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Wow, he's in the tank with Fox DFW for sure.

Apologies. I missed that. Sometimes I have dumb C&P moments. :-)

Meanwhile yesterday in Michigan 41 year old police officer, Trevor Slot was deliberately run down and killed by bank robbers. Unfortunately stories like that don’t make FRee Republic because no one spends their days looking for them so they can post them.

Overreactions and unnecessary escalations like this are responsible for a more negative perception of LEOs.

I grew up in a small town in Alabama with a positive perception of LEOs, though my friends and I used to joke that the only difference between the local motorcycle cops and motorcycle gang members was the uniform. Later on I learned that a first cousin, my age, had been a third generation KKK member and a deputy sheriff who gave blacks a very hard time, and I still didn't think badly of cops, for I already knew he was a thug.

I think back fondly on the cop who congratulated me on doing the right thing when he pulled me over while I was driving on the side of the road as drunk as a skunk and I gave him this (true) explanation.

My girl friend (who didn't drink or have a driver's license) and I had gone to Birmingham, in one of only 3 "wet" counties at the time, to a jazz club. I had too much to drink, so she drove, while I slept in the back seat. Part way home she ran out of gas, and pulled onto the side of the road. We were in a '58 bug and hadn't run out of gas, as there was a small reserve tank.

Rather than try to explain what to do (freepmail me if you don't know what that was and would like to know, and I'll respond), I told her to let me drive and I'd get it going, which is when the cop showed up. I told him that as soon as I got the car going I was going back to sleep and she would start driving again. He said I was doing the right thing, didn't ask to see her driver's licence, and drove off.

On another occasion I was driving straight through to Miami (about 800 miles), and pulled off the road occasionally to sleep for a few minutes. A cop knocked on the window during one such stop and asked what was going on. When I explained he said that was a good plan.

Cops in the south in those days knew their station and duties, at least in my experience, and treated people with respect, whites anyway.

Later I moved to California and begin to find out that not all cops are created equal. After living there a few years, within one few weeks period, I received enough BS moving violation tickets that I was within one ticket of losing my licence.

I'm now living in Canada, married to a Canadian who had a first cousin who was a Mountie who seemed like a good cop. Nowadays the Mounties seem just as incompetent and corrupt as cops in many other places. Recently I was charged with assault by local RCMP (well, there are no local cops. The closest are a couple of hours away) based on a lying complaint by our local Dump Diva, who phoned 911, but who withdrew her complaint on learning that I was hiring a lawyer.

We had had a disagreement at the local dump, and she had actually tried to kick me in the nuts. I didn't touch her; well, except my hip to her foot when she missed my nuts. They said they believed her, and wanted to proceed, though they didn't. Good job they hadn't checked whether I have guns, which I do, including handguns. They might have gone ballistic, though I completely obey the Canadian gun regulations.

Fuddle Duddle coppers.