Does it annoy you when cops are disappointed when there's no crime?

No. It's not normal to stereotype a group based on a tv show. I thought you'd actually have some real evidence. But since it is a show, yes. They want ratings. Playing a good cop doesn't do much to catch a viewer's attention. This would be like me watching House, say all doctors are sarcastic assholes, and vow to never go see a doctor again.

so out of all the thousands or millions of police officers in the world, you only go by what you see on television? you do realise they only show that kind of thing for ratings... why would they show boring police officers when the crazy, abusive ones are much more exciting? why not actually go out and talk face to face with some police officers and see what they have to say. dont generalise the whole police force all over the world just because of a few bad apples on tv.

It's because they're in "work mode" where they're prepared to tackle the crime in the area.

and false calls waste their time when they can be stopping other crimes.

Most police thrive on the praise they receive when they are seen to be doing good. Those officers will either lie or deny. Police lose there jobs where there is no crime, they don't want that to happen. It's also why you see so many laws being passed to allow police to search deeper, easier, and without warrants.

p.s. I'm guessing the show you're referring to is 'Alaska State Troopers'.

Because somewhere, someone out there is fucking up and you just wasted your time having some dumb slut who can't drive blow into a breathalyzer when an actual drunk driver might have just passed you by. When you've kicked your own ass out of bed to go to a job and the job didn't really need you to do it, you're like "WTF NOW people decide to be responsible?".

I don't know why they would be bitching about there being NO crime. That's just fucking silly. I love it when nothing happens. That means no one is fucking up today. Either that or it means I am not doing my job correctly. Granted I work in security, so I hardly give a fuck about my job. If anything happens, I just call the cops XD But for a cop, for all you know, criminals have just gotten better at hiding their actions.

Every cop wants to catch a DUI driver, every cop wants to catch the killer, every cop wants to catch the drug lord, the theif, etc. Every good cop wants to catch the bad guy, to be the hero, to keep the public safe from the many psychopaths that walk the streets (even though that might be outweighed by aforementioned reasons). It's their job to protect us, and knowing that some of them have seen some shit that would drive many normal people insane, I can almost understand why they'd be pissed about having wasted their time on some innocent person who is probably just going to get pissy and snobby with them.

It's happened to me too many times. I'll tell you what, it's a bitch to try to apologize to someone and explain to them that you're only looking out for everyone else, and 99% of the time you DO catch the right person when they get all self-righteous and "omg I'm going to sue you!" like that with you, when really all you did was cause them an uncomfortable inconvenience. It's more upsetting to me that I made the mistake (it's kind of an ego-buster when someone's all "SEE? I'M INNOCENT, YOU SUCK AT YOUR JOB" but when they need someone who do they call? Me? Really, I suck?), not that the person wasn't actually doing anything.

Without that mentality, they wouldn't be anywhere near fit to work in law enforcement. It's a strict and sometimes illogical sense of justice but it's there. Not defending it, just explaining it. For some of them, it's like hunting, and the conviction is the trophy.

Ok cops are on call 24/7. The job is to bust criminals. So I think when they do this they feel pretty good. If they spend time chasing someone and they are not guilty they just wasted a bunch of time. If they are not they are probobly very bored waiting for something bad to happen. Maybe they do not feel like they are doing the job they are paid for if nothing happens. I think you would be dissipionted too if you had a job doing paper work but for 6 hours you have nothing that needs to be done. That sounds like it would be pretty boring. Sucurtiy in jail does that but they are paid to do that. So most of them are use to sitting around a lot of days and not having to do anything.

Americans plain and simple.

Ah but that was Canada.

If you were a policeman there you'd be praying for someone to litter.

Yeah in my country, the cops post as underage girls, go online and sell sexual services and arrest those who respond. I think that's ridiculous. If you purposely seduce men, of course most normal men will take it up.

fuck the police

I agree with you, but then again, I think a lot of cops are secretly guilty of the thrill of catching a criminal. I'd go with the last option, we need more mild mannered cops who actually go into the business for justice and preventing crimes instead of wanting them.

The funniest thing about cops is that many of them go into a job where they spend their time enforcing laws they themselves dont pay attention to in the slightest. And openly dont pay attention to it either. How many cops get off duty and speed home only to be pulled over yet get out of it by being a cop? And how many tickets did you give out on your shift officer? I wont even get into the hypocrisy of when they go out drinking and of course drive themselves home, and why not do that? They are cops nothing can happen to them. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY is more full of shit then a cop. Not a lawyer, not a politician, not even a priest.