>>>>>Well not all. I read an article a couple years ago that the Los Angeles police remove the motto from their police cars.
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>>>>Well it's kind of hard to keep up that motto when the cops are often filmed beating 7 kinds of crap out of the citizens!
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>>>But isn't that what the people want. The show "Cops" would be boring if the actually show a common day of a cop.
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>>>P.S. I think I may have seen the show (and any other like it) perhaps once.
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>>That's a common misconception, that most days being a cop are "boring." I had fun almost every day I worked as such. There was always something different happening, from helping distressed people, to doing building searches, to rescues, to just visiting with people and getting to know them. Then there was the really dangerous stuff, like putting data on the web for our officers, writing stuff that let them print the documents when an arrest occurs, etc.
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>>As for beating folks, I probably didn't get in more than a couple of dozen fights during my time of over 30 years. I usually could talk people into going to jail by giving them the option plan.
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>>Plan A: The easy way - get through this without either of us getting hurt and you don't get any extra grief like another charge of assaulting a police officer.
>>Plan B: You get to go to the hospital, and I may even have to go too, but you will ultimately end up in jail. You will not pass go, you will pay a lot more than $200.00 and you will not feel good about it later. If I have to call for fellow gang members, there will be a sea of blue lights in the street and they WILL be perturbed that you pulled them out of the local donut shop!
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>>Most took option A, and I'm glad they did!
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>Then you feel that the stuff on "Cops" is too heavely editted and does clearly deplict the true life of a cop?

They've done some shows here in Memphis and it's pretty accurate. Of course, some nights aren't that exciting, but it depends on where you work too. My last assignment was field commander of the midnight shift for our Fugitive Division. We got into something every night and I loved it. It was always something, high speed chases, kicking doors, stopping suspicious folks, etc. I almost got shot by 5 teenage gangsters one night, but I had the drop on them, two nights later, I pulled a car over because he changed his mind about turning, after he saw I was in a squad car, and we wound up recovering a stolen car and a .45 auto (dude got away). Then a few days later, I had to scuffle with another guy who grabbed my gun. That kind of stuff happens very frequently, particularly if you are doing your job! But, you don't hear about that because most of the time, we are prepared for it. You hear about it when we aren't.