Originally Posted by sentinel
Tei, I am a police officer and have been for over 15 years. I am also a child passenger safety technician instructor. I teach parents, black, which, rich or poor how to properly install child safety seats. I received a car today from a mother I dealt with thanking me for what I did to help her keep her son safer. It's really sad how you look at the police. Are there officers who are bad...yes, last I knew we still recruited from the human race. Don't paint with such a broad brush. You seem to have no problem doing so towards police, but are angry with them when you think they do it to you. If there hasn't been a time yet, there will be one where you need the police. With your attitude, you can't help but lose.
15 years a cop, good job sentinel, you want kudos from me? pss. Sentinel, I'm sure that a lot (you'd prob say all) of the work that you do is great. I think child passenger safety technician instructors (phew...*catching my breath*) are a great service to the community. That service (like some other services that cops do) is the community service part of the job that not only cops are doing. You don't get kudos for that. Sometimes there's a good effort to show the CPR (courtesy professionalism and respect) that helps out the community. You might argue that its there a lot of the time. Whether it is or not, the good community work done by cops is FAR eclipsed teachers, community groups, social workers, charities, students, unions, and almost every other faction of society BESIDES "law enforcement" and the penal system.
Meanwhile, along with the consistent incidence of cop community work (that you would choose to emphasize), there is also the undisputable common incidence of police profiling and brutality, police exception from the law, disfunctional and inhumane "rehabilitation" processes, and the list goes on (which I would like to emphasize).
Listen, I know nice guys who are cops too. I talk to cops all the time. That doesn't keep me from seeing the clear contraditions in the supposed role of cops, and the backward role that they often play (whether forced to, trained to, coerced to, or openly willing to play).
saying ' fuk cops' is a statement of dissent, disapproval, and distrust
unfortunately I HAVE to respect something that can choose to, or HAppen to have little or NO respect for me, just like it had none for Amadou Diallo, Abner Luima, and countless other normal "nice" people everyday
this something, the cop code, the blue wall of silence, the repressive law, in its many forms, tranformations, and expressions (including the behavior of cops) is what we refer to when we say "fuk cops"...just like we say "fuk Bush" or "fuk capitalism" or "fuk fascism"
"Take it off the rack, if it's wack put it back
I like the Whopper, FUK the big Mac
If you want static, yo let's go
so, throw up your hands, go for what you know"
-darn rebellious high schooler