Recent content by nepheleim

1. Again, I don't (and you can't) know his mindset or what he was expecting, so it's hard to understand why he acted the way he did. Police are trained to always look for malice, with the population being divided into three parts: 1. The cooperative 2. The hostile and 3. The potentially or...

The pathway to the ideal is just the roadway to ruin. Or something like that. Perfection is impossible to attain. We simple do the best we can. I don't think anyone is surprised anymore, at the negative perceptions of police put out by media, but I still don't like it. Oh, btw, doctors kill...

1. I'm not sure what you mean by police in regard to a strong corporate identity. Some officers identify strongly with their jursidiction. Some identify more strongly as peace officers (a state classification in those states with licensing). Others consider themselves law enforcement first...

There was no question in here that I could find. I would point out that police aren't paid on commission. They don't get any money from red light cameras, the department might. And even that won't get them a raise or anything tangible. I don't know why an officer would be yelling at you in the...

1. What makes you think the officer went out there looking for children with fireworks? Given how hysterical (even without cause) some people are when they call 911, I wouldn't be surprised if they thought they were looking for someone shooting off a .22. The officer doesn't know who you are, or...

Nobody signs up for a job with the express intent of dying in the line of duty. You'll note that when a firefighter, or a police officer, or soldier moves towards danger and dies, they are described as going above and beyond the call of duty. Not "they just did the baseline for their job."...

Defective safety equipment is a breach of your local transportation code (I bet, since you got pulled over for it). It's a minor violation of a minor law which virtually nobody bothers to enforce, but it's still a breach of law.

This is a tricky question, because police aren't one body in the US. So I had to go find the closest thing we have to central statistics, which is the Bureau of Justice Statistics to find out traffic, arrest, and search rates by race. For traffic, we see that White, Black, and Hispanic people...

My response is going to have a few assumptions, as I'm not familiar with Australian policing. 1.) The IA division of your local police (see, I'm assuming police aren't nationalized). 2.) The community. If police are not doing their job effectively, whether through harassment or ignorance of...

You're arguing from a flawed base. If all police believed that everyone was guilty of something, we'd never make it more than a block from the substation, since we'd be stopping everybody on that basis. Since police don't shake down every person not in their own homes, I can confidently...

It always amazes me how many posts I see like this one. I did the job, and I know that I can't generalize police as a body. How you can is beyond me. It borders on an irrational fear, a phobia. Especially towards the end where you blatantly "other" police to make them non-human.

I can only speak to my own experience, unfortunately. Police are individuals, after all. And beyond that, there is no unifying body, no national police. Every department is different with different rules and culture. Sorry I couldn't clear that up any more.

I honestly don't know that first one. Someone somewhere has probably done a statistical analysis of police across the US, or perhaps another nation, but I'm unaware of it. I had the pleasure of working with people who ranged from first generation Americans, folks raised in just about every SES...

If you tell the officer that you have a concealed weapon and license, then you're probably fine. I've asked what position it's holstered in and move on with what I'm doing. Other officers range from "meh, cool" to "omg let's talk about calibers" depending on their mood. If you neglected to...

Female officers can be every inch as aggressive in some respects as male officers. In some instances, the job demands and pressures them to become overly aggressive, to display that they can charge just as hard as the male officers, which isn't entirely fair. One advantage that female officers...