Wow! Those are very rare critters these days. Almost all of the ones I know about are first class jerks. One of them gave my brother-in-law a ticket for doing 53 in a 50 mph zone (which he later got thrown out in court).
In another instance, just this past spring, one of my colleagues was sitting in a traffic jam on I-270 S near Gaithersburg, when an motorist plowed into his rear, pushing him forward and into the rear end of the guy in front of him, who then hit the guy in front of him. A woman trooper soon arrived, and instead of doing a proper investigation and citing the motorist who had hit my friend and caused the chain reaction, she simply gave them all tickets and told them to let the judge sort it out. The ticket was dropped two weeks later, but only after my friend had to invest time and money into getting a lawyer.
Now, ask me again why I don't generally like LEOs, especially troopers?
“Now, ask me again why I don’t generally like LEOs, especially troopers?”
Because cops will back up their own no matter what they do?
Ohio: Cop Who Forged Motorist Signatures May Get Job Back
Nov 21, 2007
Cincinnati, Ohio police may reinstate an officer who forged the signature of motorists nearly leading to their arrest.
Admitting to a forgery that nearly sent two innocent motorists to jail may not be sufficient reason to keep a former Cincinnati, Ohio police officer off the job. In February, rookie Officer Elizabeth Phillips, 26, investigated a pair of collisions that took place in icy conditions involving Leah Borgmann and Nicolaus Scheper. Phillips wrote reports and let the drivers involved go without a ticket.
Later, Sergeant Michael Bepler was upset that no traffic citations were generated. He told Phillips to write them up. So Phillips cited Scheper for improper lights and Borgmann for failing to keep a proper distance. She forged the motorists' signatures to make it appear as if they had been ticketed at the scene.
When they failed to appear in court on charges they did not know were ever filed, arrest warrants were issued for Borgmann and Scheper. Both were forced to pay $104 in fines, but Phillips was arrested on May 3 only to be let off by a grand jury.
On October 5, the department fired Phillips fired for lying twice about the forgery and for insubordination.
Police officials waited just long enough to do so that her probationary period expired and she fell under the protection of the union which believes it can secure her job.
I’m sorry that you don’t like troopers. That affirmative action hiree that screwed your pal, and the other motorists is a lazy loser, and so is her sergeant. The sergeant should have caught that, and ripped her a new one.
I was not popular with lazy troopers, or sergeants. I tore them new a$$holes when they didn’t do what they were paid to do.