police bashing?

this is just a sample of common conversations. it was posted on facebook. i am deleting the names of those involved. the first one started, and i commented on it as i know two of the people involved in the conversation, A and S. the second conversation i started after the first one got under my skin!!i think they pretty much speak for themselves, these conversations, so no need to me to add anything else.


S is cant stand cops. 3:44pm ·
A at 3:46pm March 11
what'd ya do? haha
J at 3:46pm March 11
what did u do
S at 3:47pm March 11
nothing... but there jerks
A at 3:53pm March 11
truuuetrue. I was thinking maybe ya got a ticket.. haha
Gretchen Freeman Mitchell at 5:00pm March 11
oh hold up now!!! who exactly would you call if you were in a wreck or being robbed?? yep...those same people you fuss about are there to save your butts!!!
A at 5:49pm March 11
well now, I guess that's true Mrs Mitchell. they always seem to be waay late & awful timing though..
ohh wait, your husband.. haha =)
Gretchen Freeman Mitchell at 6:01pm March 11
but you gotta realize they can only come as fast as the call is made and the dispatcher gives them the call and the details and as soon as they get done with the call they are currently on as well.
plus, when there is only 2 or 3 of them to work the entire city or county....that doesnt leave enough to go around.
S at 1:07pm March 12
im talking about the one that have nothing better to do but to pull over kids as they drive in a parking lot
A at 1:17pm March 12
yeah, seems like cops here have nothing to do! Sorry, Mrs. Mitchell. :) hope your husbands not one of those cops.\
S at 1:18pm March 12
lol yeah srry miss gretchen
Gretchen Freeman Mitchell at 3:41pm March 12
lol from what i hear those kids fly into the city park like maniacs...not realizing there could be little kids walking over from those houses next door. the job of the police is to PROTECT people, not make people happy.
S at 4:16pm March 12
i got stoped goin 18 in a 15... other ppl were going 12 in a 15 and we got warnings... only 3 ppl o ticktes which ended up being warnings.... but my problem was there r billions of ppl doing drugs around this town and they cant stop them??? im not mad but i dont think the methods they took were right
Gretchen Freeman Mitchell at 4:19pm March 12but, the limit is 15 not 18. think of all the kids that live right there that could have been on that road going to play. and what do you think made the cops be there in the first place?? complaints from people who see it everyday.
and i agree...the drug problem here is terrible. rediculous. and whats more rediculous is that the way the laws are written, just knowing someone does it isnt enough...you have to have proof and you have to obtain that proof through insanely narrow ways.
A at 4:31pm March 12
I'm sorry Mrs. Gretchen. but maybe these cops should spend more time figuring out ways to catch these drug people. if they spent more time they'd get what they need for the insanely difficult way. it's not like they were going 30 or anything. it's was simply 3 over the speed limit. I'm sure there was much worse things going on in the small town of Savannah.
although I do understand there is kids there, 3 mph over I doubt makes a big difference.
Gretchen Freeman Mitchell at 4:40pm March 12
3 isnt much, i'll agree with that. but if 3 is ok, then why not 5? and if 5 is ok, then why not 10. you gotta have a limit somewhere.
and i could be very wrong, but i doubt they got stopped for only 3 over. i would guess they were either doing more, or doing other things such as running the stop sign, squealing tires, swerving all over the road, etc etc. and yes these are things i have done before and may even do again. but if i get caught i will put my big girl panties on and deal with it....and the lecture i will surely get when i arrive home.
matter of fact, i have to go to oakland in a few weeks for a speeding ticket i got.
now about the drugs....they can catch them all day long, but you also have to have a DA and lawyers and judges with the balls to make them pay for what they are doing, not slap them on the wrist and send them home. drug dealers are super smart people....they dont go down easy. one drug bust takes months, if not years, of planning.
it is not the cops place to write the laws or change them to make it so they can catch them the best way. if it was i can promise you this town would be a totally different place when i comes to drugs. its the congress and state reps and senators that do that. and most of them have never worked the streets to realize how assanine the laws they have passed really are.




