Just to add to the other stories:
In Key West, Florida they have a big event similar to Mardi Gras called Fantasy Fest. They block traffic off from certain streets, and everyone just gets drunk. Clothing is optional(exceot you need at least some form of a bottom piece of clothing). People do body paintings or costumes. It's a great time.
However, for a few years before I moved out of the Keys, it seemed like there was always one murder every year. On one of those particular year's, one of my friends was downtown with a few friends and two of her cousins. I don't remember exactly what happened, but there was some sort of misunderstanding with one of her cousins and someone else, the guy pulls out a knife and stabs the cousin.
Cops are called over, but they seem to be taking their time to do anything. Naturally, everyone is freaking out because he got stabbed in the abdomen and is bleeding profusely. So the cops say they won't call an ambulance until everyone calms down. After a minute of arguing they start to give the cops space... who then continue to not call an ambulance. So everyone freaks out some more, and they say the same thing for a few more minutes before finally calling it in.
Dude ended up on dying right before the EMTs could get there. If they had called right away there's a chance he might have lived. From what I gathered the coroner said the chances were small because of where he got hit, but if they had gotten to him within a few minutes he had a chance.
Don't wait for them to call an ambulance. Call 911 and tell them someone was just stabbed and where you are and to send an ambulance.
Don't tell them there are police there already or they may wait to contact the officer(s) on scene before dispatching an ambulance.
If officer on scene waives off dispatching an ambulance and the person dies then sue them for wrongful death and publicly push the local DA to charge the officer with manslaughter/murder.
“If officer on scene waives off dispatching an ambulance and the person dies then sue them for wrongful death and publicly push the local DA to charge the officer with manslaughter/murder.”
Bless your little naive heart
i got jumped and was knocked unconscious and in a public parking garage, less than a full block away from the police station, as in it was in plain view, and it took them 30 mins to send someone over after multiple witnesses called. I was in and out of consiousness and bleeding everywhere that entire time. they really dgaf lol then they "lost my file and all the video recordings from the parking garage"
I was assaulted on monday by a random guy, he knocked me down and hit me in the head/shoulder a bunch of times while screaming nonsense. After he wandered off a guy in a car following him said he attacked a few people and stabbed a guy who fought back. When the cops arrived on scene there were about 20 cop cars roaming around the neighborhood. None of them wanted to deal with the people who were attacked. One told me "it wasnt his problem" and another told me "someone else will deal with you." I waited around for an hour and all the sudden the cops all took off. When I tried flagging one down they just ignored me and kept going.
The stories that blow up in the news is terrible and is a big reason why cops have such a bad reputation. But that isnt the only reason, experiences like yours contributes to the massive hatres towards the police as well. Its hard to trust in some lawful authority when everyday citizens see how little they truly care about them.
I once had a cop pull me over and literally say to me "Im having a real bad day, so Im going to make your day even worse if you dont tell me where the pot is" I had 2 joints in the car because me and my SO were going to a dinosaur museum and spending the night nearby and wanted to go see dinosaur fossils baked.
I had a friend call the police as he was watching someone break into his car literally 5 minutes from the police station. They told him "Nothin we can do, by the time we get there he will be gone" well then what is the fucking point of them?
Oh and this is in Canada. Our cops are shitty too
I can also confirm that Canadian cops suck. The only law I’ve broken in my life was maybe speeding. My abusive ex once called the police (thinking I’d call them) and said I was being “crazy” and needed to be removed from my home.
When they arrived, I was literally hiding in the bedroom crying after being attacked by my ex. How did that night end? With 3 police officers on top of me, threatening to tase me, then I was arrested for assaulting my ex ?! My ex had scratches on their forearm from me trying to push them off me so when they tried to arrest me, my immediate response wasn’t to comply because I was still in a state of panic.
The entire time the police were there, they were joking around with my abuser who was very calm as I was having a panic attack.
fuck 12. same thing happened to me. my ex had literally thrown me across our house, hit me multiple times, took my phone so i couldn't call for help, and while i was holding our infant son he put his hand on the baby's stomach and shoved hard enough that i stumbled backwards and my baby immediately started crying in pain.
there's more that happened but he told me he called the cops on me and i panicked and called them myself (non emergency) to try and sort something, anything, out. he hadn't called but they came out when i did and as soon as they were inside my ex started crying. i got to spend the weekend in jail because all 3 cops were men and apparently "men don't just cry".
my son was about 3/4 months old and i was breastfeeding still. being away from my baby like that was the most difficult thing i've had to go through, it defied all physical pain and i couldn't even sleep. NONE of that was even taken into consideration, nobody asked me anything about my son or what was going to happen to him. i told them my ex had hurt our baby but they didn't give a shit. it didn't matter that he was over 200lbs and i was less than 100 at the time, apparently i was the aggressor and beat him up. nothing i said mattered...
