Cops!!!!!
10-12-2004, 07:27 PM
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""I respectfully have to voice my opposition to your comments:
He gives you a warning, and you title the thread "Cops!!!" in an negative tone
I'd also like to know how/why you classify him as "bored." I assume you say this since he took the time to stop you for a violation that you consider petty in nature, but is 100% legal in his enforcement.""
I agree it is bogus stop. The law as many is just there to support the coffers of the local jurisdiction. I doesn't protect and serve in anyway.
I'm sure theres people out there killing and mugging, but got to get those people with no front license plates, just as long as we got our priorities(sp) strait.
Ralph
He gives you a warning, and you title the thread "Cops!!!" in an negative tone
I'd also like to know how/why you classify him as "bored." I assume you say this since he took the time to stop you for a violation that you consider petty in nature, but is 100% legal in his enforcement.""
I agree it is bogus stop. The law as many is just there to support the coffers of the local jurisdiction. I doesn't protect and serve in anyway.
I'm sure theres people out there killing and mugging, but got to get those people with no front license plates, just as long as we got our priorities(sp) strait.
Ralph
10-12-2004, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by PHPD7102
Not sure about Wisconsin but in Illinois we have no system that logs and tracks "warnings". Chances are the next guy who gets you will have no clue you have already been warned. 
Unless of course it's the same LEO. It's a real minor offense and probably worth the risk of not complying. I lived in CT for years and never ran a front plate. Now in NC it is not required.
10-12-2004, 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Fancy Moses
Well it only took me five months but I finally got pulled over by a bored state trooper and he gave me the old "Where's your front license plate?" Now I have to get it on there and have an officer verify that it is on. What have you all done in this case? I know I'm not the first this has happened to.
P.S. Thanks for letting me vent a little bit.
P.S. Thanks for letting me vent a little bit.
10-12-2004, 09:24 PM
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Wow! Thanks for all of the comments and insight. I apologize for anything that was interpreted as disrespectful toward any officer. I certainly appreciate the sacrifices our law enforcement officers make for all of us.
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
10-12-2004, 10:15 PM
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Originally Posted by GMDGary
While earning a degree at a major university, I was priviledged to know two full professors in Psychology, both of whom were active major city police reservists. Both had interest in and studied police officers. Their interest was based on why anyone would take a dangerous job,near military levels of disciplinary nonsense, and lack of a significant career path for such low pay. As reservists they found it was due to three things 1) controlling power (giving more economically and socially powerful civilians orders and being able to do so with arrogance), 2) cowboyism (carrying a gun and having the right to use it ), and 3) testosterone thrills (driving fast and recklessly, beating up people with nightsticks, gang tackling suspects, etc.). In short, a teenage boy's dream. And both found they loved being reservists for the same reasons.
Now all of us who didn't just fall off a turnip truck know that the vast majority of police officers eventually succumb to the allure of easy money and soon their law enforcement career becomes a very valuable career. They grow up and wisely give more consideration to keeping their career hassle free, and eventually lose the teenage thrill seeker mentality.
Unfortunately, those working traffic violations are the newbies and the hardcore teenage bullies (you don't make a killing on traffic fine bribes).
Do I respect traffic officers - NO, I always see them as uneducated, immature bullies. However, I do try my best to avoid them and its now been 16 years since my last ticket.
Now all of us who didn't just fall off a turnip truck know that the vast majority of police officers eventually succumb to the allure of easy money and soon their law enforcement career becomes a very valuable career. They grow up and wisely give more consideration to keeping their career hassle free, and eventually lose the teenage thrill seeker mentality.
Unfortunately, those working traffic violations are the newbies and the hardcore teenage bullies (you don't make a killing on traffic fine bribes).
Do I respect traffic officers - NO, I always see them as uneducated, immature bullies. However, I do try my best to avoid them and its now been 16 years since my last ticket.
I feel MORE STUPIDER for having read it!!
I guess I will go back to watching reruns of The Dukes Of Hazard and picking on small school children. Maybe I'll even find a beach so I can kick sand in the skinny guys faces.
10-12-2004, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by GMDGary
While earning a degree at a major university, I was priviledged to know two full professors in Psychology, both of whom were active major city police reservists. Both had interest in and studied police officers. Their interest was based on why anyone would take a dangerous job,near military levels of disciplinary nonsense, and lack of a significant career path for such low pay. As reservists they found it was due to three things 1) controlling power (giving more economically and socially powerful civilians orders and being able to do so with arrogance), 2) cowboyism (carrying a gun and having the right to use it ), and 3) testosterone thrills (driving fast and recklessly, beating up people with nightsticks, gang tackling suspects, etc.). In short, a teenage boy's dream. And both found they loved being reservists for the same reasons.
