How do you view law enforcement, friend or foe?

Suffice to say that the kids did look scared but they were also thankful that they weren't imprisoned. Looks like the kids had a fresh baptism that is so comforting in the end. I think its fair enough that they teach those kids what could happen in life since thats just the way life is. If they never know how terrible the world today is, they could be ill prepared when that trouble comes since when they were a kid they all expected a peaceful world. So I think now that they took the boys hat off, that boy will be better prepared when another intruder goes by his way in the future. And this is all thanks to the police officer.

I view them as a friend.I give them alot of credit doing their job.I don't have problems with law enforcement.I highly support them.They have a dangerous job.Alot of cops do get killed doiing their jobs.The usual people that don't like them ,it's because they break the law.

I live in Arizona, and I see law enforcement as friend. I completely support my police force. I have never heard of the Arizona police doing anything like what you've mentioned (excluding Joe Arpio, not sure about him). I don't like racism, and he may be racist sooooo.... But other than that, Yay Police!

Law enforcement in our city is about right for someone my age, but when I was a teenager, there were some cops who just seemed to like harassing us because we were kids. I had a motorbike and was forever getting pulled over to check my licence and details, just because I was a kid. It didn't happen to older motorcyclists. If we were stood around talking, we were asked our names and addresses. As I look back, I can see that we did get a lot of harassment, but perhaps it was because there were more cops out and about then and they had their orders. Nowadays, I don't see many cops about at all even if a crime has been committed. But the cops I know are mostly OK, but I don't if they would be if I was still a kid. - Derek

yeah where i live at i never really had any trouble with them. but i found they are pretty cool from the ones i had to deal with one way or another. in my county they solve cases pretty fast when it come to killings. see i dont get work over it because i do have friends in law enforcement. and people need to remember they do a job most wouldnt want to do, and the deal with some of the baddest people. like my one friend who's a cop is cool he told me i have to deal with scum and once i am at work i am different you have to be or you can get kill. but like anything there is good and bad cops. we complain about them until we need help

For the most part, I view law enforcement as a friend rather than a foe. No matter what line of employment, you will always find it full of a**holes and corruption, but for the most part, I've found that police officers in my area are very friendly and helpful. Besides, if anything ever happened to me or my family, I know they would be the first people I would run to begging for help, so of course I consider them friends

Nope am not sure about them all the police here . I do see tham have people stopped and handcuffed on the side o the road some are walking some on bikes and some in cars. Never really hear about what happens to them if they havet been picked up on a robbery charge or a shooting of some kind. I have a girlfriend in Calif. And her son was at a christmas party in Dec. and had made arrangenments to stay with friends 4 hourses down from the party. He had gone out to get some air and was setting on the curb When some big burly cops stopped asked him what he was doing why he was there and all that he answered them niecly and all of a sudden they handcuffed him . Said for both thier safety and commenced on beating and tazering ihm they beat him so bad that dont know they got scared but the cops took him to the hospital and dropped him off yup just dropped him there the nurses and Doctora are all furoius whith wha thad been done to thins boy so after getting sewed up and fixed up they said he was ok to go home or where he was staying. Well He had to call friends to come get him. Her son now has a lawa suit against that towns cops. and I would say rightly so. all of this was uncalled for

No,we do not believe in the power of law enforcement here in our office. Actually they are the ones who bend the laws in the first place. Some illegal doings here in my country, there is always a law efforcer who is behind all this. I already lost trust on them. They are just a big monster walking in blue uniform. I never had a helped coming from them when my family have a problem before the year end last year. Policemen don't know how to help us. Policemen don't know what to do to the person who hit my father on the head. What kind of police is that? they are the safe keepers and we are much higher than them because we are civilians, and then they can't help us. Wha the......?