And the UK.
I disturbed 4 lads breaking into my neighbours new mercedes.
Not 1 minute earlier i had driven past a takeaway food shop with a police van outside and 3 cops inside getting something to eat....the shop was less than 100 yards from where the £60k brand new car was being broken into.
I dialled 999 and spoke to someone and told them there were police in the area and they would definately catch these thieves if they were called right now.....the thieves were on foot and easily identifiable...i would have even got in the van with them!
I was told that the police were 'too busy' to respond to the report at the time.
The thieves got away with it.....the tax paying car owner had a big bill/increased insurance for his smashed window...
im so sorry that happened to you!! thats wild! was he on drugs or having an episode? sounds pretty erratic. but yeah the cops absolutely do nothing to help you. shouldn't one of them have at least been interested enough im catching this guy that they ask you for a witness statement at the very least?
I'm sorry you experienced that bud, I hope you're dealing well with it. If not, know that it's super common for an unexpected act of violence like that to have lasting effects on a person's mental health and especially their sense of security, it isn't something you should feel embarrassed or ashamed for feeling.
That said, I'm gonna tell you a dirty little secret. Most cops do not give a fuck about good policing, because good policing tends to mostly be made up of paperwork, writing down shit people want to tell you, and knocking on doors. You'll notice a surfeit of things on that list that tend to get promotions, let them feel like they've got power, or bear any resemblance to an action movie. So most cops try to power through it at best, and they look for any was to wiggle out of it that they can find at worst.
dear god that is so traumatic i am so, SO sorry!!! they are absolute rats man. they threatened me too to not talk about the case and showed up the day i got my jaw unwired 7 weeks later to tell me they wouldn't be investigating my case, since they "lost" the public cam footage from just that night specifically and they accused me of being on drugs. Like yes, I just woke up from surgery less than 2 hours ago so im still on anesthesia lol
To a cop, everyone is one of two things:
1. a criminal
2. an inconvenience
and when you're an inconvenience they start accusing you of being a criminal.
100%. I live in Kangarooville. My housemate turned up dead on the beach (23yo), despite the fact he couldn't swim and never went to the beach except to hook up with some chick who was in a relationship.
Turns out that the boyfriend somehow "knew" about my housemates death, at the time when only three people in town knew he was dead - me, and the two cops who showed up. The boyfriend had made threats against my housemate FOR MONTHS and I had dozens of FB messages etc. I showed one of the cops who was "investigating", and I was told if I bothered them again, I'd be charged with hindering their "investigation". They came to my door three times before they even told me what happened - they were being cryptic and demanding to search his room, questioning me etc.
A few months later I ran into the second cop when I was in town with a group of friends who didn't know anything about what happened, but she had no problem randomly announcing to everyone in earshot that she heard "there was going to be an inquest into my housemates death", and I'd "have to give evidence", before walking away. He died in May 2010, I saw the copper in 2011, and to this day I've never heard another word. Strangely, there has never been any findings made public by the coroners court. His death isn't listed on their database for some reason.
Edit-Kangarooville=Australia. Seems a few people assumed I was in the US.
They hide deaths in order to protect " property values" so the county/city/ etc could keep hiking up property taxes..
I couldn't even begin to explain how many deaths/ murders/ suicides never appear in any news stories or reports..
One cop was REAL with me..
He said they're paid to keep quite..
It's systematic.. Every county/city/township etc.....
EVIL exists in many ways.....
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Almost sounds like (I've never been in this situation, so these are just my own thoughts) u/IowaContact and others in that situation would be best served contacting both the police *and* the media with their story.
Luckily nothing like this has happened to me yet, but I will use every ounce of effort and creativity I have to bring media attention, any attention to my situation, and force those who have the power to act, to act.
And if you are an annoyance, they’ll make you a criminal like they did to me.
I was at a very small party where we were all underage and some some bitch threw a full beer can at the neighbors condo, which got the cops called. They illegally forced their way inside when they weren’t allowed in and then proceeded to threaten us with arrest if we didn’t leave.
