Police Harassment Joke

Email | 25 DECEMBER 2014 | Email

[Genoa]

IBTCH

[Old Sarge]

[Mark17]

That was a classic.

[CyberAnt]

My brother-in-law was a Deputy Sheriff in Jackson County, OR. He had that same sense of humor .. and he always kept us laughing. He passed away in 2006; I still miss his jokes.

[KosmicKitty]

I have a number of friends who are cops or retired cops - I think they would agree.

[CyberAnt]

Merry Christmas to you and your family, and thank you so much for your service to America.

[CrazyIvan]

I’m going to forward this to my Sheriff.

[angelsonmyside]

Love it, thank you for sharing...

[NonValueAdded]

I award that post 3 donuts

[MV=PY]

Very good! Thanks for posting.

[bicyclerepair]

Collecting revenue must be dangerous work.

[logic101.net]

That’s a good idea.

[The_Media_never_lie]

This is really cool!

[MV=PY]

"Very good! Thanks for posting."

"Collecting revenue must be dangerous work."

Huh? I don't understand.

[absalom01]

Not to be a butt-insky, but that comment is either a reiteration of a common line of reasoning here at FR, or a sarcastic rejection of it. Which reasoning goes like this: “Many towns and counties pass numerous ordinances and codes designed to raise revenue (eg, the classic small town speed trap), which their police departments enforce by writing tickets, thus collecting the intended revenue”.

Which is not utterly false, as there certainly are cases of this, and indeed the initial contact with Eric Garner was due to exactly that type of enforcement: he was selling “loosies” in violation of NY’s outlandish tax laws. That said, the reasoning that blames the cops in the Garner case falls apart because he was NOT put in a choke hold for the initial infraction, but for RESISTING ARREST, an entirely separate crime, and one for which we must permit the police to use force to counter if we wish to have any laws enforced at all.

Just my 2 cents.

[MV=PY]

Yeah, I figured it was something like that.

Cops aren’t the bad guys if their bosses set ticket quotas. That’s a policy decision.

Certainly the good that cops do far outweighs the downside of greedy bureaucrats forcing them to generate revenue.

I liked this cop’s witty response to a broadly stupid statement, the kind that “progressive” people tend to make.

And actually, I thought that was the subject of the thread.

But I suppose the world is more complex than just enjoying a very clever response *sigh*.

Merry Christmas, FRiend!

[Svartalfiar]

"Collecting revenue must be dangerous work."

Huh? I don't understand.

Because half of those ideas for harassment that come from those special books aren't any kind of criminal action, they're just there to make money.

As an aside though, funny response from the cop, I do like it.

[CodeToad]

“Cops aren’t the bad guys if their bosses set ticket quotas.”

The guards of the Jewish camps for the Nazi were just doing their jobs, too. Sorry, “Just doing my job” means when we hold the cop accountable we’re just doing our job too.

[semaj]

I don't get it, what's so funny?

irony/sarcasm