Cops with attitudes

• August 21, 2014
• criminal justice  
• assholes  

To set the mood watch this short South Park clip video.

Now go read this article in the Washington Post. The money quote from that article:

Working the street, I can’t even count how many times I withstood curses, screaming tantrums, aggressive and menacing encroachments on my safety zone, and outright challenges to my authority.

The bit about “aggressive and menacing encroachments on my safety zone” I’m sympathetic to. But the rest of it? He can go fuck himself. Asking for his name and badge number is not a challenge to his authority. Nor is asking him the reason he is hassling me. As for tantrums he should try working as a customer service representative for a major company like Comcast.

That (thankfully former) police officer needs psychiatric counseling and should never be allowed in a position of power ever again. You’ve got to wonder if his parents were strict authoritarian assholes. Sadly his attitude appears to be typical among police officers.

h/t The Politics Blog by Charles P. Pierce for bringing this asshole to my attention.