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On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:35:28 GMT, "jaybird" > wrote:
> >"Dave Head" > wrote in message .. . >> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:07:48 GMT, "jaybird" > wrote: >> >>>Of course he shouldn't be fired. He's an 18 year veteran with no prior >>>disciplinary action. I wouldn't wish a firing on anyone in any profession >>>with that record, just based on a comment. >> >> On one hand, you're consistent! <G> > >I asked myself why that is and came up with a pretty good answer. There are >a lot of stories that come through these groups where cops have screwed up. >You can read the story and say "yeah, that guy f#$cked up". He INTENTIONALLY ****ed up. We don't need people like him (or you) carrying guns and being in positions of authority. > Then there are >stories like this one where someone got their feelings hurt. People could have died, and quite possibly did because of his actions. > Well, boo >freakin hoo. I'm sure people will be crying at the victims funeral. > Suck it up like a man and move on with your life; you'll be >ok. Then of course, there are the ones in the middle where we don't quite >have all of the information so we go back and forth for weeks with people >making up crap and assumptions the whole way. A good personal example is of >a complaint that came in the other day. Some guy wrote a letter complaining >to internal affairs that he received two citations and the cop was rude to >him. IA wrote their official report and sent it to the supervisor to >investigate. The supervisor calls the violator and asks him how the cop was >rude. The answer he got was "well, he wrote me two tickets". "Uh..... ok, >that's something you'll have to see a judge about. Tell me how the cop was >rude". "Well if he hadn't written me two tickets I never would've >complained". "Ok, sir, you have a nice day". Case closed, unfounded. >That's why stories like this bug the hell out of me. > That's completely irrelevant to this case. >> >> On the other hand, I agree - the bunch around here is very, very quick to >> have >> people fired or say that a person shouldn't be driving. Leave it up to >> this >> bunch, and _nobody_ would be qualified to drive due to some innocuous >> minutia >> about their driving that they simply don't like. > >Apparently they can all be better cops than the ones currently employed too. I have no doubt I could and would be. |
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