Crime

A few days ago, I posted a request that my cop readers send submissions as an “equal time” rebuttal of my disdain for modern police. I received exactly one response, that I enclose it below, without editing (other than to cut off the intro with the poster’s real name) there is no twisting of words here. Comments are open, but remember the blog rules on posting. Anyhow- this is his post, so no comments from me, other than to thank him for his submission.

Some of you might know me better from ‘The Bitter Centurion’ blog I formerly ran. I decided to take our generous host, Divemedic, up on his offer to submit a post regarding the good cop/bad cop issue – something I was obligated to do since it was me that prompted him to issue this ‘challenge’ of sorts and open the floor.

For those of you who don’t know or didn’t follow my blog prior, I was a law enforcement officer for just shy of 20 years. I worked with consummate professionals, but worked with some of the worst people I ever met. I helped people who needed it, but sometimes I watched the system fail. I share our host’s utter disdain for corrupt, cowardly, and incompetent law enforcement. In fact, I’d go so far as to assert that my feelings veer more towards sheer hatred for those who dishonour their oaths.

Where I took issue with the host’s stance is his assertion that ‘90% of cops out there are dishonest, corrupt, lazy, and gutless’. That’s a steep number. I’m led to wonder how he came to the conclusion that 90% of police officers fall within that category. Did he don a labcoat, safety goggles, and a clipboard and tabulate these results? Of course not. It’s a number he pulled out of his ass, quite probably because of the volume of mainstream media reports on police misconduct, which when combined with his own sour dealings with law enforcement, tempered his opinion on the matter. But…rather than argue the point, I’ll instead offer some food for thought:

Much of what we DO hear of police misconduct is through the mainstream media. But you’d have to be a moron to not know that the mainstream media is not the bastion of truth they want people to think. We know they’ve been dishonest about the scam-demic/COVID-19 fiasco, the gun violence issue, the conflict in Ukraine, as well as other conflicts abroad. We know that they’ve been dishonest and biased towards race, gender, and sexuality issues, and they’ve been dishonest about Trump, Biden, the Clintons, and a whole mess of other swamp rats. In short, the media exists to mold our opinions and sell us a narrative, not tell us the objective truth.

So, is it any different when it comes to their reporting on law enforcement? Why would anyone, keeping in mind everything else the media has been dishonest about, expect them to be on the level when it comes to reporting on the police? Have you ever stopped to think that all this bad press is being done to deliberately discredit the institution of domestic law enforcement, not much unlike what happened to the US military during Vietnam, for instance, when the left wing media, activists and people like ‘Hanoi’ Jane worked overtime to convince the American public that every troop in a ‘GI lid’ was a rapist and a babykiller and atrocities like ‘My Lai’ and ‘Tiger Force’ were commonplace, even though that wasn’t the case at all?

Just as in Vietnam, where we never heard about the good that soldiers, sailors, and marines were doing over there, we almost never hear or read about police doing good in the communities we live in. But we almost never hear about the lives saved or the people helped. Instead, we’re fed vicious narratives on how career criminals like George Floyd, Michael Brown, or Trayvon Martin were innocent, gentle souls who were mercilessly crushed by the evil, cowardly, racist cops and how the institution is systemically racist and must be stamped out. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we hear this crap from the same Marxist idiots who force feed society bullshit stories like ‘the earth is melting and only communism can save us’, that ‘a woman can have a penis’, and that ‘we must all surrender our guns to the government for our own good’.

So it seems to me, then, that if that’s all we read and our prior dealings with cops are less than pleasant (and dealings with cops are generally not on great circumstances anyway) then it’s easy to jump to the conclusion that ‘90% of all cops are rotten to the core’. I’m not saying there are no rotten cops. Unfortunately, there are. I AM saying that there are more good cops out there than rotten cops, we hate the rotten cops too, and we DO deal with them – a lot more than you might think, even if you don’t get to see us doing it. A compelling argument? You be the judge. But I offer you this to ponder nonetheless.

There is a new variation of an old crime that all of us need to be aware of: Fake traffic stops. It goes like this. A car with blue strobes slips in behind yours and attempts to pull you over.

