Police wasting my tax dollars

[public servant]

Who does this SOB think he is?? I pay his salary!!! He should be fired! He should lose his pension and go directly to jail!

Dashcam: Police officer plays football with lonely kid - YouTube

 

[jontheturboguy]

He's doing it wrong.

Jackboot goes on neck, not ground.

 

[Nmathew24]

Even though he is "wasting tax dollars" the positive interaction the officer mafe with this kid may end up changing his life forever.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Even though he is "wasting tax dollars" the positive interaction the officer mafe with this kid may end up changing his life forever.

^^^THIS^^^

 

[atvdave]

Our tax dollars will be paying him anyway even if he's just setting in his car eating jelly donuts are being kind and playing a little catch with some kid.


http://www.2dayfm.com.au/scoopla/trending-now/blog/2014/1/policeman-plays-footy-with-lonely-kid/

 

[tenring]

OP has a bad case of Cranial Rectitus !

 

[calum]

I'm going to give OP a break and assume he was being facetious.

This may very well have been the best thing the officer did all day. Obviously there's a lot we don't know; what district was the officer assigned to and what else was going on in it at the time, what was that neighborhood like, etc. But many kids are being raised with negative perceptions about the police being PUSHED on them by their parents and peers (there's some good video evidence of this out on youtube), and too often our boys in blue are reinforcing this by the way they act in those communities.

Now I'm not saying I blame the police who go into those places expecting trouble and being annoyed by it. You can only be called a "racist pig" so many times before it starts to bug you. But the best way to counteract it is with professionalism, patience, and yes... occasionally throwing a football.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I'm going to give OP a break and assume he was being facetious.

Damn snarky cops!

 

[public servant]

I pay him to fight crime...not play games.

And the guy throws a football like Curtis Painter.

 

[Snapdragon]

Even though he is "wasting tax dollars" the positive interaction the officer mafe with this kid may end up changing his life forever.

Yep. That's exactly what I was thinking. (Well, almost. ) Although I think the OP had purple-ish intentions and didn't really disagree.

 

[calum]

"To serve and protect" is still the motto of most LEO agencies. You say you want them to fight crime, OP... what does that consist of in your mind? Nothing but high speed car chases, foot pursuits, shootouts and all of the crap you see on CSI?


Yes, there is some of that in patrol work. But the GOOD cops realize that the far more important part of their job is public relations, prevention, etc. Trust me, throwing a football IS fighting crime, or can be in the right circumstances. As I said before, there's a lot we really don't know from this video. I'm inclined to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, though.

Could just be that I have a soft spot for LEOs.

 

[Principal Skinr]

Who does this SOB think he is?? I pay his salary!!! He should be fired! He should lose his pension and go directly to jail!

Dashcam: Police officer plays football with lonely kid - YouTube

Have you calculated the percentage of this guy's salary that you pay? Does your employer get any revenue from government contracts? If so, then the cops pay your salary, too.

If we go further with this, then I've got a real bone to pick with you. Do you subscribe to cable TV? If so, then you pay their salary, too. I'd like you to get off your lazy butt at your computer and get over there and get them to fix my modem/router that keeps having intermittent issues. They need to answer to you NOW! Geesh, you can't get good service these days!!

Thinking this even further, then we must consider that the cop pays taxes, as well. That means he's self employed, so he can tell you to go get stuffed. In fact, we probably all pay each others salaries, as well as our own, so we can tell each other what to do AND tell each other to get stuffed, at the same time! Hmmm. Kinda sounds like it is now, anyway, doesn't it?

I'm really not sure about the purple, the more I think about it.

 

[public servant]

Could just be that I have a soft spot for LEOs.

Holster sniffer.

 

[Disposable Heart]

How about all the LEOs that spend time on INGO, why aren't they out there protecting us?! To quote the movie Colors, "I was in Vietnam, man, I know about being outgunned... It ain't about what's in your hand, it's about what the people want!"

 

[calum]

Holster sniffer.

I've not heard the term, but I can infer your meaning.

I'm neither the sort you imply, who reflexively defends all LEOs, nor the kind that you appear to be, who automatically suspects/distrusts them all.

I've known enough police officers to know a cross section of their ranks looks pretty much like a cross section of most populations- there are heroes and losers, hard workers and goldbrickers, jackbooted thugs and patient servants.

My initial reaction to the video that got you so righteously indignant has partly to do with my experience with cops, but also with my general sympathy for anyone who takes time to play with a lonely kid. I say good on 'em, whether they wear a badge or a hardhat.

Sorry about the chip on your shoulder to LEOs. I hope a friendly officer throws you a ball sometime.

 

[2ADMNLOVER]

Play with'em now or play with'em later , it was gonna happen anyway .

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Wow. The last train to Cluesville must've pulled out RIGHT BEFORE OP started this thread... Kudos to Officer Friendly.

 

[Classic]

I seriously thoght the OP left off the purple. I'm no LEO defender or detractor but building positive relationship in the community might very well be the most important job they do. Neighborhood folk can either help or not help LE with information and when all they s3e are tough takedowns on the street they are way more likely to withold portant info. If there is an award for dumbest thread started for the week, this one will win. What BS.

 

[KellyinAvon]

A lot of purple in this thread (not that there's anything wrong with that!) I'll use the automatic/non-purple font color:

What did we see in that 1:33 video in Rosenburg? A LEO got out of his car, didn't shoot/taser/mace/beat/curb stomp/arrest anybody. Here's a kid who will remember that and he'll remember the LEO. Next fall when the meth-cookers are 2 buildings down the street, maybe he'll reach out to the LEO who stopped and threw the football to him. Intel sources are worth their weight in gold, kind of balances out the 1:33 of wasted tax dollars.

 

[BuckCreek]

I would say that those 2 or 3 minutes are very well spent by the officer. It may very well help that kid decide to become a productive member of society, possibly even serving his community or country in some fashion, instead of a life of crime and gang activity. A little kindness goes a long way.