The Ethics of Traffic Police

I was talking with may friend Jordan the other day on the way to Five Guys (best burger I've ever had) when we noticed that there were a ton of cops out. Then we got to talking about what the cops do and why they do it.
What really got me started was this Speeders program I saw a few weeks ago where a police bureau in South Carolina (I think) dressed an officer in camo and hid him in the woods along the freeway with a speed gun. When he saw someone speeding he would radio ahead the model and color of the car to an officer stationed up the freeway who would pull them over. the one guy I saw who got pulled over reacted the same way I would've, issuing forth profanities like a drunken marine (that's another story for another time). He called this whole operation "bullshit," and I'd say exactly the same.
What is the police department doing here? Are their methods actually causing people to slow down? While they're inciting fear in the local population, I don't think they're actually making anybody slow down except maybe those that they pull over. In my opinion, this is just an over-thought money scheme. Basically, the cops can pull over anybody because everyone goes over the speed limit by at least 5 and usually 10 miles per hour. If you're like me, you cruise with the flow of traffic and when you see a cop car you slow down, the accelerate back up when you're out of sight. Cop cars make you slow down, not hidden, chicken shit cops who are just in it for the money.
So that brings me to my point. While this single bureau probably shouldn't set the precedent for every other cop in the U.S., I can't help but notice that it looks like the police are working for themselves/their careers and not to protect the people. The cops are trying to fill their quotas and get paid, not enforce the law in a manner that benefits the most people.

A few more examples of shady, stingy police work:
1. A friend got ticketed for J-walking; she was walking against the line inside a marked crosswalk. Had she been outside of the white cross-walk lines, it wouldn't have been a ticketable offense. Classic douche bag officer.
2. Another friend is ticketed for going 26 in a 25 mph school zone. She goes to court to fight it and loses. If this isn't bullshit I don't know what is. How can you watch your speedometer so close as to not go over the limit by 1 mph. That's just unreasonable.
3. Again from the show Speeders (my brother watches that a lot), there's one officer they often follow who brags about always giving out tickets. This just flat out makes him look like a jackass. We need less douche bags on the force.

But then again, there's always a couple cops who deserve and honorable mention for giving people breaks:
1. I got pulled over after cutting off a cop, but only after some asshole cop kicked me out of a public school parking lot (it called it private property, my ass). I didn't have my license on me and it was after curfew (my 1 year wasn't up yet). He said he could impound my car, arrest me, and make my parents come get me, but the guy let me off. So I shook his hand and he said not to let it happen again and I got the hell out of there.
2. My friend was in downtown and got confused and pulled the wrong way onto a one-way street. A cop pulled him over and helped redirect him back onto the correct street going the right way. It was all good.

You got any cop stories? Let me know in the comments.

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