i'm not saying anything is 100% across the board... i'm just saying that i work with some 1,600+ police depts and the assholes are usually the ones who's town you've never heard of. i also know this just from living in a town of 1,500 people and moving to the city, noticing the difference through experience.
Right, because a city cop who is likely never to see his victim again has some kind of economic incentive not to mistreat him, whereas the country cop, who is a lot more susceptible to local activism, has free reign... nice theory, but I have an alternate theory below.
every department has it's assholes..
Yes, every department has its assholes.
This is all the proof I need that every single one of them is corrupt, considers himself elite, and is not redeemable.
Yes, I'm even talking about the "good" ones.
It's an old adage but still germane.
If there were any good cops, there wouldn't be any bad cops.
When they stop covering for the assholes, and when they do everything in their power to get them out of the force
and prevent their joining another, without being prompted by an enraged public, then I might change my mind.
But the likelihood is that the LDS will start producing humpback whale bestiality flicks first... so my mind is staying where it is.
the issue is that in small towns, there is no reason to be a cop other than for the purpose of being an asshole. they simply have nothing useful to do with their time. let's face it.. crime isn't a big issue in tucows, idaho. if you sign up to be a cop there, it's because you enjoy the idea of exerting authority and pissing off your neighbors.
atleast in the city you can say your fighting something.
Yeah, you're fighting individual gun ownership, which is the real reason there is anything to fight at all. If people in cities were as free to own firearms as those in the country, the police forces in the city would have nothing exciting to do either.
But to be fair, there's the other stuff they get to do, like
-shutting down kid's lemonade stands
-tearing up basketball hoops that have been standing for 50 years
-breaking up parties that neighbors are too cowardly to try to address without them
-getting free shit from stores that have been brainwashed or threatened into believing that the police are needed
-destroying the lives of people who blow one hundredth of one percent over the legal limit
-stopping traffic for 3 miles so they can tax someone $100 for something a thousand other cars have done that day safely
Yeah, this all happens in and around cities on a regular basis. I haven't even gotten to the real excitement, like raping young black guys with broom sticks.
They're stand up officers, I tell ya.
