I Just Have To Say

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A bleeding pregnant woman who had stopped to explain her problem, who was not behaving in a violent or threatening manner toward police or anyone else (assuming she wasn't, don't know for sure), did not deserve to be tackled by 2 grown men in uniform.

I know cops have a tough job and am generally pro cop. This case is really scary, though. For God's sake - she had explained her problem and, reasonably, driven on to the ER. They could so easily just have followed her there and let her get care and then dealt with whatever legal matters needed to be dealth with. So simple, so reasonable. What in the world were they thinking?

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

Links?

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Specializes in Med Surg.

I was raised to respect cops and do what they say. I really believed this until personally witnessing three instances of excessive force over a ten year period. I also made the mistake of fighting a speeding ticket and winning. With the BS I put up with over the next couple of months I think I would have been better off pleading guilty, paying the fine, and having my insurance jacked up for a few years.

I recently saw an article about a guy who noticed a skunk caught in a live catch trap in the hot sun on a vacant lot. Being a Saturday, he knew animal control wouldn't be there before Monday. Not wanted the animal to suffer, he went and moved the trap into a shady area and provised some water. A cop saw him and gave him a ticket for trespassing on city property. His act of kindness cost him $650.

There are still some good cops out there but far too many others are on a major power trip. They are bound and determined to enforce the law even when it goes against all common sense. They can't stand the thought of someone actually defying their authority.

There was a time when you could count on the police to use a little compassion and common sense when dealing with the public. Unfortunately compassion and common sense seem to have been exorcised from the new generation of police offficers.

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There a few bad seeds in any career. Unethical lawyers, doctors, police, even nurses out there. I don't remember what the end result to this was...anyone?

Lately on the news they've been rehashing the 10 year anniversary of the prosecution of Orville Lynn Majors- the "Angel of Death", a nurse that was convicted on giving fatal doses of potassium to patients. Who knows, there could be a polive forum where they discussed that case, or another situation where they witnessed nurses doing bad.

Not saying it was right at all, but I truly do believe there are police out there that are still in it to help and not as a power position. What the proportion is though...is hard to tell.

http://www.wthitv.com/dpp/news/orville-lynn-majors-pt2

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Specializes in med-surg, psych, ER, school nurse-CRNP.

They weren't thinking, plain and simple. And I may be mean, but I hope they get busted to desk duty for the rest of their career, if they don't get fired. Had that poor woman been me, and they did me that way, I'd be in jail for murder. When I am fearful for the life of my child, you best not mess with me, ESPECIALLY over a piddly ticket after I have TOLD you where I am going, why, and that it is an emergency.

Follow me, cuff me to the gurney if you like, but if I lose my baby because of your actions, your life wouldn't be worth spit once I was able to get back up. I may be a tad violent about this, as I am not a Mama (to anything but my furbabies), but I would lay down my life for any child I have raised in my family. That's just instinct.

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