State Troopers in Trouble

[JasonB]

Originally Posted by canman

When assigned to Patrol, I "generally" didn't ticket the average citizen for minor traffic violations. For every off-duty cop I might have let go with a warning there are probably several hundred citizens, maybe more, I let go with just a warning for a similar offense. I have been stopped in my personal vehicle exactly three times in the last 16 years, I have never identified myself as an off-duty officer, my license plates are registered to me and I have never showed my police ID while getting my license. Yet, still I have not been ticketed.

I was in a car with a friend of mine, an off-duty cop, when he was stopped by highway patrol for speeding. None of us identified ourselves as off-duty officers and he DID get a ticket for speeding. I also have a friend, a fellow police officer, who was given a ticket, from our Sgt., for not wearing his seat belt in his personal vehicle, while driving to work, after a citizen recognized him as an off-duty officer, and called to complain about it.

BUT....my personal experiences don't fit your neat little perceptions do they? And my boring, average, life hasn't made any headlines either. You and the rest of the interenet ferrets only want to pick-and-choose the infrequent instances that are sensationalized by the media while ignoring the common-place and mundane reality of day-to-day life.

Canman

Your personal experiences don't fit my personal observations including when I was friends with a guy who wasn't yet sworn in and despite doing 30 over the officer (from another agency that does get interested in such things when it involves the unwashed masses) who pulled him over didn't even tell him to slow it down.

Oh, and your fellow LE (one in particular) even cast doubts on your claims.

http://forums.officer.com/t77952/

01-24-2008, 12:55 AM #40 creolecop
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Posts:2,077 Originally Posted by gstout62
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Look, Cops don't write other cops for speeding tickets I'm sorry this ruins your xmas. This isn't some super secret. It's our discretion, and if you want to see cops get speeding tickets, apply to a department and get commissioned.

[JasonB]

Originally Posted by canman

"What we can't seem to find are plenty of cases where cops are arrested for assaulting private citizens"

Really? The cops involved in the Rodney King incident weren't arrested and two, Powell and Koon, eventually convicted of assault under the color of authority? Johannes Mehserle wasn't arrested and convicted for wrongful death? Justin Volpe wasn't arrested and convicted for sodomy? These are just a few I can think of off the top of my head...without an internet search, and you can't seem to find any? OR, you guys just don't want to mention the cases that dispell your conspiracy theories?

Canman

Your revelations would fall under the:

Originally Posted by JasonB

With the exception of the occasional police beating up a black person story, where is the sensationalism?

I mentioned earlier. Occasionally when the victim is black there is a big enough stink raised, sometimes not.

[davedude]

Maine state trooper charged with drunk driving
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/M...-with-OUI.html

Police say Sgt. Julie Bergan failed field sobriety and blood-alcohol tests after showing up for work drunk.

The Associated Press

HOULTON — Maine state police say a 24-year veteran has been cited for operating under the influence and has been placed on administrative leave during an investigation.

Police say Sgt. Julie Bergan was issued a summons after she failed field sobriety and blood-alcohol content tests after reporting to work Thursday at the Houlton barracks.

Lt. Col. Raymond Bessette declined Monday to release her blood-alcohol level to the Bangor Daily News. The legal limit for driving in Maine is 0.08 percent.

Bergan, who's 54, is on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation. She couldn't be reached immediately for comment.

Bitch shows up for work polluted and it's the first time anyone noticed? I'm callin bullshit. Of course if I lived in Houlton I'd be drunk too, I been there!
Not drunk going to work but Houlton wise guys....
No way she had not been nippin at the bottle on duty before that. And no way her "buddies" at the shop didn't know.

Dave Dude