PS. IMHO dude was a butthole to go off at the mouth like that though, not needed. Dude should keep his mouth shut and thought about the check he will be getting from the city of Clearwater.

I get it, I really do. I'm not anti-cop I am anti-LEO, anybody that tries to tell you they are the same has their head too far up their own ass to be able to see the light of day. They wear the same costume, same badge/gun and speak the same language but they are wholly different. IMHO it is qualified immunity, department policy and the lack of courage by the majority in LE to use their own discretion; not to mention they target folks of lower IQ/character to fill their ranks in general. I know of a handful of unicorns with similar situations, all but one made the leap to the private sector.. One became a truck driver, 9x more deadly than being a cop BUT a lot less BS and makes it easier for him to sleep @ night.... One went all the way and became a pharmacist... Seems to me that folks in similar situations as you and my associates figured out about a year or two on the job the shenanigans and BS was all about. Too many stuck it out for the pension, praying they don't get shot, sued or end up as a subject of a youtube video. Plenty of "decent" folks in LE, but those decent folks will do shady sh*t to protect their pensions. Its sad really, it was a noble profession back in the day; they somehow went from keepers of the peace to enFORCERS..... "Just doing my job" Even more sad is that society really needs them; without laws there can be no freedom. I'm glad you got out, hopefully life has been kind to you and yours.lighteye wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 8:54 pm Yeah, someone's gonna get ventilated, but your family will make bank.
I just went though an issue with FCIC/FDLE and called them out in writing, as they were in violation of 790.065. They took 16 days to be bludgeoned into submission, and probably only because one of their inept idiots blamed the delay on a computer glitch. In an an email. I showed that to my lawyer, and exactly one letter later they released my purchase.
BOTH my parents are career FDLE, I'm former state LEO and Military Police, Stepdad is career FDoC...no matter, they thought they could roll over me. Unfortunately for them, I'm rather persistent, informed, and stubborn. This happened in 2007, 2013, and now 2022. No excuse is acceptable at this point, and I'm not exactly believing the explanation of an error. 3 times is no accident. The point of this is, If FDLE doesn't care, neither do the locals. Gotta start dinging their pensions when they act outside the rule of law.
I'm NOT anti-LEO. As I stated, I WAS one, and come from a long line of them. I have LEO friends. I AM however anti-uninformed armed moron, though. There's a difference.