What are Police Officers made of?

[LadyLawman]

A Police Officer is a composition of all good things, a mingling of saint and sinner, dust and deity.. Less then one-half of 1 percent of police officer misfit the uniform.

He or She of all people, is at once the most wanted and the most unwanted ..Suddenly, the officer becomes the diplomat and settle differences between individuals, so each person will think they won.

If a police officer is pleasant, they are flirt's, if they are not they are a grouch...They must be able to: start breathing, Stop bleeding, Tie splints, and above all be sure the victim goes home without a limp- or expect to be sued...

They must know every gun, draw on the run, and hit where it doesn't hurt. They must be able to whip two people twice their size and half their age without damaging their uniforms and without "brutal excessive force."

If a person hits an officer first, the officer is labled a coward. If the officer hits a person first, then they are labled a bully or to aggressive. an officer must know where all the sin is and not partake in it. An officer must chase bum leads to a dead end and stake out many nights to tag one witness who saw it happened, but refused to remember.

An officer must risk their lives 10 times in one day, to save one person or bring little lost Johnny home safely. An officer must know God, for God knows officers must chase and pursue bad guys in their autos or on foot relentlessly, never giving up, but always "getting their man."

An officer must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, a good guy, a salesman, assistant to the undertaker and a gentleman or a lady. An officer must never show emotion, always show a smile and waive to the public, even when they are ill.

An officer must always mend and never offend and pray to go home safely at the end of the day. An officer of course, must be above all- a genius-for they will have to feed a family on a police officer's salary.

THe origional author of this is unknown. I was given this while still attending the Academy. One of my instructors added some to it from his personal experiences, and I thought I would share it with everyone one the board. I hope you all enjoy. :)

[Bart]

whomever wrote this crap is trying to make the profession seem more profound than it really is. in the end, its just a freakin job with ups and downs like every other profession. if i won the lottery tonight, id quit tomorrow. :rolleyes:

[Delta784]

Originally posted by Bart
whomever wrote this crap is trying to make the profession seem more profound than it really is. in the end, its just a freakin job with ups and downs like every other profession.

I'm not really a fan of that type of woe-is-me me stuff, either. :(

[LadyLawman]

Gee sorry guys I didn't think it was that bad.

[retired]

I thought it was somewhat insipid.

[LadyLawman]

Ok my bad I'll not put nothing like that on here again :p

[Contact]

"What are police officers full of?"

Try that one. ;)

[Frank Booth]

whomever wrote this crap is trying to make the profession seem more profound than it really is.

I concur with Bart....Same goes for the "You're not the police until you eat them"...or taste them....or whatever that little ditty was...

[easy-e1]

Originally posted by StephWhit
"What are police officers made of?"

Sugar and spice and everthing nice...

Yeah, right.he he he:D :D
Maybe a few too many pizzas and beers, and hopefully no more McD's or any fast crap for that matter.

[ltroller]

Blood and spit,
and LOTS o' s%@t,

THAT's what cops are made of.


Signed,

Mother-F*#%ing Goose.

[code3_K9]

**** and Vinegar...

[sureshot015]

thats the kind of thing that my mom would e-mail me, and likely, that is the demographic this thing is going to....mothers with a kid who is an LEO. I cant really picture an LEO sitting down to write that, but like I said, I could picture my mother getting all teary eyed over it.

[Caprice66]

Originally posted by Bart
whomever wrote this crap is trying to make the profession seem more profound than it really is. in the end, its just a freakin job with ups and downs like every other profession. if i won the lottery tonight, id quit tomorrow. :rolleyes:

Why would you let it go so easily??

[Bart]

Originally posted by Caprice66
Why would you let it go so easily??

how many people in their right mind would keep working if they instantly became a multi millionaire?

[Bart]

Originally posted by sureshot015
thats the kind of thing that my mom would e-mail me, and likely, that is the demographic this thing is going to....mothers with a kid who is an LEO. I cant really picture an LEO sitting down to right that, but like I said, I could picture my mother getting all teary eyed over it.

exactly. people get all teary eyed over this nonsense and all it does is alienate us from everybody else. crap essays like this try to put us on a pedestal causing the public to lose sight of the fact that we are everyday people like everybody else. people forget that we have bills to pay, mouths to feed, marital problems, family problems and every other thing that regular people go through.

im not a tough guy. im not the most compassionate person on the planet. im probably the farthest thing from the cop described in that essay. i dont go to work because of any profound higher calling. i go to work to maintain a lifestyle.

