On cops and robbers

After decades of searching the police finally found Waldo -
and beat the shit out of him.

I like the police. I do. I like the idea that there are people out there who's job it is to protect me from violent criminals. The criminals don't have to be violent, but I especially like the police that protect me from the violent crooks.

Unfortunately in reality there's one area where law enforcement agencies around the world seems to continuously fail and it's in their hiring process. It almost seems like for every good cop in the world there's another cop forcibly preventing a newlywed man to take his stroke stricken wife (who is also a cancer survivor and amputee) into a hospital or using a taser against a disabled and blind elderly woman or brutally beating a 15-year old girl in a holding cell or killing an unarmed suspect who wasn't even the right man the police were looking for or attacking peaceful protesters for singing Oh Canada. Clearly there are a lot of shitty cops out there.

Thankfully however these bad examples of police officers aren't a big problem in the never ending fight against crime. Because for every unqualified idiot with a badge there's a stupid criminal.

My favourite criminal for the day.

And this stupid criminal gave me a big smile today. An American woman was arrested after trying to deposit cocaine along with her money at a drive through bank. Now this is probably not a dangerous criminal in any sense but she sure as Hell is stupid. I want to know so badly why she thought this would work. Did she think the tellers would have been accustomed to this? Did she think you could deposit anything into a bank? What was her plan for withdrawal? Was she hoping to gain interest? Well whatever her plan was it clearly didn't work and right now she's out on $1000 bail. I wonder if she'll change banks.

Regardless it's a small comfort knowing that the police don't always have to work so hard to nab their "perp". Sometimes the criminals are just stupid enough to commit a crime and not able to hide it. Which is good because some cops clearly need the help.