There are always two sides to every story, I'm sure everyone has heard that before.

Last week, I had a not so positive experience with a police officer after getting pulled over for speeding. Now, I'm not holding this to every single cop I'll meet for the rest of my life, but I understand as to why people have the ability to be disappointed in our law enforcement as of late. If this situation happened countless times, I would probably take the negative side as well.

I know what I was doing wrong, I openly admitted to it, had all the documentation that was necessary ready, was pleasant, apologetic, and this officer could not have been more unprofessional.

I am someone who has the utmost respect for law enforcement, I know many people who have fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters as cops. But I still came home in tears that day, out of frustration, because I did everything right in this situation (minus speeding) and was treated as if I did everything wrong.

I slowed down to the what I thought was the speed limit when I saw him.

I checked the posted sign and slowed down more to the correct speed.

He followed me as soon as I passed him, he waited a little while to put his lights on.

I immediately pulled over when I saw the lights.

Got my license and registration.

When he appeared at my window, he did not state his name, smile, say good morning, or even be remotely pleasant at all. I smiled and said good morning as he rudely asked if I knew why I got pulled over and I said yes that I believed I was speeding while handing him my license and registration.

He made me feel dumb when he asked if I knew the speed limit on the road and I admittedly and honestly said no. I apologized a couple times and he looked down at me, I was uncomfortable and a bit upset. I simply felt like a dumb blonde girl who he felt was playing him to get out of a ticket. I am not that person though, I am simply a young girl, going a little too fast, openly admitting to that, and who was just being a decent human by being nice and cooperative.

I wasn't expecting to not get a ticket, as I said before I knew that I was speeding, but I wasn't expecting such an astronomical one. I knew that I wasn't going as fast as he wrote on the ticket and I also knew that his attitude was extremely unprofessional. His last words to me were a very harsh "you need to slow down," and then he walked back to his car. No "thank you for your cooperation, miss," or "keep it slow, okay? Have a nice day."

If he was this rude to someone who was speeding, an offense for sure but a pretty minor one in my eyes, I can't even imagine how he would be towards someone who did something much worse than myself; especially if that individual handled the situation as appropriately and politely as I felt I did.

I made the decision to challenge my citation, not because I don't think I deserve it, but because I don't agree with the fine, I know I wasn't going as fast as he wrote down, and I definitely did not deserve or appreciate his lack of professionalism. If he was pleasant and acting as if he was protecting my town from someone who was speeding, rather than acting like he was just trying to meet this months quota, I without a doubt would just pay my citation. But sadly, I just can't seem to let this one go.

I'm not saying that every cop is like this because that is just a big, fat, false statement. But I'm also not saying that I probably won't be hesitant and somewhat defensive the next time I encounter law enforcement.

I now understand why some people these days aren't feeling so warm and fuzzy towards officers because if this happened on a regular and continuous basis it would definitely wear a person down.

I absolutely support the men in blue but I'm disappointed in this particular man in blue who seemed to be on some sort of "power trip," I didn't feel very safe or protected by him, I didn't feel like he was looking out for the safety of others but just looking out for himself.