A few days ago I was out till 4:30 AM at the park talking to friends. On our way back to my friends house some cops pulled us over thinking we were doing drugs or something.

User said :
the high crime rate in uk

hwat

Cpt Toellner said
Joe, you were the one who made the topic about that you

I never said that this thread was about disrespecting police, I was just putting out an idea because this thread is about experiences with the police.

Goldmarble said
No. No they do not respect, in my eyes.They are human, they can my respect by their individual actions, just like everyone else.

Derpestein said
This.Being a cop doesn't instantly gain them respect, Joe. They earn respect by doing like stopping a shooting or something.

They risk being shot daily. I think that that earns someone respect. If you Google Police Officer shot and killed, I know that you will find a bunch of stories about people who worked hard to get into there position, often a parent also, who were killed just for doing their job.

I used to work at a convenience store, I risked being shot daily but no one respected me. ._.

Joegreenbeen said
They risk being shot daily. I think that that earns someone respect. If you Google Police Officer shot and killed, I know that you will find a bunch of stories about people who worked hard to get into there position, often a parent also, who were killed just for doing their job.

We all risk getting shot, daily. We are all too frequently the targeted prey of criminals. The same criminal that kills a police officer, has in most cases, victimized and threatened the lives of non-officers, or killed before. In fact, on average, for every 100,000 police officers, there are 19 on-the job related fatalities per year. Which works out to an average of 133 Officers who pass away ever year.

Which is such a small fraction of the regular, everyday people who walk out their door one day, and never come home due to means of foul play, in just terms of rating.

I love your emotional tie-in about officers with family left behind. What was the point? To use emotions to convince me that I'm wrong, and all officers should be given great respect?

Sorry. Your emotional plea is falling on deaf ears. Because just the same, how many non-LEO civilians perish each and every year, leaving behind their family, due to violent crime? People who did no wrong, who were not aware of their pending mortality, and utterly unprepared for it, in the way an officer's family would be? How many children are killed through homicide every year?

Now, don't get me wrong. I am not saying that I disrespect Police either. I treat them with the same modicum of polite respectfulness I afford to everyone until their actions influence my opinion of them. If an officer pulls me over, and treats me with similar respect and courtesy by knowing the legal boundaries of what they can ask for, etc, I will respect them. If however, they try to intimidate me, or ignore my questions, I will not respect them.

I simply believe that Respect is not binary. It is trinary. There is neutral ground where I neither disrespect someone, nor respect them. And in that neutral zone, is every single human being on the face of this planet that I have not yet met, with the sole exception of the WW2 veterans who gave their lives in defense of the freedom of Religious belief, and Ethnic tolerance. And to be clear, even those men and women who still survive today, gave their lives to that cause.

Joegreenbeen said
They risk being shot daily. I think that that earns someone respect. If you Google Police Officer shot and killed, I know that you will find a bunch of stories about people who worked hard to get into there position, often a parent also, who were killed just for doing their job.

Depends on where you live. Here the only thing cops risk is someone yelling and stealing their nightstick :P

Magic Magnum said
A few days ago I was out till 4:30 AM at the park talking to friends. On our way back to my friends house some cops pulled us over thinking we were doing drugs or something.

Usually you get high at the park. Prolly thought it was the drugs.

i work at a IT firm, i risk shooting peaple everyday yet i get no respect.

User said
i work at a IT firm, i risk shooting peaple everyday yet i get no respect.

You risk SHOOTING PEOPLE everyday yet you get no respect?

Yeah no that doesn't deserve respect at all.

User said
i work at a IT firm, i risk shooting peaple everyday yet i get no respect.

As minor as this post seems, if youre saying what i think you are then it could get you in big trouble. They dont play around with it. Just saying.

I think he's joking about the people he has to help figure out that they need to turn on the computer for it to work.

I warned before jorick was involved.