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  I get nervous about this sometimes lol. I have no idea how closely they watch at stores or how much they let go but I'm always thinking I'm gonna fuck up and steal a can of soup or something
  Honestly it's made me go to a real cashier when I have a lot of stuff to get through
context: A cop from my hometown was busted for stealing $5k from the funding for a private gym in the police station. He had to pay it back, but that's it. He was still a cop. >
  
  Sounds eerily similar to how people of wealth and privilege avoid the consequences for their actions.
  It sends a clear message to us all, they might say they are like us but when it really comes down to it the slogan actually means blue lives matter more. >
  
  It also sends the message: if you’re a shitty person, the safest job to get is being a cop. I don’t know if this is actually true, but handling matters this way definitely sends this message, and can be expected to attract the wrong people to the profession. >
  
  Anecdotally, it’s true.  Before the interwebs and proliferation of police beating videos, just locally in the Northeast, the worst dudes were the ones that became cops. >
  
  It's always been that way. It's a job that attracts people who like power over others. >
  
  In my experience it also attracts people who like to work a system - minimal labor, rules they can bend to their favor, pension after 20 yrs. >
  
  She was scanning her items when she caught the attention of a loss prevention officer who was watching the store's surveillance video feeds. 
  The officer saw that Bell "took one item in her right hand and another in her left hand, proceeded to scan the item in her left hand, but not the item in her right hand," according to the agreed statement of facts.
  Bell placed both items into her bin and continued, the loss prevention officer noted, until she paid her bill for the items she scanned and headed to the exit.
  The loss prevention officer then caught up with her and arrested her in the vestibule between the exit doors. Once she was back inside the store, Bell identified herself as an Ottawa police officer.
  The store determined that Bell paid for groceries totalling $87.46, while stealing items worth $87.68, nearly the exact same amount.
  
  So, no, an officer didn't have a "senior" moment of forgetting to ring up a bell pepper. She intentionally tried to game the system and got caught.