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Cops High Five use of beer bong at philles game. It is tough to make this 50 characters, but I wonder how often something like this could happen. Should we give these cops a Liberty Service Medal, for recognizing the right of a citizen to pursue happiness? I wonder how many cops would be checking regulations to find something to charge her with.

Cops and their worshippers never tire of using the danger of police work as a justification for special privileges. But how dangerous is the job anyway? This piece in The Agitator points out that according to CNN/Money, police officer doesn't even make the top-ten list of most dangerous jobs in America, and is safer than being a fishermen, a garbage collector, farmer, or truck driver. And according to the NY Times, most on-duty police deaths are caused by traffic accidents not while speeding to an emergency.

A NY woman claims cops beat her badly when she tried to tell them that the dog poop they forced her to clean up was not her dog’s. Ann Stanczyk, a Polish immigrant, says she was walking her terrier, Psotka (Polish for “prankster”), when she was approached by two officers from the 100th Precinct.

A suburban Oregon police department is paying a local man $4,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit in which he claimed he was pulled over for flipping off the cops in traffic.

Twice he saluted with his middle finger while driving, and was pulled over each time by a Clackamas County patrol officer, resulting in what he said was a tongue lashing and “bogus” citations that were later dismissed.

An article detailing how cops regularly break the most basic traffic rules, according to AAA.

A special investigation by south Florida newspaper, the Sun-Sentinel, brings to light the unnecessary deaths and injuries caused by speeding cops over the past several years.

Not that this should be a surprise from Bell, California...
A memo titled the "Bell Police Department Baseball Game," assigns "singles," "doubles," "triples" and "home runs" to increasingly more serious infractions, starting with parking tickets and moving on to vehicle impounds and felony arrests of drivers. Police officers competed to issue tickets, impound cars and arrest motorists.

Watch out for drunk cops on the roadways. Three people were taken to the hospital after this, the second reported case of Aurora police driving while intoxicated this week!

Two, then three cops repeatedly kick a man already brought down with a taser