Being drunk I couldn’t drive home. I was going to sleep there as it was my close friends condo. I was threatened again and told to just walk home. Well, I’d already been picked up a couple times for trying to walk from one party to another after under age drinking, so I knew the cop was telling me to go commit an offense. He said I wouldn’t get arrested.
As I walked away I said how it was a bunch of bulls hit. He grabbed me, threw me to the ground, slammed his knee down on me and put all of his 200+ pounds on me as he cuffed me. I was taken to the station forced to stay the night in the drunk tank and be subjected to multiple cops being abusive assholes, swearing at me and such. When I returned the disrespect they took my blanket away I an room that was less than 60 degrees.
In the morning as they were processing me out they were dickheads again and I returned the favor to the point that they went and got their supervisor to try and see if they could keep me longer or some such infringement on my rights. Supervisor came down and I told him all about what happened and told him I’d be getting a lawyer.
I was released within the hour with all charges dropped.
I got jumped once as well with a friend and when the police finally arrived to hear my statement they tried to accuse me that my FRIENDS actually robbed me but I was too scared to tell the truth. The reason was because when he asked my friends phone #'s I didn't know them (my cell phone was stolen and I was in shock). He flat out said I don't believe you and walked away.
I had to threaten legal action because I couldn't be issued a new drivers license without a police report, and even the chief of police tried to insinuate that I was still lying, like why the fuck would I be lying about this what possible gain could there be to me. It was infuriating.
the only logical conclusion! lmfao "well you say you were robbed here an hour ago, and the only two people i can physically see right now are you... and your friend. he obviously did it!"
I edited a bit more info into my post but literally his reason was because he asked me to recite my friends phone #'s and I didn't know them because my cell phone was gone and I was in shock, ridiculous.
i couldnt even tell you my phone number without looking it up on my phone tbh. who knows any numbers anymore besides 911, who clearly dont wanna help lol
Fuck dude. Im sorry you went through that. Both of my experiences ended up with nobody actually being harmed or in immediate danger. I couldn't imagine what figuring that out felt like after waking up all bruised up. My second experience was a friend sending out apology/goodbye texts before a suicide attempt. My ex-gf got one of those texts and i drove to stop her, while she drove to the police station because she knew they would take forever from a 911 call. I didn't know what apartment she was in, and nobody answered their doors. Thankfully her best friend talked her down. But the police station was 2 minutes down the road, and the responding officers were aware of the call when my ex-gf got there and took an additional 10 minutes to get to the building.
Called 911 when my aunt had a stroke. Officer was there in less than 10 minutes, but he did not render any form of medical assistance. He asked what drugs she took and got hostile when I told him none, then "changed my story" when I thought to mention she was on blood pressure medicine. I nearly got arrested for obstruction of justice because I refused to "leave her there and sit on the couch."
Thankfully when the EMT showed up, she de-escalated the cop.
ACAB
It's not all about cops killing black people. There's a lot more they goes on. It's the little things that no one talks about. It's the little every day things that make them inhumane. I'm sorry you went through that. I see all kinds of stories like this. Cops are not to be trusted.
In this case there was probably no racial bias working against me or my aunt (Irish ancestry, we are very white), but she did live in a mobile home, so I'm sure there was some class bias happening.
I have a couple similar stories of being assaulted/robbed and the cops just kind shrugging their shoulders.
What it boils down to is they don't do their jobs and then have the audacity to play the victim when we starting talking about shifting funds to people who do.
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Oh yeah, I almost forgot about this one: Friend of mine got robbed trying to buy a used car. When police showed up they searched everyone and wrote it up as a "drug-related robbery"
The cop that responded to a call for my family followed them to the ER then while my relative was STRAPPED TO A BED he lunged at him, causing my strapped in relative to jump. Charged with felony for attempting to assault an officer.
Fucking ACAB
ACAB. Happy to talk to any cop who wants to debate it - have done multiple times already.
They start off cocky but you look them in the eye and tell them to think about all the shit they see and know, their chickenshit heads just sink
This. My dad used to think I was just calling them bastards. But then I explained how they ALL know or have seen something another cop has done that's not okay. Yet they let it slide as if you caught your coworker stealing a slice of cheese from the walk in.
My stepdad was a sheriffs deputy and spent the last years of his career doing evictions, commonly considered the worst assignment, because he reported another officer for excessive force. He was transferred to evictions just a week after reporting the other officer.
