Thumbs up LEO

[IndianaGTI]

Thumbs up to the Orange County Sheriff's Department. I see so many rants on here about bad LEO. I am the first to agree that there are a few that make the rest look bad. I think that the vast majority are good people.

Anyway, I was stopped at 2:30 am driving into Paoli. It was right at the sign where the speed limit drops and I had turned my cruise control off but had not slowed enough to meet the new speed limit. So, I was speeding. The officer turned around, followed me for a while to observe my driving, then pulled me over. The officer was very polite. I had my driver's license in hand then explained that before I dug through my glove box for my registration, I had 2 handguns in it. My EDC and my glove box gun were both in the glove box since I had been somewhere that I had to remove my EDC. The officer just asked that I leave my glove box alone. He did not jump back and grab his gun like some.

Professionally handled stop. I was polite and understood that I was in the wrong. The officer was polite and did not attempt to demean me for being in the wrong. He even acknowledged that I literally at the sign where the speed limit dropped when he clocked me.

 

[Bunnykid68]

Did you get a ticket or a warning?

 

[sparkyfender]

That's a tricky and rapid speed decrease, if you were coming down 37 from north of Paoli. Lots of people get it there.

Glad your stop turned out okay......

 

[pops66goat]

Most I have encountered have been like that, all they are asking for is respect and honesty. There are of course those few that have a chip on their shoulder...

 

[Mike H]

I thought there was a certain distance between a change of speed limit sign and where a speed trap could be set up?

 

[Mgderf]

To your point,

Just imagine if half of all police were what we see portrayed on boards like these.
It would be like Dodge City and the wild west out there.

I've had a lot of differtent jobs in my working life, and one entailed contacting the police at LEAST once on a weekend.

For 8 years I played night-shift manager/head-cook at the Triple XXX restaraunt 2 North Salisbury, West Lafayetyte, In. 47906

This all-night burger joint is but blocks from the Purdue campus, and for reasons beyond my grasp, it is the "place to be seen" at 3:00am on a football weekend.

I got to know the majority of the Purdue and West Lafayette police Departments, night shift anyway. It was so bad for a while that the West lafayette department left me a stack of blank incident reports. If it was not an emergency, fill out a report and drop it of at the cop-shop in the morning!
They were ALWAYS polite and curteous, even to the people they hauled off to jail.

I've been pulled over a few times, but then I've been driving for more than 35 years. Only ONCE, can I recall a bad stop. It was a rookie ISP.

 

[tsbolton]

Young Leo's

Been my experience that the leo's in general are young and most dont have enough life experience to handle most situation. Have heard several stories in recent years of small issue turning south rather quickly and most is a result of young and in most its age caused on both sides.

 

[Mgderf]

Age is mostly a matter of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter!

It's NOT age, but maybe the age we live in.

Too many don't hold respect for another human being, and thus don't garner respect in return.

Ever heard, "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours."?

If you are civil when you deal with me, I'll be civil in return.

If you want to be a dick? Well, that's going to be your first mistake.

 

[IndyGunworks]

Did you get a ticket or a warning?

is the relevant to the post?

 

[mikefraz]

is the relevant to the post?

I'm curious too. For no other reason than to know. Won't change my mind about the officer in any way, shape, or form.

 

[Mackey]

This is all interesting and such. But the fact that you post this shows just how "remarkable" this stop was. Because it's generally not the norm.

 

[drillsgt]

It's kind of strange and sad we have to post and thank cops for deciding to be professional and courteous while doing their darn job.

 

[xM3RC1L3SS1x]

Thumbs up to a LEO that didn't overreact.

 

[Wwwildthing]

Pro-gun LEO's won't hassle you... Anti-gun LEO's will.

It's just that simple.

 

[IndianaGTI]

It isn't that this stop isn't the norm. It just isn't the normal post on this forum.

Most of the people on this forum would rather whine about a bad apple in a bushel than comment on how great the rest of the apples are.

I thought it was about time to comment on the rest of the apples.

 

[DRob]

Nicely done

It isn't that this stop isn't the norm. It just isn't the normal post on this forum.

Most of the people on this forum would rather whine about a bad apple in a bushel than comment on how great the rest of the apples are.

I thought it was about time to comment on the rest of the apples.

Well said and well done. Thank you.

 

[ATM]

It's kind of strange and sad we have to post and thank cops for deciding to be professional and courteous while doing their darn job.

Positive reinforcement shouldn't be strange or sad.

We jump on unprofessional/discourteous behavior with a fervor, so why not acknowledge good and proper service once in a while?

It's pretty normal to give both positive and negative feedback for other public services.

 

[drillsgt]

Positive reinforcement shouldn't be strange or sad.

We jump on unprofessional/discourteous behavior with a fervor, so why not acknowledge good and proper service once in a while?

It's pretty normal to give both positive and negative feedback for other public services.

I just don't see why we feel the need to fall all over ourselves to post how some cop did their job and treated someone with courtesy and respect. I got pulled over by ISP up near the border, the guy was polite, the stop was over quickly and I took my ticket and left and that is how I would expect it to happen and didn't think it was a special occasion. So I guess it's +1 to the ISP, there.

 

[Bunnykid68]

The title of this thread makes me laugh every time I read it

 

[IDCC]

I know the deputy that works that shift. He is a gun guy. I remember hearing him on the scanner one night. "59-X, Five Nine...59-X, Five Nine.... Go ahead Five Nine... 59-X, caller reports possible machine gun fire in such and such area( aay out in the boonies) "Ahh Five Nine.... machine guns aren't illegal" I trust the full time guys quite a bit as well as some of the Reserves, however there are some of the Reserves I dont want anything to do with which really is a shame.