Some of you out there are a little angry about my articles depicting the police of our fair little town as some what over paid and under used....now I would like to clear up my actual belief of them....

The concept of officer of the peace is in fact a great idea, because in a modern society you need a uniformed set of laws that govern everybody and everybody knows so that everyone is on a level playing field. However, over the years that perception, and it is part to do with busy bodies allowing them to, has warped into police being a governing body backed by a powerful militia that instead of simply keeping the peace they enforce rules and regulations that they should have no control over. Like a officer of the peace should not arrest you for not wearing a seat belt...Where does that warrant being pulled over? They have warped from officers of the peace to Police Officers. A combat ready units that enforce, control, and regulate the citizens of the nation.

Furthermore, another bone I have with them is the fact that their motto is "to protect and serve" It should be "to deceive and arrest" In the police academy they teach officers how to get people, unwillingly and unknowingly give up their basic rights granted us under the constitution. Instead of informing you what your rights are they try to deny you as many as they can. You don't believe me? Check it out...most of these things come from the ACLU

When a officer first approaches your car what is the first this he asks you? Do you know why I pulled you over? Any answer but no automatically avoids your right not self incriminate yourself. If you say, "I think I was speeding..." right there you gave up your right to not self incriminate yourself. Do they tell you this no.....

Also the reasonable cause they can search your car without a warrant. I have had my car searched because the officer "smelled" weed. That is borderline ridiculous because I don't smoke, but he had reasonable cause to search. He of course found nothing...but he smelled it....ummm

A police officer won't tell you that the roadside sobriety test or portable breathalysers that the officers carry do not hold up in court. The only reason they give them to you is to see if they should arrest you take you down town and make you take the real one, the real breathalyser is a large box down at the station. The consequence for refusing a sobriety test or road side breath test is a fine, that is it, yet they will allow you to believe that the test they are administering is the real deal and refusal will mean license suspension.

They ask you trick questions that when you give a basic answer void the need to get a warrant to search your property.

Also, police have no problems with lying right to your face...watch cops sometime, see how a officer will talk to one suspect then turn around and tell another suspect a completely different story then the one they just heard, to try to get a confession out of someone. This takes away their 5th amendment, which says that no person shall be called upon to be a witness against himself. However, the police just got the suspect to wave that right.

Also, they have unwritten codes of conduct that allow certain people to break the law, while entrapping others. Take this for example. My ex roommate's dad was a life long high way patrol officer and my roommate had never received any kind of citation or ticket. He said he had been pulled over multiple times drunk, high on drugs, speeding, reckless driving, yet some how had never received a ticket, because most of the officers knew his dad on a first name basis....even if they didn't know my rm they knew the last name. One story he told me that he had been at a party, underage, and was driving home drunk, when he was pulled over for swerving, the officer simply allowed him to go, drunk, underage, and even let him drive, he did however followed him home to make sure he got there.....wow. That wasn't the only story he had tons of them.

Ask a police officer if he would give jump in front of a bullet for a fellow officer...ok then ask him if he would lie in court for a fellow officer....ummm kind of funny that a police officer will take a bullet for a fellow officer but won't lie in court for them...yea right, there are countless stories of officers lying for each other and or covering up info...

Ask them if there is a code of conduct about "snitching" on a fellow officer...even if the fellow officer is breaking the law, the reality is that none of the other officers are going to report it...unless it is very serious.

Also, the constitution was set up so that it was weighted towards the common man, however, the laws following it have been weighted toward the police. If you are given a ticket, the only way to get it revoked is to show up in court. That is why police look for out of state residents, because if they hand out even a hundred dollars, what is the likely hood that the person is going to drive from their house to the court house multiple times. The first time is on how you plead, then you get a court date, so on.

Another issue is that the DA, is more interested in covering up bad police, rather than removing them. Look at a local case, the DA did nothing to the officers, and I am sure that such a high profile case had more than one, who repeatedly denied Lebrum access to a lawyer. What do you say to that officer? Good job? No, look at cases around the country of officers committing terrible crimes and walking pretty much scott free.

Esteban Carpio, was beaten so badly by officers that he suffered brain damage. He was handcuffed taken away, and when he appeared in court the next day, wow, he was beaten so badly that he was pretty much un recognizable. The officers responsible for doing this, got off scott free because the DA didn't think it was worth going after them.

During the Civil Rights movement, about 40 or so years ago, police used dogs, high pressure water hoses, and beatings to keep people from demonstrating their rights. What ever happened to those officers? Nothing, the DA refused to go after them.

Look at the Dade County Police Dept. over 20 officers were indicted for corruption, money laundering, or distribution of cocaine. These are police officers, the very men we pay to stop bad guys. You want to know who indicted these men, the feds, because the DA wouldn't.

Sean Bell, killed by NYC under cover police offices who ordered Sean Bell to raise his hands yet never identified himself as a officer, the officers fired 51 shots, one officers fired 30 by himself, that is firing and reloading 3 times. The officers were later cleared off all wrong by a judge because he didn't like Sean's friends, the court did not find them “credible.” The prosecution later found a more “credible” source in a local drug dealer who testified that Sean had attacked him, this was of course a plea bargain.

Now you might be saying to yourself, all those stories JBR those are of other officers, not my local officers, those guys are good, not like all the other ones you mentioned. Well, what is the difference between them, the local ones here call the ones over there “fellow officers” they aren't any different.

Finally, even when a officer is convicted and sent to jail, the likely hood that he will be in jail is small, usually they segregate the police officers off from the general population. Why? Because in the pecking order of prison, police, chimos, and rapist make up the bottom of the stack. Yet, most people say, who cares of a chimo or rapist is stabbed in prison, if they can't do the time don't do the crime, yet why give convicted felons special treatment just because they were at one time a cop? Oh, Mr. Officer if you can't do the time, don't do the crime....right? Any cop will tell you, if they ever get sent to jail, the likely hood of them ever walking out alive is small, unless they are segregated from the rest of the population. We should say, no segregation in prison, not for cops, not for chimos, not for rapist, not for anyone.

I like to sit around and laugh at people who stick their heads in the sand and scream that all the police are good, when it is self evident that not all are good. You scream down the people who try to point out the bad apples by saying that, oh he hates the police because he is a criminal, or because he wants to break the law. Ok, no I am tired of giving police officers pass when they commit crimes because they represent the law, they can break it?

Any way my friends, bang on your key boards, yell scream, type in my url and plan my demise, call you local police officer up and give them my name and tell them to deal with me....the voice of reason and truth can not be stopped, all that I have laid out is facts, facts shall rule the day, so in closing, please save your sob stories or emotionally charged arguments for someone who cares, because I don't. If you want to have a real debate feel free to chime in, but do your research, and don't pull crap off the top of your head. Like many people do to try to respond to my articles.