Cops are people too. Nobody likes to be disrespected.

In general, I dont like cops. Most of my run ins with cops Ive dealt with idiots or people abusing their power. But there are good cops out there.

As frustrating as it is, being a jerk to a cop isnt going to change anything. Especially if you dont even know if that particular cop is a decent person or not.

Assholes rarely interpret other peoples assholery as a reason to look inside themselves and change.

Most of the time I try to be as calm and 'normal' acting around cops as possible. Buuuuuut thats also because I have a number of outstanding tickets that may or may not have arrest warrents attatched.....

I lived with a cop for 5 years. I also worked in a correctional center.

Where would our society be without them? They deal with some of the worst members of society so that we don't have to!

I have a lot of respect for them.

Sorry Sword,

but cops are people too, really? I have yet to meet one that fits into that classification.

i've stereotyped them before, but generally i have respect for them and will always give them a chance. some are actually people with hearts.

I had respect for the police as a child.... However, I gradually, I began to see and to experience the menagerie of psychological freaks that join the police force. I truly believe the Police Department is where all of the psychopaths; bullies and the jocks go after graduation. People with colossal insecurities and an overriding need to exert power and control over others become cops...

So, these days, I don't think much of them at all. Nope. They are like the word "God" to the Atheist during trench warfare. The intervention is requested only when all else fails.

I think we all have had different experiences with law enforcement and can appreciate each other's views.

Can't argue against one another's experiences.

Doomed1 I share your sentiments exactly.. good stuff

Dont ever bad moth an officer, My entire family was cops. They have zero tolerance for it,they earn the right to be respected by he law. They risk their lives to save others every day. So even if there re a few bad ones out there, which I know here in Florida ther are. In NY its different they are alot more freindler. Im not preaching im just saying one day somthing bad coudl happen and you might need them. Your lucky he wanst n ass about it and arrastedyou, there a law about badmnouthing them.

Gee pot meet kettle in so many ways with this post

Cops have earned nothing, and risk nothing for me. It is also a statistical fact that that cops have the highest rate of reported spousal and child abuse than any other group. Because they are control freaks

Wiccan, not so much because they are control freaks but because they have a high rate of PTSD that goes untreated. They also have a high rate of alcoholism.

The rub is that precise thing.

Boy, I tell you--I've been paranoid twice this weekend and both times was lucky. One was a manager--I had my boy and C. with me at the grocery store and it looked like this lady was watching, but she explained that she has to watch the check out clerks to make sure that they have an okay number of customers-not too much or too little.

THEN there was the deal at the park.

Yea-Mouthiness is bad, but sometimes we all get nervous.

Cops these days do seem *more* ambivelent.

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The Gita talks about "seeing everyone with an equal eye." In context of cops, I guess that means treating all with distance, politeness and some degree of at least *artificial* manners or respect if none at all.

When you do come accross a GOOD cop, then you can be more nice and open.

However, since the status of "citizen" is now more like "civilian"

Yea-I mess up all the time, and I hate it.

I think that on this Dailystrength, we all love one another and care and we don't want anyone getting hurt, so that is maybe why sometimes we appear harsh in our words--rather like "Gosh-Be careful!" Big families tend to do that and DS is like a big family.

I worked side by side with cops for years both in a jail & the ER. There are some who are pretty messed up mentally and some that are nice human beings doing a difficult job. I'm not saying that they are always nice or normal.

I have made a conscious choice not to have cop friends or a cop husband.

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How many of you would want to deal with criminals on a daily basis? How about terrorists? Or gangs(daily where I live)? Or seeing violent murders? How about dealing with 4 children ages 2,5,7 and 13 whose mother was just murdered & staying with them 4 hours in the ER while they got medical eval? Or looking for the other body parts? How about holding it all in when your cop buddy gets violently killed in a crash when someone runs a red light? Or having to tell a parent when there teenage daughter was found overdosed? Or violent child abuse?????? Or having to take away the baby with the fractured skull from the arms of a man and an entire family that swears that they did not abuse it. This is the shit that most of us never have to deal with warps the soul. Trust me. I saw it.

Fuck....I could go on.

I don't love cops. I don't hate them. They are there. They have a job to do.

I hate the Police State which much of American States have become. That is another story. That rolls down from the top.

But at least show the respect that you would show for a monkey in a cage at the zoo. Don't tease. Don't poke with a stick or antagonize with foul language. Don't stare too long. Monkey throw poo at you. Monkey tear your face off. see?

Mind your manners.