If your're smart you can't be a cop....

[cuthroat]

I never looked at cops as be all that smart, well at least the ones who drive in circles on the street. Some of my friends went on to be cops. Not really good at anything and were the ones in my group of friends we'd occasionally smack around because they talked a lot but were pussies. It's a way for them to make up for their toughness and change their wussy perception by all.

While this may be true in the case of your "friends", you can't stereotype people like that. I am not a fucking pussy nor have I ever been. Are those guys out there? Hell yes, however the majority of individuals I have met in law enforcement are not like this. The public always focuses on the negative and never stops to thank law enforcement for all the good things they do. And yes there are cops out there that aren't the brightest but the same go's for almost all other career fields. Just having a degree doesn't make you "smart". I don't know what field you are in but I am sure I could point out plenty of scmucks, pussies, know it alls, and self absorbed assholes because every workplace has them.

If you had asked me 5-6 years ago If I would ever go into law enforcement I am sure I would have piped up with some smart ass remark about pigs or highway Nazis. I went to college for Electrical Engineering and afterwards found out that I wanted to do something that actually counted for something in the long run, something I enjoyed even if the money wasn't going to be the best. Life should not be all about pleasing yourself.

Yes, there are days when I wonder if I shouldn't change fields for the money, I'll never make six figures as a cop even though me and thousands of others put our lives on the line every day. The sad thing is that a large majority of criminals show a greater respect for law enforcement than your everyday Joe on the street. They know that we are simply doing our jobs by enforcing the laws, they know we don't make them.

Someone else mentioned Cops only hanging out with cops. You got this spot on, but you may have made the wrong assumptions. It's not because x individual thinks he or she is better then you its simply that Cops can relate to what other Cops go through better. Does your job entail going hands on with fucking sasquatch [sp], talking some guy away from the shotgun he has held to his wifes head, investigating cases of fathers molesting their own children, telling a mother and father that there only child just had his brains scattered across twenty feet of highway. Why do you think cops have the highest rate of suicide than in any other field? The highest rate of divorce at over 60%? Because we go through shit that nobody else sees or wants to deal with, a lot of things "normal" people will never understand so when we need to unload, get off the freaking emotional roller coaster that is our job, we talk to other Cops.

 

[scooter22]

While this may be true in the case of your "friends", you can't stereotype people like that. I am not a fucking pussy nor have I ever been. Are those guys out there? Hell yes, however the majority of individuals I have met in law enforcement are not like this. The public always focuses on the negative and never stops to thank law enforcement for all the good things they do. And yes there are cops out there that aren't the brightest but the same go's for almost all other career fields. Just having a degree doesn't make you "smart". I don't know what field you are in but I am sure I could point out plenty of scmucks, pussies, know it alls, and self absorbed assholes because every workplace has them.

If you had asked me 5-6 years ago If I would ever go into law enforcement I am sure I would have piped up with some smart ass remark about pigs or highway Nazis. I went to college for Electrical Engineering and afterwards found out that I wanted to do something that actually counted for something in the long run, something I enjoyed even if the money wasn't going to be the best. Life should not be all about pleasing yourself.

Yes, there are days when I wonder if I shouldn't change fields for the money, I'll never make six figures as a cop even though me and thousands of others put our lives on the line every day. The sad thing is that a large majority of criminals show a greater respect for law enforcement than your everyday Joe on the street. They know that we are simply doing our jobs by enforcing the laws, they know we don't make them.

Someone else mentioned Cops only hanging out with cops. You got this spot on, but you may have made the wrong assumptions. It's not because x individual thinks he or she is better then you its simply that Cops can relate to what other Cops go through better. Does your job entail going hands on with fucking sasquatch [sp], talking some guy away from the shotgun he has held to his wifes head, investigating cases of fathers molesting their own children, telling a mother and father that there only child just had his brains scattered across twenty feet of highway. Why do you think cops have the highest rate of suicide than in any other field? The highest rate of divorce at over 60%? Because we go through shit that nobody else sees or wants to deal with, a lot of things "normal" people will ever understand so when we need to unload, get off the freaking emotional roller coaster that is our job, we talk to other Cops.

Very well put.

 

[milo hobgoblin]

LMFAO..

this doesnt surprise me in the least

 

[drsketch]

Our justice system is fucked... Rapos and chomos get probation or a single year or two in the joint while someone that doesnt pay taxes goes away for years.

 

[beefybull]

Cops are hypocrites for enforcing laws they didnt help to make.
If drugs were legal, being a cop would be honorable. Until then, its bullshit.
Once drugs are legal, cops can focus on real criminals. Killers, rapists, etc.

Even the occasional "cool" cop (2-3%) that makes it thru academy ends up being a dick.
Why? Because when they havent written any tickets at the end of their first month, the sargent or captain or whatever chews them out.
They're forced to become the very thing they said they'd never be, or lose their job.
So they start writing tickets and being a dick. Then they see some sick shit.
It changes their perception of the world and they end up being the type of person that wont even shake hands.

They dont get into it for the good pay.
They dont get into it for the good hours.
Most dont get into it to help society or "clean up the streets".
Why do most become cops then?
Power trippin
To exert a small amount of power over other citizens.
To feel important or powerful or for a chance to beat people up.
If they were smarter, they'd be lawyers or prosecutors.

 

[Cardinal Slin]

I would never understand wanting to be a police officer. You live your working life not knowing when someone will pull a gun or knife on you when you are not looking and during your working life, your family are worried every day if you will walk through that front door.

 

[beefybull]

I would never understand wanting to be a police officer. You live your working life not knowing when someone will pull a gun or knife on you when you are not looking and during your working life, your family are worried every day if you will walk through that front door.

Exactly.
Who would take a job with the highest divorce rate of any occupation and one of the highest death rates and suicide rates? Someone tryin to power trip.