Best Cops / Police in the US? (condo, crime, home)

[jacobwilliam77]

Where are they? Who cracks down the most anywhere, keeps the civilians in safe mode. Who writes the most amount of tickets?

[nashvols]

Originally Posted by jacobwilliam77

Where are they? Who cracks down the most anywhere, keeps the civilians in safe mode. Who writes the most amount of tickets?

Does writing more tickets and having the most crack downs necessarily make the civilians safer?

[west336]

Probably in a very very rich community.

[Zoness]

Eh, if you correlate writing lots of tickets and safety of civilians, you have a pretty interesting idea of police effectiveness. Although in my opinion, "best cops" is an oxymoron.

[annie_himself]

Doesn't exist.

[Bydand]

Our little town has awesome cops. One of the few places I have been that they actually use common sense, and are not on some sort of power trip. I doubt they write many tickets and not much to crack down on, but what little that does happen they handle very fair, and above board. No matter what your standing in the community is, they treat people with respect; yet take no BS from those that want to give it to them... again without regard to a persons standing in the community. Two things I have seen in the last year... one of the town cops giving the town drunk a ride home on a cold rainy day, and the same cop giving the mayor a speeding ticket. It isn't hard to see the same cop doing things, we only have 2 .

[Drewcifer]

I've always had good experiences with the St Paul police, they usually won't cut you a break but they don't mess with you and are fair and professional. St Paul seems to have a good mechanism for getting rid of dirty cops.

Minneapolis is a mixed bag, some of them are the coolest cops you could ever meet, and others will beat the crap out of you and dump you in a corn field 30 miles from the city just because they can.

[Neworleansisprettygood]

I've heard several times that living in Virginia is like living in a police state, which the OP likes, apparently.

New Orleans cops are known for being some of the best in the world when it comes to crowd control. It really takes a good amount of discretion to keep a crowd of 250,000, most of whom are either drunk and/or ( ) children, safe. And that's something they do probably 50 times a year, between Mardi Gras, the annual Essence Fest, French Quarter Fest, the Sugar Bowl, special events, etc.

They're pretty lenient unless you're really doing something really ridiculous, and even then, they might turn a blind eye. There was a murder down the street from me a few months ago, and I had heard the shots and then somebody moving around close to my backyard. Turns out it was my neighbor, but I didn't know that. I went out to see what was going on and then a cop walked me home after they had cleaned up the site. Later, I thought I heard somebody moving around again, and having just seen my first dead body, I was still a little shaken, so called the cops to tell them that the murderer might be hiding in the backyard next door. They came to talk to me, told me not to worry, that he was likely gone long before they got there when the crime happened. As we were talking, a guy, who didn't really look homeless, walked by- wearing nothing but briefs rolled halfway down in the back. They looked at him with a bemused sort of look and then kept talking. (He walked in front of my house, set down his backpack, calmly pulled out a shirt and some pants and put them on, put the backpack back on, and kept walking). They didn't do anything, they just got in their car and drove off.

[JmanAA]

Originally Posted by Drewcifer

I've always had good experiences with the St Paul police, they usually won't cut you a break but they don't mess with you and are fair and professional. St Paul seems to have a good mechanism for getting rid of dirty cops.

Minneapolis is a mixed bag, some of them are the coolest cops you could ever meet, and others will beat the crap out of you and dump you in a corn field 30 miles from the city just because they can.

Yesterday, I was talking with a guy I know (who is white, by the way). This guy is from a suburb outside of St. Paul (I don't remember what town that is). Anyway, he told me the St. Paul police are actually pretty clean, and not known to condone racism or racial discrimination within their police force. He said the reason for this, was because St. Paul had an African-American police chief for so many years, and that had an effect. He told me the Minneapolis police department, however, does have a faction that he described as the "Old boys club," who are prejudice against African-Americans, and either violate civil rights (interrupt personal freedom without probable cause, on the basis on race) or use excessive force against African-American people. I did not even bring up the topic of race. We were initially talking about the Occupy Wall Street protests all over the country, and that conversation led to a discussion about police officers (he claimed that, in most cases, the police officers are the ones who create conflict and chaos, not the protesters), and it was during this discussion (about Police Officers) where he mentioned the racism still going on within the Minneapolis police force.

I will say, however, that I have ran into some decent Minneapolis police officers. Though, the guy I was talking to, said (and I don't know where he got his information from) that the racist officers will volunteer to patrol areas particularly in North Minneapolis (where many African-Americans in Minneapolis live) for the abundance of opportunities to unlawfully punish the racial group they do not like.

[atlantagreg30127]

A note:

There are already a couple of jab-comments within postings here. Note the topic of the thread - and it's not going to be police bashing, just FYI. Thank you.