i view them as both honestly.. i have grown up in several areas where the cops when called take an hour to get "around" to you and therefore worthless because they took so long.. and considering i live right next to a station there should not be a delay and even in a smaller town the population wasnt so big it would cause that delay.. so i see them as worthless but i will call them on important stuff.. i mean if i see abuse or theft etc i will call.. if i hear gunshots its pointless because unless you know where its at they dont care.. mostly i only call them so if later on i need proof that something happened i will have it documented some where (such as problems with neighbors etc) and mind my own business otherwise.. i dont want to tattle on every little thing because i have seen cops abuse innocent people just because they were bored

For me they are friends when they do the right things and enemies when they over-power. We cannot deny the fact that some of our law enforcers use their position abusively. Once I saw a video pf policemen taking advantage of a drunk lady who went to a police station to complain something. The policemen took advantage of her state, one of them touched her behind. I don't know why certain people use their power abusively. Most of the time though they are a friend to me. Well, I am not generalizing it anyway though.

actually i dont believe the the legal society.because something happen around me and change my mind.when my computer was stolen in my rent room.the thieves are my neighbors,but the policemen dont have ablity to search my computer and let them still free,especially they often appear before me and make me angry.so i ask myself.what are they doing?what is their duty?if someone was murdered,they would like to search the murderer.otherwise,they could not like to search the small affairs.so their activity make me disappointed.

I have never personally had any problem with the law, and in fact have found them to be helpful at the times I needed them. I have heard stories like yours though, so I am sure it depends on your age, where you are, and what the force in your area is like. My impression is good, but then that has been my only experience of them.

Well i want to view the police as my friend but cant do that always. But it also true that inspite of not trusting then enough i also feel their need.

I trust most of the policemen in my city. I know some guys on the force and my cousin is an ex police officer. Our mall is in a township and that's where the bad policemen are. Basically, I treat policemen as friends but I have seen some who use their badge to bully people. While living in Detroit and Ann Arbor, I've encountered this kinds of wusses who hide behind their badges.

I really could not rate the police in my town as I have had no contact with them. I do read about them in the newspapers but have not personal opinion of them. However I do think that many of them abuse the power that a police uniform gives them.

teenagers more or less have no rights if they think you're "up to something". probably quite illegal,but i think they all do it. i think most of the local cops are cool,if a wee lazy. usually they don't have much to do outside of traffic stops and domestic's. but there's always a d*ck or two that'll totally ruin your day should you run into him (or her). our state police are a whole nother matter. have you ever seen "me,myself and irene"? that'd be them.

I try to obey the laws in my state. I feel that law enforcement is necessary and I respect them for the work that they do. It must be a hard job to deal with criminals all the time. I don't see them as foes, unless they are corrupt.

This is, of course, not good. I think the constant surveillance that is becoming common with photo phones etc. will help to curb it. On the other side, law enforcement is no picnic either. It's a terribly frustrating job, they catch the bad guy, get them off the street and then they are out again by morning. Jails to crowded, courts to crowded, no budget to feed and house the bad guys, paper work not done right, or just to many bad guy and not enough good guys. All of this adds to the pressure. Not an excuse, just the facts of being human.

Most of the Law Enforcement in my town like to harass people with no apparent reason to do so. I personally don't like law enforcement but it is not all I don't like. It is just the ones that harass you and aren't fair to everyone for some reason. I do not trust them at all nor do I call them when I have a problem. My older brother is always getting harassed by the cops all the time, without a reason to harass him. The police here always try to look for people who look like a gang banger and will stop and talk to you most of the time, which I think is unjust. Why do they do this? I don't know but they are wasting their time messing with the innocent ones when the real bad guys are out there doing what they want to do.

I don't quite like them very much, and my partner, George , hates them. Of course George has every right to feel this way. He was arrested for a suspected DUI. Which I'm haing a hard time grasping. Weather its true or not, I think the situation could have been handled a bit more differently. Police tend to do what they want, and very little can be done. I constantly get on George about his drinking habbits. He's technoally not suposed to be drinking because of the conviction, but he's doing it anyway. So if he's going to drink, I try to get him to not do out in public. Because it is illgel regardless to be walking around with an open can. Even if he was just coming from next door.