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Title: I Should Have Been a Cop - For a While
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UncleBob's Treehouse
URL Source: http://uncabob.blogspot.com/2016/05 ... d-have-been-cop-for-while.html
Published: May 31, 2016
Author: Bob Wallce
Post Date: 2016-05-31 14:20:12 by Turtle
Keywords: None
Views: 609
Comments: 25
I've pointed out before I consider myself a working-class intellectual, although I am no longer working-class. But I was raised that way. Both my parents were high-school dropouts who later got their GEDs. I consider myself to have common sense, a sense of humor, and compassion. So imagine my surprise when some years ago I started reading some of Joseph Wambaugh's novels about his years as a police officer in Los Angeles. Wambaugh wrote the best police officers were working-class, with common sense, a sense of humor, and compassion. In other words, someone with an IQ with 125 is probably going to make a pretty bad police officer. The average police officer IQ is about 107, I think, which is the minimum IQ it takes to get a civilized society off of the ground and functioning. I've never hated cops and have found that people who don't much like them - especially the more boneheaded "libertarians" who think society doesn't need them - live in small, safe towns. Unlike me who was raised with a bunch of psycho criminals. Some people need to be removed from society. Punishment sure as hell doesn't work and "rehabilitation," rarely. The purpose of prison is to remove chronic criminals from society. Personally I don't care if they give criminals whores and drugs (by the way, sex and drugs are easy to get in prisons - it's just sex with men. As for drugs marijuana is easy to get because it calms people down.). Just as long as these people are removed from non-criminal society. I have found stereotypes about people are true. After all, they wouldn't be sterotypes if there wasn't truth to them. Promiscuous, diseased, drug-ridden homosexuals...yep. Impulsive, low-IQ blacks...yep. Nerdy, boring Asians...yep. Alcoholics who act as if they're possessed by demons and you can smell the booze coming out of their pores? You bet. Hookers with hearts of gold? That, well, no. I have never met a police officer who was a liberal. When you have as much experience in life as I have, you wouldn't be a liberal, either. I was the second-closest thing to being a police officer - I owned a taxi for five years. And there is no such thing as a liberal cab driver. We've just about seen it all (about a quarter of the time I felt like I was working vice). Of course there are bad police officers. I'd estimate about ten percent, which of course is way too many. But I'd like to see society function without a minimum of them.
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#1. To: Turtle (#0)
What brashness, arrogant boldness, to consider yourself anything beyond the status of peasant.
I used to be not only a cab owner, but a carpenter when I worked for my father when I was 12 to 22. I even hit my thumb with a hammer.
"Have Brain, Will Travel
Being born into the lowest level of society during the great depression, I decided to never leave as we were all equal among equals. Society must have someone to look down on, otherwise there would be no social status???? Therefore my kind does serve some useful purpose.
LOL I know that I am just a dumb truck driver. But I could read a map and find my way around. I was with this green kid once and he missed two turns in the same trip. I bet he does not drive a truck any longer. I used to go coast to coast, but my first job in Missouri was a dedicated run to Florida every week. Sometimes we would bring back flowers. When we had flowers, we had to stop in north Florida to pick up greens. One time, I walked in there they were all sitting in the break room. I said, "I didn't see you, you didn't see me and we didn't see a thing." They all bust out laughing. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Does it still throb on occasion? ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Don't kid yourself, you still would have been an egotistical prick. "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
ROTFLOL! When I was a kid in Chicago, I was a Junior Patrolman. It was kind of neat, until I realized how crooked the cops really were. Then I became a truck driver and still had to deal with the cops on the road. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
So tell us, somebody -- were the police ever actually good and overall beneficial? I want to believe so, but only the truth will do. People generally live in fear of government. They don't want to admit it, but they do. 90% of us really, really don't like seeing the flashing lights in the rear-view mirror and with good reason. ----------------------------------------------------- Good heavens. Turdle is a Southern Gentleman by birth, by a lifetime of genteel Southern living.
Just couldn't help yourself, or are you going to claim it was just a typo? "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
Now the jig is up, Turtle would have not caught it. He will put a long distance hex on me now.
Sorry to have spoiled your sniping. "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
Thomas Jefferson was right. We need a revolution every 20 years, just to keep the government honest. All of the Founders were Revolutionaries. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Oddity of mankind. After any successful revolution, one of the first laws passed is a ...law banning revolution...
Do you happen to know this from experience? Just asking. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
It is currently impossible for any of the several states to secede from the Union. After the Act of 1871 created the corporate UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, all of the states are subdivisions of the corporation. This effectively stops them from seceding. It is indeed a tangled web. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Do you happen to know this from experience? Just asking. ;) I come from the wrong side of the tracks and have family members in prison, which is why I know those stupid blacks who wear sagging pants don't know that has prison code for "you can screw me in the butt." They also put red Koolaid on their lips. "Have Brain, Will Travel
I think I shall change my Freedom4um handle to "El Fabuloso." "Have Brain, Will Travel
More like La Infinitesimal. Hehehehehe Har T har har.
My pug enjoys brains for a midmorning snack.
"Have Brain, Will Travel
My 20 pound cat would make your pug into a dust mop in ten seconds. Be feathers all over.
To: Cynicom I used to be not only a cab owner, but a carpenter when I worked for my father when I was 12 to 22. I even hit my thumb with a hammer. That is obviously child abuse and proven dangerous since you got hurt, probably scarred for life when the hammer destroyed your finger. It's not only a violation of child labor laws but was essentially slavery. I'm sorry for your experience. CPS should have seized you and raised you instead., and made your parents pay the state for the favor. Perhaps they or you can sue the estate for damages. /s :-) "Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you". Sirach 4:28
I saw a guy lose the tip of his finger one time, and I've seen maybe a pint of blood altogether. "Have Brain, Will Travel
I heard that in Vietnam, they would tie down a monkey and crack its skull open and eat the brains. I was told it was a delicacy. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
How little you know about the wonders of Turtle... "Have Brain, Will Travel
I consider myself a working-class intellectual,
#2. To: Cynicom (#1)
#3. To: Turtle (#2)
#4. To: Cynicom (#1)
What brashness, arrogant boldness, to consider yourself anything beyond the status of peasant.
#5. To: Turtle (#2)
I even hit my thumb with a hammer.
#6. To: Turtle (#0)
I Should Have Been a Cop - For a While
#7. To: Southern Style (#6)
you still would have been an egotistical prick.
#8. To: BTP Holdings (#7)
#9. To: Southern Style (#6)
egotistical prick.
#10. To: Cynicom (#9)
Turdle
#11. To: Southern Style (#10)
Just couldn't help yourself, or are you going to claim it was just a typo?
#12. To: Cynicom (#11)
Now the jig is up, Turtle would have not caught it.
#13. To: NeoconsNailed (#8)
People generally live in fear of government.
#14. To: BTP Holdings (#13)
#15. To: Turtle (#0)
sex and drugs are easy to get in prisons - it's just sex with men.
#16. To: Cynicom (#14)
After any successful revolution, one of the first laws passed is a ...law banning revolution...
#17. To: BTP Holdings (#15)
sex and drugs are easy to get in prisons - it's just sex with men.
#18. To: Southern Style, cynicom (#10)
Turdle
#19. To: Turtle (#18)
"El Fabuloso."
#20. To: Cynicom (#19)
#21. To: Turtle (#20)
#22. To: Turtle (#2)
#23. To: Artisan (#22)
That is obviously child abuse and proven dangerous since you got hurt
#24. To: Turtle (#20)
enjoys brains
#25. To: Southern Style (#6)
Don't kid yourself, you still would have been an egotistical prick.
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