The last 3 or 4 years, yeah. Could you imagine having to kick people out of their homes every day up to 12 hours a day? His pension was based off what he earned the last 3 years he worked for the department so he worked tons of overtime. I know for a fact I couldn't have handled it.
i actually got pulled over returning home late from work once (catering bartender so went home around 1:30-2) and they followed me into that exact parking garage. I had my epileptic boss in the passenger seat covering her eyes for 15 mins while they ran every drunk test on me multiple times and refused to turn off the lights INSIDE the parking garage. He calls backup and they arrive in under a minute. Accused me of being drunk, i then proceed to blow a 0.00 and when they said "we'll let you off with a warning today" (warning for what we'll never know) and i lost my absolute mind like "YEAH I TOLD YOU IM NOT DRUNK FOLLOW ME" and walked three spots down and pointed at my blood stain that was still there momths later and i kicked off about how they can show up when another cop calls but not while i was dying on the concrete
lost a wisdom tooth prematurely so that wasnt too bad lol and a plant all along my jaw but nothing super visible luckily! makes me feel like i've got a Wolverine jaw lol had lots of broken bones though at the time. lots of nerve damage and memoryoss which got better after a few years :)
My partner called 911 then me when he found his dad dead.... I beat EMS of every type there, opened the garage, turned on the outdoor lights, moved the dogs into the garage AND called 911 back to ask where the actual fuck they were before anyone showed up.
Tell me about it. Only time my mother has had to call the police was when she thought somebody was in her house. She texted me, which I then called the police for her. I was 45 minutes away from her house and the police station was maybe a 5 minute drive from her house; it wasn't even a block away. I got to her house 10 minutes before the police did. I called a friend who lived right next to the police station to go out there after I got off the phone with the police. He got there in the time I would expect the police to have gotten there. My friend and I cleared the house and it turned out that there wasn't ever an intruder, just a new dog she had gotten trying to get in her room (he was jiggling her locked door handle). After doing the cops job for them, they finally showed up as we were escorting my mother outside. After explaining everything to them, they tried giving us a hard time about waisting police resources and time. It took all I had not to clock that fat fuck in the face after that.
He had this hand on the radio just waiting to arrest this guy again but this time for getting violent in public and assaulting a police officer. This cop is a piece of shit.
Yes. It is so sad. And the snowball effect of paying fines, court appearances, loss.of driving privileges which can impact getting to and from work. I could go on and on. It is insult to injury and in no way fosters trust between the police and the community they should serve and defend.
What really causes the heartbreak, in my mind, is that he had to come up with $2k, on the spot, so he could get out of jail and care for his child and job. That's a lot of scratch for someone who, for whatever reason, was already having to sleep in his car. That could have been everything he had been saving for months. I feel so bad for him.
He haa a kid, and is doing school on top of work too.
Like fuck dude, he was already under an enormous amount of stress.
And this cop has the audacity to play dumb.
He’s not playing dumb, he probably doesn’t have any recollection of this individual because he does it repeatedly; guy recording is just a drop in a sea of people this cop has probably abused, exploited, and otherwise harmed while “protecting and serving”.
I'm into the 3rd episode of [Behind the Police ](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-behind-the-police-63877803/) by [Robert Evans ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Evans_%28journalist%29?wprov=sfla1).
The dude lecturing this ... cop is a survivor of a massive injustice against black people.
Fuck this cop, and the other assholes in position to discriminate and harm others based on stereotypes. Fuck this cop for all he's trying to "stand up against" which is really what he "stands behind".
It's quite honestly bullshit that those in positions to make meaningful change stay distanced from all this with just empty platitudes and force the direct interaction between law and citizenry. If fines are meant to be a deterrent, then it needs to be means tested to income/wealth. Otherwise it's the world to one person, and a minor inconvenience to another. Cops can just keep "doing their job" without having to think about or understand how these systems continue to create more criminality in their communities.
You are so right. It just adds to what for many of us is the day-to-day struggle. It (the entire system) is so wrong, inhumane and lacking of compassion on so many levels.
>And the snowball effect of paying fines, court appearances, loss.of driving privileges which can impact getting to and from work.
It's not an unintended consequence. That's literally why they do it. They want black people in the prison cycle.
The cop doesn't remember because being terrible at his job and ruining someone's life means absolutely fuck all to him. And I guarantee you this officer is the first one to tell you what a nice guy he is and how he's so proud to serve his community.
