Posted on 05/03/2007 8:41:59 PM PDT by Teflonic
There are some that use common sense. In an emergency, I’ve always put on my emergency flashers while driving to where I’m going and haven’t had a problem. When my first daughter was born, we lived about 15 miles from the hospital. My wife said it was time, I loaded her in my 300ZX Nissan and drove 100mph to the hospital. As I came to the city limits I slowed to 85 in a 45 zone and a police cruiser was going the opposite direction. I never let up as he turned around and followed me, never turning on his blues. Pulled into the hospital, jumped out and helped my very visibly pregnant wife from the car as the police cruiser slowly drove past watching to see the reason for my haste. Satisfied he drove on.
She stopped to start with, she provided the officer with her license and registration and she wasn’t verbally or physically abusive. I would not consider that a total lack of cooperation. She was clearly in the wrong. But she was in a situation that she was not trained to handle. That cannot be said for the officer.
She was speeding—not a capital offense for goodness sakes. Don’t tell me you have NEVER driven over the speed limit.
After having dealt with cops (most notably Lt. — formerly Captain — Lucious Howard of the Tennessee Highway Patrol), I never, ever, ever give them the benefit of the doubt.
Cops are just under journalists and politicians on the integrity scale, in my experience.
What about serving the other public, the people who don’t want to get run over by someone driving at 63 mph in a 25 zone in the dark? They also get some protection.
Pay close attention. I stated that I feel sorry for her situation but that is no excuse for her endangering anyone else. I worked as a paramedic for quite a few years and saw the result of reckless behavior and in many cases stupidity.
Did the officer over react? Possibly. But she should not have taken off after she was stopped.
One more thing. I used to work the night shift in an urban area. I worked with police on a routine basis. It's true some are jerks but for the most part I found them professionals doing a dirty job and the only thanks they got was criticism for doing that job from people like you.
PS. What do you do for a living?
Not according to some it seems.
Didn’t you just love the people who tailgated the ambulance?
No. But you can bet scumbag lawyers are going to jump all over this case.
Same here. I used to have the up most respect and admiration for the police, especially as I was growing up. At one time I was even interested in being a police officer. I used to think that the police were really fighting the bad guys and were looking out for us law abiding citizens. Then as I got older I began to recognize what they were really all about....
Revenue generation.
By and large, I have no respect for them. Sure there are a *few* good ones out there, but I'm sure there are a few good people in any bad enterprise. I think it would be a great idea if each and every police officer should have to be elected by whatever area or jurisdiction they work in. Then, you would start seeing the police doing what it is they should be doing. Helping and defending the tax paying/law-abiding citizens, and going after REAL criminals.
I just saw footage with audio of the officer stopping this lady on FNC just now. She was crying asking to get to her father, withe the hospital clearly nearby in the picture, and he seemed to taunt her by saying that instead of seeing her father she was going to jail, as he slammed her against the car.
Disgusting. Given how easy it was for him to physically ‘manhandle’ a woman in such a way, I feel sorry for his wife, if he has one. It would make my day if I heard of this “guy” getting his ass kicked.
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