Ryan Moats and the DPD

[SBXVII]

Originally Posted by tdSKINS1

Yea I saw this and read what happened. What an asshole I couldn't believe it when I read it. Damn cops that think they have so much power so ridiculous

I agreed that the officer handled it wrong. Totally. What I was afraid was going to happen was people popping off about all officers with negative comments. Sorry tdSkins for quoting you. I was trying not to point fingers but wanted people to know that there are certain reasons some officers come off as assholes. but also wanted to point out that not all officers have power trips, or are assholes. No different then people on message boards. To lump all officers in one catagory would be unfair was all I was trying to establish prior to this message board turning in to the..."All cops are trash" thread.

Not everyone is the brightest crayon in the box. In the several places I've worked I've found atleast one if not more people who are slow on the uptake and have no common sense. Those people usually have to be told several times exactly what is happening or how to do something and even then they might screw it up. If we lived in a perfect world we wouldn't need the police.

and although Moat may not have been wreckless driving, by law he was. Speeding depending on the speed is wreckless driving. Although he slowed down or even stopped and went through the traffic light could be construed as wreckless driving. but in any case the incident could have been handled a lot differently. The sad part is it wasn't. They fire him, they fire him. It just means his lack of tact will carry over to some other job. Keep him and punish him and retrain him means someone is keeping an eye on him and hopefully he has learned a valuable lesson when dealing with the public in the future.