Hell, I never said there wasn't a time when someone didn't deserve a good rap up side the head...or more. Sometimes it might do a lot more good than putting the dipshit in the system....again...you know what I mean?
My problem is with this tendency for way too many cops to use it when it's not called for...because they feel "threatened". ****, I felt threatened every second of every day...on or off the job. If I beat the shit out of...or worse shot...every dipshit that ever gave me lip or resisted being cuffed, I'd be no ******* better than the bully I DID beat the shit out of once for beating his dog and his retarded kid.
That is what this thread is about...a cop and a ******* kid...17 years old, granted, effectively an adult as far as threat goes...but still an UNARMED kid. If I had been that cop, I would have ******* resigned right then and there...and probably would have considered putting a gun in my ******* mouth. I had a partner who killed a 16 year old...was totally justified, the kid had a gun and had already taken a couple of shots at us. He was ready to put that gun in his mouth and we pretty much had to baby sit him for months before he seemed like he was coming out of it. He never did come back on the street...as he was waiting out the investigation and all the administrative bullshit, he fanageled a transfer to the property room...where he stayed until he retired. He would have quit, but had a family to support and was scared to death of having to try to make as good a living in another job. So he became a what we used to call a ROAD - retired on active duty.
But beyond my emotional bullshit, my biggest concern is for the profession itself. Cops in general have never been popular, but the support of the community...the good folks in the community, is ******* something we simply cannot do the job without. These days, that support is dwindling among people where it shouldn't be. Good, decent people are becoming more afraid of the police than they are of the creeps...and in way too many cases for good reason. I am a great example of that...I should be the biggest cheerleader for police in the world, right? But being away from the job with no badge and no ID (the retired badge was a ******* joke,,,,my little brother retired and flashes his all the time, just like every cops relative and their brother flashes their son/.wife badges and courtesy cards...I hate that shit) gave me a rude awakening. A Highway Patrolman (we all love them assholes, right?) pulled me over on the interstate for no apparent reason that I could see. First he tried to tell me that I had crossed the line without signalling...so of course I said "bullshit, why did you really pull me over". Right away his hand goes to his holster, so I try to ease his mind "dude, I used to be a cop, you ain't gotta bullshit me". Now usually from this point the conversation turns, we bullshit a bit and I am on my way (not that I get pulled over that often, but hey, I drive fast). But not with this one...he tells me that he doesn't "*******" believe me and that I fit the profile of a druggie running drugs. WTF, I am in an old pickup with a wooden flatbed and a headache rack? In hindsight, maybe I fit the profile of one of the hillbillie meth heads that are pretty rampant in southern Ohio, but I was laughing too hard and not thinking. Well the laughing really pissed him off and he decided I was impaired and needed to do the drunk walk. So I say, ok fine, we can do this...and of course I have no problem with it. But by the time I am done, the K9 unit has pulled up and they ask me if they can run the dog around my truck. OK fine, knock yourselves out...and guess what, they try to tell me that the dog alerted on the toolbox I have mounted on the flatbed. So now I am ******* pissed...I say fine, let me unlock the goddamned toolbox for you and get out and do so. The proceed to throw all my shit out and of course don't find anything. (Full disclosure: I do smoke weed now and then....but at home...only a moron carts it around with them...its better than prozac or other shit the docs have always tried to hook me on). So I ask them the old question that all the smart asses say...but not as nice "I am I ******* free to go now?" (I think you've already gotten a taste of my sunshine personality) Nooo...the boy wonder decides he needs to write me a ticket for not having a light on my rear plate....which is mounted up on the headache rack. I wanted to beat the shit out of both of those assholes...but kept my cool and called them everything but white men as I threw all my shit back into the toolbox and went my merry way. I got a good taste of what the common citizen has to ******* go through these days, and I tasted like shit. For a long time I wrote it off to just one encounter with an asshole...but in the years since it seems to be way too ******* common. How the **** do we stand a chance of surviving when the shit hits the fan out there...and you know it's gonna come...if the public..the good folks, not the mutts...consider us the enemy?
**** I am rambling again...I don't even remember the point I wanted to make. I best get out of here before wife number 3 dumps my ass. Oh now I remember...imagine if I had lost my cool and started calling these guys the assholes they were out loud? These days I would probably be doing the funky chicken with darts playing me like a spastic puppet...or worse, considering I was armed (dumbasses didn't even know it either, I coulda popped both of them). I felt threatened, I was PISSED, but my training is what helped me to keep my cool and not escalate the situation for no good reason. Their training...whether it be formal or ojt, should have kept them from being assholes for no good reason.
That same training should have resulted with the kid in this story being alive...battered...but alive.
Lord knows that we all want to get home alive...but as police officers we accept that sometimes we have to take a bit more risk to ensure EVERYONE goes home alive. IMO, if you can't accept that risk, you should find another career.
I gotta git. I'll catch up with you assholes tomorrow, if I ain't lookin for a place to live.
Oh, and as for that other dipshit, the alleged atlanta copper who thinks he might have to "embarrass me" because he can't ******* read....knock yourself out, you cracker asshole.
