I’ve done the military police gig, done the university parking patrol gig (in uniform, not just a student ticket writer). Seldom a reason to behave like that with people.

Only time I had to get ugly with anyone was when they were mean drunks. So many different ways of handling people than the ways these people in the videos did.

The Baltimore dude needs to get over himself. I got mad watching that video – as a parent. Okay the city doesn’t want skaters there but is that such a crime? Where is the fatherly guidance that this guy should have offered?

What kind of an adult does that cop think the kid will grow up to be? One that no longer see cops as one of the good guys that is for sure.

I fear the end of our society watching these videos.

Really.

Uphold the law, above the law. Cops don’t have to obey the law anymore? Joe Schmoes get tickets when cops don’t? Don’t you think there’s something wrong with this idea?

How much to hire her?

But still, try getting a ticket when you are sitting in your car looking for change for the meter and see how you feel about them. They also have a habit of writing bs tickets to make their quota. Everybody I know with a car has gotten at least a couple bs tickets. I got one for parking in front of a driveway where there was no driveway (just a curb cut and everybody always parks there, I still do). Or too close to a hydrant when I was 15 feet away from the hydrant.

And yes, if you actually take the time to go to court the judges will let you off 9 times out of 10. But you still lose the time (and time is money) and have the inconvenience of going downtown to the courthouse.

Oh, and a parking ticket here is $100 and up. Bloomberg’s stance? “If you can’t afford some tickets, you can’t afford to drive in this city.” Thanks, Mr. Billionaire, that’s mighty white of you.

If this hacks you guys off, though, you could always try NOT parking like a-holes.

When will fast lane tech be used for meters (and all around enforcement) like it is for gas pumps and tolls

As a volunteer EMS worker, I actually know what it’s like to be threatened, assaulted, punched. Come on some ambulance runs with me, you big swingin’ dicks, and you might change your smug tunes.

Jimmy Justice rules. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf-tcjc87hw

You only need a video camera to harass them…

I’m betting the officer made an appeal for leniency using his silver credit card (badge) and the TEA refused to honor the unwritten code that law enforcement officials never ticket/fine each other. That is probably what pushed him over the edge.

Yes, the cops call this “professional courtesy,” and I have been hearing increased complaints from old/retired cops that the younger set is NOT extending professional courtesy.

I even heard this complaint in a court case that I was on a jury for!

I believe it’s a function of the time we live in. The last thing a TEA wants is a public, internet, or press accusation that police officers get preferential treatment.

So they treat everybody the same: Bureaucratically.

But I have a problem with the (like) bureaucratic response of the legislature. Why pass yet ANOTHER law? Why not enforce the current laws? The cop who perpetrated the beating should have lost his badge and his pension. And HE should have gone to the “big house.”

There’s another alternative, too. Issue the metermaids firearms, and give them the necessary training. Give them the means and authority to protect themselves from the general public as well as their own (fellow law-enforcement personnel), and I’ll bet this law would not have been necessary.

Hell, we might also see fewer parking violations if you know that “Metermaid Molly” might be packing!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9GgWrV8TcUc

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