Got Any "Good Cop" Stories?

[OneEyedDiva]

I know I've ragged on the bad cops more than once on this forum, my latest via a thread about it. But we know there are plenty of good police officers in the world. This is a thread to post your stories about them. It could be from personal experience or something you've read about.

A few decades ago when I was working, I had parked by the yellow line which people did all the time on my block after a certain hour. I meant to be out of the house before the public building across the street opened up. I got a call from my supervisor telling me to get outside... a cop was getting ready to give me a ticket. Turns out that blessedly, I had left the placard in the windshield with the agency and work number on it. The officer took time to call. It was before business hours but turns out my boss always got in about 1/2 hour before we started work. When I got outside, I guess my eyeballs almost popped out of my head. The officer looked like the spitting image Tom Selleck, who at the time I thought was the finest man I'd ever seen. He was also very nice (obviously) and I avoided getting that ticket.

 

[Ruthanne]

I have one. One day a few years back I was driving and my car suddenly broke down and would not move--it was in the middle of the street during rush hour. I called AAA but they were taking a long time due to the time of day. A nice police officer came along and asked me what happened and I told him and that I called AAA. He said it was dangerous for me to be in the middle of the street at rush hour so he called the police tow and aligned his car next to mine with the lights flashing so no one would hit us. He was so sweet and kind and just waited with me till the tow came. The tow did arrive in about 10 minutes and the officer offered to drive me to where my car was being towed. So, doggie and I got in the police car and rode to the service station. I'll never forget that.

 

[Jim W.]

A cop over in Tampa was killed just yesterday when he sacrificed his life by purposely swerving his patrol car into the path of some idiot driver who was speeding the wrong way down Interstate 275.

That's pretty good, I'd say.

 

[Murrmurr]

My youngest brother's best friend, Andy Ramirez, retired from his job as a police captain over a decade ago. When he was still a rookie (in the mid-80s), he was called to a department store about a shoplifter. She was in her 20s and had 3 little kids with her. She'd stuffed some baby clothes and a pkg of little socks for her kids into a diaper-bag. She was crying and really scared that Scott was going to notify CPS and take her into custody. After interviewing her for a little while, Scott called a couple other officers and they took her shopping for baby clothes, diapers, some toys and lots of groceries, and they paid for everything. It wasn't Christmas or anything, they just knew she needed it. After the then-captain found out what they did, it became policy to assist people who shoplifted due to need and desperate circumstances by contacting social services so the person could get financial aid, food stamps, and other family services.

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

A few years back when I dislocated my knee I was home alone but managed to crawl to the phone and call 911.
The police officer was the first to arrive. I had a dog and a cat back then. He managed to put my dog in another room with water and went looking for the cat who was hiding in the closet. He picked the cat up and put him in a room with water also.
I guess he scared the heck out of the cat because the poor man was covered in cat fur from had to toe. That cat had a habit of practically going bald when he was stressed.
I told him how sorry I was that that happened but he was really nice about it. He also took the soup I had cooked and had cooling and poured it into a container and put it in the fridge.
When I finally got home from the hospital later on in the day that soup came in mighty handy for my dinner and his thoughtfulness was much appreciated.

 

[SetWave]

I'm searching my brain for the simplest of encounters and have finally remembered this: I was living off base in a garage apartment (old chauffeur's pad) behind a mansion with a friend and his lady living next to me in the old maid's quarters. Well, one night I was awakened by the MPs banging on my door and they began to harass me asking about the young woman who lived in the maid's quarters. (That's the bad encounter). They finally left in a huff and the next day at a respectable hour two FBI agents stopped by to ask about her. They were pleasantly polite and professional. Seems she looked like a woman who had gone AWOL and my friend had taken her to the airport for a flight to visit family.