It isn’t a new crime. Fake cops initiating traffic stops happens all of the time. The police are more afraid of people not respecting their authority than they are protecting the public, so they advise:

However, police officials are asking motorists to pull over for any emergency or law enforcement vehicle that is running its lights and sirens as quickly and as safely as possible and wait for the officer to approach their vehicle and contact them.

If a motorist thinks that the vehicle may not be an official law enforcement or emergency vehicle, the driver should pull over anyway and call … 911. A dispatcher should be able to confirm that the vehicle belongs to a law enforcement officer.

Of course, if it isn’t a cop, it’s now too late to get help. The cops will arrive just in time to take a report and perhaps photograph your corpse.

It looks fishy, so you decide to do what police advise: You try to call 911 and verify that the cop is a real one. Your cell phone has no signal. Oddly enough, your GPS mapping systems aren’t working either.

It turns out that the “cop” is a bad guy, this is an ambush, and your communications aren’t working because they are being jammed by a device just like this one.

Sure, jammers are illegal, but since when do criminals care about the law? So now what? If you refuse to pull over, you are in deep trouble if it IS a real cop.

Hollywood movies and television often portray burglaries as meticulously planned and skillfully executed events like Oceans 11. In reality, these crimes are rarely carefully orchestrated. The vast majority of burglaries are random, opportunistic acts. Until lately, that is. Electronic devices are becoming cheaper and easier to obtain.

There are all sorts of signal jammers, jamming WiFi, Cell phones, and other frequencies. Thieves are using them to jam security cameras and burglar alarms as well.

Keep a sharp eye out.

A customer with a receipt showing that they paid for their food through an online app is asked to leave without the merchandise that they paid for. The customer says that all they want is either their food or a refund. The manager refuses and tells the customer to leave the store. He refuses, and the woman calls the cops. She also gets angry and slaps the phone that is being used to film the encounter out of the customer’s hand.

Even though she asked the customer to leave, he is still entitled to either a refund or the merchandise he paid for. To have a manager then call the cops and slap the phone out of his hand turns this from a civil matter into strong armed robbery. It doesn’t surprise me to see the demographics involved.

A side note, Popeye’s has really good chicken, though.

I try really hard not to get sucked in to conspiracy theories, but this is getting ridiculous. On August 25, a survey came out showing that Trump’s support amongst blacks nearly tripled from 8 to 20 percent.

As if on cue, there is a racially motivated mass shooting. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

A woman at a Chicago White Sox game was hit by a stray bullet. In a theme familiar from a Bracken novel, a woman watching a baseball game was hit, and police don’t know if the bullet came from inside of or outside of the stadium. The woman shot is visible in the red circle above the “State Farm” sign:

So now that you know where to look, here is the video:

This asshat in Orlando prevented a fire truck from responding to an emergency by doing donuts around the truck and filming it for social media clicks. It appears as though the entire incident was a manufactured false call so the driver could film the stunt.

He was finally caught. The press doesn’t understand the charges, but I can tell you that interference with an emergency crew is a felony and filing a false 911 report of a fire is a misdemeanor for the first offense, and a felony for subsequent ones. Reckless driving is also a misdemeanor. That’s where I would start.

However, if the fire crew was delayed in any way to any emergency due to this, the people injured should be permitted to sue this ass for damages.

Squatters move into an empty house, then when the owners call the cops, produce a fake lease. The cops then shrug their shoulders, say there is nothing more that they can do because it’s now a civil matter, and walk away. The owner of the home then has to spend six months to a year running this through the court system to get an eviction.

It’s that easy to throw off the cops? What if I do the same thing with a stolen car? Steal the car and produce a fake bill of sale. Will the cops then call it a civil matter? Actually, they will. How do I know? Because it happened to my dumbass of a sister.

I just don’t see how the cops and the courts can make crimes like this so easy and without repercussion. They used to say that crime doesn’t pay, but that is no longer the case.

The driver is lucky that this asshole didn’t shoot him.

Am I the only one that daydreamed about being the backseat passenger and getting to decorate the inside of the windshield with this criminal’s brains?