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There are 21 police forces on the street right now here in DC. MPD(Metropolitan Police) is the biggest. I'm not really too much of a fan. There are so many that most are not doing anything, especially downtown. Some are good, some are bad, just like any other PD. My opinion is a little biased since I trash talk them all the time anyway with myself being DCFD.(We are pretty much rivals)
I work with some guys that were firefighters back in Michigan before coming to DC. One worked in Highland Park(Detroit), and the other in Flint. They both said that the cops were terrible. They joked that in the Detroit Police Academy, they actually teach you from Day 1 to be corrupt.
One thing many of you don't realize though is that some cops have to have that @sshole attitude. If they work in a big city, especially in a rough area, they deal with a lot of crap. If they try to be the nice guy, they will end up being taken advantage of. They can't let their guard down. Even as a fireman in a big city it happens. You could be performing CPR on a guy that was shot while the guy that shot him is behind you threatening you not to save his live or your next.
Hoover, AL. They look like the gestapo and are proud of acting like them too! They "protect" a city of about 70,000 and most of the residents are middle class with a diversity of:
White Non-Hispanic (85.5%)
Black (6.8%)
Hispanic (3.8%)
Other race (1.4%)
Two or more races (1.1%)
Asian Indian (1.0%)
Chinese (0.7%)
And yet they have every piece of equipment (seems like) that our military has and they love showing them off. They have a divison called I.C.E. which is short for Interstate Criminal Enforcement. I am sorry, are they enforcing crimes now? I suspect they like ICE on the side of their cars so they made it fit in a very stupid way. Every one in the Metro area of Birmingham knows that you avoid Hoover not to avoid crime (which isn't prevalent but, with all that posturing going on you would think it either wouldn't exist at all or was way out of control) you go around to avoid the Officers. The perception here is they are bought and paid for and spend their time harrassing street people, middle-class, blacks and teenagers. They have gotten in trouble for rape and excessive force too - and I don't think we hear the half of it.
This one isn't going to go on. We've been down this route before with similar threads, and they turn into little more than a cop-bashing festival. Sorry.
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