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Originally Posted by BW from AZ
real policemen cant be replaced
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True. However, the ones that pull people over for 43 in a 40, not properly yielding to on-coming traffic or sitting at a place where the speed limit randomly drops and the driver wouldn't know better unless they expected it - those cops are wasting my tax money, while losing credibility with the public.
When the job description goes from, "enforcing the law and protecting our citizens" to "harassing anyone and everyone so we can make a buck" while crime continues to climb, the actual value of a police officer decreases.
I'm not making a blanket statement about LEO. There are many in my family, along with many of my friends. I also understand that in many of these cases, the pressure to enact "enforcement" as they have comes from higher up the ladder. But almost daily, I hear a story about some frivolous pull-over, or ridiculous thing that's going on in XXX town to make some money. These stories severely harm the public's perception of LEO.