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This actually doesn’t bother me too much. They don’t beat and tase people when they are asleep.

Conversely, while in Detroit recently, I met a very nice cop. A Muslim guy (he told me he is given grief about his beard) who was personable and helpful as to where and what to see. (Cyprus Taverna in Greektown rocks) When a carload of drunk college students came on board Detroit’s idea of mass transit, he was firm but friendly with them. He went on to tell us about the time he came on the People Mover and found seven college kids hanging upside down, drunk, from the handrails. No tasers or arrests were involved. Some Detroit cops can be professional AND human.

So I knew this retired cop who used to be a upper level supervisor (I think a commander or something of that sort) in a suburb of Chicago.

One night during the start of his watch, he noticed an officer was bringing a blanket with him to his squad when he went on duty. This was strange, but the commander decided not to question it. After awhile, the officer started carrying a pillow out with him as well. At this point, the commander became curious and managed to shadow the officer to see just what he was getting up to. Sure enough, when not on a call, he was parking his squad and napping, complete with pillow and blanket. More over, he took off his gun belt before tucking himself in.

Being a rather creative supervisor when it came to instructing his officers in professional police behavior, the commander snuck over to the officer’s squad and carefully removed the gunbelt. Then he quickly escaped, leaving the officer to sleep peacefully, until he inevitably woke up and found his s3rvice weapon missing.

Years later, the commander was still amazed that a police officer would show so little thought for their own safety. The town in question was hardly a high crime area, but it still shocked him that any police officer would make themselves that vulnerable.

I can only imagine what he’d say about an officer in a city like Detroit doing this.
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First Toronto subway booth collectors, then Montreal bus drivers, now Detriot cops!

There’s juz sumpt’n ’bout put’n on the badge that tires a body qwik!

Let’s do try to be fair with the poor guy!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070612075008.htm

I’m all for exposing cruel cops and those hassling photographers but making some poor schmucks life miserable because he was sleeping? I want cops to live and let live when it comes to me taking photos. In turn I’m happy to live and let live when they choose to sleep rather than hassle me.. . On a high horse I realize I’m paying them to sleep, blah blah. I got off that horse years ago.

The point of this post is that photography is not a crime.

I personally don’t care if the guy was sleeping either. I find it pretty stupid because cops are always going off on how everybody wants to kill them – and that has proven true in some cases – and here we have a cop that allows a photographer to get right in his face and snap his photo without realizing it.

If it was a gun, he would have been dead.

Yeah, as often as they’ve used “officer safety” against law abiding citizens! He certainly left himself vulnerable. However, it does say something for the people of Deetroyt that he was not capped as he slept.

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I don’t have a problem with them taking I quick nap, who knows, he may have been on a lunch break.

At least he wasn’t spending hours at a time in the donut shop like the cops do around the corner from my office. They are there at 8:15am every day, and stay until they leave to go get lunch. I want to stand outside filming it one day, but I know they will just come out and arrest me, and probably break my camera.
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I would pull an “Axel Foley” and put a banana in his exhaust pipe.

I guess that if you used a long feather to tickle his nose they’d charge you with “assault on a police officer”.

Would it be cliche to have donuts delivered to him? Really… Would it?
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Well, I find it funny to see anyone literally asleep on the job, even more when the person’s a cop.
That said, I don’t know any details, he very well might have just finished a 24 hour triple shift rather than actually being on the clock.
Yes, I’m just playing devil’s advocate right now.

In my highly educated and well established mind (Hahahaha!), this man just finished his six pack of boston creme donuts, now it’s nap time. If he had woken up it’s 100% the photogapher would have been beaten to a pulp.
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He’s dreamin’ it.

This link is NSFW. Not the worse thing I’ve seen happen publicly in a crusier. http://bit.ly/alHZGW
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Donut shop? That’s just a stereotype! They don’t do that!

http://www.freemantimes.com/northampon-pd-runs-on-dunkin.html
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How about the old hand in warm water trick?