we used to yell at them when they drove by our house and sometimes they would stop and we would often inquire why they worked for PUPD. usually the conversation ended with us laughing at them and telling them they work for PUPD because they are too fat and out of shape to join a real police force. those were the days, i eventually went on to pursue a job in law enforcement and subsiquently became fat.
Actually, the joke was on _you_. PUPD is the highest paid university PD in state. They make around $8,000 more a year than IU cops. They treat their people well, and I have never heard one complaint from an officer. You are right, some veteran officers that tend to grow, and grow, and grow could never pass a PT exam if they wanted to leave, but when you can easily clear $60K/year with OT (some of that watching college basketball and football games), why would you want to leave? Yea, I doubt they get the take home car, but that is only worth around $3,000/year unless your the kind of officer that drives it _everywhere_.
So laugh all you want, those cops are making $60K+/year and trust me, it ain't that hard of a job being a glorified babysitter!! Why bust your hump at a municipal PD when you can have the same, or better pay, working in a better environment, doing less work?
As far as the cursing, just a sign of the times if you ask me. I think there is a difference between swearing someone" ("You MFer!") and using swear words as part of the conversation: ("Get on the MFing ground!"). As far as never using swear words, that is laughable. There are some folks of people that I _have_ to use swear words. No, I am not swearing at them, but I am using them, usually as adverbs/descriptors. Why? This is how _those_ folks were raised, it is their language. They don't understand my college degree professional drivel, it sounds like a foreign language to them. Maybe the guy just got done dealing with a forth generational welfare type who uses F-bombs, S-bombs, etc. every other word (and not just out of meanness, just talks that way) or some kid who just go back from the war. Can you give him a pass for one time, or do you need to sack his personnel file because of this horror that was placed upon you? I would say if it was one word, one time, give the person a pass. It was every other word, joking, not joking, whatever, then yea, I would understand someone filing a complaint.