Like my father said...

"... there are two rules to dealing with cops. First, do absolutely everything they say. Second, never trust them an inch."

My father was a policeman twice- first for the city of Corpus Christi for a few months after graduating the police academy at Del Mar College, second for about a year and a half in the tiny burg of Kountze, TX. His one story from the latter term involved the chief saying, "Butch, I'm putting you on an investigation of Klan activity in this town."

My father (he claimed) replied, "What's to tell? He's a Klansman, so is he, so is he (pointing to three other cops- half the force at the time), and you're the local grand dragon."

The story ended with the gobsmacked chief saying, "Who TOLD you?"

Anyway, he quit both jobs as soon as construction work became available, because, "minimum wage plus a nickel isn't enough money to wear a target over my heart." He had an extremely dim view of policemen from his youth which was by no means elevated by his experience wearing the badge.

To explain my father's rules a bit more: he believed that cops, as a class, fell into three roughly equal categories. The first category is the "good cops," that is those who honestly want to enforce the laws and keep people safe. The second category is "bad cops," those who are on the take from someone and are using their power not to uphold the law but to benefit someone else.

The worst category, though, was the last, the "big dicks." A lot of cops join the force just so they can show what big dicks they have- and they do this by making other people's lives miserable. They don't give a damn about the law, and if they take bribes it's a sideline. Their primary purpose is to abuse power solely for their own entertainment and self-fulfillment.

And here's a wonderful example of the class.

Number of anti-black racist remarks: 6 ("ax" for "ask" twice, "jungle monkey" three times)

Number of anti-female misogynist remarks: 3 ("you ought to be serving me donuts and coffee")

Number of guilty-until-proven-innocent remarks: 2 ("assuming he has rights when he is considered a suspect. He is a suspect and always will be a suspect.")

Number of Dominionist remarks: 1 ("you are an infidel [for disagreeing with me].")

Number of military-is-superior remarks: 1

This sort of person is why you never trust a cop but always obey them; because you never can tell when Mr. Big Dick With a Badge is going to be the cop you meet.

Like my father said...

"... there are two rules to dealing with cops. First, do absolutely everything they say. Second, never trust them an inch."

My father was a policeman twice- first for the city of Corpus Christi for a few months after graduating the police academy at Del Mar College, second for about a year and a half in the tiny burg of Kountze, TX. His one story from the latter term involved the chief saying, "Butch, I'm putting you on an investigation of Klan activity in this town."

My father (he claimed) replied, "What's to tell? He's a Klansman, so is he, so is he (pointing to three other cops- half the force at the time), and you're the local grand dragon."

The story ended with the gobsmacked chief saying, "Who TOLD you?"

Anyway, he quit both jobs as soon as construction work became available, because, "minimum wage plus a nickel isn't enough money to wear a target over my heart." He had an extremely dim view of policemen from his youth which was by no means elevated by his experience wearing the badge.

To explain my father's rules a bit more: he believed that cops, as a class, fell into three roughly equal categories. The first category is the "good cops," that is those who honestly want to enforce the laws and keep people safe. The second category is "bad cops," those who are on the take from someone and are using their power not to uphold the law but to benefit someone else.

The worst category, though, was the last, the "big dicks." A lot of cops join the force just so they can show what big dicks they have- and they do this by making other people's lives miserable. They don't give a damn about the law, and if they take bribes it's a sideline. Their primary purpose is to abuse power solely for their own entertainment and self-fulfillment.

And here's a wonderful example of the class.

Number of anti-black racist remarks: 6 ("ax" for "ask" twice, "jungle monkey" three times)

Number of anti-female misogynist remarks: 3 ("you ought to be serving me donuts and coffee")

Number of guilty-until-proven-innocent remarks: 2 ("assuming he has rights when he is considered a suspect. He is a suspect and always will be a suspect.")

Number of Dominionist remarks: 1 ("you are an infidel [for disagreeing with me].")

Number of military-is-superior remarks: 1

This sort of person is why you never trust a cop but always obey them; because you never can tell when Mr. Big Dick With a Badge is going to be the cop you meet.