me into the ditch with chest-height water where i had thrown my pot stash in then he got a radio call about a house getting robbed he left me alone to go solve the violent crime situation. good priority management, keep up the good work boys in khaki camo
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A policeman uhh, wait, poo poo. Let me think. Good experience, not bad. Ummmmmmmm. One time I found a wallet outside my workplace and it only took the cops around 5 hours to come pick it up? That was something?
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wheez the roux posted:They tend to leave you alone as long as you're not being obnoxious and if you're (white) Spanish. If you're an obvious tourist or immigrant they're far more likely to give you poo poo. They love busting Brits in particular, which is good, because Brits in Spain are garbage and poo poo loving guiris. Yeah in Madrid they will bend all the rules of you're not obviously not from around here. I remember once I was trying to get into a club and they were carding because it was tourist high season and the club was near Callao (I think it was Bash, which doesn't exist any more) and I didn't have my ID but I had my monthly bus pass (abono). the adult passes don't have a date of birth and are literally cardstock with a cut out photo booth picture of you stuck to it in a plastic sleeve. Even the ID number is hand written. You could make this poo poo at home. so I decided to use my abono as an ID anyway. The bouncer told me it wasn't valid but I begged him to let me in and he decided to let it slide. Cop stories? Once I was at a crazy loud party near Valdezarza. A group of friends were renting a two story house and they had like 100 people over (people ended up drinking in the street for want of space in the house.) The cops showed up because there was a noise complaint. One of the guys renting the house told the cops we were all celebrating a wedding. The cops were like, oh well in that case, carry on!
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One time I was in a youth hostel in Portland Oregon that all radical chic with anarchist symbols plastered everywhere and "people's republic of portland" stickers. This homeless black guy from the neighborhood who was off meds kept walking in and talking to people in the hostel so they called the cops on him. The cop showed up to take care of it but the guy left already when he arrives. A white guy who was at the hostel start talking with the cop and is like oh are we allowed to drink alcohol in public in parks in this city and the cop goes "well technically this is against the law, but as long as you don't look like one of THOSE PEOPLE YOU KNOW WINK WINK we won't give you trouble for it HAHAHA" This is my cop story Oh wait I have another cop story: In my city there's a law forbiding public gatherings and the cops beat us up whenever we protest against the government and arrest us with no charges and all that crap. Then the government took away their pensions because of austerity and now there was a huge protest and the cops didn't do anything and the leader of the cops told the news "hey you can't ask people to follow the law when the government doesn't respect pensions" I guess the moral of the story is cops can be cool sometimes you just gotta take away their pensions
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Gropiemon posted:Of all the cops that have ever lived, most are dead.
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I was goign 38 in an (unmarked) 20 zone and got a warning, so yay police! I always get warnings and get out of tickets. I assume it's because I'm charming (white).
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One time I got a ticket for going 50 in a 35 while going 35-40. He could also tell I was speeding because I was pulling away from cars behind me that weren't there. I politely asked to see the readout of how fast I was going and he declined because traffic was too busy making it unsafe. It was so busy that someone in an unmarked civilian car pulled up next to him, stopped their car in an active roadway and sat there bullshitting with him for 5 minutes while zero cars went by. gently caress cops.
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LorneReams posted:I was goign 38 in an (unmarked) 20 zone and got a warning, so yay police! I always get warnings and get out of tickets. I assume it's because I'm charming (white). I missed a school zone sign and got pulled over by Ferguson PD with a car loaded with supplies for the protests. I got a warning. Being white and having military ID is awesome.
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I once had a cop be nice to me at college. They weren't useful, since someone had stolen my debit card and was spending all my money at the stores around campus and they didn't want to do anything about it, but I eventually learned (when they decided I was getting too annoying) that all the security cameras were fake and didn't actually record anything so they didn't have any of the leads I had assumed they would have. They were very polite though. Then one of them found out I was homeless and hounded me off campus and wouldn't let me park in the spot I was paying for any more "because it was too dangerous" for me to be in the brightly lit parking lot I was paying several hundred a year for and which apparently has police patrols and I'd be 'much safer' anywhere else where that wasn't on campus like maybe out in the woods or in the bad part of town where the police don't go. Also all the cops that won't even let me take naps even though I have a condition making it difficult to stay awake for long periods they apparently would rather I be weaving all over the road than pull over for 15 minutes every four hours to pull myself together - each time telling me where I should be instead, going to where they said, and getting kicked out of there by yet another police officer. Wait no gotta keep it to good experiences, one sec... uh... I'm glad they never roughed me up, even the one time that I was kind of a jerk (admittedly, I was a jerk to mall security and they DID rough me up, but the police officer was actually really chill and helped calm down the situation so genuine kudos for that one).
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A cop gave me a ticket for going a foot over the yellow line while taking a right turn at stop light and called it a "passing on the right" violation but then he was kind enough to be sloppy and forgot to bring my information to court so the judge threw it out. Before it was my turn like three women said the officer was an rear end in a top hat to the judge but he didn't really care.
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I had a cop get me thrown in a psych ward for 20 days one time... the thing is that he is no longer a cop because he got drunk 2 years after that, plowed his honda pilot into the back of a truck on the highway at 9:30 in the morning on a monday. He then left the scene of the accident, went to a donut shop, where he had the police called on him. He then got a bunch of other police officers and a tow truck company in trouble because he asked for a ride home and lied about some stuff related to the accident (I don't know why he didn't get arrested at the time) All that happened to him afterwords was a year of probation, a resignation from his police duties, and maybe some token alcohol classes.
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Apthous posted:(I don't know why he didn't get arrested at the time) I'll give you a couple of guesses...
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I have a theory: cop niceness is proportional to jurisdiction size. RCMP: good. Places where the cops are bitter ex high-school athletes: not good.
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Once my boss and I were fixing a truck in a parking lot when one of the daytime cops who knows him drove up to say hi. They were talking about guns and while I was doing something under the hood the cop saw my holster. He asked what kind of gun I had so I pulled up my jacket to show him. We finished fixing the truck, everyone parted ways on good terms and I didn't get shot in the face for having a gun near a cop. Thanks, Officer Hutt!
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Isentropy posted:I have a theory: cop niceness is proportional to jurisdiction size. FBI: 
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BIG HORNY COW posted:Once my boss and I were fixing a truck in a parking lot when one of the daytime cops who knows him drove up to say hi. They were talking about guns and while I was doing something under the hood the cop saw my holster. He asked what kind of gun I had so I pulled up my jacket to show him. We finished fixing the truck, everyone parted ways on good terms and I didn't get shot in the face for having a gun near a cop. Just be white and have a friend who knows the officer and you'll never have problems with the police.
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I saw two police officers outside my local school. There was a noticeable lack of dead children, so good on them for showing some restraint.
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Isentropy posted:I have a theory: cop niceness is proportional to jurisdiction size. NYPD/LAPD?
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Ytlaya posted:NYPD/LAPD? Jurisdiction as in population size.
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NYT with an article on how departments check against their wishlists when deciding which assets to seize. But don't worry, the police are executing these duties with all the sensitivity and fair-mindedness we could hope for. Just ask Mercer County forfeiture unit chief Sean McMurtry: quote:“I can’t tell you how many people have come in and said, ‘Oh, my hijito would never do that,’” [McMurtry] said, mimicking a female voice with a Spanish accent.
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