A problem with America's police force...

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From Wish TV8:
“INDIANAPOLIS - A suspended metro police officer is facing a drunken driving charge for the third time in less than two years.

Officer Joshua Nygren was arrested Sunday night for resisting arrest by force, operating a vehicle while intoxicated with prior, operating a vehicle while intoxicated and public intoxication.

Nygren was hired by IPD in 2001. He was arrested in 2005 and again in 2006 for operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Nygren is on indefinite suspension until a hearing of the Merit Board.”

Makes you wonder how many police men should actully be police men, huh?

Yeah, but how many politicians should actually be in charge of the country? And how many heart surgeons should actually be performing heart surgery?

I don’t know about politicians or heart surgeons, but I have known a lot of really bad police men. When I was little, we lived next door to a sheriff who got arrested twice. And there was once this one police man who scared me to death threatening to take me away- and letting the bully get away. I have only known one nice one and he’s just at my school.

They need to raise the standards for police recruitment IMO, too many fat, unfit cops who abuse their power.

Agreed. I don’t think you even need a college education to become a cop, either! And do you see how often they’re speeding while hounding us with tickets? Double-standard much…

Yep, I was born in Houston! I lived there until 1995 (I was six) when my mom and I moved here to Indiana. But I’ve been down to Texas every year since! I’m hoping to one day move back there. It’s way too cold up here! However, it’s supposed to be 74 tomorrow so that’ll be nice, but still a bit cool for me. However, on Friday it’s only going to be 34 for the high. This is what you get in Indiana. What part of Texas are you in?

Some cop caught a person in my neighborhood last Wednesday evening. It’s pretty stupid since the neighborhood is only two years old and is only halfway filled up! And it’s not like it’s a really busy area either. We’re kind of out in the boonies in our county, but still close enough to get to shopping in five miles. But anyway, I think the people the cops got were trying to pull into the front section of the neighborhood. There’s three of them. The front ones are the cheapest (well, they’re not cheap but they’re the cheapest in quality), the middle section is the yuppie section, and the back section (mine!) is the section you can only live in if you have money. Needless to say, there are no cops living in my neighborhood right now! lol

We were over near Tomball. I think we were only, like, three miles from there actually.

Cops here only need a high school education unfortunately. There are so may power trippers it’s not even funny. And they love hanging out at the Krispy Kreme. Yeah, I’m serious about that!

!. It is a rotten job, you see the worst of people and that can get very bad.

2. Lots of rules, uniform service, restrictions on off duty actions.

3. Rotten pay, very slow promotion, and still rotten pay.

4. No one trusts you, most have bad opinions, they treat you like an aspie with a gun.

5. Pull over a Judges wife and you are screwed.

6. Limited powers, the Mayor and his friends, The Chamber, are off limits.

7, The system is so flawed that it is local district only, serial killers, interstate, are Fed.

8. The guy you busted yesterday is back on the street today.

9. The pimp that busted up a couple of girls gets 60 days, the kid with a crack rock 40 years.

10. There is never the satisfaction of a job well done.

11. You might get accustomed to dead crack heads and hos, but not families with children in cars.

12. You are not good marriage material.

13. You work always expecting a bullet. 600 a year get it.

14. Drinking is needed to get to sleep.

15. You do not like the people you work with.

16. Most do not last two years on the job.

17. Patrolmen are hired so the higher ups will have a fall guy, then you will never work again.

18. Barroom bouncer pays better and gets respect, you can dress casual, and date.

19. Women who want to date a cop might also go for a lion tamer, they date the uniform.

20. The world does not want to know, but they do want to blame you.

It seems like the cops where we live only try to fill certain quotas. They are really incompetent too, they could be searching all over town for a guy, and that guy could smile and wave at them and they would have no clue. (this is a PROVEN FACT, they were searching for me one night because I ran away, they waved back at me and went along their marry way)

not nice to judge every officer on a few nut jobs.
although I agree it should be harder for certain types of people(such as drunk drivers) to be aloud to become an officer. and a few towns need to replace their entire police force
( sitting on the sidewalk to tie my shoe is NOT illigal, maybe instead of yelling at me you should work on the kids throwing rocks at cars )