My pretty horrid experience dates abck to summer of 2006. I was doing 57 in a 55 MPH zone, and got pulled over.
I asked the police officer if I couldn't be given a warning, rather than a ticket. (This seemed like a sensible request, as the other cars on the highway zoomed by my car and the police officer, and they were all doing anywhere from 65 to 80 MPH.)
Policeman went out into left field. He started saying I had no respect for authority, that my manner indicated I needed to learn a lesson, and that he was thinking of shooting me. (I happen to be a white woman, and I was 55 years old at the time.)
Anyway after going off on this major rant, he eventually calmed down. I did get a warning rather than a ticket.
Three summers ago, I open up the local newspaper to see this officer's photo on the front page - he had been charged for child molestation of a youngster who was only 12 to 14 years old at the time of the molestation. (The molestation had gone on for during a period of years.)
I come to discover that the local police have little in the way of background checks. I also know that my one neighbor, who never fed the dog who was in a back yard all summer long, and left the poor animal often without water, she went on from being a local prison guard to becoming a canine officer! (I had made repeated calls to the authorities about the condition of the dog, so she had a record with the local pound for her mistreatment of this poor pedigreed boxer.)
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