Yellowrose, please thank your son and I wish him all the best and many successes. I think it is amazing that he wants to make a difference, so many don't!

i'm sorry for your loss. my condolences.

See??? this is the problem. You continually have hatred toward cops because of your mistakes in life. You are the reason that you lost your rights....not anyone elses.

There is NO reason for your sympathies...I don't need it. I am VERY proud of my son. He is a great kid (now an adult) and I know he will be a great cop. It's the people with the hatred that I worry about. Every time a cop stops someone for speeding...the driver could pull a gun. But what some drivers don't see and only want to whine about is how they got a ticket for what THEY did. Speeding could cause accidents. Don't blame others for your choice in life. Until you can own up to things and let go of the hate...you will keep spinning your wheels....plan and simple.

I have an uncle in prison and has been there since my son was a baby. He is VERY proud to hear my son wants to be a cop. Why??? Because my uncle owned up to what he did in life and doesn't blame others for his wrongs

Thank you ledi... I couldn't be prouder of him. He doesn't want to be a cop for the money that's for sure

No pay and little respect (obv!!) He has a good heart and I'm sure he has you to thank

WELL,,,,, CONGRATULATIONS on her success,,,,as my handsome son is ALSO a police officer, wink

He's a motor cycle cop......and I am soooo proud of him and his work he does....

AMEN to THIS!!!!

Did you just want us all to agree with you and hate on cops? You're really not interested in or respectful of others opinion? Not being rude, just curious.

no i didn't start this thread as a rally for everyone who posts to hate on police. i started it because of a discussion on another thread that became more or less this, so this thread is for people who like to share their love for, or contempt of police.

i think i may have offended or upset yellowrose. for this i am sorry. i guess it really caught me when she said something about her son becoming a jailer to "make a difference". what difference he will make starting out as a jailer and does he really believe that or does she really believe that, i dunno, i guess because i've seen what goes on there. but i didn't mean to be disrespectful to yellowrose. please forgive me if that was the way it was interpreted.

my interest in and respect of other people's opinions has been called into question now. my interest in other people's opinion on this matter lies with developing conversation and whatnot. my respect of people's opinions... with the exception of the aforementioned instance, where i suppose i must have come off as disrespectful, please note that it was not my intent to do so. but if there is some other instance where i have been disrespectful of someone's opinion please bring this to my attention. i don't feel that i have attacked anyone for stating their opinion. in spite of being attacked personally for stating mine. but in hindsight i can see how this happened and how it was my fault. i wasn't clear and something i meant in a way different from the way it was interpreted was taken as an insult or as disrespect and it was returned in kind. so i understand it.

and ledi, sciawwy, i didn't understand why u said something about being rude versus curious.

skanktricil,

I'm not upset or offended at all. I do, however, think that it might be a cause for the problems you post about though. It was meant as a way to help you.

You misunderstood. I meant he wanted to be a cop to make a difference. But even jailers can make a difference if they do their job. I said he wanted to be a jailer while getting his degree to be a cop

yellowrose,

yes, please forgive me, i think sometimes the thoughts i am having don't fully develop into words that i can express and so certain things that i mean to be saying are left off and what actually results may sound or be interpreted as off... i recognize this and i am quick to apologize and assume responsibility for my lack of consideration, not fully reading what i have written and considering how someone may interpret what i am saying. in my mind i mean one thing, yet when someone else reads it, they see something else.

i guess, what i meant is that, i don't follow how he will make a difference working from the jail. i know what goes on in jails. been in a few... just a few though.

i apologize for the misunderstanding, i failed to consider how u might interpret what i said. i didn't mean to be disrespectful to you. please know this. i do not mean any disrespect to you or your son at all.

He doesn't want to make a difference by being a jailer. It is a job to get into law enforcement. I already said it is being a cop that he wants to make a difference.

I know about jails and prisons as well. I worked for the Arlington PD myself. My uncle is in prison and has been all of my son's life. the prison guards helped him see what he did.

I had a friend once that made a pretty educated observation. We were talking about crooked cops which seem to be plenty in Utah and he said "I think a lot of cops get into that line of work for the right reasons, to change their community for the better...but down the road politics and survival become necessity and they have to make choices they wouldn't have made when they started, choices they would have been morally against before being a police officer for years. Once you're trapped into a life you can't just pickup and move to another job, they've trained for years to become police officers and most for the right reasons...and now they are stuck.".

I'm not here to say all cops are bad, I've met a couple of good ones but far too many terrible cops to even make the good cops worthwhile. I don't hate cops, I have a high contempt of authority regardless of where it comes from and what colors it dresses down in...I've just had the rotten luck of being in an area that cops don't really care about in the first place and could honestly care less about reaching out to their community. The many outweigh the few.

I think the community matters alot. Just like some communities tend to have a higher concentration of crime, some tend to have a higher concentration of crooked cops. In Las Vegas, starting salary for a policeman , after academy, is $52,000 PLUS there are crazy , crazy, home loan and car loan discounts for those on the force. For someone, lets say, in their early 20s that is a HELL of an incentinve(especially in this economy).

I dont hear much about abuse of power here(of course there are many who dont live to complain about it called 'justified' shootings and deaths).

I live a law abiding life and hope that I am never in the wrong place at the wrong time or misidentified by some cop or victim. No profession is 100 percent full of people with good intentions but I like to believe that most cops probably start as youngsters wanting to make some difference.