I've been watching cops the last few weeks

[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....

[Centurion1]

psh death dealing, im not worried about guns, its those damn tasers they're a little too loose with those babies.