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No,

I've seen cops that are professional and not just stupid meter-maids acting like mega-studs (but with pot guts) like here in the US. Cops in the US act a role, it's as if they have to pretend to be a certain way and they are literally trained to be that way, sadly.

In Germany the cops are actually pretty cool! If someone screws with them, they'll get mean, but they are actually usually all about “common sense, use discretion in enforcement of the law, are unbiased and neutral...” Even at the border when you enter, they don't search granny with the walker like some TSA fool would here in the US (Their border patrol). They actually use their head, while here in the US with our political correctness, awesome police academies that teach them to be idiots, towns that profit from traffic law enforcement... we have created a system that makes cops into idiots with a gun that make money for the hick town, and every police chief that wants to be on some cop show ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KlqNUwkFDE ). Hee haw! They don't try to trap people with words, play silly games, act as meter maids, they're not trained to not think, nor are executing their jobs as if they are on some reality TV show....

It is unfortunate. But we here in the US train our cops to be asses and we usually attract people into that profession that have a propensity to be that way.

Another aspect of American Society that has been decimated by Political Correctness.

A few decades ago, getting into the cops was difficult, because they were severely filtered and tested before even entering the academy.

Then we started the “fairness” BS.

First it was height minimums,
Then it was weight maximums,
Then it was gender,
Then it was background (eg: So, you;’re a “reformed” gangbanger, great, here’s a badge and gun, you will be able to help us by “relating” to the bad guys.)
Then it was “relating better” to ALL the bad guys (Let’s develop a culture of skinheaded, tatooted cops so we’ll “relate” better to the bad guys - never mind that the goodguys will begin to see us in a fearful light.)
Then it was dumbing down the test scores (both knowledge and PSYCHOLOGICAL) in deference to “past discrimination”,
Then it was “We need equivalent firepower”, so let’s give em all automatic weapons and military equipment and training,
Then it was “we mustn’t let the public record our illegal activities while abusing citizens”.

So NOW what we have is an out of control paramilitary organization, operating in a mostly lawless manner, with little if any regard for the Constitution, hell bent on exerting their unlimited powers to abuse, steal and kill the law abiding citizens who even are stupid enough to continue paying their obscene salaries and benefits, while enjoying for the most part, immunity from any retribution by the wronged.

The Good Guys with badges are, like the Producer Class, fast becoming the minority.

My first traffic stop occurred when I was halfway through my first year as a licensed driver (I followed the car in front of me too closely through a left turn thereby supposedly violating an oncoming car’s right of way).

The cop was polite, created a teaching moment about safety first, was professional throughout and even thanked me for my courtesy before he left my carside.

The last couple of times, (both by CHP for expired registration - a crime on the FBI Top Ten no doubt), the officers were snotty, curt and obviously believed they literally “owned” their stretch of the taxpayer funded Interstate Freeway and I was “permitted” to use it only as long as they saw fit, even threatening to impound my vehicle the next time they saw it (a GREAT way to ensure someone unemployed and looking for work would be able to afford the registration sooner /s).

Nowadays, like so many others, I fear every traffic stop or other encounter with ANY LE personnel, (including airport TSA or rent-a-cop at building security checkpoints) because they have, by their own actions, (intentionally, I’m sure) created such an aura about themselves.

What a tragic and shameful turn of events for this ONCE GREAT COUNTRY.