[code3_K9]

Originally posted by Caprice66
Why would you let it go so easily??

I could give you 1 million reasons... Even if that was the bare minimum that I won...

Lets see, I come into X million dollars, and Im still gonna put up with ****bags everyday? I might still do it for a while, but come on... Theres so many other things I would do... Finish school, travel, buy useless ammounts of **** that i dont need... Be on MTV Cribs.. lol

Sure Id miss a lot of the job, but come on... I'll be damned if Im gonna get shot by some clown when Ive got a few million in the bank at home...

But hey, thats just me...

[Bart]

Originally posted by code3_K9
I could give you 1 million reasons... Even if that was the bare minimum that I won...


i dont know man. i would need more than that. id say maybe 15 million is my threshhold.

[LadyLawman]

Well No I didn't get this from my mom she passed away in 96. We were told to bring in a frame by an instructor one day and he had printed that out and gave it to us. I don't in anway think it was meant in the way ya'll are taking it.I meant this post to be uplifting not to **** off anyone or make ya'll think we are on some sort of pedestal. Obviously you didn't get into this life because of the fame or fortune. Gee I know we all got into Law Enforcement to "Help People" ... YEAH RIGHT!!
I already apologized for posting it. So let me do it again

I AM SORRY I WILL NOT POST ANYTHING THOUGHT TO BE UPLIFTING ANYMORE :rolleyes: :p :eek: :D

[PDWard40]

Well.. Im still young on the job, but got into LE because I thought I could make a difference.. and I tell myself thats why I do it every night I lace up my boots. Im definitely not the guy they portray in the essay but who is?

Keep posting Lady, there are some people out here that actually dont mind to read that stuff

[Delta784]

PDWard, you were born the same month & same year that I graduated high school.

Thanks for making me feel old. :(





:D

[That Guy]

Originally posted by PDWard40
Keep posting Lady, there are some people out here that actually dont mind to read that stuff

I second that. Though Bart did make a point that we ourselves, are normal people like everyone else. But we are being asked to do a job that really gets the double edged sword. I did not get into this field for the money or just to have a job. The ones who do come in for those reaosns, I find leave after a couple of years. I also see these same people become slugs who hide behind a desk. Eventhough you may not admit it, it takes a little more to suit up.

TGY

[LadyLawman]

well Like I said I meant it to be uplifting and something a little different then we are used to hearing. I didnt mean to post it on here as some sort of hero crap. I simply meant it to be light. It does however say some things that are true and some of how the public pereives us. I know what this job entails and I know that none of us see ourselves that way.

For those who did enjoy it ....great thats what it was meant for. :)
For those who didn't well am sorry but but I simply said I hope you enjoy it , but opinions are like @$$holes everyone has one and maybe you should learn to lighten up a bit. After all life especially in this line of work is too short to be uptight.:p

As for posting on here I'll still post it just won't be that type of stuff anymore. ;)

[ltroller]

LadyLawman, you post what you want. We can always scroll past it....

Stuff like that "uplifts" cops to that proverbial pedestal.

Most cops are very practical people. If you want to hold me up as a hero, that's fine. Most people will say that the police are heroes. Then they spit holler and swear when they get a traffic ticket. (And GOD FORBID that city council shouldpropose a tax increase to support the local "heroes.")

All we are doing is a job that we love. If you want to "uplift" the profession, how 'bout contacting your legislators and seeing what you can do about helping us put a kid through college without having to find side jobs 3-4 nights of the week for the extra cash?

There. That's my two cents worth. Who do I see about getting my penny worth of change?

[That Guy]

Originally posted by ltroller
LadyLawman, you post what you want. We can always scroll past it....

Stuff like that "uplifts" cops to that proverbial pedestal.


If cops become egotistical after reading these things, they were before they read it. I look at these as a reminder of the things we in LE face, and know I'm not alone.