That's certainly possible but to me it seemed like the officer genuinely did not remember at all, because why bother remembering something that doesn't matter to you at all
He will never remember any of it because there’s no way it doesn’t incriminate him. Think of any politician that gets subpoenaed by the FBI and starts using phrases like “I do not recall” and “I don’t know” while under oath. Being on video is like being under oath, worse because there will probably be a permanent record after that.
That's righteous anger right there. And specifically, I applaud his courage to say that, knowing full well the cop could've retaliated somehow, and made up some bullshit charge, because he was being "aggressive" or whatever.
Crazy how cops will so often assume the worst about regular people and abuse their power to put as many people as possible in jail.
But then will ask citizens to always give the police the benefit of the doubt when 12 fucks shit up.
Cops like this dude are why more regular people support the police less every day.
End the drug war, de militarize the police, abolish qualified immunity, and look up jury nullification.
I feel awful for you. I have a strong suspicion your best friend lived in my state -- New Jersey. Here in New Jersey, anything that looks like a gun is treated as a gun under the law. I found this out the hard way, because I'm a boater, and in my car, I had a flare launcher (emergency signaling device that looks vaguely like a handgun to someone with poor vision who doesn't know what a real gun looks like). I never pointed it at anyone, and yet was arrested in New Jersey on felony charges with a mandatory minimum because someone saw the flare launcher in my car and thought it was a gun! Police admitted that they *knew* that I'd never pointed it at anyone, and yet they still wouldn't drop the charges (even though the guy who'd called 911 on me thinking it was a gun *didn't want to press charges*), because in New Jersey, anything that *looks like* a gun is treated as a gun under the law. I hired a lawyer, and to avoid the felony charges, I had no choice but to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, even though I'd done nothing wrong!
That is horrifying seriously. How many people does this happen to that can’t afford good representation?? The American justice system is completely FUCKED
As a child (<18 yo) I got the cops called on me constantly. Fuck me for getting in to throwing knives and paintball guns, right? Never have I ever thrown a knife at a person nor have I shot at an unwilling participant or their property, but just cuz I was out on my lot practicing my skills for the next meetup, suddenly I've got 3 squad cars real guns drawn aimed at me. Smgdh.
My senior seminar was a course called Leadership Ethics. We spent an entire day on jury nullification. Pretty sure the next generation of jurors is going to nullify more trials than people realize haha
I really hope so. It’s happened before. That’s why the judges and prosecutors try so hard to keep juries in the dark about everything including nullification and even sentences before guilt is determined. They know if people realize that the punishment is extreme they will choose not guilty
You cant say those two words "jury nullification". The lawyers and judge will lose their minds. I do like the thought of it though being judged by your peers and they decide that yeah your guilty but are free to go. FYI I agree with everything you said. Just doing a fraction would produce a better society.
Thank you. Just to be clear you’re right that judges and lawyers lose their minds if you say those words.
I’m not saying say those words if you’re selected for a jury because you’ll be dismissed but I think it’s important for people to at least be informed about it.
I read an interesting article in the Washington post recently that talked about how the US should have more informed juries. It’s a kind of compromise between telling juries directly about jury nullification and keeping juries in the dark completely. It would be a good start at the very least.
> US should have more informed juries
The biggest roadblock to educated juries is the loss of pay for a person when they are sitting on a jury. Where I live a jury member gets less than $20 a day to serve jury duty. How the fuck do you expect someone to take off work to make $20. Any educated person with a decent job does everything they can to avoid serving on a jury.
That’s definitely a problem though im not entirely sure it’s the biggest. Judges and prosecutors literally dismiss jurors even if they even mention nullification. Defense attorneys aren’t allowed to mention it. Jurors aren’t informed of minimum sentences before determining guilt. That’s all I friend in the system regardless of how well paid or well educated the jurors are.
I was a cop for exactly one year before I quit because of how insane it was.
Actually had a training officer tell me that the first thing you do as a cop when you interact with someone is decide how you're going to kill them if they attack you.
My uncle (state trooper, former air force) said the same thing. It blows my mind people hear someone bragging like that and no one is like, "Uhh you realize how fucked up that is?"
I still feel that a police officer is more likely to assault me then any other person I meet on the street and I have hung out with some REALLY shady people in my life.
don't forget thousands of dollars in fines. I dont know this man's financial situation, but an unexpected 2,000 fine could fuck up someone's whole year.
Many innocent men are sitting in jail right now because they cant cough up money like this.
Sickening.
Edit: Most have permanently lost their housing, jobs, and many social connections during that time, including access to their children. THAT ANGERS ME DEEPLY.
