Tosser of the Day: NJ State Police

Cops are okay (0.00 / 0)

Nobody likes thieves.  If those cops are thieves, then I am all too happy to see them nailed for it, and so are a lot of other people, including cops.  Bad cops make good cops look bad.  But I know some cops and I know some troopers and I find them to be like anyone else:  good and bad, depending on the individual.  I've met some crummy people in a variety of jobs, and some of them carried guns, too, and had civil authority.  They are not all bad or all good.

I don't like to see cops blasted as a group, like they were all the same.  They're just people and there are good people and bad people.  Some day, and I hope that day never comes, if a cop sees you being robbed or has to come to your house after you've been robbed or you need a cop for any reason, they will be there and they will do their best to help you.

Personally, I've met more bad plumbers than bad cops, but maybe that's just me.

(And I still know plumbers I like in spite of it.  But seriously, $225 for labor to change a sump pump?  I changed it myself and it took me 45 minutes and I didn't even know what I was doing...and it works perfectly, thank you.))

DBK

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by: DBK @ Mon May 08, 2006 at 18:24:18 PM UTC

That's fine and dandy (1.00 / 1)

And I was trying to be humourous about my natural tendency towards being judgemental about police officers.

I too know some good cops. However, the majority of my experiences with officers has been negative.

And that is putting it lightly.

I have been assaulted by off duty police officers. I have been verbally assaulted by 90% of the officers that pull me over, write me a parking ticket, pull me over for no reason then find a reason to have pulled me over, yell at me for wanting them to do something about the car parked in MY driveway, the same driveway I get a parking ticket if I am parked in it.

etc. etc. etc.  In short, I have lots more reasons to dislike police officers, than to like them.

I have black friends who have even more reasons to dislike them.

If officers aren't happy about their reputation with me (or other people), they should stop comming to the car and asking for my license and registration in a tone of voice that reflects that the drill seargant from Full Metal Jacket.

Media In Trouble

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by: Media In Trouble @ Mon May 08, 2006 at 18:37:06 PM UTC

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Terrorist loving communist.

XT

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by: Thurman Hart @ Mon May 08, 2006 at 22:24:33 PM UTC

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So you admit your biased. (0.00 / 0)

I think you should have something like the organization itself being corrupt, not the individual officers.

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by: Kire @ Tue May 09, 2006 at 04:21:40 AM UTC

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above comment should have read. (0.00 / 0)

I think you should have *said* something like the organization itself being corrupt, not every individual officer.

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by: Kire @ Tue May 09, 2006 at 04:25:14 AM UTC

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that reply still has a grammatical error (0.00 / 0)

"being" should be replaced with "is"

last correction

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by: Kire @ Tue May 09, 2006 at 04:26:48 AM UTC

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okay, not the last correction (0.00 / 0)

please ignore the whole thing, I don't want to flame anybody

it shouldn't have been put that way, I'm sorry

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by: Kire @ Tue May 09, 2006 at 07:36:36 AM UTC

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Where... (0.00 / 0)

is/was the oversight? Where is/was the honesty? Where are/were the ethics?

Drive down Rte. 80 westbound. There is literally a cop every mile. Perhaps I am getting old and crochety, but that seems a little excessive, doesn't it? Also, perhaps I am getting old and crochety, but that seems more than a little invasive as well.

When the police presence becomes so constant, the laws so apparently crafted to put anyone stopped in a passle of trouble and then the cops do something clearly unethical and, perhaps, criminal, then real and substantive problems exist, in both the organization(s) affected and in how the public perceives the agencies.

Finally: When will crap stop surfacing about the NJSP and the fundimental causes of the crap addressed? Hasn't this gone on long enough?

And yes, from a purely interactive standpoint, dealing with the police can be an object lesson in humiliation and demanded obeisance. Been there, done that, got the tshirt. Not always and with the NJSP, things have gotten better, but when you get stopped, it's a crap shoot.

The nom de plume has a long and distinguished history.

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by: Tandalayo Scheisskopf @ Mon May 08, 2006 at 19:05:37 PM UTC

About the officers... (0.00 / 0)

If you read the article you will notice that money went to all levels of officerland.

Including the pockets of individual officers. The scandal in fact includes overtime pay that was over billed and overpaid to officers during the aftermath of 9/11.

So from the people who do the billing in the NJSP, to the individual officers who recieve the money, there was extra money comming in.

Now, is it hard to look at your bigger-than-usual paycheck and  actually say something about it?

DAMNED SKIPPY it is.

But these folks are cops. The guys who give me a ticket for being so dangerous to society as to leaving my car parked without my resident parking sticker.

They are also the same cops that have the authority to give you a ticket for talking on your cell phone in your car, yet they do it in theirs all the time.

So... Fuckem. They should have raised their hands and said, "I got a little too much of the tax payers money this week Sarge."


Media In Trouble

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by: Media In Trouble @ Tue May 09, 2006 at 13:10:03 PM UTC