do cops screw up ?? .... sure they do ..... everyone does from time to
time ..... but think what your world would be like without them
....... think long and hard . they aren't perfect , but they work
24 hours a day to make our lives a little bit better and most do a
pretty go job in the process.

You make some valid points there. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt
that you live in a city where police are actually fighting crime.
Unfortunately, in my city, the police are rather corrupt, partially not
their own fault, but because of my town's city council. I can't walk to
work without bumping into a drug dealer downtown begging me for
money/cigarettes/etc., but if I take a stroll in the ritzi white upper class
district, it is crawling with cops (the excuse is that they are doing "radar
training"). If you don't want people to talk "police conspiracy", show your
hand to the public, and don't hide.



ha ah a ..... it's kinda opposite what you see around here. I admit
that I do live in the north side ( upscale ) part of my town , but
this town is nationally famous for having the 2nd highest national
poverty rate ( 2nd to Cleveland , Ohio and this is California ) , it
has the highest car theft rate in the west , and the highest amount
of people out of work and not looking for employment ( about 237,000
people unemployed and not looking for work ) . more than 57% of the
town is latino and 17% asian , the rest mixed including whites.
it has an estimated 170,000 illegal immigrants living here as well.

the cops are thick as flies down in the less fortunate parts of town
but nearly invisible up here in the north side. I will say that I'm
impressed with them tho .... as I called them about someone in a
neighbor's yard a few weeks ago ( my neighbor that had lost his keys
and was trying to break into his own house ) ... and in less than 3
minutes there were 3 patrol cars and a helicopter here on scene.
people in the less fortunate parts of town complain they can't get a
cop to come for 1 to 2 hours and that ' we " get special treatment
...... perhaps I'm inclined to agree with those complaints as I
certainly got fast service when I called. this town has over 16,000
registered gang bangers and thousands more " associates " ....
and the local cops have waged " war " on gangs with full out
efforts to get rid of them.

cops get shot and killed around here quite frequently ( usually by
bank robbers and gang bangers ) and they have a very messy job in
these parts of the country. I wouldn't trade places with one of them
, no matter what the pay they receive. they earn every penny of it
........ the hard way.