Your View Towards Cops

[HuGo]

What are you views towards cops? You hate them, You like them, or its whatever?

While some cops are b!tches and just worry about giving out tickets and give you trouble, there are also cops that help people and/or are kool and will let you go if everything is legit.

[momorugger]

well, there is NO crime in my community, so cops get to write everybody up for BS reasons. If you have clear corners, they get you... hard. If you double park, they get you. If you J walk, they give you a ticket. I am all for cops that actually protect people from gangs and stuff, but the ones here are bored and idiots.

[angel318ti]

Way I see it is if you are wrong then you're wrong. Don't give the cop a reason to mess with you then you wont. I have been pulled over a total of 1 time in the last 7 years. no tickets yet . ( that's me knocking on wood)

[L84THSKY]

Being a female doesn't hurt either.

Originally Posted by angel318ti

Way I see it is if you are wrong then you're wrong. Don't give the cop a reason to mess with you then you wont. I have been pulled over a total of 1 time in the last 7 years. no tickets yet . ( that's me knocking on wood)

[pdxmotorhead]

Originally Posted by momorugger

well, there is NO crime in my community, so cops get to write everybody up for BS reasons. If you have clear corners, they get you... hard. If you double park, they get you. If you J walk, they give you a ticket. I am all for cops that actually protect people from gangs and stuff, but the ones here are bored and idiots.

Ok, so you put lights on that are illegal. You get a ticket,,, Big surprise?
If you put Yellow bulbs in the corners they are legal...
Heck double park in my neighborhood you get towed....

Wow.
Dave

[angel318ti]

Originally Posted by L84THSKY

Being a female doesn't hurt either.

Ehhhh, what?!! That's the wife you see in the pic. I'.m 5' 11'' 190lb I would make a really ugly chick. LOL

[momorugger]

Originally Posted by angel318ti

Ehhhh, what?!! That's the wife you see in the pic. I'.m 5' 11'' 190lb I would make a really ugly chick. LOL

LOL

[John Firestone]

I have found the German police have been pretty cool, although our local rice boys have to keep a weather eye on them to avoid being sent back to the TÜV. About the only time I have had trouble with our Polizei (a few words, one time, and a ticket the other) has been while riding my bicycle! The ticket wouldn't have happened had the city not (mis)designed the, then, new pedestrian zone. The cops who stopped me were quite understanding about that, but still had to give me the ticket, as the law is the law. They were fairly amused to discover I was born in Chicago and now lived just down the street from the city slaughterhouse. They laughed when I told them, that yes, ever so often, when the wind is just right, there is a strangely familiar smell. (We left Chicago when I was four.)

[Tyler]

I know about 8-9 cops, most of them friends that I went to high school with and graduated with. So on that note I don't have any issues with them, my friends brother is a cop, he was a D.A.R.E cop at first. My dad's g/f's son is a cop in RI so I guess you can say I have a good relationship with them and I don't have a problem with them since I don't cause any problems.

[datballa]

Some cops are cool.. the ones in the bronx are total asshats.

I got pulled over and got a ticket for not wearing a seat belt last week.. problem was, i WAS wearing my seatbelt. he claimed he saw me putting it on!

[John Firestone]

I would have asked to see that on video as it is too easy to imagine someone putting on a seatbelt after stopping enough people who actually were. That cop may not have been an asshat, just simply human. I suspect, however, he may have done a few other things that suggest I am completely wrong.

[datballa]

no he was an asshat.

I asked him if he saw the seatbelt and he said yes just not on you, which was bull because then I went and explained to him that the seat belt on my TI was further back than most cars, and the fact that he SAW the seatbelt shows that I had it on because if it was off, he wouldn't of been able to see it. he then starts to show off by pulling out his 7 series keyfob telling me he has a bmw aswell.. like i cared?

[marko]

'megalomaniacs, who can't get it up without their gun'.. I think I read somewhere.
Oh, yeah, it was the Anarchist Cookbook! LOL

[1996 328ti]

Originally Posted by datballa

Some cops are cool.. the ones in the bronx are total asshats.

I got pulled over and got a ticket for not wearing a seat belt last week.. problem was, i WAS wearing my seatbelt. he claimed he saw me putting it on!

Cop pulled me over for speeding then was going to give me a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt. I thought, I always wear a seatbelt and realized I had taken it off to get my registration out of the glove box. He accepted that as an explanation which of course was the truth.

Most cops that have stopped me I realize are only doing their job.
But some seem to enjoy it more than others. Those are the ones that I hate. Pull me over, give me the ticket, just don't lecture me.
I love the one who gave me a ticket for an obscured rear plate, then another cop pulls over and noticed no front plate. I asked the cop to at least turn off the floodlight on me. I'm not going anywhere.

Then there was the cop who stopped me when I had my M44 ti.
He tells me, I know it's hard to keep your speed down in these cars.
I told him, not really, it took me a while to get to that speed.

I do find High School bullies generally become local cops.
I guess the thing I do hate is that tickets are just for revenue.

datballa, I went to CCHS.

[momorugger]

well, NM cops are sick minded. half of the land is pueblo land, so those cops can ( and have) made rules up on the go, whatever way they want to screw you, cuz nobody has any authority over them. It's terrible cuz they always move their speed limit signs, so where it was always still 65, it is now 55, and they put the 65 sign between to 45 mph signs! uggg. If you get pulled over by a pueblo cop, NEVER EXPECT A WARNING. also, they made the terrible "safety corridor." In the corridor, ALL fines are doubled, and now they pull you over for things like passing in the right lane (cuz NM idiots clog up the left) or not having your lights on during the day! grrr! another problem, is that the safety corridor just keeps growing