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". Then there are stories like this one where someone got their feelings hurt. Well, boo freakin hoo. 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 buttumptions 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.
Apparently they can all be better cops than the ones currently employed too.
-- --- jaybird --- I am not the cause of your problems. My actions are the result of your actions. Your life is not my fault.
