I've been watching cops the last few weeks

[Vuk]

COPS is very much real in as much as they are restrained. The show doesn't really disturb me because the cops are, by most measures, behaving well. Of course, a camera is present, but I think getting shackled for fraud is a far cry from having the crap beat out of you for no reason and charged with assaulting a cop.

One show that really upset me, saw it recently although I dont know how old it was:

Cops set up a curbside marijuana sale bust. They had a guy who was going up to windows and soliciting people to buy weed, then when the people would buy the cops would swoop in and arrest them for "purchasing drugs from a police officer." They were informed their cars were now police property and taken to jail. Most of these people were dirt poor and drove clunkers, which makes it all the more amusing.

I'm curious how cops pull this off without it being entrapment, or maybe they just go after poor people they know wont get an attorney.

Brilliant crime fighting, makes me proud.

Personally, I feel no pity for drug abusers. I think they should all be executed in fact.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Personally, I feel no pity for drug abusers. I think they should all be executed in fact.

Sarah Palin was busted recently:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/us...ty.html?ref=us

[Ice]

Sarah Palin was busted recently:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/us...ty.html?ref=us

That's a dead link, and I'd agree with MRD.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Personally, I feel no pity for drug abusers. I think they should all be executed in fact.

What a spiteful, hateful comment.


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Okay, I counted to ten and deleted the rest of this post.

[Fragony]

Personally, I feel no pity for drug abusers. I think they should all be executed in fact.

Oh you just know you love me really. Had a little run in with them coppers lately, all I did was hit someone in the face with an axe, not the sharp side naturally but sometimes you just have to make a point and I think it kinda worked. Can't do anything these days.

[Major Robert Dump]

So Rush Limbaugh should be executed. I think I'd trade some potheads for that.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Personally, I feel no pity for drug abusers. I think they should all be executed in fact.

I'm going to assume that's a joke, because the other possibility is almost unfathomably wrong.

Also; I'm not a vigilante. And some of the lengths the police go to arrest drug users or prostitutes is pathetic.

CR

[Megas Methuselah]

Personally, I feel no pity for drug abusers. I think they should all be executed in fact.

"Ecstasy, oxycotton, pills, let's get rollin'! Let's get high, let's get high, let's get high, let's get high!" ♫♪♫♪

[a completely inoffensive name]

Did you start sweating HoreTore?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

It's a "Step Brothers" reference.

[Centurion1]

cops are just men who dont even need to go to college (this is a broad statement) they aren't making great money and aren't necessarily the smartest guys around alot of them see some nasty stuff and they just get sick and tired of it.

the vast majority of officers are decent good human beings ive seen many officers take tons of abuse and remain polite in spite of it all.

[Megas Methuselah]

the vast majority of officers are decent good human beings ive seen many officers take tons of abuse and remain polite in spite of it all.

Yeah, sometimes I see them not making U-turns, or actually stopping to let me cross the street before they zoom off.

But that's only the good minority.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Yeah, sometimes I see them not making U-turns, or actually stopping to let me cross the street before they zoom off.

But that's only the good minority.

The majority you probably don't see at all. Most people are decent, most Police are like most people. However, all US Police are armed and most people don't have the mentality to be responsible when equipped with death-dealing weaponry.

[Zim]

Ah, COPs, hundreds of hours of footage of boring encounters (or just nothing happening at all) distilled to a 21 minute (after commercials) T.V. show. Interesting how the footage deemed entertaining enough to show tends to focus on people actually being hooked up and far less often on that of officers being polite and professional in the face of verbal abuse.

Honestly my biggest problem with the show isn't whether or not I agree with the decision made to arrest or not (something I can't often judge given how the way video tends to be cut to leave out half of each encounter), but the bad officer safety habits I see on it....