Now all of us who didn't just fall off a turnip truck know that the vast majority of police officers eventually succumb to the allure of easy money and soon their law enforcement career becomes a very valuable career. They grow up and wisely give more consideration to keeping their career hassle free, and eventually lose the teenage thrill seeker mentality.
Unfortunately, those working traffic violations are the newbies and the hardcore teenage bullies (you don't make a killing on traffic fine bribes).
Do I respect traffic officers - NO, I always see them as uneducated, immature bullies. However, I do try my best to avoid them and its now been 16 years since my last ticket.
Now all of us who didn't just fall off a turnip truck know that the vast majority of police officers eventually succumb to the allure of easy money and soon their law enforcement career becomes a very valuable career. They grow up and wisely give more consideration to keeping their career hassle free, and eventually lose the teenage thrill seeker mentality.
Unfortunately, those working traffic violations are the newbies and the hardcore teenage bullies (you don't make a killing on traffic fine bribes).
Do I respect traffic officers - NO, I always see them as uneducated, immature bullies. However, I do try my best to avoid them and its now been 16 years since my last ticket.
uh oh, I see trouble coming. 
10-12-2004, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by speedyboy
Kansas city wee dont have a front license plate 
Maybe not Kansas City Kansas, but in Kansas City Missouri you do! You must be one of the lucky ones on the Kansas side.
10-12-2004, 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by GMDGary
While earning a degree at a major university, I was priviledged to know two full professors in Psychology, both of whom were active major city police reservists. Both had interest in and studied police officers. Their interest was based on why anyone would take a dangerous job,near military levels of disciplinary nonsense, and lack of a significant career path for such low pay. As reservists they found it was due to three things 1) controlling power (giving more economically and socially powerful civilians orders and being able to do so with arrogance), 2) cowboyism (carrying a gun and having the right to use it ), and 3) testosterone thrills (driving fast and recklessly, beating up people with nightsticks, gang tackling suspects, etc.). In short, a teenage boy's dream. And both found they loved being reservists for the same reasons.
Now all of us who didn't just fall off a turnip truck know that the vast majority of police officers eventually succumb to the allure of easy money and soon their law enforcement career becomes a very valuable career. They grow up and wisely give more consideration to keeping their career hassle free, and eventually lose the teenage thrill seeker mentality.
Unfortunately, those working traffic violations are the newbies and the hardcore teenage bullies (you don't make a killing on traffic fine bribes).
Do I respect traffic officers - NO, I always see them as uneducated, immature bullies. However, I do try my best to avoid them and its now been 16 years since my last ticket.
Now all of us who didn't just fall off a turnip truck know that the vast majority of police officers eventually succumb to the allure of easy money and soon their law enforcement career becomes a very valuable career. They grow up and wisely give more consideration to keeping their career hassle free, and eventually lose the teenage thrill seeker mentality.
Unfortunately, those working traffic violations are the newbies and the hardcore teenage bullies (you don't make a killing on traffic fine bribes).
Do I respect traffic officers - NO, I always see them as uneducated, immature bullies. However, I do try my best to avoid them and its now been 16 years since my last ticket.
Clearly, you have no idea what a Law Enforcement Officer does and/or is subject to on any given day. The reward is something I doubt you'll ever understand. Your supposition on the motive to become a Police Officer is ridiculous and WRONG. Congrats on your 16 year driving record.
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10-13-2004, 12:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Cscokd
[cor99vette]Having spent 27 years in law enforcement, I have heard everything, and have been more then fair with all my contacts, but, this complaint is frivolous and worthy of no sympathy 
Gosh, LOL...I really don't think he was asking for your sympathy...just venting with his vette friends and you got your 27 year panties in a bunch...understandable...think you just need to chill a little, drink a beer and have a little fun with the boys...remember you're retired now, right?....IMHO
Gosh, LOL...I really don't think he was asking for your sympathy...just venting with his vette friends and you got your 27 year panties in a bunch...understandable...think you just need to chill a little, drink a beer and have a little fun with the boys...remember you're retired now, right?....IMHO
10-13-2004, 12:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Mark S.
With a lot of cities now installing Red-Light Runner Cameras at various intersections...the front plate issue will never go away...
10-13-2004, 01:04 AM
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Originally Posted by keanucosmo
I think front plates are just a hold over from another era.
Maybe but, it still makes identification easier if a vehicle is facing you.
10-13-2004, 01:12 AM
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You'd be surprised how many criminals are caught because the LEO pulled them over for some minor infraction and investigated further...
Bottomline, if a trooper sees something illegal, he's paid and obligated to do something about it....and at risk to his/her own life...
Bottomline, if a trooper sees something illegal, he's paid and obligated to do something about it....and at risk to his/her own life...
