Um, Bob ... my husband's a cop, and most of my friends who aren't journalists are cops. Most are NOT by nature authoritarian and just itching to trample all over someone else's civil rights. Cops give people are hard time because they are used to seeing the absolute worst in human nature -- my husband is a detective, and he investigates the worst of everything, like people who like to rape and beat up on little kids and babies, kids on drugs who steal from and are willing to hurt or kill their own families because they care about nothing and no one, men who beat their wives and girlfriends until the whole house is covered in their blood -- murderers, theives, drug dealers and everything else you can possibly imagine, and a few things you probably can't.
No, I don't agree taking anyone's film away and hassling them are right. Yeah, there are a few cops out there who shouldn't be. Most are just very hard-working, very under-paid people who are just trying to raise their own families and survive like everybody else -- the difference is they go out every day and face the apathy and hatred directed at them by people who resent being inconvenienced by the laws they're sworn to enforce, and more and more of them die every year doing it. They don't call it the thin blue line for nothing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Walkden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 2:10 PM Subject: Re[2]: Rights and police behaviour. (Was: Hello and a lens question) > Hi, > > > In any case, you were probably inappropriately hassled for what you were > > doing. If you want to make friends with these folks, drop by the precinct > > station house. If you can find the officers, apologize, explain your > > embarrassment, and show them you are just a regular human being. > > So the cops illegally give Mike a hard time, and Mike has to make > amends? Why would he want to make friends with them? This is like > advising Rodney King to go round and say 'Gee officers, sorry about > those marks I made on your nightsticks'. > > Cops give people a hard time because they're naturally authoritarian > (otherwise they wouldn't be cops). If you suck up to them it just > makes it worse. Sue their ass! > > --- > > Bob > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
