Reader: Are College Boys Making for Cowardly Cops?

By Pete Kotz in Police bungling

Monday, November 23, 2009 at 8:00 am

Are college boy cops more likely to resort to force?

Reader Dave responds to Caught on Tape: 73-Year-Old is Tasered During Traffic Stop:

"I'm a retired state trooper. Police officers who use a tazer on 10 year old girls and elderly women should be fired. This may be a side effect of hiring college grads with degrees in lieu of high school grads who actually had a real job or military experience before they applied.

"Of course this is a generalization and there are many cops with degrees who do great work, but we seem to have such a problem these days with cowardly cops instantly resorting to a defensive weapon, even when the "perp" is a little kid. Pretty pathetic."

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I agree with this post. I know a guy, he is about 25 years old, who grew up having everything handed to him... His parents paid for him to go to school, bought him everything. He went to college to be a police officer. A guy was drowning in a pond after falling through the ice a few years ago, and afterwards, I saw this "cop" out. He says, "I was so mad.. I didn't want to get my boots wet". They don't want to get their hands dirty. Then you have cops like Corp. Bruce McKay, who was shot and killed two years ago in New Hampshire. You can see the videos on YouTube of his motor vehicle stops -- (that he was later critisized for) -- and he was just doing his job. He was critisized and called a 'rogue' cop. And then after he was killed, some people had the audacity to say he 'asked for it'. I think, no matter what, we now live in a society that will always point the finger at the police... I'm not saying the police are ALWAYS right. But what ever happened to people taking responsibility for their actions? I've never been tasered or pepper-sprayed.. then again, I do what I'm told.
Woops, my answer was intended for the removed post. If that is so, then my comment has no meaning now. And I think the retired state trooper is damn right, what kind of coward resorts to a defensive weapon against a kid or elderly women.
Police officers are not enforcing the Laws of God nor are they enforcing the laws of Satan. They are the enforcing the laws of humans. And some of them believe in God and try to be as unsatanic as possible within the system. What are you trying to do with saying everything is satanic. Are you trying to let people know it is satanic? Or convince them of some sort of belief? What is the intention of your message? And if some wrath is happening because of some god, then it happens and the people who do right will get awarded and the people who do wrong not. There is nothing to be afraid of if you did good otherwise if you did, it will be all your own fault and you will deserve it. Nothing wrong with the world, plenty of wrong with humans and whatever humans do with the world.

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