We had cops for neighbours at one place and one down the street in another. Both great people. Used to get together with them, kids played together, etc.

Nothing. Not even talk to them. Being cordially distant.

I would just mind my business . If he occasionally needs to use a trash can or whatever, I'm not causing any trouble. No reason to assume the worst, but if he starts causing trouble, yeah moving would be the only solution there.

A bunch of social media accounts with their name and address may start attacking Scientology and right-wing crazies.

Great people don't remain cops for long, so I really doubt it

There was a cop in the neighbor right outside ours ( you have to drive through that neighborhood to get to ours), I thought having him there would curb some of the drug activity, I was wrong. It was obvious pretty early on he was dirty.

I did have one down the street at one point. We each minded our own business and I considered it good for my family’s safety to have a police car always parked nearby

Get them really drunk than feed them drugs while you record it for a get out of jail free card.

Ah, I didn't know you were superstitious. I don't believe in the myth of the clean cop.

Yeah the rabid lion does tend to keep the wolves at bay and they barely eat any children .

I thought he would not shit where he ate and keep his neighborhood clean.

Mostly mind my own business, but expect to have to record and report a domestic abuse.

Depends on the people, if they are good people then let’s be friends, if not then just ignore them and be cordial. Like with any neighbour.

I still know one of them. Have been an acquaintance of another cop for 15 years. Still great people.

This must be US thing I presume?

My general rule for cops is to keep my head down. They have no particular reason to bother me, but they're also a certain kind of person. (Inevitably, because the job is awful and nobody else can handle it long-term)

I lived a couple houses down from a cop.

His whole family were dickish Karen types and got the annual block party shut down. Their house was regularly egged and TPd until they moved. I may or may not have been involved in some of those eggings.

If you can pull it off, that might legit be worth it, just in case. In a single party consent jurisdiction making the recording wouldn't even be illegal (IANAL).

Of course, in a perfect world, the cop wouldn't take drugs, and if they did, would put justice over their personal worry you might hypothetically leak it. I'll let the readers hash out the probabilities.

Less than agreeable or upright and actually involved in organised crime are two very different things.

Cops can be fine, many of them want to do good. But law enforcement also attracts/breeds a certain type of thumbhead person that either loves or hates you.

Protecting capital over the rule of law and human rights, or protecting those who do is literally being involved in organized crime.

What is awful about the job? I've never done it so I don't know. But it seems like they cannot be fired, even if they mess up so badly that someone dies. That doesn't sound so bad to me.

Closest I came was living like 2 houses away from an undercover cop who was helping deal with a drug lab house in the middle if our block. Never saw them much, nor was I opinionated on cops since I was in maybe 3rd grade when this was happening. So nothing too big. The drug house was taken care of and nobody else on the block were harmed, but kinda fucked since it was a block full of kids at the time.

Nowadays, in that situation, I would do my best to avoid the cops and drug house as much as possible and not get onto either of their radars. Not 100% sure I would feel safe, despite the fact that the bus route I take always has me waiting by a cop building while having had zero incidents over the few years I've been taking the route.

Actually, being a cop is legal.

They deal confrontationally with the worst people available at their worst moments, and sometimes do it all day. Movies make us think it's all masterminds and shootouts, but actual calls are 99% drunks, bullies and wife-beaters.

Like, think of the most toxic interaction you've ever had. Now consider doing it multiple times a week. You either become toxic yourself or you burn out.

Edit: You know the Florida man meme? Florida just has laws that get more details published. It's like that everywhere, and probably less funny and more traumatic in person.

Most people can't afford to just "move".

ACAB applies worldwide, not just the US.

Pretty much how I am with all of my neighbors anyway…

I had a cop two door down for years. I loved having that cop car sitting there every night.

That's pretty bullshit. And I'm sorry for everyone that thinks this is the case since they probably doesn't meet normal ones that often as I do...

Police Station 100m away. I'd encourage a few more to move in. They do serve and protect where I live.

Cops always defend their bad apples, thus the whole bunch is spoiled.

For context, I'm Canadian and am regularly downright proud of our courts. Our cops on the other hand, no. Just no. Routinely in the papers for egregious criminal activity and abuse of people rights.

In the US, the courts and the cops have long been a shambolic shitshow of gangsterism. Your mileage may vary based on your country.

Would that be worse than the crackhead who lived there before them?

So? That's still not what organised crime means.

I'll use the US as its a much clearer example. For profit prisons with kickback schemes from judges.. Illegal arrests and fines to generate dollars for podunk towns, Abusing RICO statutes for civil forfeiture to straight up rob people extra judicially. It's straight up racketeering.. Almost everything the LAPD, NYPD, Baltimore PD Ever did. They are notorious.

Same.

Cop lives somewhere down the street.

I ignore him.

But I also have talked to the neighbors on purpose like. Twice. In almost twenty years lol.

I would go out of my way to avoid them

Okay but when i'm in a toxic situation at work I can't shoot someone and get away without consequences lol.

When police show up to a scene, ordinary citizens have no power over them whatsoever. The police have the upper hand, every single time. Whereas if I get into an argument with a co-worker, client, or shopper I could be fired.

The reason workplaces are toxic are because employees are powerless. Police can literally murder people anytime they want and get away with it.

Not american here, cops here are actually a trained job with multiple years of training before going out. 3 years pure training minimum and the slightes missbehaviour can get you fired and suspended from your job which will be marked down

I hope earnestly you don't mean German cops.

Just ignore them? I already ignore my neighbours that aren't pricks, ignoring a prick is no different

Yes

No he/she probably don't. In Germany, the pigs wallow in their own shit and cover each other.

Not really pay attention to them at all. Can't be arsed to care, unless they start waving that gun.

Did your block party get resurrected after they moved?

Lol no i dont. Augsburg City Club got raided by 500 police just so the state could show their power again

I'd be more discreet about my moonshine operation, that's for sure.

Yeah, I thought your name narrowed it down to DACH and there's a lot of German cop apologists out there, because they're white and only interact with cops during traffic stops.