The respect on police
 

Every day the police makes a lot of job in fighting against crime and protecting ordinary citizens from criminals. Their job in general is not the safest and well-paid job in the world but still there are many people who are willing to foster the law & order in their society. Sadly, there are always some police officers in the world that take bribes, use force without restrictions and even commit crimes of their own.

How big is your respect towards the police in your own country? Should the police get more freedoms and rights or should these be restricted? Does the police make its job and have you had some issues with the police? Discuss.

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Pfffffff... Not any to the guys in my town. They walk around with their chests all puffed out and try to suck in that big flabby gut that comes out of their shirts. They pull people over for going 2 miles over the speed limit and give them long lectures. They stop by any teenagers they see walking around town and ask where are you all going at this time at night and it's like 8:00 at night. They leave their cars on to use up gas. Sometimes you will see the car in the same place all day running but no ones inside lol. One cop hangs around the caffe in town all the time. Oh yea and when you call them the phone rings 1 time then transfers you to the neighboring towns sherrifs dept. Lol

Oh darn I voted very little I meant in my town not the country. I have alot of respect for the ones in my country.

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Cops in general in the US are great. They are paid and trained well. Most of them are friendly and happily preform their duties. Where I live they are good, we have had only 1 murder in 15 years(last year a boy killed his mom and raped her body).

I respect them becuase they are the ones keeping socity decently safe, but they can't stop all the nut jobs out there.

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I have alot of respect for the men and women serving with the police department here, they are always nice and friendly, at least in my experience. They serve you freakin coffee when you are waiting to report something at the station. They dont get paid much, but choose to stand in the way of dangerous situations if they arise.

The police is the only thing between us and complete chaos.

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I think that the (German) police have sufficient tools at the moment to fight crime effectively. But instead of reducing the personnel they should have more active officers. And more specialised experts.
In my opinion most of them are doing their job fine here. But I could be biased on this subject ;).

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I'm actually looking at becoming a cop once I'm out of high school next year. My dad is a cop and he says its a great job. Plus, I don't think there is anything else I would like to do.

Around here, they are pretty decent people. I can't remember the last time there was a murder in my city. They do their job well, and for that, I respect them.

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I respect the police greatly around here, though I might be biased since my dad used to be a cop.

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what kind of scale goes from 1 to 7.... anyway I voted 5, they do their job, but I don't have to like it.

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I respect people on individual merit, not the job they do.

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I give them a four. For the most part, it depends on the individual cop.

Some are nice while others are complete assholes...what kills me is that they pull you over for ridiculous reasons just to fill their monthly quota.