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insanefreak ONLINE (07/02/2015) [-]
Every time I hear people bitch about the police, those people have been fined by them, received a ticket, or done something else that made the police act towards them. They. Do. Their. Jobs. You speeded, did an illegal parking, or whatsoever. Even if you think it was ******** to receive a ticket for it, it's NOT the cops their fault. The government makes the laws, the police enforces them. Yet, the cops get all the hate. What happened to not shooting the messenger?
Personally, I like the cops. All my involvements with them have been positive, even if I have had a few where they gave me a warning. But being polite and human and simply accepting your error and acting on it is enough to get you out of trouble.
I got through the US border guard once, with a case of six beers (.5% alcohol), as an 18 year old Belgian visitor. I explained them that I had brought it along for my friend's dad, as I'd be staying at their house. I asked them what they wanted me to do with it, if I had to leave it behind, trash it, and if there was an option for me to mail it through to them. They just looked at each other, chuckled, and put it back in my suitcase. They helped me on my way, and I spent the next three hours waiting for my flight in pure fear, wondering if they took my luggage apart because I had been hearing frightening stories of the evil American cops. I even bothered some airport personel with it, to no avail. Fear didn't stop until I landed and found my luggage safe and sound.
Cops are humans. Humans are breakable. They do their job, they enforce the laws made by politicians who **** up far more often than the police themselves do, and they often don't like the laws anymore than you do (I once witnessed a cop breaking down in tears at a uni because he was on bicycle check duty and had to return with at least 800 tickets written out and he hated it because the school was a mile away from the station, and had proper bike lanes). Don't blame them, don't hate them, because at the end of the day, they'll be the ones trying to save your ass if you get in trouble.
Personally, I like the cops. All my involvements with them have been positive, even if I have had a few where they gave me a warning. But being polite and human and simply accepting your error and acting on it is enough to get you out of trouble.
I got through the US border guard once, with a case of six beers (.5% alcohol), as an 18 year old Belgian visitor. I explained them that I had brought it along for my friend's dad, as I'd be staying at their house. I asked them what they wanted me to do with it, if I had to leave it behind, trash it, and if there was an option for me to mail it through to them. They just looked at each other, chuckled, and put it back in my suitcase. They helped me on my way, and I spent the next three hours waiting for my flight in pure fear, wondering if they took my luggage apart because I had been hearing frightening stories of the evil American cops. I even bothered some airport personel with it, to no avail. Fear didn't stop until I landed and found my luggage safe and sound.
Cops are humans. Humans are breakable. They do their job, they enforce the laws made by politicians who **** up far more often than the police themselves do, and they often don't like the laws anymore than you do (I once witnessed a cop breaking down in tears at a uni because he was on bicycle check duty and had to return with at least 800 tickets written out and he hated it because the school was a mile away from the station, and had proper bike lanes). Don't blame them, don't hate them, because at the end of the day, they'll be the ones trying to save your ass if you get in trouble.
