No, I've gone through many many red lights and stop signs when cars weren't there. If there were cars present I would always hit the lights and blurp the sirens.

It's just that sometimes I didn't need to cause a scene. There wasn't an emergency that required I put people at danger by running like I was on fire but still needed to be somewhere.

A good example is if another officer called code 1 on a traffic stop (which is all fine) but asked that someone head his way. This means he might have a suspicion of something but is in no danger. I wouldn't run 100 miles an hour, but I can't sit at a red light and **** the day away.

I'll call it too. I can't and won't say it hasn't and will never happen. It's just I've personally never seen a blatant disregard of traffic laws.

It does. We always had something going on. I would be running to calls or checking up on things all day long. I usually always had my eye on something. A lot of it always looks bad to the public because they never really know or understand what we are doing or why.

Now this doesn't make up for everything. But I know that a lot of people looked at me like I was just another idiot cop but that's because they weren't me. They never could see what was going on behind the lines so to say.

Fair enough. It was your experience and I wouldn't try to call you a liar. I was just simply saying there could always be something going on that you might not notice.

in this case he was probably just not wanting to do anything

Some cops are bad. Some cops are liars. Some people are bad. Some people are liars.

I wouldn't doubt the OP was literally just doing 1 over. I've seen it happen in money hungry areas. My only comment is usually "I wasn't there so I can't really comment".

I had one at the age of 17. 122 in a 45 in a Mustang. It was a county highway with no houses and only two cars. Me and a state trooper lol

I am always extremely understandable. However, you have to understand. Everyone I ever dealt with usually lied to me. It's the name of the game. Who can lie their way out of what. After so long of fighting the game of whose telling the truth we usually just get to the point where we just stop trying to see whose honest.

But, in my defense, a leaky hot water heater is by no means relatable to the kind of calls I would receive. I mean, I go can into detail, but I never broke a law because someones cat was stuck in a tree. If it wasn't serious, then it was coast along.

So don't mistake me, it's just those certain circumtances that fall between serious emergency and plain boring.

My rule always was if I'm doing it, anyone around me could do it. There would be times I was on the other side of the city and had been on shift for like 12 hours. I'd do a good 10 - 15 over and usually had a line of people behind me doing it. I'm sure they were all thnking "omg if he is going to do it I am too." which is funny because at that point go ahead lol





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Buuuut, don't want to hijack, so I'm going to get off that subject. Time and place for everything, his thread isn't either.