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Originally Posted by Socks
The same reason there always is. A cop's life is worth 1,000 citizens lives, and must be overprotected at all costs.
The strategies and tactics they're taught are overused in situations they're not needed in. They overreact to everything, as a strategy to get you to commit a crime you wouldn't otherwise commit.
It is my opinion that these strategies cause danger to the public. If they would respectfully and patiently resolve issues instead of being dickheads, more people would act better in these situations.
Obviously being in a situation with police causes an adrenaline rush, and police have an opportunity to be a calming and informative force in those situations. You'll often see on COPS etc after a crazy drama, the final thing the police will do is be nice and re-assuring, trying to calm the people down. They seem to only do this after yelling, threatening, being condescending, etc.
My dad's a cop, my sister's studying to be a cop, my best friend's dad is a cop, his mom did finger printing, I have a lot of cops in my life. I do have an understanding of what they have to go through, and how people don't give them these benefits either. However the police are supposed to be well trained, well paid, sober, and respectful. We're right in expecting a lot of them to represent the best of us. Surely, cops have to deal with some of the worst people, in their worst moments. When people are being outrageous, nobody has a problem with these tactics. I just think many times people are incited into greater crimes because of police strategies, causing danger to citizens.
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I tend to believe in the greater good and even more so with cops. I know there are bad apples, but I honestly believe that cops are good.
In 2004 I found myself caught up in a little tussle with the highway patrol that resulted in a full felony stop, me spread eagle on the freeway. A over simplified explanation of what happened is I pulled away from a marked patrol car at a very high rate of speed, and they assumed I was fleeing. They thought I was a wanted convict or had drugs or what not, and it resulted in a full felony stop, guns drawn, freeway shut down. I did exactly what I was told to do, no back talking, no discussion about right or wrong at that point. I didn't have my faced shoved down into the pavement, and while it wasn't too pleasant of an experience I was treated pretty good. Once everyone calmed down I gave them full permission to search my car, and they discovered it was just a simple matter of me speeding without knowing there was a cop behind me. (It was at night, Phoenix, Limo tinted windows.) But if I said one thing out of line, I knew it would be a very different story.
Sorry, but when the cops talk to you and you give them flack, they respond with force. It's not that they have an attitude or want to boss people around. A friend of mine is a cop - and female cop - and she tells me every day she gets spit on or hit. After a while it gets old.
I'd love to hear the story behind this one.