Interesting thread yall got here. QD, why didn't you tell me about you having fun in here bro???

Well, I too have a ton of years on a lot of you guys here, QD excluded. I've had more than my ample share of run ins with Police. Every single one of them were merited. I was either deserving because I was acting like a fool or was riding with somebody who was acting like a fool. Either way, each time I've EVER been pulled over, ticketed, or taken to jail it was most certainly merited. I earned every one of them. No need to cry about it. I paid the piper and moved on. To sin no more.....or atleast the next time.

With all that said, I also was an Engineering major in college, but I wanted to be a police officer though. I went throught the big battery of tests you have to go thru to even get into the police academy (on their dime that is) and got accepted. When I was offered the measly pay for a rookie cop in Gwinnett Co., my family (who already hated the idea of me being a cop) didn't like the $23,500 starting salary. My mother, a Real Estate agent, offered me that much money NOT to go into the academy and join her as her assistant. I was a married man with a young child. I had to weigh dreams vs doing the right thing. I chose to go to work with my mother, which now has turned out to be the smartest move I ever made.

My point with all that babbling is that I've been on both sides of the fence, sort of speak. I was far from a saint in my younger days and I was pursuing a career as a cop. I don't know all the politics behind a working police department, but I do know it's not an easy job by far. Some take their jobs seriously, others use it for their own advancements. That happens in every single job anywhere.

I still think, that based on MY experience, that most of the people getting pulled over in traffic stops deserve to be pulled over. If it's later found that it's unwarranted, well the cop's reaction to that is what makes it either a good or bad experience IMO. I also think that some people need to grow up and take their licks like a man. If you do the crime, pay the time. If you are doing something you KNOW is wrong, buck up and take it like a man. Don't turn into this little bitch whinning all of a sudden and FIND excuses for why it happened to YOU. You KNOW why it happened to you. You acted stupid or did something to draw attention to yourself, only to later ask...."who? ME???".

I've had more tickets and suspensions than most people around here could even imagine, let alone match. I deserved all of them and more importantly PAID for all of them dearly. No excuses, just took my licks and finally learned.

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