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Context: when I go running, I run through the parking lot of a closed-down drugstore as my turn around point; over the last year or so, I have noticed that a police vehicle parks their car under the awning of the drive-thru.\u00a0 This was not an isolated incident, and given the fact that I\u2019m fairly schedule oriented, I have seen this cop parked out here at roughly the same time ranges, and I would go so far as to say that it\u2019s north of a 50% chance that I\u2019ll see the car whenever I go for a run.\u00a0 And like I said \u201cyear,\u201d this has been the case for the better part of the span of the last year.<\/span><\/p>\n One time, I saw the office sitting with his door open trimming a cigar, so it\u2019s clear that the cop isn\u2019t just hiding out to kill time or take a breather, but to be giving himself a little daily vacation on company time, fairly regularly.\u00a0 The fact that I\u2019ve run past numerous butts and remnants of cigars in the lot indicates that this probably happens more than he wants people to be aware of.<\/span><\/p>\n Now before I continue, I don\u2019t know definitively that it is the same officer that\u2019s doing this on the regular, but I do definitively know that it\u2019s the same vehicle I\u2019m seeing every single time.\u00a0 I\u2019m not in law enforcement so I don\u2019t know if every officer has their own vehicle, or if they have to share with others, but if it is the former, then it leads to believe that it\u2019s the same cop who\u2019s loafing on company time on the regular.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, on this particular morning where I\u2019ve decided to finally pose this question, I had the opportunity to get out and run early, and I decided to capitalize, because fewer things bring me joy like getting to knock out certain self-imposed daily tasks like Duolingo and exercise, so I was out of the house and running by like 9 am, before I would log into work on my weekly remote day.<\/span><\/p>\n Typically, whenever I see the lazy cop car, it\u2019s at around 12-1 pm, when I\u2019m either taking a lunch break when I\u2019m working remotely, or the kids are in their rooms for quiet time, and I have the opportunity to get out and run.\u00a0 And like I mentioned earlier, the rate in which I see the cop car when I run is pretty high, and frankly I\u2019m at the point where I\u2019m more surprised when I don\u2019t see them.<\/span><\/p>\n However on this morning when I\u2019m approaching my turning point at around 9:15-ish, the thought crossed my mind on whether or not I\u2019d see the lazy cop car, seeing as how it\u2019s nearly three hours earlier than I normally run.\u00a0 But sure as the sun rises, there was the cop car, same five-digit vehicle number on the rear hatch as I\u2019ve grown to recognize.\u00a0 Door was ajar, legs sticking out of the driver\u2019s seat, human being very much present and alive.<\/span><\/p>\n And this is where I began to ponder, if this guy is here at 9:15 am and often seen at 12-1 pm, is this cop just parking here and hanging out for his entire shift?\u00a0 Is he coming and going at intermittent intervals?\u00a0 Did I just happen to catch him completely coincidentally at an odd time?\u00a0 Is this cop really that much of a lazy pig, completely complacent by the sheer lack of job accountability?<\/span><\/p>\n Which brings us back to the original query of this entire post \u2013 would you narc on a cop?<\/span><\/p>\n Full disclosure, I don\u2019t hate the police.\u00a0 I know I identify more as leaning liberally, but I don\u2019t hate the police.\u00a0 A few bad cops don\u2019t paint the whole picture of the entire occupation of law enforcement, and sure I think that there are some places in the country where the police have too much funding and it could be scale back some, but by and large, I support law enforcement, and want to give benefit of the doubt that most cops are good cops.<\/span><\/p>\n But like I said, I\u2019m writing all this after nearly a year\u2019s worth of observations of what appears to be a singular cop taking way too many liberties with his job, and I\u2019m curious to know on whether you, my non-existent reader, would narc on them or not.<\/span><\/p>\n And by narc, I\u2019m thinking of taking pictures and putting up on social media and tagging the agency in which the officer works for, and pointing the finger, because most everyone probably knows that cops do have a culture or protecting each other, and I don\u2019t imagine a phone call to a precinct would result in anything more than a good laugh from those on the inside, as well as a marking on the source, as, an enemy to law enforcement, for daring to take action against a cop.<\/span><\/p>\n Not like putting them on blast on social media wouldn\u2019t result in the same risk of retaliation, but at least the intel would be made immediately public, and put the officer in question as well as the agency they work for in self-defense mode first, and muddy up the waters on how they\u2019d be able to retaliate without there being any scrutiny.<\/span><\/p>\n And it sucks that this is where we the people are with law enforcement, where it definitively feels like engaging in a manner that is accusing the police would result in some form of retaliation, because I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and assume that law enforcement has the resources necessary to trace an image, a post or a be able to scrape metadata better than most armchair sleuths and pretty efficiently be able to identify those who act against them regardless of how warranted it might be.<\/span><\/p>\n But anyway, no matter how much it irks me to see a sworn officer of the law behaving in a manner that\u2019s anything but a respectable police officer, I\u2019m not doing anything.\u00a0 I try to operate my general life as low-key and devoid of any legal scrutiny as possible, and I\u2019d rather there not be a note next to my identification that I\u2019m some opponent to the police that deserves the book at the slightest infraction should there ever be a time, and I don\u2019t want to increase the risk of that ever happening.<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s just me though; would you?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Context: when I go running, I run through the parking lot of a closed-down drugstore as my turn around point; over the last year or so, I have noticed that a police vehicle parks their car under the awning of the drive-thru.\u00a0 This was not an isolated incident, and given the fact that I\u2019m fairly … Continue reading Would you narc on a 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