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I know alot of cops and on the most part 90%of the ones I have met are decent guys. Then there are the ones that took the job for all the wrong reasons and will look for anything to be able to exert their authority.
About 4 years ago one night while bartending an elderly man came into my bar. It was in the 20's outside and he was wearing no jacket. When I started talking to him it was obvious he was confused. He couldn't tell me where he lived or how he got to the bar. He had a very heavy Irish accent that also made it difficult to understand him. We gave him coffee and called the police because we didn't know where he belonged and we were not about to let him back out in the cold to wander around. After the one township cops arrived they figured he might be from the church down the street that had a house where many retired deacons lived. They called the police from that township arrived at the bar and the one cop started berating the guy asking him how much he had to drink, whether he was on drugs basically yelling at the poor old man. When I tried to explain we had only served him coffee and at no time appeared drunk he told me to shut up. Finally the officers that arrived first intervened and pulled the officer away. Turns out he was a brother from the church who had severe alzheimers who told the other residents he was going to bed and then somehow wandered 2 miles down the road in the freezing cold to our bar. The cop who had been yelling at him shut up real quick after finding that out but I will never forget how verbally abusive he was to this old man. Those are the kind of cops I dont respect.
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