Well, you just go ahead and show us all that you are a better LEO than those in that other post. Just go ahead and keep right on posting all these irrelevant stories.
Yes, that's what I said. They [b]are not relevant[/b] to the thread posted the other night.
They [i]may[/i] be relevant to a different subject, and I'm sure you'd find very few here that would disagree with the fact that LEO's have a hard, dangerous job.
The difficulty some have here isn't with understanding that the job is dangerous, and can get you killed, it's with the attitude that [b]some[/b] LEO's have that they have some sort of special blessing from God almighty that gives them more 'rights' and privledges than the rest of us peons.
When I start seeing Sheriff and State Patrol officers doing something as simple as obeying the speed limit, I will start relaxing around them.
This has been discussed before, and even in the context of current events, does it surprise you that people don't like it when someone come up to them and with the smallest of suspicion yells in thier face to shut the F*CK up! That really is music that calms the savage beast, isn't it? If you hit the animal enough, or tease it sufficiently often, it will eventually bite back! Does this surprise you? It shouldn't.
There [b]are[/b] ways to do the job, and stay safe wtihout the amount of 'terror' that [i]some[/i] LEOs feel is necessary.
Your own reaction to this is simply making the point for those that are against LEOs!
I'm not saying it's easy being a LEO. Heaven only knows what risks you guys put yourselves into every day - and then hope to get home after your shift. But I am saying that many people have shitty jobs, stressful jobs, hell, even risky jobs - but they still manage to be civil [b]while on the job[/b]
The other post documented a truly shameful [b]group[/b] of officers. it did not paint every officer in the country with the same brush - as I read it, it only painted those officers with it.
From your reaction, you'd think you were one of them in that department, and had jsut found out the guy filed a complaint against you!
Take a chill pill, and let it go. I'd be happy to buy you a beer if you were in my neighborhood, but from the relentlessness of your 'attack' on this forum (can you say harassment?), I'm not so sure I'd want to stay in the same bar. There are plenty of other LEO's - some of which are on this board that I'd have that beer with.
Now that I've probably sufficiently pissed you off even further, even though that's not where I intended this reply to go, I guess my work is done here, and I'll leave.