POLICE: "To serve & Protect" changed to "Stop, issue ticket, generate revenue"

[1Old Pro]

I can't help but notice that the NYS Police, the Sheriff's, and the local town and city cops no longer walk the beat or do much "protecting"

They are trained now to make their primary priority issuing minor tickets that have big fines.

Offense: Cell phone use = $150 bucks They also are trained to scan your auto inspection sticker, one day out of inspection and you may pay $200.

Speed traps, you name it, Police are now a profit center first and foremost, more reason for people who want to prtect themselves to purchase the guns of their choice.

[CSM]

“i was on the phone and wasn’t paying attention.”

You should be ticketed immediately! ;-)

[DungeonMaster]

They are tax collectors for a large part of their day and a lot of them realize that.

[thefactor]

i’m a single cop living in manhattan. no cable yet. maybe when i get a raise. ha...

[NucSubs]

My father is a retired cop with 30 years of service. He claims that pretty much all cops under the age of 35 suffer from severe Short D!ck Syndrome and they would never have been hired back in his day. It’s pretty darn sad that I grew up admiring cops and now I’m going to have to teach my future kids not to trust them.

Veritas. Same here.

Puerile street thugs with testosterone overload, a black Dodge Charger, and body armor.

[1Old Pro]

They are tax collectors for a large part of their day and a lot of them realize that. Yep that's true but sad.

[weegee]

Highway robbery. The Sheriff of Nottingham needs his taxes.

There is more money in shaking down non-violent procedural criminals than there is in prosecuting and keeping violent offenders behind bars.

[weegee]

Wonder how much of the younger recruits are using steroids and suffering from ‘roid rage.

We are told how bad it is for professional athletes to be using illegal steroids. What about law enforcement officers?

[weegee]

That’s another thing, the tickets have gotten higher, from $80 for a 10 mile speeding ticket to $175 for the first 5 miles over.

In Chicago and elsewhere there are $10,000 fines for hitting a highway worker. Not killing a highway worker, hitting one. And that does not exempt you from lawsuit or insurance claims. I doubt your insurance even covers the $10,000 fine as it is a driving violation.

The sky is the limit for traffic tickets now.

[Centurion2000]

In Chicago and elsewhere there are $10,000 fines for hitting a highway worker. Not killing a highway worker, hitting one. And that does not exempt you from lawsuit or insurance claims. I doubt your insurance even covers the $10,000 fine as it is a driving violation.

I believe that would fall under cruel and unusual punishment.

[christx30]

I read a story on another site about a town called Tenaha, Tx that, for a couple of years now, have been pulling people over (about 140 of them) and threatening to charge them with a variety of things including money laundering if they don’t give them money, jewelry, even their cars. People have even had the police threaten to take their kids and put them in foster care if they didn’t sign away rights to their property. Most of them weren’t even charged with a crime and there was no contraband seized.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/chi-texas-profiling_wittmar10,0,2996775.story