Posted on 05/14/2010 2:35:28 PM PDT by Touch Not the Cat
Wow, cops lie. Who knew?
While I'm generally opposed to the notion of a surveillance state, I'm all for watching the watchers.
We’ve had a rash of officers driving recklessly here in Vegas for the past couple of years resulting in fatalities of both officers and civilians.
It is definitely a black mark on the police force that some of them take driving a squad car as complete license to drive as fast as they want whenever they want.
My heart goes out to the victims of these accidents.
The cop even tried to claim the victim was DUI. Classy.
But LAPD don’t drive Lexus.
I hope their cops boycott the rest of America. I am boycotting L.A. now.
That’s hard for me - I live here.
He could have just been a poor judge of speed. /s
The awkward wording of the title and first few lines of the article makes it sound like the squad car was acting alone.
I drive a truck locally, and several years ago I was passed in a school zone by a Transport Police vehicle traveling at a speed quite a bit above the limit with no blue lights or siren. Knowing that the Transport cops have C.B. radios in their cars, I keyed up my mike and said "I guess speed limits do not apply to cops around here. It must be nice". Through his rear window I saw what appeared to be him talking into a microphone... and I was told: "It sure is nice, and it's nice for my wife, and my Dad, and my brother and sister. It's one of the perks of the job. Eat your heart out".
That dose of reality is still with me today.
Four seconds of braking would hopefully reduce the collision speed significantly.
“It sure is nice, and it’s nice for my wife, and my Dad, and my brother and sister. It’s one of the perks of the job. Eat your heart out”.
Get ‘em out of their “jurisdiction” and they’re fair game.
How do you spell, Donut run, in your accident report
“Get em out of their jurisdiction and theyre fair game.”
Not likely, they stick together for the most part, at least here is CA if you flash your badge it’s a free pass. The only exception is the CHP (California Highway Patrol) they ticket everybody (except their own) and are generally despised by the other LOEs for that breach.
Here the Fuzz have little black-blue-black stickers on their cars as a recognition symbol. A little less blatant than the FOP license plates.
Didn't mean you personally
F-ing liars.
Illinois State Trooper texting and using his laptop while going 120mph to a non-emergency. He tried to pin the accident on the two girls he killed, until the evidence caught up with him.
He resigned and got 30 months probation
not a day in jail.
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