thats cool that he called and apologized.


i had an altercation with the mount juliet police department on my birthday of all days. wrote a formal complaint to the chief of police, who defended him. the officer gave me wrong information, was rude, abrupt, and was very quick to inform me he was the only officer so and so on that force so if i had to find him it would be easy. i found his manner to be unprofessional and a bad representation of that department.

IMHO, i believe officers and the military are held to a higher standard. I can't tell my soldiers not to do stupid stuff then go off and do it myself. We have to hold ourselves to a higher degree of standards than everyone else.

Will there be asshattery and dumb stuff that happens? yea. You wouldn't believe how much stuff will get shoved under the rug because people are buddies. I've seen it happen. Do I stand by idly and let it happen? I try not to, but you also have to pick the battles. It's not always the best thing to rock the boat and cause a whole lot of waves. You can't win every battle, and you cant burn all your bridges.

In my dealings with that PD department, i was disappointed in the lack of professionalism and common courtesy. Does it reflect badly on that department? in my opinion yes. I have some very good friends who are deputy sheriffs and officers for their prospective cities, and they do an upstanding job, on and off work, of keeping to that higher standard. I have one neighbor at home who's a deputy sheriff, and the neighbor on the other side is a state trooper. I've cracked an adult beverage or two with both of them a time or two. They have my respect for the jobs they do.