EDITOR NOTE–Ok, we’re done with cop bashing and baiting. Moving on…

Stephen
I wonder why, you wonder why I do not like the actions of this cop. Everyone should be appaled by the actions of this cop. I am sure you like all of your kind feel that anyone who wants some adult supervision for LE has to be on probation or parole an idea that is so ludicrous it is as most of your points are is a joke. I believe exactly that he was expecting to see a breach of the drivers civil rights. What he got was an up close video of the attempted breaching of at least 2 of his civil rights, plus he was harassed, and “battered”. On those points there is no discussion they are documented facts, watch the tape.
Why do I feel they need oversight, hum, if a cop with 23 years of service tries things like this when she knows she is being filmed what goes on when the camera is not rolling. Cops do these things because they know they will not be reined in by their supervision so the public has to take the reins and hold these guys accountable. Am I from here… yes, I have live in the valley since 1984, with the exception of when uncle sam moved me. How long have you been here? How long have you been a cop?

You say it’s a thank less job, again what a joke. A BPD Sgt’s pay “averaged” is $78660 a year, look at the BPD site and do the math if you do not believe me. She gets 78 thousand thank you’s every year. A cop in the academy gets over 40 thousand thank you’s every year pretty good for a job that requires no college degree and no experience. You guys need to do your job and quit whining about how people do not like us. The public, according to you should not want to insure they are getting their money’s worth. Put on your big boy pants do your job correctly and quit violating peoples right because you don’t “feel” safe. Most people who get pulled over by a cop don’t feel say either. If your that big a chicken s-it get into another line of work. You’ve got at least one gun, a tazer, pepper spray, an ASP, a bullet proof vest and probably 3 or 4 knives, you have every advantage and yet you still whine and cry. Wal-mart will hire people with the same amount of education and experience, but they will expect a lot more in the way of customer service, so that might not be a good fit either.

EDITOR NOTE–Rick, you are off a bit on the salary. Latest info we got is Sgt. Makes $93K and a 20 yr. corporal gets $88,000.

A related issue and problem is that the local governmental entities and cities crave the fines that the popos, prosecutors, and judges can coerce out of the hapless citizens that can get caught up in their nefarious and scurrilous schemes.

The police departments tag team with the prosecutors, who tag team with the judges, to coerce and extract monies from both guilty and innocent defendants.

It has become a self-serving and gluttonous monster that masquerades as “public safety”.

It is spinning out of control as the craving for the resultant fines revenues escalates with the crumbling of municipal budgets and finances.

http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/ohio-trooper-who-gave-murder-suspects-ride-demoted

I happened upon it and couldn’t help but think about the folks on here that want to over-simplify what officers do for a living. Sure Seim was just a guy with a cellphone camera. These two were just a couple of teenagers with a broken down vehicle. This officer did what you all seem to want all officers to do, just blindly believe that there aren’t really bad people out there. You want to know who wishes an officer would search someone based on training and rules, the family of that guy at the truck stop who these kids killed. By your definition a search of these kids would have violated their civil rights as the officer had no right to search them or ask for identification. One keystroke kept the license plate from alerting the officer so he just thought he was being a good person by helping out. Seems like you all are placing officers in a damned if you do and damned if you don’t situation, but you know that already don’t you.