Protect & Serve who and what???

So my dad is on his way to work at 6:30 this morning when he calls and tells us they had a ford explorer in front of all over the road. He was behind it for 10 or 12 miles before they get off on a exit and pull off the road and stop. My dad exits I-12 also and sees 2 Louisiana State Troopers at the gas station right off the interstate. So he pulls in tells them they may want to check on the explorer it is all over the road, may be drunk, may be medical emergency either way they are a danger to others on the road! They ask where and he points 1/4 mile sitting on side of road. My dad was told "Well they are off the road now and it could be anything" My dad agreed and said "Exactly, they may need assistance!" It was pretty much we will go see WHEN we finish talking and have nothing better to do attitude!

My dad drives this route often and often times has his big goose neck equipment trailer with him. The license plate vibrated loose and fell off the trailer once and my dad didn't know but it didn't get pass the State Trooper who immediatly called for back up for a trailer with no license plate being pulled down the Interstate by a 60 something year old 5' 8" 150 lbs man. Times like this makes you want to ask WHO ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO BE PROTECTING AND SERVING?

My dad is nicer than me I would report thier a#$ to a superviser! :rant:
Now I would not want thier job and that is why I didn't choose law enforcement as my career. They did chose to do it and are paid to do so and that is all I am asking as a law abiding,tax paying citizen with no criminal background!

 

i know...sometimes it just dont seem fair does it??

they do seem to have a strange value system sometimes.

 

An Ohio State trooper saved my wife's life a couple of years back when she had a heart attack when we were on the highway coming home from an automotive swap meet.
Those guys are all business, a lot of people don't like them because they can be really cold-blooded but I guarantee a trooper would of been on that in a minute if it happened here in the Buckeye state.

 

If you call it in on th e 911 system, they can't ignore it. If you tell them, they have discretionary powers that they can use to either check it or ignore it. Many times, they tend to ignore rather than to investigate. The attitude seems to be "why get involved, if you don't have to." I am not condoning this type of response to a citizen, but they get so many false alerts that they have become jaded to them.

 

Cops by and large are morons. My city has banned car cruses so I went elsewhere and did the classic car cruise thing. After they had cookout at a park or something. I went to that but brought my own dinner, a McDonalds big mac. I stayed until around 9 30 at night. Got onto the freeway and was on my way home. I got off the freeway and dumb cops had a DUI checkpoint set up. I know I will buzz threw this, I don't like beer, wine gives me terrible headaches and hard booze makes me throw up , so I don't drink alcohol. I pull up and this cop shines his extra bright flashlight in my eyes and asks how I am, as 5 other of his goons are gawking at my skylark. I tell him I'm on the way home. He tells me to get out of the car and step over here with him. He gives me the point at your nose test, the walking test and the breathalizer test. As I'm doing all this I'm telling the cop I have an eye disability, nystagmatism and I'm nearsighted. So my eyes move left to right, it gets worse when I'm stressed or pissed off. So he handcuffs me to a folding chair at their trailor and there I sit. For over two hours. I finally turn to one of them, I say I've passed your stupid tests, you idiots need to find something to arrest me for or let me go. in the end they unhandcuff me and let me leave. I had some choice words as I left too. They think they are doctors, but they aren't.

I finally get home, geeze that was an ordeal ...

I get up early Sunday morning so I can go to the swap meet at the drive in theater. I climb in my Buick and see that dumb cop has written his name, the date and DUI across my windshield in thick floresant green ink. Its not a sharpie, it comes off when you use your fingernail to scrape it away. I am libid about it. Monday I march into the police station and demand to see whoevers in charge. Some cadet or whatever came out and I tell him one of his friends vandalized my classic car. I want him to get it off the glass. He refuses and walks back. I sent three nasty emails to the cheif of police and the mayor about the monkeys who think they are eye doctors running the dui checkpoints. I also went to city hall and demanded they pay to detail my car since they wrote all over it. They had stacks of forms for me to fill out. My mother has advised me to not press this, or the police will mark my car and make things hard for me.

Cops are just over zelous and over reacting tin gods

 

Don't get me wrong I understand they have a tuff job but seems the good citizens when stopped or try to do the right thing are ignored. It used to be police respected, protected and served. In return police had our respect but I have just noticed this new breed seem to think you should respect them while they treat the citizen making the complaint like the criminal.

 

What a horrific tale, Forever-27. I would be absolutely livid after being detained for 2 hours only to find that the cops had graffittied my car, too.

Somehow, this scene comes to mind...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soYDuaurNKY

 

Steve he wrote allover my car because he was so stupid, he thought he had me 100% pegged for a drunk driver. Made me want to go write all over a police squad car

 

well, i guess this is my last post, enjoyed it while it lasted, back to cadillac forums.

 

I offer a sincere apology to you csosteve for offending you. It was not meant for those who do thier job well. I was angered at these two troopers for treating my father like a second class citizen when he was genuinly concerned for others well being on the road. I do not think all law enforcement are like this and as I said I do offer you a sincere apology for offending you.

 

I see no reason to leave. Everyone wrote what they were thinking and no members were insulted.
We see similar treatment in our small town and the neighboring county. Especially our young son with his El Camino. Not that he didn't sometimes deserve to be stopped. Too many young cops who think writting tickets and being Mr Bad Guy will get them promoted.
Many friends were policemen and some are retired. it is a tough job no doubt. But they often don't look out for the GOOD GUY.

 

Sometimes it seems like SOME officers delight is being annoying for the sake of being annoying, and it sure seems like they do not communicate with one another very well. I work in the film business watching trucks and sets over night. This past week, in a parking lot inside a city park, I was watching a set under construction. They had already been building for most of a week at this point. 3 times in 2 nights, I had patrol cars blinding me. They had to wend their way through cones blocking the entrance to the lot, and crept in with their lights off until 3 feet from my front bumper, then turn on the highbeams and take down lights pointed at my face. These officers earn LOTS of extra overtime pay from the film industry. They KNOW what cones mean, and they know there is always someone with the cones, and especially with a set. The first time, I can maybe see, but 3 times in 2 nights is nothing but a waste of police resources!

 

I never directed my anger for police to anybody here. Maybe if csosteve applied for a cop spot at the Concord police or since we don't have state troopers here, he can get a job at the California highway patrol. I'm not sorry for what I posted. Every cop I've ever delt with have always had piss poor attitudes and always overzelos trigger happy. I had seriously thought about getting a lawyer to take the city on. Somewhere in what happened to my car , the embarassment or just how I was treated I thought my civil rights were violated. But again my mom was probably right, thoes morons would mark my cars and mess with me so I didn't.

 

It's like everything else, there are good cops and bad cops. Sadly like everything else it's those few bad cops who make it look bad for the good cops.
Forever27 I would have been upset too! Guess I've been lucky. But just the few things we've heard happen to our son who lives here, with us till recently, I can see how the bad cops do pick on others. We are not from this part of the country and therefore aren't "one of them". It makes a difference. We see other young boys with taller trucks, noisier trucks, etc still tearing up the highways and the shopping centers. If I see it everyday we go to town those cops can't help but see the real offenders!
Again, I'm not saying our kid is or was an angel.
Where we lived in the midwest we were friends with many policemen. Some good. Some bigger crooks than the crooks they were supposed to be watching.
There are "good lawyers" also. The ones we know just make jokes about the rest....like the good cops should do.