My Leo is a hero

May 25, 2003 | Arpege92

[Arpege92]

Nothing to forgive.....I have delt with un-informed people before.

[Double Tap]

From your post #30. "Cop haters are often driven by a desire for legalized dope,"

Did you have something else to say there, or was there supposed to be a period at the end?

[pacman50]

From reading more of your posts your position is clear. Move to Canada where drugs are going to be legal and you can smoke your life away. Oh and they next time you need the police call your lawyer to help. I'm sure he'll put his life on the line for you. You cop haters are all the same.. Got your ass kicked once and you're still pouting.

[ModernDayCato]

I've watched my best friend move from patrolman to detective to sergeant to lieutenant to captain and I've never been prouder.

My pal is the most honorable person I've ever met, and in twelve years of hanging around the station, barbeques at the chief's home, giving lectures to groups of cops and such, I've only met one or two that I would consider @ssholes. The rest have been ordinary joes and janes who struggle to raise families and make ends meet just like the rest of us.

The difference is that they go out there every day put their @sses on the line to protect sniveling worms like the people who bitch about them.

Since my friend has a take home car I've been with him for traffic stops, accidents, lost dogs, fatalities, truck wrecks and his own mother's heart attack and eventual death (we followed the ambulance to the hospital). And each time I stood back marvelling at how anyone would do this for so little pay and so much risk.

But there's a lot to be said for travelling 50 MPH backward, siren blaring and lights flashing. It's a rush.

I salute my pal and your husband and all of the underpaid and underappreciated cops of all sizes and shapes out there.

[Roscoe]

"Cop haters are often driven by a desire for legalized dope,"

Cop haters are often driven by a desire for legalized dope, aren't they?

[Double Tap]

From your post #35. "That what the dopers do when they claim they have a "Constitutional" right to smoke dope and shoot cops."

Whoops, is english your second language? I think you meant "that is" or "that's", but maybe not.

[babaloo999]

Maybe those stories are false, but there are cases where a gun in hand is very useful for those times if a police officer is not in the immediate vicinity. I'm merely pointing out the obvious.

[Arpege92]

Tell your pal thank you for me.

[Roscoe]

The difference is that they go out there every day put their @sses on the line to protect sniveling worms like the people who bitch about them.

If there is a shooting in the street, a police officer will be seen running into danger while the militia wannabes scamper away in terror.

[Roscoe]

Still smarting from having your ignorance of the word "civilian" exposed?

[Double Tap]

From your post #101. "Every 57 hours somewhere in America a law enforcement dies in service to the community."

??? I think you meant "law enforcement officer", but maybe not.

[ModernDayCato]

The training is unbelievable. My friend is a great guy...very personable, friendly -- do anything for anyone type of person -- but he's a completely different person in a crisis.

I've seen it several times now, and I still marvel at it. Even when it's a friend or relative, the expression 'the training kicks in' is very true. Something switches on, and they swing into action. 12 years hanging around the station...I've seen endless examples of kindness, sacrifice and bravery.

Hell, my friend's a captain (desk jockey), and he'll still grab his hat and flourescent POLICE vest and respond to a fender bender call in the pouring rain if it gets busy and all the patrol cars are tied up (I've been there).

Then the chief gets his rain gear out because he's next.

[Roscoe]

LOL

civilian
noun [C]
a person who is not a member of the police, the armed forces, or a fire department

Cambridge Dictionary of American English

[eno_]

Since you have a 1994 Webster's unabridged, it would be interesting to see if policeman as non-civilian is some neologism. Certainly the preference of usage is telling.

I wonder how many cops would like life under the UCMJ.

Call me "citizen."

[Lurker]

The last time I called cops about a shooting, they refused to enter the premises until it was 'safe'.

I know. I was the victim. The dispatcher asked me to walk out of my house so no 'officers would be endangered.'.

You want to know who was first through my door? It wasn't the cops, it was the paramedics.

Just my 2 cents.

L

[Double Tap]

No dishonesty, that is what is in my dictionary. Plus Law Enforcement Officers have always been known as Civil servants. Not military. It has not been until recently that the police in this country have tried to seperate themselves from the civilian category.

[Arpege92]

I find that hard to believe, unless the paramedics got there before the police.

[ModernDayCato]

Pardon me for interrupting, but most police departments are PARAmilitary in organization -- in other words, a group of civilians organized in a military fashion.

[Arpege92]

I have a feeling I am going to regret asking you this question but I just have to know. If, like you said, cops try to seperate themselves from the civilian category....what do they gain by doing that?

[Double Tap]

I think they would not like it very much. Especially the pay scale.