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To: Secret Agent Man
In the real world we live in, some thugs have badges.

Most of them are good though, just as there are good and bad teachers or good and bad teachers.

26 posted on 07/26/2015 7:03:29 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
Most of them are good though,

I was talking with a guy at the gym who had been a cop in New Mexico, and a sheriff's deputy in MA. Good guy. At one point, I asked him what percentage of cops had major authority problems versus what percentage were regular guys doing a difficult service. I was rather surprised by his answer--he said first, "It depends on where you are. Big cities are worse." (No surprise there). Then he said, "Mmmm... about 35%." So, from a guy on the inside, 1 cop in 3 has at least some attitude problem.

One data point only. As a consumer of police services via the occasional stop-sign type traffic ticket, I'd have guessed a little lower.

28 posted on 07/26/2015 7:11:09 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Kaslin

It seems sometimes people forget we are all human and we are not made perfect simply because of a job title.


38 posted on 07/26/2015 8:11:26 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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