Its so sad what LEO has become..
Not become, always has been.
Like the time in 1987 I got written up as 66 in a 55 zone for flipping off a thug while driving 52mph.
Funny story behind that. In 1986 I met this evil thug (R.I.P.), probably the worst one, aside from the undersheriff, that ECSD had at the time. From that day forward, I rolled down my window and shoved my middle finger out at arm's length every time I saw an Eaton County deputy. This went on uneventfully for 6-7 months, until the day I did it to the original thug, who pulled me over, threatened me, and wrote 3 bogus tickets. The rest of them knew I was flipping their uniform off, not them personally. But this guy apparently took everything personally, as I was driving a car he wouldn't recognize as mine when he chased me down for showing him a finger.
My actions, and their general lack of reaction, showed that the majority of our deputies could not be easily baited into blatantly illegal acts, and it's entirely possible that only one of them was that kind of douchebag. They refused to accept my report against him, but three years later it got bad enough that they had to push him into resigning 'with a clean record'. I never found out what he did or to whom that cost him his job.
This officer should be ashamed of himself.
Indeed. Most cops are pretty thick skinned, but a minority of thugs just have to win every argument, and perjury is a small price for them to pay for saving face when a taxpayer knows the law better than they do.
I like to think that the numbers of these thugs hasn't markedly increased in recent years, and that the only change is that now we're much more likely to have video proof of their actions.