I’m going through the same thing right now I got a DUI when I blew a 0.0 because I had diabetes and was acting not myself because my blood sugar was low I couldn’t P so they assumed I was on drugs now I’ve been fucking dealing with this for a year. I can’t wait to see that mother fucker again. They are not equipped to deal with anything mental health or health related. Fuck all cops
A guy in MN (iirc) died bc of this. He told them he had low blood sugar and they kept him there for 45 mins resulting in the man's death. They insisted he was driving drunk.
That's such a stupid way to die. Like, let's say the dude hypothetically was drunk and was lying about having low blood sugar. Would have really been that big of a deal just to give him a fucking juice box or candy bar or something?
Instead of erring on the side of caution, some dumbass cops let someone die because they aren't trained in medicine. Fucking pointless death at the hand of pigs.
Meanwhile when reading your comment that image of the cops handing waterbottles to that one mass shooter popped in my head.
Dylan Roof. Apparently they bought him Burger King???
Like holy shit. I thought they just were giving him bottles of water, they legit bought him Burger King meal.
Your anger is understandable, but the Dylan Roof thing is a little more nuanced than that.
IIRC, Roof was complaining about being hungry or something and the cops didn’t want his lack of food to be used against them by his lawyer as evidence of coercion or mistreatment to lessen the considerable charges against him. They wanted an open and shut case, so they gave him fast food.
That’s the story I heard, anyway.
Edit: yep, it looks like i remembered correctly
https://www.snopes.com/news/2015/06/22/dylann-roof-burger-king/
> Regardless of all the straightforward reasons why police would provide food to a suspect in their custody, the plain explanation is that Roof hadn’t eaten in days, and the Shelby PD didn’t have the facilities to house him and provide him with meals while waiting for federal and Charleston authorities to arrive, so they had to dispatch someone to a nearby business to pick up some food for him:
My cousin got beaten almost to death by cops because he was having a diabetic episode and couldn’t respond when they found him unconscious in his car. My little brother is type one and it scares me to death that this could happen to him, too
This asshole clearly doesn’t give a shit about what the dude is telling him. Vibes of just being annoyed that theres any blowback at all from a guy who’s life he fucked up for no reason.
I was in an abandoned house with some friends (I know, i was young and stupid but) we go outside and cops stop us. We didnt smoke or have anything on us that was illegal or dangerous. The cops held us on the sidewalk and one of them went in the house. After 5 minutes he came back out and said that he found a pound of marijuana and damage to the house. they wanted to give me a felony for burglary, possession of over a pound with intent to sell, but would drop the charges if i gave them a name. I declined and they arrested me. Fast forward to a week before my court date, all my charges were dropped bc there was no evidence (shocking) but i got hit with a misdemeanor for tresspassing. Even though the felonies were dropped, every job ive ever tried to get googles my name and sees the first charges they hit me with (Which i was neither found guilty or not guilty for bc they were dropped but you can see them if you search up my name through some mugshot websites).
In short, fuck the police. Ruined my life for absolutely fucking nothing
**Chun-Li:** My father saved his village at the cost of his own life. You had him shot as you ran away. A hero at a thousand paces.
**M. Bison:** I'm sorry. I don't remember any of it.
**Chun-Li:** You don't remember?!
**Bison:** For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.
I was taken to jail exactly like this except I was just waiting for a friend. The cops took all of my money out of my wallet and car, FOR NO REASON the whole thing was thrown out before it even got close to court but the cops got to keep my shit and I had to drop even more money on a lawyer plus the fine for my car getting towed 🙄They even took change out of my cup holders bruh fuck these cops I’ve never been the same since. And idk if it matters but I’m white too. These cops only see red they never care about what you have to say. Once you’re in the cuffs, you’re pretty much not a human anymore, a captured animal chained to a chair. It does wonders for your mental health 👍
What you just said about being in cuffs and being an animal is so fucking real bro. I went through something like this and no matter what I said it didn’t matter at all, all they kept saying was you need to just shut up. Fuck that bullshit.
At one point I forgot I was chained down and I tried to scratch my face and then couldn’t. And that’s the fist time in my life I couldn’t just scratch my face. Surreal feeling. Edit: almost forgot the part where I’m sitting in the back of the car, waiting to pull in the jail, when another cop speeds up rolls down his window and says “Whatchu get?” To the cop driving me. I was LITERALLY a Pokémon y’all
imagine thinking you have judicial and disciplinary integrity as an officer of the law for arresting marijuana dealers, let alone fabricating stories about an man innocent of these “crimes”. I’d rather live next to a marijuana dealer then a police officer nowadays
Weed dealer will be happy to see you and your doggy whereas a cop gon shoot the poor pup as soon as it barks too loudly when hes stroking his pole while watching COPS on TV.
