I have been watching Alaska state troopers for a while , and I know the show doesn't represent State of Alaska. one question , why some 'victims' are nasty to troopers ? P.
Because they represent the 2% of the schitthead population that we in LE have to spend 90% of our time on.
It's very rare that you roll up on an "innocent" victim. Most of them are getting done unto them what they did unto someone else in previous recent history.
And this is part of the problem. Cops spend so much time with the bottom 2% they forget how to act toward the remaining 98% of the population, especially when they encounter them while in uniform. Understand, I'm not saying I could do any better. It's one of the hazards, perhaps even inevitable consequences, of continuously confronting tragedy and evil.
The Egyptians figured this out a long time ago:
There's a lot of truth to that especially in urban areas with larger agencies. I work in a community where I know most of the people that live here and quite a few that live in the surrounding villages. It's a lot easier for us to separate the wheat from the chaff. We know who our schittheads, nuts and ticking time-bombs are. The rest of the folks go about their business and we only see them in passing.
I don't pretend to know the AST culture, but there similarities to other large western states with huge rural patrol areas.
It's all the same.
The real differences come in when the cultures clash and there's a rookie (relatively speaking) Trooper assigned to the Bush.
Ed
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