Personal pet peeve time. Brought on by personal experience of a couple days ago. For the record, someone blew a red light, no big deal for me since I saw it coming. The officer had a vehicle pulled over in the mini mart lot at the intersection with the light. My light had just changed green, but instead of taking my turn I saw the second traffic violator was going way too fast to be able to stop. He blew the full red light right beside a policeman who was already busy with another customer.
For purposes of this post, the Bad Cop is defined as one that doesn’t even try. Drunk with power he just issues speeding tickets arbitrarily, like YouTube passing out community guidelines strikes. He’s the famous bad cop that is the nemesis of those stating my pet peeve. Listening to some people, every single one of their speeding violations is not their fault, but the result of being always in the wrong spot at the wrong time and the bad cop is out to get them. Like a targeted individual with a persecution complex thinking he’s being gang stalked on the internet and not internet life.
Why this irks me is that I haven’t had a speeding ticket in decades. Like a lot of people I bend the rules a little bit and pay attention to my speed and to avoid too much ire from those behind me settle for a couple of miles per hour over the speed limit. For purposes of this post a good cop is defined as one that tries to follow the job description. (Difficult for conspiracy theorists to understand as that job description includes some empathy.) They don’t let everyone get away every time for fearing they ruin the (fake) good cop reputation of being a nice guy. Instead of bothering with someone that’s 3mph over the speed limit they save it for the 25 miles per hour over the limit in a 15 mph school zone of the rich bastard who thinks he’s too important to only drive 65 mph in his sports car. The typical rules don’t apply to me people.
Even with a lot of personal and other anecdotal evidence there are a decent number of people like me that do not get traffic violations handed out willy nilly by Mr. Bad Cop. And mathematically it always amazes me how those that insist Mr. Bad Cop is out to get them share their stories regularly about how they got unjustly cited again.
I really don’t believe them because of the math. The next step in the logic process is to admit that some cops are Mr. Good cop that, that would rather have you calm the fuck down and not run over a child in a school zone some day. Even if the ratio is massively lopsided with Bad Cops outnumbering Good Cops 90% to 10% your chances of being ticketed by a bad cop are 100%. Barring extenuating circumstances like lunch break or already servicing another customer in the mini mart lot. If you are violating the traffic laws around a Good Cop your chances are 100% for getting cited. And even those that bend the rules too much because they didn’t leave the house on time to make it to work by 8am at least subconsciously know they won’t get a speeding ticket for being within a reasonable approximation of the limit if not within the limit entirely.
So let me get your story straight Mr. Targeted Complainer. All cops are evil, so your response is to, what, purposefully violate the law as a gesture of defiance to the grand Bad Cop conspiracy going on that doesn’t pull over lots of people? They’re all in on it too? Maybe even reporting your whereabouts to the Bad Cops and laughing at you behind your back? Closeted Bad Cop lovers who are bribing the Bad Cops to avoid the same fate? Knock it off. Some cops are not only Good Cops but overall decent quality human beings. The Bad Cop stories make news because they’re sensational. You do hear Good Cop stories, but our love affair with the painful and evil in society means you don’t hear unexceptional Good Cop stories of how the police finally arrested the shoplifter plaguing the Mom & Pop gift shop that couldn’t afford a security camera.
Now we turn our attention to the Internet Grifter. A Bad Cop that doesn’t care about his reputation as a Bad Cop. Internet scammers are now pretty easy to find. You don’t get a lot of money from your targets unless you…wait for it…ask for money. At least Mr. Bad Cop has a flimsy excuse for forcing money out of you. Strangely, unless he’s trying to coerce a smaller amount as a personal bribe he’s getting fines for the benefit of the department instead of his own wallet.
So let me get this straight. You’re supporting someone you know has been accused of being a grifter. Credibly accused. And your solution is to support them financially? Where 100% of the tile your money goes into their pocket? When maybe if you bought lunch you might get a benefit for yourself?
A lot of scams have a hurry up and make a decision now aspect to it. Get down to the Walmart and buy that gift card NOW and give me the code on the card NOW. For whatever reason. Yet strangely the sports gematria join my Patreon gives you the opportunity to do a little actual homework and see what you’re getting yourself into. Homework that shows Mr. Bad Cop who has no intention of doing anything but keeping your money. And the kicker is that people with good intentions think they are looking for Mr. Good Cop.
Actually, you don’t need to give someone your money to be a good person. Charity is ok if it’s a decent charity and not one of the many scammy charities. But you can start by showing a little respect for others around you. And in addition to the 100s of dollars saved not having to pay the speeding ticket you can not run over a child in a school zone.
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