Do you wish you were a cop so you could ruin people's day?

Question

Many policemen give tickets like pancakes. How do they sleep at night?

No snide remarks, please...I really want to know.
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Answer 1

There are days that I would love to be a cop. Like the other night when some drunk idiot tried to kill everyone on the freeway, or when the worthless gangster punks are tagging the fences of 80 year old people in my neighborhood, or when those same gangster punks are throwing molotov cocktails at peoples houses, or when my worthless neighbors let their awful children run amok, damaging other people's property and tormenting animals... Yeah I would enjoy arresting and ticketing some people.

Answer 2

You must have met some cop that had a bad day.
Personally when I was a cop I would rather give a warning the first time and then a ticket the second time. Unless it was a very serious law breakage. I felt that we not only upheld the law but also informed and taught the public the law. (how many people sit around reading the law books?)
As far as writing a lot of tickets, few officers do that. For every ticket that is written some of the officer's personal time is taken up by court cases and sitting in the station filling out forms. You just wouldn't believe how many forms must be filled out for every incident or contact. That is why they don't sleep at night they are sitting at a desk writing reports.
No I am retired now and do not want to be a cop any more. I am glad to have my free time back again. Being a cop is a 24/7 job.

Answer 3

There is this progression of crime. It can be wittnessed in toddlers. You tell them not to do something and they will try it. Hear there are a few outcomes. 1 Nothing happens and every time they are told don't do it they expect that nothing will happen. 2. They get there hand slapped out told focefully NO. This is to deter the imediate act and teach that when You tell them don't that you are going to make shure it doesn't happen. Next time you tell them you will not have to be so forecfull. 3. They knew what they did was wrong and take chances fully knowing "This time I might get caught or this time I might not.

now to answer your question in both situations 2 and 3 the child realizes they have done a wrong act. And deserve punishment I hope they get it. In situation 1 no learning has occured and this process will repeat indefinately until learning occurs.

The police stop people like "pancakes" to make sure everyone is learning that there are crystal clear rules and that there are also consequences for those rules. Hopefully educating people and stopping crime here.

Let me also say that if situation 1 continues forever with no consequence or just until the person thinks they will never be punished. The crime will continue to get worse and worse until learning occurs. I have never heard of someone turning 16 and starting the car and driving 100 miles an hour being chased by the police. It usually starts out going the speed limit then +5 then +10then +20 and this continues until a correction occurs.

Answer 4

I don't think I would write them a ticket to ruin their day, I would do it because it was right. I often wish I could pull people over for things I see when the cops are not around.

One day this lady was tailgating me and a state trooper just let her get away with it, passed by me and gave me a nasty look. I would have pulled her over for tailgating on a highway when she could have passed! Oh, and I was going 5 over the speed limit. Excuse the rant, but...

I really don't like stupidity or rude people/ angry people, so in reality I would hate being a cop.

Answer 5

I wish I was a cop so I could raid drug dealers houses and snake some of the great goodies they acquire. I would only give tickets to people who were being inconsiderate to other drivers and/or endangering lives. My cop friend said they had a quota of tickets they were expected/required to issue monthly. So drive extra-carefully the last week of the month!

Answer 6

Police issue citations for education of the public. If you honestly check the correlation between traffic citations and accidents you will find that when citations are up, accidents are down and vice versa.
Officers generally have discretion when they write, however certain states such as Kansas may require the officer to issue a citation with no exceptions on certain traffic offenses such as No Proof of Insurance.
A professional officer will have standards and treat everyone accordingly and not issue "attitude citations".

Answer 7

As a retired police officer (I dislike the term "cop", it's like when you "cop a feel")... I can tell you that during my 21 years on the job, I had very LITTLE time for "ruining people's day".

My time was spent pursuing and dealing with people who were hell-bent on ruining OTHER people's days... child abusers, wife beaters, drunk drivers, street racers, etc., etc.

For the record, *I* sleep just fine... and if I can make a suggestion? YOU would probably sleep a lot better if you got that CHIP OFF YOUR SHOULDER.

Smile, it's NOT that serious. :)

Answer 8

I'm not out to ruin anyone's day. I am out there enforcing laws and helping people out. Giving tickets doesn't make us sleep any less! its a part of our job, whether we like it or not. I don't give anyone a ticket- they earn that themselves. I only caught them. Sleep like a baby!

Answer 9

Ruin peoples day? There would be a lot less of the illegal crap going on on the street I live on. that would be a real benefit to being a cop.

Answer 10

It's pretty narrow minded to think that cops wake up every morning hoping they can make life a little harder for average joe citizen.