jaybird wrote: "Brent P" <tetraethyllead@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:nQLJa.4209$e26.944@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net. .. In article <aec2032d.0306231457.1c89bb6b@posting.google.com>, Andy wrote: I have one question? Do you know why the cop was going to that spot? What are you responding to in my post? I made no reference to a 'spot' Can you know for FACT that he was only going there to run radar? Again, no reference to 'running radar'. Maybe there is another reason that he had to get to that spot. Didn't refer to a 'spot'. Is this why you've deleted all reference material? To try and make your strawman hold? You probably wont believe it but cops do other things then stop people and write them tickets (that they usually deserve). There are always other things going on that you dont know about. There could be a drunk coming down the road that he is waiting on, there could have been a robbery in the next town and the vehicle is coming down that road. So don't just assume that because you see a cop do something that "you don't like" that he is wrong..... And there could be the landing of alien mothership 100 miles away. Or we could go with the simple explaination that cops are speeders like everyone else and exhibit a whole host of bad behaviors because they can get away with it. I haven't seen an ISP cruiser at or below the speed limit in at least 5 years when they weren't pinned in by people trying to avoid a ticket. But you'd think I would just once, see a cop drive correctly to the letter of the vehicle code. I don't. They go the same reasonable speed as everyone else or faster. They are far worse when it comes to signaling and lane usage much of the time. It's hyprocisy, stop making excuses for it and attacking anyone who points it out. But they're working, and they're in a marked, on duty unit. They are exempt when working.

Doesn't mean they should be recklessly endangering people's lives. Some of
your fellow officers have beat me up (verbally) to no end telling me they
would have stopped me even though I obeyed all laws, but merely because I
didn't comply with an individual officer's opinion of safe and prudent
driving. Keep in mind, I violated no traffic laws in that instance. I think
cops ought to be a bit more objective in their reasoning and views on
matters.