[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]

Re: Cops: Can't Live With Them, Can't Live Without Them



In article <3nqsq7$84p@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>,
adr5@aloha.cc.columbia.edu (Alex D Rodriguez) wrote:

> It's not my spelling, it's my typing.  Really. :) 

Ok, ok, ok, I'll stop being (God help me...yuk) the Grammar/Spelling Police!
 
> In this scenario run with lights only.  Shut your sirens off.  I rather have
> someone run off with my property than have a cop hurt someone.  When you are
> a block away, after you have gone through all intersections, shut the lights
> off.  No one is going to bitch about that.

I'm glad YOU feel that way. However, were I was a cop (West Palm Beach County)
they were quite a bit more materalistic than you. When a burglar alarm 
was received, you were expected to be there yesterday. It is the same in many 
cities inhabited by very wealthy taxpayers. If it takes you more than 4-5
minutes to respond, the Lt's going to want to know why, and you'd better
have a good reason.

It's also not unknown for the "real slick" thieves/burglars to use spotters.
These guys can be blocks away, equipped with radio's, and scanners keeping
a sharp eye out for the responding cars. 

> I think the big light bar on the roof does a good job of giving you away.
> Anyone who misses the light bar during the day is not going to see the lights
> flashing either.

Hah!...You'd be surprised how oblivious people can be. It's the people who
do see the lightbar (because they're breaking the law, and they're looking
for it)
that you worry about it. The only thing they're worried about by that time is,
is it on or not, and is it after me?...When you're looking for a chase
(some cops are) you turn it on far away. When you're REALLY trying to get
someone
you're worried about stopped, you wait till your right on their ass (make sure
there's no question in their mind they're going down)

> I still don't take your word for it.  It comes down to either believing
> what I have seen, or what you say.  I'm sure there have been a couple of times
> when I did misinterpret a cops actions, but most of the time I have seen 
> that the cops were just on routine patrol.  If they had been in a hurry they
> would not have waited for the pedestrians to all cross the street before they
> ran the light.  In the city, that is what I see them do most of the time.

Now come on, there certainly not going to run a red light when there's
pedestrians crossing the street, lights & siren or not.

>I just don't like the attitude alot of them carry.  This past weekend I
got >another example of a cop with an attitude. I was in Atlantic City and
they had >some event on the boardwalk that cause a huge crowd where you
had to squeeze >through to get by.  A young man is slipping through with
his box in the air >playing fairly loud.  Along comes a cop and from 3
feet away yells an obscenity >at him and tells him to "shut that piece of
shit off".  That was completely >uncalled for and unecessary.

Alex, you never know the whole story w/something like that. I'm not saying
it's the case, but  it wouldn't surprise me if the kid was known to the
cop, and 
a regular troublemaker. I'm not trying to make excuses either, but how do you 
know how many times before, the kid was asked nicely? 

But I am willing to bet the kid turned it down, didn't he?

Certain people in this world don't respond to please, even from a supposed
authority figure. When you've been a cop for awhile, you learn to spot the
one's
who are going to require a more "forcefull approach."...*And then again,
sometimes your just having a crabby day!*

J Y

*********************************************************************
 Jamie-Andrea Yanak    **   A pretty girl is an accident.
    CYBER-VIXEN        **   A beautifull woman is an accomplishment.
<jamieyanak@oai.org>   **      **             **             **
*********************************************************************


Follow-Ups: References: