About 6 or 7 years ago, I was leaving campus to go downtown for lunch. It was a snowy December day. A car pulled out of a student lot and rammed into my car. The driver wasn't paying attention and failed to yield from the lot (and was charged by the police for failing to yield). I got out of my car, asked if they were "fucking stupid?" and strung off a few other f-bombs. This wasn't on university property, it was on a public street. There was AMAZINGLY no damage to my car (I think the snow on the road meant that he just plowed me a little ways down the road and spun me around.)
The next day I got called into the Dean's office and was asked if I swore at a student. I told him that I wouldn't answer any questions about ANYTHING I did off campus during non-work hours. The next day, the Dean, along with a witness, delivered me a "disciplinary letter" that was being placed in my personnel file for using profanity. I had to apply to have that letter removed from my file after 1 year. At that hearing, I had to swear

that I had not used profanity in the presence of any students in the past 12 months.
Sure, teachers say "Sit your ass down" all the time. If they do, and someone complains, they will be written up for it (same with doctors, lawyers, veterinarians or any other professionals). If you don't believe that, then I suggest you ask a professional yourself. Do their codes of professional conduct say "no swearing"? No, that's the whole point. That conduct is UNDERSTOOD to be expected of a professional.
From the Ontario College of Teachers:
http://www.oct.ca/octsitesearch/default ... =profanity -- disciplinary rulings for teachers' uses of profanity in Ontario. These are just the ones that get sent to the College of Teachers. Less serious complaints are dealt with by the principal and end up with teachers either receiving disciplinary letters in their personnel files or suspensions (yes, teachers can get suspended too).
If you truly think that teachers and doctors are allowed to swear and won't be disciplined if there's a complaint, then you're living in fantasy land. As I've shown, that can extend to circumstances well away from the classroom or hospital.
So, either cops are professionals or they aren't. I think highly enough of them that I think they ARE professionals. Or, maybe they're not professionals. Maybe they're just hired help like furniture movers, factroy grunts and swab-jockies. If that's what they are, then let them curse up a storm. But don't go telling me that professionals are allowed to swear, because I know from personal experience that we aren't.
Come on Lemmy, you just don't like cops.
Every thread on anything law-enforcement related over the past few months, as in since you started posting, has entailed you telling us all how crap cops are.
I get it. You don't like cops.
Off your meds mate or just gang banged in an alley by a Toronto Tac team exploring their gay side?