TGY

[Joseph]

I'm with you sure shot.:D

[Caprice66]

Originally posted by Bart
how many people in their right mind would keep working if they instantly became a multi millionaire?

Well... I am going to have to be one of those "not in there right minds". Given, I am not a LEO, at least not yet; because of that and because I want the job so bad no amount of money will stop me from getting there.

Lets come back to this thread in lets say, 5-10 years and i'll see where I am at then, lol.

code3_K9, as far as buying useless amounts of stuff... I might be doing a lot of that, lol, :D .

[forcefedfreak]

[i] As for posting on here I'll still post it just won't be that type of stuff anymore. ;) [/B]

I think it was a nice passage. And I think it should be called what an officer is SUPPOSED to be made of. Maybe you aren't getting a good response because very few people who post here don't have those qualities. Not everyone fits the bill. And like already posted above, some people leave a few years after becoming an officer.

[narc]

ladylawman,

post whatever you want......don't let others bully you. "F... them" they don't rate you and aren't your boss.

I kinda like it...:)

[retired]

Originally posted by narc
ladylawman,

post whatever you want......don't let others bully you. "F... them" they don't rate you and aren't your boss.

I kinda like it...:)


I didn't read where anyone told her or tried to bully her into not posting. All I read were opinons that disagreed with the contents of the post. Like you and me, she is free to post what she wants as long as the moderators, (if they exist) don't censor or delete it.:)

[narc]

read the the sencond and third post basically giving her S**T for posting something they thought was cheesy...and by the sixth post she's apologizing...and by post 17 she apologizing AGAIN..by the 20th post she gives em the finger ..but still APOLOGIZES....whatever...NO need to APOLOGIZE. what caused her to back down initally ....two people ( and a couple more)who basically said that cheesy and you must be NEW. Since she's probably a proby,boot or still in the academy its not hard for someone "SALTY" to say hey that's "DORKY" and then she feels bad. DId you forget we COPS are "masters of the mind game or mind F..." whichever you prefer...we should save it for the dirtbags....not each other.

NUFF said ...my opinion of course :D

[retired]

Originally posted by narc
read the the sencond and third post basically giving her S**T for posting something they thought was cheesy...and by the sixth post she's apologizing...and by post 17 she apologizing AGAIN..by the 20th post she gives em the finger ..but still APOLOGIZES....whatever...NO need to APOLOGIZE. what caused her to back down initally ....two people ( and a couple more)who basically said that cheesy and you must be NEW. Since she's probably a proby,boot or still in the academy its not hard for someone "SALTY" to say hey that's "DORKY" and then she feels bad. DId you forget we COPS are "masters of the mind game or mind F..." whichever you prefer...we should save it for the dirtbags....not each other.

NUFF said ...my opinion of course :D

Again, I read the comments by Bart and Delta, and I fail to see where they were giving her $hit as you put it. She is the one who chose to apologize, for what I don't know. I didn't read where anyone told or asked her to apologize. Maybe because she had done nothing to apologize for.

Anyway, just my humble opinion. :)

[Delta784]

Originally posted by narc
read the the sencond and third post basically giving her S**T for posting something they thought was cheesy

How am I "giving her ****" for saying that I'm not a fan of such things? :confused:

[Frank Booth]

Alright..I'm going to post MY favorite police "speech". It is, of course made up of the words of the inimitable Jack Webb as Joe Friday. This is the edited version. I had the full-length version, but can't find it. Basically, Joe and Bill are working Internal Affairs, and must interrogate a young rookie cop (Kent McCord from "Adam-12") who is accused of holding up a liquor store while working narcotics. My favorite line is "...girls who can't keep an address and men who don't care." I guess I'm just a man who don't care!!



"It's awkward having a policeman around the house. Friends drop in, a man with a badge answers the door, the temperature drops 20 degrees.

You throw a party and that badge gets in the way. All of a sudden there isn't a straight man in the crowd. Everybody's a comedian. "Don't drink too much," somebody says, "or the man with a badge'll run you in." Or "How's it going, Dick Tracy? How many jaywalkers did you pinch today?" And then there's always the one who wants to know how many apples you stole.

All at once you lost your first name. You're a cop, a flatfoot, a bull, a dick, John Law. You're the fuzz, the heat; you're poison, you're trouble, you're bad news. They call you everything, but never a policeman.

