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Originally Posted by USMC6531
I'm currently in the Police Academy in Florida and let me tell you, I have learned a lot of things about the realities of Police work. It requires a lot of paper work and a lot of patience. The Police Departments are more professional and more advanced than ever, but it still amazes me how bad a rap we still manage to attain with most. Which is why I am so glad to see a post like this about the positive side.
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The trouble with cops is the same as the trouble with any other visible profession that the average person doesn't have any experience with at all.
You get a few asshole cops who ticket you for 57 in a 55 or who think the badge gives them the right to lord it over everyone, criminal or not, and people wrongly project that onto every other cop. - -- until they need you.
Same in my profession. We get a couple of jackasses like Geraldo out there and pretty soon people think everyone in the media is a grandstanding ethically-bankrupt jackass. - - - until they call your station wanting you to do a story on the business that just ripped them off.
Lawyers get it too. Everyone loves to make fun of the sleazy ambulance chasing shark lawyer, until they need one.
What it all boils down to is that a lot of people are really stupid.