MSU Red Cedar Message Board

Yes, just like 99.9% of MSU students are couch burning rioting drunkards.

It's so much fun to paint an entire demographic with one sweeping negative generalization, isn't it? (And this isn't directed at you Motown darling)

They probably deserved it.

Well I guess at this point you're just trying to argue semantics with me. I haven't run into too many officers in my time (so maybe my first couple statements were a bit of a reach) but the ones I have I found to be very manipulative and condescending.

Example: I was at a party last year and it got busted by the cops. Cops started knocking on the door, kid whose house it was opens it and they start to question everyone there. To make a long story short, they told the people there that it would be easier on everyone if we would just blow. 2 kids blew and got put on probation for 8 months, had to pay thousands for lawyers, court costs, etc.

What dicks.

How were they being deceitful? They had reasonable suspicion the kids were underage and were intoxicated. They did a proper search and your friends deserved MIPs. Get over it.

They never forced the kids to do anything, maybe they should know the law better. If a cop forced him to blow, thats a different tale altogether.

Telling the people it would be easier on them to just get it over with and blow. Definitely didn't make it any easier on them and the people who decided not too ended up being fine.

Should the cops stop and question everyone buying booze on in East Lansing becaue it's highly likely they are buying it for minors.

Go to QD on a wednesday night and watch all the people walking out with 100 bucks worth of liqour. Do you seriously believe that someone is buying that much liqour for themselves on a wednesday night and has no intentions of supplying any to minors? Most kids at state are under 21 and most of them drink, mathematically speaking you could say a large percentage of the boose bought in this town is for minors.

Plenty? Dirty cops? Give me examples. I firmly believe that this number will be very low. That's like saying the entire military are worthless killers because 1 guy goes off the deep end and kills civilians.

It is pretty funny to go into a QD parking lot and look at all the minors sitting in the cars waiting for their friends to return with all the alcohol. I've had a couple people "hey, mister" me. I always think about taking their money and not returning.

People who refused were fine. I guess it just bothers me too because the MIP seems like such a money grab rather than protecting kids. Such is life I guess.

The point that this thread has been hijacked on is that Cops as a whole get a bad rap when they truly don't deserve it. OP, if you wanna be a cop, understand that people will blindly hate you, not respect you, call you names on message boards, but ultimately will need you one day. You'll have to make judgement calls that people won't agree with but you will eb the authority and people will have to accept your decision and move on. It's not a glamorous gig, but it's your choice to make.