It's not much of a life, unless you don't mind missing a Dodger game because the hotshot phone rings. Unless you LIKE working Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, at a job that doesn't pay overtime. Oh, the pay's adequate-- if you count pennies you can put your kid through college, but you better plan on seeing Europe on your television set.

And then there's your first night on the beat. When you try to arrest a drunken prostitute in a Main St. bar and she rips your new uniform to shreds. You'll buy another one-- out of your own pocket.

And you're going to rub elbows with the elite-- pimps, addicts, thieves, bums, winos, girls who can't keep an address and men who don't care. Liars, cheats, con men-- the class of Skid Row.

And the heartbreak-- underfed kids, beaten kids, molested kids, lost kids, crying kids, homeless kids, hit-and-run kids, broken-arm kids, broken-leg kids, broken-head kids, sick kids, dying kids, dead kids. The old people nobody wants-- the reliefers, the pensioners, the ones who walk the street cold, and those who tried to keep warm and died in a $3 room with an unventilated gas heater.

You'll walk your beat and try to pick up the pieces. Do you have real adventure in your soul? You better have, because you're gonna do time in a prowl car. Oh, it's going to be a thrill a minute when you get an unknown trouble call and hit a backyard at 2 in the morning, never knowing who you'll meet-- a kid with a knife, a pill-head with a gun, or two ex-cons with nothing to lose.

And you're going to have plenty of time to think. You'll draw duty in a lonely car, with nobody to talk to but your radio.

Four years in uniform and you'll have the ability, the experience and maybe the desire to be a detective. If you like to fly by the seat of your pants, this is where you belong. For every crime that's committed, you've got 3 million suspects to choose from. And most of the time, you'll have few facts and a lot of hunches. You'll run down leads that dead-end on you. You'll work all-night stakeouts that could last a week. You'll do leg work until you're sure you've talked to everybody in the state of California.

And paperwork? You'll write enough words in your lifetime to stock a library. You'll learn to live with doubt, anxiety, frustration. Court decisions that tend to hinder rather than help you. Dorado, Morse, Escobedo, Cahan. You'll learn to live with the District Attorney, testifying in court, defense attorneys, prosecuting attorneys, judges, juries, witnesses. And sometimes you're not going to be happy with the outcome.

But there's also this: there are over 5,000 men in this city, who know that being a policeman is an endless, glamourless, thankless job that's gotta be done.

I know it, too, and I'm damn glad to be one of them."

[hanuman]

Hey lady,

I appreciate the post. I read the paper everyday, and most of what I read seems to paint the PD in a neg light. I don't mind reading something a little cheery or uplifting everynow and then, even if it is a little hokey :)

More importantly if it cheers YOU up, then by all means post away!

[Abby]

Lady, nice post. As for the rest, for those that think the post was "sappy", why so many responses?? I would think that just like in any profession, some are nice, some not. I just hope the next time I am doing 45 in a 25 that the officer is sweet as pie....LOL

[LadyLawman]

Thanks all!! Like I said I didn't mean it to be anything but uplifiting. So many days I read the paper and watch the news and hear and see the negativity LE has to deal with. I am trying my damnest to get a job in LE and I can promise one thing.... once I get the job I will be as dedicated as those who have spent their life doing this job and retired from it. I graduated from the Academy which I put myself through, but its something I have wanted to do all my life and finally did it. I am not going for glitz and glamour cause this really is a thankless job and we all know it. When someone gets pulled over they treat you like your the biggest threat to society. I was not trying to glamourize this line of work just simply enlighten it. I also want those who are not in LE to read that and get a better understanding of how they see us but in a lighter gentler way. I want to show people we are not all like those who give the badge and uniform a bad name. We have enough of those and they overshadow those who go about their day without doing something to dishonor those who have fallen and still serve in honor. I appreciate both the negative and good comments on the post one way or another it touched some of you the way it was meant and others well.... took it for how they saw it in their own way, and you know what? thats fine too.

PEACE :)

[narc]

retired and bart,

you see it one way and I see it another....;)

[retired]

Originally posted by narc
retired and bart,

you see it one way and I see it another....;)

That's fair. :)