12-16-2018, 08:32 AM
I have a lot of respect for law enforcement officers. When I was in the Air Force, one of my buddies, a reservist, was a law enforcement officer. I occasionally went on ride alongs with him. That brought a whole new level of respect for the jobs they do.
My overall experience with law enforcement has been pretty positive. I've only had one bad experience. Ironically, it was with a motorcycle officer. I was in my pickup. I had my signal on to exit a traffic circle. He tried to squeeze around me on the right as I moved to exit. (No lights or siren. He was just in a hurry.) I ended up running him off the road because I had nowhere else to go. Fortunately, there was no accident. Just a bumpy ride into the grass for him. He got really po'd and wrote me a ticket. We went to court. He lied to the judge and said it was on the other side. When the judge looked at a diagram of the traffic circle and saw that there was no other lane on the left, he dismissed the ticket.
My overall experience with law enforcement has been pretty positive. I've only had one bad experience. Ironically, it was with a motorcycle officer. I was in my pickup. I had my signal on to exit a traffic circle. He tried to squeeze around me on the right as I moved to exit. (No lights or siren. He was just in a hurry.) I ended up running him off the road because I had nowhere else to go. Fortunately, there was no accident. Just a bumpy ride into the grass for him. He got really po'd and wrote me a ticket. We went to court. He lied to the judge and said it was on the other side. When the judge looked at a diagram of the traffic circle and saw that there was no other lane on the left, he dismissed the ticket.