Most people have no idea what its like to be a cop. Zero. I paid my way through college, working graveyard shift in a large city. You go through all the training and it doesn't really prepare you for the real world and what you encounter. My first night on the job a traffic light went out and I was directing traffic in an area with alot of pedestrians. Directing traffic should be pretty dry and usually was. I was a good cop, I wrote a grand total of two speeding tickets in four years and was generally lost in the background, as I think police should be. Second shift, some kid walked up to me and spat in my face and called me a pig. Never saw him before, never saw him again. We didn't exchange words or anything. So I'm there in the middle of the intersection, totally stunned with this guys spit on my face who I'd never seen before or said anything to. I was so stunned I didnt even try to stop him.
I love the law and I liked the idea of being a cop. I see it as what protects the little guy from assholes and gives equality in an otherwise dark and dreary world. Over the next few years, all you try to do is make peoples' lives easier by cleaning up the mess, one noise complaint, parking ticket, or wife beating asshole at a time. What you get in return is constant abuse. I've been screamed at, punched, kicked, spit on several times, and one really scary time stabbed with a needle. I drew my gun a grand total of zero times.
Over time this stuff builds up. You become disillusioned , because you've been abused so much by the general public that you just can't take it anymore. I was always very friendly, but some of my coworkers had been in a long time. Every time someone walks up to them, they'd puff up and try to look big and scary so that just maybe they'll be left the fuck alone, and i dont blame them. Most people don't understand cops and why they put on the aggressive facade: its so people wont mess with you and so they won't lie to you when you ask a question. If you took ten minuets to talk to a cop, they're all very nice people who just want the public to chill out and not be idiots. Idk how those NYPD boys are making so much money, I made jack shit working awful hours.
So after I graduated, I said fuck that noise, now I'm a research chemist. But everytime I see these stories and fucked up people like the ones on this thread, I want to scream because people just don't understand and most never will. I loved that i got to help people when they needed it most, and to give people a break when they were in a jam. I was never put in a position where i had to use my gun or do more than wrestle someone down, thank god. Mace'd the needle stabbing bastard pretty good though.That's who I was as a cop.
So if you've got a problem with me, with those like me who make up 99. 9999% of the force who just want to do people right, fuck you. Fuck you in your ignorant punk ass.