I don’t think it’s a matter of how good they are in my town, as compared to how bored. My town isn’t big. Murders are very few and far in between. When there are burglaries and such, they jump on it like white on rice and make a huge deal out of it; articles in the paper and things like that. They go after mostly vehicular crimes, and drug/alcohol/violent crimes. The police blotter is full of DUI’s, DWI’s, possesion arrests, resisting arrests, haha. They generally aren’t friendly unless you have boobs and a vagina and are moderately attractive otherwise.
I don’t give to the PBA and I personally don’t know any cops. My attitude towards the police in my town is that they are simply bored half the time, blow things out of proportion when they should be concentrating on more important issues. I mean, we just got an undercover narcotics division because there’s so much hussle and bussle about drugs in school. I’ve been pulled over and harrassed twice with friends all for nothing and they were incredibly demeaning and patronizing with us. I don’t have a lot of respect or tolerance quite frankly for the police in my town. They aren’t the type of cops that try to better our community, rather show our community the supreme authority difference they have with us and over us. It’s irritating as all hell. I don’t trust them. Maybe 20+ years ago, yes..but now they’re all rookies thinking they’re big shots. If only they realized they’re just cops in a cowtown 50 miles out of New York City.
With that being said, I live in a suburb of NYC in Orange County, New York.