On the contrary, they are quite terrible. Your reply is filled with multiple examples. It's worse that you don't recognize it.
An uneducated remark is one in which you don't distinguish fact from opinion. I provided a qualifier doing exactly that and you can't see the difference. I added the qualifier because I knew very well I could be wrong and won't have any problem admitting it if I am.
I think you need a question mark at the end of the sentence instead of a period. That's ok though. I knew what you meant though despite your mistake.
Here's an example of your poor reading comprehension skills. I NEVER said the cop didn't pull over other speeders AT ALL. You assumed I said or meant it. To help you connect the dots, I was saying that officers typically focus on the more blatant offenders when they are targeting speeders. I feel quite certain the officer didn't pull many cars over for going 10 miles or so over the speed limit. That's not the same thing as saying the officer didn't pull ANY OTHER vehicles over. You're welcome. Further, you seem unable to distinguish between a qualified OPINION and an uneducated remark. An uneducated remark is saying that all cops love donuts. A qualified opinion is saying that you don't know for sure, but there are a lot of cops that probably like an occasional donut. You're welcome.
These two paragraphs are replete with uneducated assumptions, incorrect statements and incorrect conclusions with a high degree of confidence. It's this false confidence in your conclusions and observations that are examples of why I lose faith in humanity by reading posts like yours.
No, I didn't say anything even resembling that cops think ALL people driving SUVs with tinted windows. What I said was that cops profile whether it's conscious or not. If they notice a pattern that large vehicles, be it an SUV, can, etc. traveling late at night on certain highways have been found to have drugs hidden in them or in them, then, they will be much more likely to target that type of vehicle if they have the chance. You are interpreting my statement about the length of time necessary to fill out a speeding ticket much too literally. You assume because I make an exaggerated statement to convey that speeding ticket paperwork (and paperwork in general) take a surprising amount of time to complete that I mean it literally takes an hour to fill out the speeding ticket and all of the additional paperwork (which is pretty much exclusively entered into a laptop in the police car these days and calling it paperwork is a remnant of the bygone days when the forms were filled out with pen or pencil on paper). It definitely doesn't take an hour, but it takes at least 20 minutes if the only infraction is speeding.
Your condescending remarks in the second paragraph simply make you look bad. I'll let you go back and read them to see if you can understand why. Your uneducated remark "None based on fact" is patently wrong. In addition, I have a great deal of respect for police officers. I've gone through the multi-month citizens' police academy program that covers nearly every aspect of the work performed by the police. The classes were conducted by REAL LIVE POLICE OFFICERS so I have a very good idea of what cops do based on THEIR OWN WORDS.
They have a difficult job and are brave people that do a great public service. That said, they are human beings, and human beings are irrational creatures that have biases based on their life experiences, etc. I don't fault them for having varying degrees of bias and believe they try very hard not to have them. But they are still biased.
The only calling out that's occurred her is you've called yourself out as a good example of why my faith in humanity suffers when reading comprehension problems, erroneous conclusion-jumping, etc. have such a negative impact on the dialogue in a thread and take the focus off of the original subject. To your last question (which was properly punctuated. Congrats!), I'm foretunate to have only been pulled over for speeding a small handful of times in my life. All of my encounters have been very cordial and all of the officers have been very polite. It's perfectly reasonable to have a positive overall opinion of police without believing officers always do the right thing and are completely unbiased. Because there was strong evidence of racial profiling and targeting of minorities in Ferguson, Missouri, do you therefore think all cops do this? I'm sure you don't. Don't jump to conclusions so hastily and I won't need to explain this to you again in such detail in the future.
