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11/12/09
See, when they walked in all undercover like, their CO must have said,
"Act casual."
Then they saw the Wii... #crime
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@MonkeyBiz: You struck out.
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...yeh I lowered the tone of the pun off! #crime
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(No hard feelings, of course!)
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I was just trying to fit in...
...sorry sir #crime
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He's a pun machine! #crime
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So you're just going to leave us in the gutter? #crime
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I LIKE BOWLING #crime
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Don't make me dunk you.
Er, I mean, home run you.
Wait wait... hockey... eggbeater... uhh...
I waterpolo'ed your mom last night. #crime
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I'd give another pun but tennis enough. #crime
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What can I say? You hooked it. #crime
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I dunno, I've never had it in me to hate cops. Especially considering today a cop chose to pick the speeder in front of me instead of, well, my own speeding butt. #crime
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thats always awesome, I love when Im driving maybe paying attention a little less than I should then I see flashes up ahead of either the popo or some super high flash radar. #crime
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To this day, I've never received a ticket and I've been driving for about five years. #crime
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I'm just sayin'. #crime
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They probably rather unwind with Barbie Princess Pony Adventures or something... #crime
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I think they earned their wii break and a slap on the wrist...
It's not like they were making snow angels in a big pile of cocaine.
I hope...
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Hilarious that the guy thought this was some loophole to get out of jail. #crime
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You're really gonna use that argument?
You really don't think an officer of the law, paid by taxpayer money, whose job is to protect people and stop crime, should be punished for completely blowing off a very serious drug raid, the likes of which would help quell a lot of crime, due to how drug dealers are pretty much the top of a sort of metaphorical crime food chain?
Guy at target slacks off? Who the fuck cares?
Guy who is paid by your taxes to protect people and stop crime slacks off? They sure as fuck deserve to be punished harshly. #crime
11/11/09
With that said however, they're still human beings. Human beings get lazy on ocassion or shirk their duties. They should be punished or reprimanded as anyone else should be.
You make it sound as though the moment someone puts on a badge they're somehow above their flaws and humanity.
Get over it, the world, and everyone in it, isn't perfect. #crime
11/11/09
But an officer's job is SIGNIFICANTLY more important than some others, and if they cannot take it seriously enough to even DO IT, they should not be trusted to do it at all and should b efired. #crime
11/11/09
As in other jobs, if the behavior is habitual or if they have a record of other dubious behavior, firing should always be an option.
If the officers in question in the story have no prior records of misconduct I see no reason to go any further than they did. #crime
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P.S. Typing in bold doesn't make you sound smarter, only more shrill.
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Officers risk their own lives everyday so that you can live with some comfort of social order. These guys played with a toy during a drug bust at a time that they deemed it to be safe to goof off. It isn't ethical, it is an abuse of tax payer money. Do I care? Not in the least. If part of your job is to potentially get shot or stabbed, then I can over look a minor - one time deal - dereliction of duty. Humans are still human and deal with stress in different ways. #crime
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This guys have high risk, high stress jobs. They blew off some steam at a time they felt it was safe to do so. It wasn't ethical, but it was human. They will take their lumps, but it is hardly worth ruining a career over. #crime
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I doubt those guys were. #crime
11/11/09
I don't think there is anyone who actually works 100% of the time they are on the clock, if they are it is because they are a slave or robot.
Don't tell me you're an absolute productive employee who doesn't waste any time talking with co-workers, daydreaming, or browsing the net. #crime
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@Boomsta: LMAO I would shoot them, being Texan affords me that ability. >:D #crime
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@Derpitydoo: Hey, so does President Obama. #crime
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Tony would do it, though.
09/22/09
Dear god. It should be absolutely no surprise that some good cops go bad either. Just think about their job and put yourself in their shoes for a minute. One part of their job is to go around and be an asshole to you when you're doing something wrong in hopes that you learn your lesson and, you know, don't barrel into a group of kids after losing control while drunk and over the limit. Or that you don't set off some fireworks during a particularly dry season and light up a neighborhood. Or any of a number of ridiculous things. Because as soon as one these happens, what do people say? Where were the cops? Why aren't they enforcing these things better? But when they do their job what happens... people get defensive, angry, annoyed, and denounce as a whole useless and stupid. As soon as they come to crash your party, they're the bad guy. What is worse is that sometimes they have to do what is legally correct even if it seems morally wrong, and people don't understand that by performing such actions they are actually doing their job.
Were these guys at fault? Probably. Are all cops thus bad because of them? No. Are all cops bad because of a few isolated incidents dragged out by the media in order to make a good news story? Definitely not.
Let me put it this way. If you truly cared about the legal system, really that passionate about it (in terms of your hatred for cops) and think it needs to be reformed or changed and aren't just some kid who thinks it is cool to hate on cops, you would actually be doing something about it. You'd be learning the ins and outs of the system, campaigning, and actively trying to change it. But instead, you guys are just saying "omg copz bad, dun let me drink booz or have fun but they nver do job. They shld jst dye".
I ain't saying that "everyone who says cops should die should go die" or any ridiculous bullshit like that. Or that everyone should obey everything the police tells you to do and that they're always right. But the general cop-hate attitude adopted by so many is so damned grossly uninformed and, frankly, just plain stupid.
Service jobs are the worst. It matters not if your intent was good. If you EVER impede someone in order to do your duties, whether it be their fun or work, you are instantly the bad guy. If something ever fails under your watch, you aren't working hard enough and therefore are scum. And this isn't a question about competence either - you can be completely competent, excel at your job even, but if you mess up once or slight someone in the least bit in a public service job your automatically marked as an asshole.
09/23/09
Just that fact I'm alive and still have all my shit is proof that the cops are doing their job. Just because you don't see what they do doesn't mean they aren't doing anything. Chances are if you see them doing their jobs close up, it's because you were doing something stupid, or had something stupid done to you.
Some people had bad experiences with the Police... some people have bad experiences at Burger King. Just means your luck sucks, not that you can paint everyone with that brush. People who hate cops will grow up someday... probably about 10 seconds aftet they get robbed, raped, or run over by some drunk, and they want justice.
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Actually its disgusting.
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