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Another reason to love New Jersey - asshole cops
I haven’t had many run-ins with the fuzz, luckily, and most of my police-type encounters have simply been traffic/driving related. In my limited experience, however, I have found Jersey cops (particularly the state troopers) to generally be the biggest assholes of them all. To be fair, I’d probably be a grumpy prick if all I did every day was cruise the turnpike for a full shift, only to have to go home at the end of the day to a house that’s still in bloody New Jersey.
Anyway, in this story the Jersey state troopers actually come off quite ok, although another Jersey cop takes the cake for being an asshole cop. Back in 2004, two state troopers pulled over a cop who was in an unmarked car because of alleged reckless driving. After being stopped, he refused to identify himself as a cop and refused to give them his gun, so he got a bit of pepper spray in the face. Well of course he is now suing these troopers, and his reasoning is basically that they didn’t afford him the special privileges he felt he was entitled to as a cop.
Of course, his lawyer claims that it’s not about “a special privilege.” However, she then says, about the notion of cops not hassling fellow cops and just “talking cop-to-cop,” that it’s “just known between them.” Which to me, you know, kinda’ sounds exactly like a special privilege.
Ladies and gentlemen - former Tinton Falls detective Gary Wade. QuizLaw’s asshole of the week!
