Originally Posted by
kahless
I hear both sides of it particularly in urban areas from cops I know. I am old and have never had one good experience with the police other than off duty ones where some I would not want to run into them on the job if I did not know them. I hear the stories when they are drunk, yeah they have a tough time getting attacked by druggies and mentally ill, but it always comes out how they went too far.
I do not do anything that warrants a problem with cops but people say everyone likes to complain about cops until you need one. Such hog wash, l learned over the course of my life we have the illusion of law enforcement. When I really needed cops about 15 or so times in my life from thugs, armed criminals, gangster politicians and corrupt cops, the blue wall protected them because of who they were. They could make a Lifetime or Dateline episode of my experience in that area. Yet I have not been accused of anything and have not committed any crime. But corrupt people tend to be paranoid and think people know something, when I don't and have no intention of getting involved even if I did.
To dial it down a bit I get the adding details and events that did not happen. Many times. Last go around I had a drunk driver ram into me, 2nd time in my life. First time the drunk gets out and gives the cop a hug. The knew one another and I know I was screwed right then and there. Second time sitting at a light for 30 seconds a drunk woman slams into my car. The whole back of my new car and sides smashed in, cop talks to the drunk woman, again another cop that knows the drunk, looks at my car, says I do not see anything, you barely have a scratch. He refuses to do anything, luckily drunk woman gave me her info and cop says he is going to follow her home, but he refuses to give me a number for the accident report.
I call the police department to ask for police report number, told them officer would not provide at least the number on scene, in case I need to go to ER since I told him I had a raging headache and neck pain, got slammed pretty hard. Dick cop sends 3 ambulances for spite to my house, demands I get into ambulance all huffy and we get in huge argument. I get the police report the next day it has the obvious lie that we were both driving same speed when we collided. 8k worth of damage and the cop wanted me to walk away - not report it.
There is no discriminatory racial component or gangster appearance issue with me to have all these problems with cops. I am white, clean cut and dressed appropriately for my age, as well those I associate with. Not that any of that is an excuse for a factor for cops to harass someone bet we know they do. I am also not driving in drug or high crime areas either, again not an excuse to harrass anyway.
Here is another mild story compared to the horrors I have gone through. I get pulled over, cop looks at my fiance in the passenger seat and says, I do not believe you are with him, you are too good looking and asks me how much did you pay her? Asks if she is a Prostitute, searches car/her purse and finds birth control pills. He says he is going to arrest her for suspicion of prostitution and drugs. Says he will arrest me for solicitation. Meanwhile I am driving her new car. I am sure that makes sense, prostitutes letting John's drive their car around and dressed formally-conservatively like they are going out to a nice place for dinner.
I know what the piece of $#@! cop was trying to do, piss either one of us off to either provoke me into taking a swing at him or for my finance to lose it over the insulting accusation so he can arrest her. He was itching for action and I told my fiance who was losing it over the accusation, just stay calm he wants me to slug him or you to lose control. We did not play his game and he let us go.
There is a video posted here a few years back with an off duty marine road rage incident yelling at this couple like a lunatic. I had a cop act exactly like that claiming my inspection was expired but it was not. When he finally realized he was wrong, he went into another rage saying he will find something. Maybe he was coked up or something. Then he accused me of making a drug deal seeing me on the street corner downtown earlier talking to a "drug dealer". He had seen me come out from an eye glass appointment and say hello to a Priest that I know. I was still dressed from work so I still had dress pants and a tie on. Two people that really did not look like drug dealers standing on a corner in an affluent white neighborhood (in other words crazy cops are not limited to the inner city minority areas). A priest and a guy in a tie, sure that looks like a drug deal.
The Priest saw what was happening and pulled up thinking my car broke down, came by to help. Cop went ape $#@!, totally unhinged yelling like a lunatic, ran our information and then finally let both of us go. One wonders what happened to other people he pulled over in his career.
These were pretty mild stories. I have something like 15 more, many far worse, violent or cops being grossly negligent to protect the blue wall, but too risky to post here. All no fault of my own as I had committed no crime.
There is clearly a problem with law enforcement in this country and I believe it is getting worse. The problem is we have morons like Colin Kapernick that are being used to represent the opposition that actually has the effect of being pro-cop propaganda. The first thing on peoples minds now when they think about calling police abuse is that moron which has the opposite effect of shining a light on police corruption.
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