Yeah I don’t understand so many officer’s inability to say “yep, i thought I saw that, my apologies, please drive safely.”

We all screw up at times, how difficult is it to say “I’m sorry” or “my bad”? Unbelievable hubris.

24 minutes ago, bfargin said:

Yeah I don’t understand so many officer’s inability to say “yep, i thought I saw that, my apologies, please drive safely.”

We all screw up at times, how difficult is it to say “I’m sorry” or “my bad”? Unbelievable hubris.

Exactly. 90% of the shit you see of cops going bad are all ego driven. It's gotta be a lot more work in the long run to be that way but its not them paying for the lawsuits so nothing will change.

13 hours ago, bfargin said:

Yeah I don’t understand so many officer’s inability to say “yep, i thought I saw that, my apologies, please drive safely.”

We all screw up at times, how difficult is it to say “I’m sorry” or “my bad”? Unbelievable hubris.

I'm guessing it the fact that those "my bad" events don't make it onto the internet. I've witnessed more than one myself. Most cops are good people who will admit when they are wrong. I have to imagine that working with the worst 5% of the population on a near constant basis wears the crap out of you though. I imagine it'd be like having to interact with @Bender every single day.

2 hours ago, FourFans said:

I'm guessing it the fact that those "my bad" events don't make it onto the internet. I've witnessed more than one myself. Most cops are good people who will admit when they are wrong. I have to imagine that working with the worst 5% of the population on a near constant basis wears the crap out of you though. I imagine it'd be like having to interact with @Bender every single day.

I bag on the bad cops all the time. I recognize how shitty the job is and mentally draining. Agree that you mostly only see the bad apples on the youtubes but there are enough of them on a pretty consistent basis that it IS an isssue. Saw one last night where cop off duty drives drunk to the theatre, drinks another beer waiting for movie to start. He bought ticket to Star Wars opening night but went into Frozen 2 theatre. Was found passed out with zipper down and handgun resting between his legs. Cops arrested him that night but he spent 365 days on paid admin leave and then when investigation closed, he returned to duty like nothing happened.

All that being said, my main issue is with what happens to the bad cops. The general public is always on the hook in even the most blatant cases when it comes to lawsuits. Most of the time in the non-criminal cases, the cop resigns and then hires on somewhere else.