ROFLMDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That doesn't answer CONVICTIONS!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone who ever resisted arrest has made the claim.......
Try looking at actual convictions..........PROVEN. LOL!!!! Anything else is supposition.
Ah well, it's been interesting....you may now have the final word you love so much. But you haven't educated yourself. You really ought to try looking at the stats I suggested, it will help you in the long run , even if you can't bring yourself to post it.
Enjoy.
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Hey Cuts, As for myself, I'm not hear to CONDEMN the LE community as a whole. The fact is that we do need it. In answer to some of your responses to me, although I was groomed by my friends dad (my surrogate dad so to speak) from the time I was about ten years old to go into the field, By the time I was eighteen, I had already seen so much wrong BS from being around him and his "crew" that I wanted nothing to do with LE. I chose to become a Navy goon instead.
I'd been on countless ride alongs, been privied to private cop parties at his house and the houses of his buddies. My Grandmothers old boyfriend was a neighborhood sheriff and he continued to chase her even after she was long married. Just by coincidence, this guy trained my friends dad.
At least a dozen guys with whom I went to high school became cops. And every single one of them was a either a football or wrestler jock and known bully and none of them all too bright either.
I owe a lot to Mr. Reaza. Because of him, I can read through peoples bullsh** like an Xray machine, I can bounce buckshot around corners and under cars, and from the hip like nothing.
Because of him the streets of LA didn't swallow me up like so many other friends of mine. Because of the pistol training he gave me when I was a young teen I am alive today. I owe him my life.
This man would have kicked the sh** out of those troopers when they got back to the station.
I've seen him commit acts of tenderness and kindness to a degree that would bring tears to your eyes and I've seen him do things to other people that were plain evil and cruel.
And not just him but his buddies also.
Because of him I have seen rooms filled to the ceiling with cocaine and guns (and this wasn't in the station) and I had to start to wonder.
I wont even go into my wifes cousin or a few of my old Navy buddies who later became cops.
Every one of these individuals very insecure and emotionally unstable with the worst tempers I've ever seen on a human being.
Many many psychological extremes kept barely in check only with a strong conviction and the idea that the end justifies the means. The best of intentions, all of them. But you know the saying,"The road to hell is paved with good intentions".
When Mr. Reaza started working under cover is when things got really bad, both on the job and at home. Because i spent most of my free time at my friends house, I witnessed some pretty rough scenes.
And trust me, his partners were no less and even worse.
He and eleven of his buddies were eventually arraigned for for skimming millions in drug money and guns. Like always, it started with good intentions to purchase needed equipment for the then raging war on drugs, but as I said of "good intentions" earlier.
I never really gave much thought to why he had a boat , two '56 Corvettes, a Mercedes, numerous collectible works of art and a safe full of gold and silver bullion and automatic weapons.
He was smart enough to make his money untraceable where all the others did not. He walked away with a tax evasion charge and a million dollar fine paid off with one of many real estate withholdings.
I dropped out of my CJ program at PCC and enlisted in the Navy shortley after that. It was not just because of him but many other things going on in my life, friends going down the toilet, the rave scene growing and the drug scene getting bigger and bigger. I was done with it all and he told me at that time that it was a wise decision and that he and his "crew" were just a scratch on the surface.
It's funny, he would never lie to me about anything if I asked (but I seldom asked as he told me much of what I NEEDED to know), but man! he could lie through his teeth to manipulate a suspect. and keep a straight face.
That was another thing he taught me was how to mess with peoples heads (sparking my interest in psychology).
Too late to make a long story short, I know. And there is so much more not just from him but from other sources (did I mention the exGFs new cop boyfriend...also an old acquaintance). So you see, I've lived through this crap and you cannot tell me that they are isolated cases.
Oh yeah, the seventeen year Alhambra LE vet who coached countless little league teams and wrestling of all things, a local PD cop that we all knew as kids...arrested on multiple counts of child pornography and related charges...convicetd! I can keep going.
And still, I do not condemn, but I say to you that their is a bigger more serious and WIDESPREAD problem than any BS statistics are illuminating.
Thank you for your service Cuts, there are many orcs, trolls, and goblins that need to be put in cages. Just wish our society put more emphasis on how to prevent the cultivation of such filth by putting the money to early childhood developement (my wife's major by the way) rather than military and LE.
I only spend the time to write this because your comments remind me alot of him but I do I try to focus on the good that he did for me. Please don't take it as a personal attack.
