I was on my way to work this morning and came up on an accident. Appearently an older guy driving a van had some sort of medical condition and went off the road and hit a rock wall!
The paramedics were working on him and I could see they had his shirt open and sensors on his chest. I would assume he had a heart attack. So while the medics are doing there thing there is an officer standing there writing the guy a ticket!!!
I mean c-mon dude! The guy just had a frikken heart attack and all your worried about is giving him a ticket?? Thats low! At least wait till he's at the hospital or even home!!
Just wanted to vent!
Hey BT, I understand your frustration looking at this from your viewpoint. But from my viewpoint as a police officer it gets tiresome when people bash cops all the time. In this case, you don't know for sure if the man had a heart attack. Since he was elderly it is common to put sensors on to monitor a patient after a traumatic incident. If he'd had a heart attack they would probably have more than just monitors on him, in fact IF the ambulance was still there the door would not be open.
In some cases, officers have to write a ticket on an accident. If your car was struck by another car you would want the at-fault person to get a ticket, otherwise the insurance company would go through all the hoops, saying their client was not at fault. And are you sure it was even a ticket he was writing? From driving by I don't see how you could be. He could have been writing notes, measurements or starting on the report.
I get the old picked on in high school stuff all the time. I wasn't picked on, at least to my knowledge.
The fact is I've wanted to be a PO since I was about 5 years old. I love my job. Quotas are illegal, and last year I probably wrote 2 traffic tickets. Traffic is not my thing, although I understand the need for enforcement.
It just gets old when people start to bash cops. I've been shot at a couple times, once with an SKS. My partner was shot in the chest with a shotgun, while I was about 30 feet behing him I could feel the debree on my face from the buckshot hitting the ground in front of me. I'm not bragging, there are better cops out there than me. I'm just saying that there's a lot we do that people just don't get. When I go to functions I usually don't tell people that I'm an officer because the first thing they do is tell me the last time they got a traffic ticket they didn't deserve. A lot of people just assume that's all we do.
Again, I can appreciate how it looked from where you were, but it may not have been as it seemed. Sorry for the novel!
