Anyone ever blast their music on full volume intentionally as they drive by you when you’re on a traffic stop?
What’s the nastiest thing someone has said to you on shift? How do you handle it?
How often do people give you the middle finger etc. etc. when you’re on shift? Or driving/parked? Nasty remarks etc.
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Never, but that was Texas a minute ago.
Not very often. It’s fun when they get your attention and you see a reason to pull them over though.
All the time, but it’s part and parcel. If that stuff bothers you, your skin is too thin for this job.
Depends on the neighborhood I am working in. Will either get a “thank you for your service” when working one neighborhood and a “fuck 12” when working another neighborhood….
Any time someone is blasting music beside me, I key up Bleed by Meshuggah and turn the patrol car’s volume all the way up.
Honestly, not that often. Now that I think about it, I’ve interacted with a million times more criminals in real life than Reddit but have gotten “fuck cops” a million times more on Reddit than in real life.
Pretty common in my area. We’ve also had run-ins with some pretty good size First amendment auditors.
It’s usually not a problem. A
Our liability insurance company gave us a big training on dealing with First amendment auditors and these types of things so most officers just ignore it.
My agency has been on YouTube on a video that went pretty viral but video was mislabeled and edited to make the situation look a lot worse than it was.
In reality, the officer made a legitimate traffic stop but the guy turned his camera on halfway through and tried to say his rights were violated. They weren’t.
I personally had no problem with First amendment auditors until they started showing up and not posting video when nothing happened. They would only post it if they could edit it and twist it to make us look bad. That’s not transparency so no respect from me.
I’ve been flipped off a couple of times as I was driving past this or that location in my city.
Can’t do much about it, so I just flipped them off back and kept driving.
Are we talking about the general public or fellow officers?
Basically never. Or so rare as to be statistically the same as never.
Not super often for me. Maybe…five times a year? The most recent was several of us on a physical domestic. We all showed up with wig wags and wee woos and parked along the street to separate and figure out what was going on. About five minutes later we were fixing our parking since things had calmed down and a guy flew by yelling something along the lines of “learn to park you fucking pigs”. A few of us had choice words for him but we try to be funny instead of confrontational when those things happen.
Every so often people will flip me off. Depending on my mood I’ll just flip them off back or smile and wave.
People might think those things live rent free in my head as some sort of statement or to piss me off. Frankly they usually make me giggle like a school girl when I think about them.