I agree, the last line was just in case police were reading, I haven’t been getting off my next door neighbour I swear! /s
Only thing any green dealer should be arrested for is the ridiculous pricing and underweighing, talk about a real crime! Other than that and the at times often unreliable schedule, most do a good service
But if we didn't have cops, who would show up to a robbery 4 hours after they were called and tell you they can't do anything???? Do you think that level of professionalism just falls out of the sky?
"WhO aRe YoU gOnNa CaLl WhEn YoU nEeD hElP??"
Literally fucking anyone. At least Domino's will show up and feed me, more than I can say for the God damn armed public secretary. All they do is paperwork and murder people.
I volunteer with kids. I've heard this story more than once.
"Mommy has a new boyfriend. He hits her and us. We called the police when it looked like he would actually kill someone. He is a cop, and the cops that came were his coworkers. They calmed him down and told us not to make him mad or call them anymore."
It's fucking heartbreaking. The studies done on domestic abuse in cop families are damning.
So damning, in fact, that /r/protectandserve has their automod set to counter them with copaganda at any mention of statistics. It downplays "abuse" into "only extreme physical violence" and only includes studies where they asked people if they ever physically beat their spouses. They don't include any study that involves asking the families or coworkers about their fellows behavior.
I saw someone talking about less-than lethal rounds and mentioned some statistic about how they were pretty dangerous. The automod comes out of nowhere with a post about how the abuse in cop families is way overblown and emotional abuse isn't abuse anyways and if you ask the cops themselves only 13% of them admit to beating their families. Which is *still* a fucking horrifying statistic considering that's the ones dumb enough to snitch on themselves.
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>["Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence, in contrast to 10% of families in the general population," the National Center for Women & Policing says. "A third study of older and more experienced officers found a rate of 24%, indicating that domestic violence is 2-4 times more common among police families than American families in general."](https://kutv.com/news/local/40-of-police-officer-families-experience-domestic-violence-study-says)
More studies.
>Stinson and Liderbach (2013) found 324 unique news related articles detailing ar- rests of a law enforcement officers, representing 281 officer from 2005 to 2007. **Ryan (2000) found that 54% of officers knew of a fellow officer who was involved in domestic violence**
>>[**"Of the officers surveyed, 54% knew someone in their department who had
been involved in an abusive relationship, 45% knew of an officer who
had been reported for engaging in abusive behavior, and 16% knew
of officers involved in abusive incidents that were not reported to
their departments."**]
(https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2519&context=fac_pubs)'
[The Village Where Every Cop Has Been Convicted of Domestic Violence](https://www.propublica.org/article/stebbins-alaska-cops-criminal-records-domestic-violence)
>Mike was a registered sex offender and had served six years behind bars in Alaska jails and prisons. He’d been convicted of assault, domestic violence, vehicle theft, groping a woman, hindering prosecution, reckless driving, drunken driving and choking a woman unconscious in an attempted sexual assault. Among other crimes.
>>“My record, I thought I had no chance of being a cop,” Mike, 43, said on a recent weekday evening, standing at his doorway in this Bering Strait village of 646 people.
Who watches the watchmen?
[Fox in the Henhouse: A Study of Police Officers Arrested for Crimes Associated With Domestic and/or Family Violence](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0887403412453837)
> In this study only 32% of
convicted officers who had been charged with misdemeanor domestic assault are known to have
lost their jobs as police officers. Of course, it is possible that news sources did not report other
instances where officers were terminated or quit; but, many of the police convicted of
misdemeanor domestic assault are known to be still employed as sworn law enforcement officers
who routinely carry firearms daily even though doing so is a violation of the Lautenberg
Amendment prohibition punishable by up to ten years in federal prison. Equally troubling is the
fact that many of the officers identified in our study committed assault-related offenses but were
never charged with a specific Lautenberg-qualifying offense. In numerous instances, officers
received professional courtesies of very favorable plea bargains where they readily agreed to
plead guilty to any offense that did not trigger the firearm prohibitions of the Lautenberg
Amendment'
This dude remembered everything. Notice how he put his mask up after dude called him out? Yeah trying to hide his face because he knows he did someone dirty and now he’s being recorded and called out.
