George Patterson wrote:
abripl wrote:

I don't know what it is about cuffing people that some cops are
addicted to.

What it is is that entirely too many cops have been killedv or
injured because
they didn't cuff someone.

Its not just in this case but I saw it in nearly ordinary
automobile traffic cases.

Yep. I remember a routine traffic stop in Knoxville back around 1970.
The driver
shot the officer through the door and drove away. Made a few changes
to the
rules right there.

Dittos. Can't remember how many times I've read in the paper about a
cop getting shot at on a "routine traffic stop." Sure, 9999 out of
10000 it's no big deal, but when guessing wrong = dead cop, I give them
the benefit of the doubt.

Which doesn't mean that a lot of them aren't often Barney Fife
breathing-their-own-exhaust jackasses. Personally I live in a lage city
and would take big city cops over the boonie guys any day. And I grew
up in the boonies so I know that of which I speak.

-cwk.