why do you guys hate police officers?

[Dr. VanNostrin]

One thing I think about often is the sting operation, being the buyer or the seller, trying to arrest people. If cops really felt strongly about representing the side of good, and wanted to see the good that lies in society, that would mean during a sting operation that they should hope nobody breaks the law that night so that it shows their town is safe. Is that what they hope? Absolutely not. They want you to break the law so that they can arrest you and take you to jail and take your freedom away, IT IS WHAT THEY DO. As for the type of people who become cops, lets just look at the list, which i have come up with and I think all fall into some category:
1. Those who were bullied and picked on become cops so that they can now do the bullying - I don't know about you, but I don't want someone like that being on the other side of the law who is only doing their job to dish out the shit that they had to put up with
2. Failures - During college, plenty of people that I knew found the curriculum to be hard and their chosen career to be more than they could handle. You know what I heard every one of them say they were gonna do instead? Become a cop. I don't want people on that side of the law to be there because they failed at their original chosen profession
3. Tradition - These are the only real cops who I can find no reason to hate. They have a family history of law enforecement and are basically born into it. These type of people generally want to help people and do their job because they do care about the side of good.

In any case, they are all sociopaths in the same sense as a serial killer. The analogy is not about killing, it's about indifference - the absence of feeling. They don't give a fuck if you get a night in jail or ten years for some plants, as far as they are concerned, you deserve it. You think a nonviolent offender deserves to be around rapists and murderers, deserves to be raped and if he doesn't allow himself to be raped, deserves to be killed? That's the truth anyone who goes to prison faces and people who don't harm people or even themselves, have to place in prison but as far as the law is concerned, they do. I don't know about the rest of you, but that is 100% absolutely fucking FUCKED UP to do to a nonviolent person. And we smokers stand the chance of having to face that if we get busted. That is fucking bullshit plain and simple. The cops know what can happen to you and they know all you did was have some weed on you and they are going to put you in that position? Fucking sociopaths, plain and simple

[cannabis campbell]

A crooked cop, breaks the law, takes stuff for his own personal greed, hes worse than a criminal because at least they admit that they are.

It would be good to be one though (a crooked cop) because you could get as much free weed as you wanted.

Once a policeman took a joint of me (didn't take any details down) and just went off in his car. But i suppose i would rather he do that then take me to the station.

Still they are pricks!

[ForeverZero]

Cops are doing their jobs just like anyone else. It's not their fault that the government says that they need to arrest people for smoking weed. A lot of them feel the same way we do about that particular law. And I personally have had cops look the other way on it.

So no, I do not hate cops. Sure, some are corrupt, but most of them are out there keeping your ass from getting shot or robbed everytime you walk down the street.

Yes, marijuana laws suck, and need to be changed. But it's not the police who have the power to do that. They just want to get paid and go home to their families like the rest of us.

Sorry if there has already been a post similar to this. I'm sure there has been, but i didnt really have the time to read through everything...

[Dr. VanNostrin]

What I hate is this "oh they're just doing their job" crap. Thats irrelevant because nobody made these people become cops. They don't HAVE to do shit. If I get pulled over and a cop smells weed and searches and finds something, he would take me to jail. Because he is doing his job? Who the hell is going to know that he found weed and didn't arrest the guy? Nobody. He doesn't HAVE to do anything. Nazis were just doing their job weren't they? I understand that arresting someone for weed and genocide are two different ballparks but fact of the matter is, just because you are a paid police officer doesn't mean you have to arrest someone every time you find weed. That means they do the shit because they want to, or they think it's actually dangerous, which it isn't. Any cop knows, probably first-hand, what alcohol does because I'm sure they've dealt with pleny of dui crashes. But how many of those involve someone who was too high to drive and got into a crash? Probably zero and I can tell you from plenty of driving experience that no matter how fucking high I am I can still drive my car and never come close to an accident. Get me drunk and I won't even fucking try it. How come someone who isn't driving or operating machinery can get arrested for having weed but the same guy standing next to me could be drunk and way more intoxicated, but because alcohol is legal, he'd never be bothered? These guys are smart enough to know what is more dangerous but do they ever even try to reason with anybody about trying to change the pot laws or penalties based on their statistics and experience from a non-user point-of-view? Any responsible or intelligent person would. Do they? No - they are just doing their job - what a fucking bullshit reason for something

[Krogith]

The CHP as of 2006 all got a letter in CA saying that if they come accross a medical weed user and hes got his papers let him go. I hope they do there Job!:smokin: Befor this tho last year i was cought with my papers on me and he let me go was lucky that officer knew cali law :smokin:

[halo]

In my part of kansas city you cannot depend on cops for anything except traffic tickets.
examples:
--One time i was at my friends house and his neighbor's burgurlar alarm went off so we called 911 while his dad ran over there with a loaded pistol. We told them the alarm went off and we thought somebody broke into his house. It took the cops 2.5 hours to get to the house and they do not live in far away a rural area. Somebody could have easily been shot and killed within 30 minutes. Thank God there was nobody who broke in though.

