Well apparently officer you need to tell your cop buddies to do the same thing as you, because as far as I can tell you're the only fucking cop in this city that bothers.

Officer, I think I love you.

Now please come lurk around NE Glisan. I'm tired of not being able to cross.

"I will also say, the next time I see you cross into a bike path under the pretext of "stopping at the intersection", and you almost hit a cyclist, but then have the nerve to berate the bicyclist or have the temerity to be anything other embarrassed, I will ticket the hell out of you."

I see drivers do this all the time. They just assume anything they do is 'right' because they're in a car and you're on a bike, plus being encased 2 tons of glass and steel acts like a force field so these drivers have no problem verbally harassing/barking/screaming at pedestrians and cyclists.

Louis CK has a good bit about how people feel so emboldened in their car to talk shit, but if they were face to face they'd never say that to the person's face. It's worth checking out if, as a driver, this guy's letter made your blood boil. It's boiling cause you're getting called out for being a cocky/awful driver unable to handle criticism.

This happens to me all the time as a walker. Drivers don't slow down at the stop sign if I don't get their attention--they're expecting to pull up even at the intersection. Often they're looking at the light and wouldn't even see a pedestrian or cyclist if they were right in front of them.

The sign says stop, so stop.

Please come hang outside the Burgerville at SE 26th and Powell and observe the green box madness. Thanks in advance.

Just following orders like any other loyal NAZI would do.

ward, you should get a ticket for making another stupid nazi reference.

they need to be liberal in handing out tickets with all the motor vehicle related deaths in multnomah. all the drunks and distracted drivers makes being outside a hazard to your health

Wow, lots of cop love on this thread! Now, imagine if they traded in all their cars for bikes- shit, they could kill one retard a week for the rest of the year and still be heroes!

Really, you gotta be so blindly and predictably anti-authority that you can't appreciate one traffic cop trying to do a decent job?

No, you're right. All cops are carbon copies of each other. Not thinking individuals at all. Let's treat them as such and then complain when they continue to behave as we expect them to!

^ To be fair, the men in my family have been PPD officers for 3 generations. It's just odd that you all hate cops on this site until they give out a ticket to a motorist. Oh, and my avatar is a cop shooting zombie kids!

"It's just odd that you all hate cops on this site until they give out a ticket to a motorist."

Link us to all these instances of cop hate? Just because gutter punk street kids hate cops doesn't mean everyone in Portland hates cops.

Most cops I've dealt with in Portland have been down-to-earth-as-fuck and not at all aggro. I've even had one take my bag of weed, open it, sniff it, say "smells good, not like that usual shit the guys under the bridge have", then hand it back to me.

Cop hate usually comes from retards who insist on breaking the law just to prove their rebellion.

You sir are one of the few police officers I can actually say I respect. Thank you for doing your job.

not a cop

The pigs are all gay facists, like the previous mayor and the president of PSU.


The Strange, Strange Story of the Gay Fascists

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/…

Was there in fact a pedestrian in the cross walk or waiting to be able to cross there? Did anyone actually get hurt in this instance? If a driver actually injures someone, then you can cite them and let a jury decide if there was a crime committed or if it were an accident. The contemptuous judge can just shut the fuck up about instructing the jury how they are to interpret the facts or the vulgar code. If the law is un-just, then it is the juror's responsibility to nullify that shit. Cops are as pencil happy as they are trigger happy.

I think its great you all want so hard to believe a police officer actually wrote this, or even would write this on Mercury's IA.

I think it's great you're so sheltered that you think cops are these clandestine henchmen prohibited from owning a computer or ever using the internet.

ACAB

Cops like to eat donuts, that's not so bad.

It's not about cops fucking donuts, Butler, butt maybe you've got a point. With so many pigs on the payroll, perhaps there might be a trickle down stimulus to the sluggish service sector dominate economy of Portland. Remember in 2008 when the price of gas at the pump hit nearly five bucks a gallon? The first thing that consumers did was stop buying five dollar cups of coffee at Starbucks. In response, Starbucks laid of a whole shitload of baristas and even closed some stores. As the Dow Jones corrects to below 2,000, the solution might be to hire half the unemployed in Portland as police officers, and the other half as baristas.

Yeah, let them eat cake.

In a down economy, one great way of increasing revenues for the welfare state is to issue more citations. So what if people have to miss work to go to court?