Gretchen says: cops risk their lives for ungrateful people everyday! yet who do you call when you need help? the same people you whine about every other day!! 3:48pm ·
L at 3:52pm March 12
Wow, you are very passionate about that. Everything okay?
A at 3:59pm March 12
S & I, love youu.. =)
Gretchen Freeman Mitchell at 4:00pm March 12
yes. some baseball boys got pulled over and ticketed yesterday while flying into our city park, which is where they practice. another ball player posted his status that he cant stand cops and a couple others chimed in about how they are jerks, etc. so i am on a roll, posting to them and on here.
our city park sits right in the middle of a neighborhood filled with children, flying down that road is a disaster waiting to happen!!
i used to not understand cops either, til i married one. people just dont realize what they go through or their families go through, even in small towns. they walk out the door each day in their kevlar not knowing if they will make it home or not.
they arent paid peanuts for what they do, and most people dont even respect them or the laws they are there to enforce.
from what i hear, before practice was over those kids tickets were made into warnings, which does absolutely NOTHING to teach them any sort of responsibility whatsoever.
Gretchen Freeman Mitchell at 4:01pm March 12
a, i love you and s too. even when you push my buttons. =)
A at 4:04pm March 12
we're sorry.. we didn't mean to upset youu.
K at 4:10pm March 12
Well, they are still kids. They will grow up and look back on this, then realize they were jerks.
I have a "got drunk in the park and then thought the cops were mean to me for making me pour out the beer and then threatening to arrest me" story of my own. I was all indignant then, but now I realize what a fool I was.
Gretchen Freeman Mitchell at 4:13pm March 12
yep they are kids and i totally get it. i have a few stories of my own.
its ok a, i forgive you. =)
Gretchen Freeman Mitchell at 4:16pm March 12
the sad thing is that MORE people fuss about the cops than those that dont. so my rant isnt directed just at a or s or anyone in particular. i guess its directed at everyone. no one ever told me to look at the big picture either. i think society should do a better job of that.
M at 4:21pm March 12
Jeez, Gretchen.. you're such a badass.. this is why I love you :) haha
You remind me of myself when you get on these rampages.
Mark is my favorite cop by the way.
B at 4:26pm March 12
You are so right gretchen - when these kids grow up and have kids of their own - they will understand - these parents that had the tickets changed should make these kids get jobs and pay for them and their insurance - before they run over and kill someone - i was never fortunate enough to have a car bought and give to me - didn't even get a car until after graduation - and i understand that mistakes still happen - like accidently runnign red lights when you're jammin out to Ice Ice Baby : ) Gretchen Freeman Mitchell at 4:29pm March 12
i love you too m!!! but you may wanna find a temporary favorite cop while mark is out of work the next 2 months....just in case... =)
and brandy, i couldnt have said it better myself!!!
Gretchen Freeman Mitchell at 4:32pm March 12
AND while i am at it.....
my cop hubby has been off work for 6 weeks already and will be off another 2-3 months at least, with NO PAY, because he got hurt off duty and is honest and moral enough to not lie and say he got hurt at work.
so i dont wanna hear no "cops waiste my tax money" garbage either!!
A at 4:38pm March 12
okay, only 18 in a 15.. I think saying S could've killed someone is a little bit of an exxagertion. the others were only going 12 in a 15.
hmm. I thought there was a like 5 over leeway or something.
M at 4:38pm March 12
Well I think that not everybody at high school gets to leave school at 1:20 to go off campus and play so the baseball players shouldn't abuse the privledge by speeding anyway.
B at 4:43pm March 12
Kids have been killed by someone backing over them and that would prob be at speeds not over 10???? Just guessing??? It's a PARK for goodness sakes!!! KIDS everywhere! and i am not saying that i've never went over the speed limit BUT i can say that there are lessons to be taught and when you think that you are above the law....well i have said enough - thanks gretchen for getting me on a soapbox!!! LOL!!! OH and m is so right!!!!!
Gretchen Freeman Mitchell at 4:49pm March 12
there is no such leeway its just a rumor that too many people buy into.
a car falling on you not moving at all can kill you, so yes, going any little bit faster than you should is really opening the door even wider than it already is for an accident to happen.
that area is so full of kids, kids that are tiny and hard to see going just 5 mph...never mind 10 or 12.
A at 4:52pm March 12
& I understand.
I'll make sure not to speed. especially in places where little kids are around.
& understnd cops have a job to do but still..
Gretchen Freeman Mitchell at 4:54pm March 12
they do have a job to do and it is a hard job and a super important one at that....they deserve our respect not our complaining.
A at 4:56pm March 12
okay, we appologize.