--Another time this kid was having a party and a partygoer drank to much and got alchohol poisoning. He passed out and nobody could wake him up. We called 911. and even told them to send an ambulance cause he wouldn't wake up. It took the cops a half hour to get to the house which is less than 5 miles from the police station. The kids parents were able to get home and take him up to the hospital before the cops arrived.

[Jimmicrackedcorn]

Police, crooked or not, good or bad, have to be a fuckin wierd breed anyway. We all have to do sum shit job, and you just pray you get sorted with one that is at least bareable, and gives you enuff money to enjoy the finer things in life, but police, even if you did start the job to make for a better tomorrow, today! do you realise the shit ure gonna have to put up with? You deal with the dead bodies, the old people who have died in there homes and have milk piling up on the doorsteps, and the smell of rotting flesh anointing there walls, those fucking tossers in town that drink to much and just go around going 'Fucking come on then, Fuckin' come on, twat! can't do shit to me copper! Twaaaaaat!' all the stupid fights and shit that people get involved in, and now you have to get involved with a group of pissheads kickin the shit out of eachother, oh yeh, and ure a policeman, which as many have stated, uve already been stigmatized as a tit, I don't see hatred when I look at a copper, just utter fucking confusion, as to why you would want to uphold the law, you have to deal with all that shit, have a confrontation with nearly every1 you talk to, and generally stick out like a sore thumb, in a place where the majority think of you as nothing more than a giant penis with legs, and a hat. So out of all the jobs you could have done in this salary bracket, you choose the one that involves a lot of hours, paperwork, confrontation, a luminescent lime green jacket, a silly hat, a bright orange car and a hypothetical 'Fucking Nob' tattoo on ure forehead, sign me up.

I think if ure the kind of person who is going to enjoy doing this kind of shit for his daily duties, then you and I are gonna generally differ greatly on the way we see the world, and what we expect from it, plus I hate authority, I abide by it, cuz its not worth the effort, but let me decide as to what is for my greater good, if I want ure help, I'll ask for it, if you want to give me help, I don't have to acknowledge ure effort, cuz I didn't want/need it in the first place, this seems to be the thing that pisses me off not just with police, but any figure of authority, in laymens terms, sticking ure nose in and expecting me to think it better off this way, cheeky bastards. But every1's opinionated to the fuckin eyeballs man, now u r giving these people immunity, like you say, police are just people too, and people do wierd shit aswell, just cuz they want to, I kno people who would kick the shit out of ppl for making a remark about there mothers in the wrong light, giv em a billy club and the power to do what they want without reprocussions, ure in for a scary situation.

[Ganjasaurusrex]

I was caught 10 years ago smoking inside a car with a friend outside of a movie theater waiting to go see the movie.

The female policewoman knocked on the window and told me to open the door, as I did a cloud of smoke billowed out.

She said "give me the weed". And I did. She gave me a speech and said,
"I dont want you doing this in public anymore", she handed a 1/2 ounce back to me and said, "keep it in your home".

That really surprised me when she gave it back and said, "have a good day".

I actually thought I would be a arrested or a least to appear in court.

Still cant believe that happened. Left a good impression anyhow.

[orangeman]

I dont hate police, I hate crooked police. I think honest police are better than most people because they put their life on the line for other people and I think thats honorable or admirable to keep the world a safer place. Even if they bust a house thats growing marijuana, it's not like the would want to do it but it's illegal and they are just doin their job..thats where the sayin "nothin personal, strictly business" comes in lol. But as for the crooked cops I fuckin' hate them, they dont do shit and waste a position that a good guy could be in and does nothing but cause trouble..They deserve to be shot point blank range in the noodle.

And newbie1232 thats a pretty good rhyme lol.

[Jeff Spicoli]

I don't hate them at all. I actually am going to be a cop when I grow up... haha, very ironic.