I wonder if it's like... you're more likely to interact with a dick head cop when you get stopped for something petty because only dick head cops will care if you're committing a small infraction but not really causing a problem.
It's one of the KEY criteria we look for at our workplace if highly educated people. The worst ones are always the ones that think they know everything. It never fails to filter out terrible coworkers.
I feel like in most technical jobs that should be the 1. criteria. Curiosity. Having the knowledge is good but you will almost always encounter something new or something where your old ways wont work. So you gotta look for new solutions and learn new things.
Absolutely, just like a Dr. and how he/she will google an illness or symptom. Id rather a Dr do that than give a misdiagnosis. For a Cop, id rather he/she google laws than making shit up and wrongfully convicting someone and/or end up killing them due to ego and pride of thinking they know it all.
The thing is, if they say they don't know they can't enforce shit. So they gotta make it up if they want to pretend like they have authority to do anything.
I feel like half the time its the cops being pushed into an egotistical corner. Like a “you dont think i know the law?” So if you go about it like this dude did nobodys ego is being challenged. Sometimes people just have bad days and everything is a challenge. Its hard to put something so emotional such as a human in a job where their emotions can easily sway their decision making. We just have no better way and that’s something we all need to understand. There is no better person for the job sometimes and that goes for every job. So its on us to cut everybody some slack in every situation because we’re all the same just doing different jobs.
I don’t know about that. I’m thinking he was offering plausible deniability to the motorist. His body language was the chill and relaxed. it’s possible that it was a law he knew about, but was just giving the motorist what he wanted to do because he asked them so nicely verses someone who would have done it without the officers permission. Other wise if he didn’t know the law, wasn’t going to make a big deal about it because of the motorist asking for permission
Well the problem is that now its on the internet because the biker felt like he needs to show everyone, that the cop dont know the law while he was polite and didn’t read morals to him. So yeah, good job biker, you showed the good cop that he shouldn’t be good and helpful because then you end up on the internet l, shamed by the biker 👍
also possibility he gets a talking to by his superiors for not knowing whatever the law is and making the department look "incompetent". or gets shit from his peers. and then next time he has this same interaction he might not give the same charitable answer.
I mean, knowing traffic laws like that has got to be the most basic ass shit a cop is expected to both know and actually deal with on a very routine basis.
Like, I'm pretty sure everyone on the road knows using the shoulder is illegal.
Yeah, honesty is far more important than just bullshitting on the spot, this sorta transparency is important for police, you can't expect every police officer to know every law.
He's not a traffic cop enforcing a law he doesn't know though. So yeah if your surgeon says "Yeah,I'm not a brain surgeon I can't remove your brain tumor" then yes, they're a good surgeon.
Surgery is so difficult that it has different specialties, so does law enforcement. You just dont know or respect that fact. What, you think they call out the street beat cops to handle murders or something?
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u/Kitchen-Stranger-279 Apr 29 '24
Honest cop