Cops park illegally, wrong, in weird places and manners because they need to be able to get to their car rapido of an emergency happens.
Needing your rifle right now and its parked 2 blocks away so the patrol car wouldn’t be nosed 4 feet into a red zone is not a good option.
Parking in the grocery store lot and taking 2 spots is done so when the radio crackles and you have to race to your car, frandma has not parked 6.5 inches from your driver’s door meaning you cannot get in the driver’s seat even from the passenger side because they have a car radio, in car camera system, a rifle and shotgun rack, and a computer all in the center console area.
This does not excuse parking in a grocery store handicapped spot when other spots or the fire lane is available.
But parking in weird ways or in manners that violate parking laws are typically for a good reason that is not recognizable to the non-cop.
I actually parked stupid in plain car once recently, blocking both handcapped spaces in a bank lot and sure enough grandma was being driven to the bank by her grandaughter (grandaughter was close to 60.)
Grandaughter put both hands up and gave me the look. I revealed my badge (I was in plain clothes) and finished my task.
After I was finished I went into the bank and apologized and explained.
You see....there was an armed (handgun) man who was wanted for assaulting a man and I had been trying to arrange via telephine for his surrender.
He was jerking me around and lying about his location. Bad luck for him he walked up and stood next to my passenger door as I was talking to him on the phone.
I had to give a complete description of him over the radio and then drive around through a parking lot and block traffic so that’s a responding units in marked cars would be able to arrest him without they’re backdrop if they had to shoot him not becoming a line of cars with innocent people waiting get shot on accident.
Now grandma and granddaughter have no way of knowing that even after I showed them my bad. And they probably would have been completely perturbed even after I had showed him my badge and they would have just assumed I thought I could do whatever I wanted because I was a cop.
But I took the time to go in and explain to them what was going on and that makes all the difference.
It is a shame that a lot of people look at the police and assume bad behavior when they just don’t understand why things are being done, but that’s the nature of the Beast. And I’ve always found explaining things to people one-on-one and politely usually makes things work out very well.
It would be great to wake up one day and have people look at the police doing things and assumed it was for a good reason, but I’m not going to hold my breath.
Thanx for letting us know you think police are above the law.
I would disagree, and so would the law.
Cops park illegally, wrong, in weird places and manners because they need to be able to get to their car rapido of an emergency happens.
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Not an emergency... lazy cops don’t want to arrive at the courthouse a few minutes early and park properly ... they might have to walk a few minutes... THE HORROR... but why should they when they can park illegally? It’s not as if they’ll get a ticket or something.... Besides the rules are for you.. and you are not them... and don’t you forget it.
If a police officer directed you to park your car some place, you would be obliged to follow the order. The numb nuts in the picture was not present or didn’t hear the officer direct himself to park in that particular place.