I am not a LEO, but many close friends and family members are. For the most part, I think cops are doing their best at a very difficult job. However, I think there are a lot of terrible people who become cops, or perhaps turn into terrible people once they go into the field.

I've been pulled over a number of times and a few of those times I've gotten off with a warning and I've really appreciated that. The cops were polite and respectful, just trying to keep people safe.

Then there are cops like my uncle. Horribly racist, power hungry a-holes who think they know everything about everything and believe they are better than everyone else. I know for a fact that my uncle has been pulled over while driving drunk. He's also been pulled over when having a low blood sugar attack (he's severely diabetic). His "brothers" never give him a ticket. They're trying to protect him. Meanwhile, he doesn't change his behaviors and he consistently puts the public in danger. He needs to get help. He needs to see a doctor. But if he sees a doctor and they figure out he's an alcoholic and doesn't manage his diabetes, he'll lose his job. So what happens when he kills someone?

To make things worse, his daughter is now thinking about becoming a cop. I asked her why, thinking she would say something like, "I want to keep people safe." or I like helping people." but instead she said, "because if you're a cop, no one can tell you what to do. If they say anything to you, you can just take them in." She's 23 years old. That's what she's learned about law enforcement from her dad. She has also used her dad's name as a "get out of jail free" card.

We should all be posting this stuff on their forum instead of here. not that it would change any minds.

I had to get an MRI a few years back. They went through all the right procedures, having me put my wallet and change and glasses in a locker in another room. The MRI went fine, and when I got out the nurse asked where the key to my locker was. Without even thinking, I had dropped it in my pocket and it had stayed there throughout the whole MRI. I guess the key wasn't made from a magnetic metal, or else from the looks of that video it would have ripped right through my pants pocket.

I also had my eyebrow pierced at the time (seemed like the thing to do when I was 19). I told the nurse I didn't want to take it out (again, young and stupid). She told me I might feel a "slight tugging" during the MRI. She never checked it for magnetism. Thank god surgical steel isn't magnetic or I would have been in big trouble.