Recent content by ninespoons

Police are authority figures and people don't like being told what to do. I'd say that's probably the most common reason for the seemingly irrational hated, but as you mention in your first post some people just don't like getting caught. I'd say the media are probably to blame as well. How...

I'm interested to hear from actual police officers which show they think is the most true to life. I hear The Wire be thrown around a lot when it comes to this discussion, but I'm not sure I'd even call that a police show since you have the perspective from both sides of the law. Tanker is...

The cynic in me asks why phrase it as "pulled a weapon" if it's a firearm, and if it wasn't a firearm then why were they so quick to pull the trigger? The story raises a lot of questions. One thing to remember though is that it could just be deliberately vague from the news publication just to...