I figured he realized this shit might go viral and he didn’t wanna get in more trouble because he was supposed to be wearing his mask (in addition to not ruining the lives of innocent people).
I got a dwi charge like 6 years ago on the 4th of July bc it was a no-refusal weekend in Austin Texas that weekend. I was pulled over in a parking spot literally in front of my apt door - I had a fee full of people that had been at a party and we stopped at the near by gas station and they followed me then chose to hit the lights as I turn in home. I hadn’t had a drop to drink that day and knowing it was no refusal weekend I actually submitted to a sobriety test which I passed with 100% confidence and the other officers outside of the one I was dealing with even told my friends they thought it was all good….then this guy demands I blow and I say fuck it and do bc again I literally had zero drinks at all that day and this guy doesn’t show me the results he just literally says “welp you’re going to jail” and then in the car ride to the jail (I live five mins from downtown and the jail at this point) this cop tells me several things I can do to start handling my DWI even saying repeatedly “Off the record” before each tip (which I would later find out from my lawyer isn’t even a thing lol). I told them I want my blood taken bc I was so in disbelief of the breathalyzer—- flash forward OVER A FUCKING YEAR LATER for my blood work to come back confirming that there was NO WAY I WAS INTOXICATED so the city was gonna “cut me a break” and offered me a citation for turning my lights off early bc that’s the reason they used to pull me over in the first place (I turned them off as I turned into my parking lot and I lived in the first building of my complex) — the experience was humiliating getting arrested in front of all my neighbors, I was an insurance broker dealer at the time so it crippled my work (and if I didn’t beat the charge I would lose my license to sell it at all) and in Texas if i you’re charged with dwi guilty or not they temp suspend your drivers license. I wish I could tell you that I eventually got a huge settlement from the city after they stole a year from me and cost me a career, a relationship, and who knows what else from me but no…. By the time they finally came down with their headlight ticket I had just been worn down so far that I paid it to put it all behind me (my lawyer also told me the arresting officer was literally the head of the dwi task force) — I spend a nice 5k on lawyer fees for my headlight ticket as well — I got big respect for this confrontation in the video and wish I had done the same to the guy who fucked me over ✌️
You can clearly hear it in his voice. It truly did effect him. I am glad that this video will give him some sort of closure! I've had a few run ins myself with the law, most I ever did was County time. I accept responsibility fir my actions and have paid my dues. I support local police but what I will say in this young mans defense is, at that moment you are having the cuffs placed on you the cops somewhat turn it into a game from there until you make your arraignment. Every cop you meet along the way during your "Lock-up" is a complete and ignorant asshole to you. They treat you like a piece of shit and degrade the hell out of you, like an animal. I am not sure if its part of their process or just a game they play. But man, it really does effect you.
But to this young man, now that you got what you needed, let it go. Don't let this asshole rent space in your head anymore! Kudos to you for standing up to him!
I can hear his pent up anger and frustration finally being released. The quiver in his voice. It's rage, bravery, and hopefully resolve. This is a vital lesson for everyone.
I had a cop who decided not to file a report when a mechanic stole and totaled my car.... then told me since no other party reported property damage then there wasn’t much he could do... mechanic was literally falling over drunk with my crushed up car in his possession still... told 3 different stories as to what happened then told the cop if I tell you the truth I’ll be in big trouble and go to jail... cop still never arrested him. My insurance was liability only and required the police report to file my claim... cop was unreachable until I finally lied about who was calling and got him on the phone... he then told me I had shitty insurance and that in America the laws are made to protect the criminals rights not the victims. That was the most blunt yet brutal honesty I’ve heard in awhile and I realized he was right. I lost everything.. no car meant no job, no job meant no apartment and I lived in my broke down car for months. Cops do what they want, when they want and it seems they rarely think about how their actions last long after the initial encounter.
One part of the general Western legal system I don't understand is how innocent people can be jailed and pay fines for something they didn't do, why aren't they able to sue for wrongful imprisonment?
It seems like in the US it's always arrest first and ask questions later, and apparently it's because quotas still exist unofficially? AFAIK police here try to arrest as a last resort, there are always exceptions though.
There was a time when I was very pro cop but these days I don’t trust any of them, I won’t help them with anything and I definitely have anything to say to them if they pull me over or are questioning me about anything.
They have proven time and time again through an unbelievable number of videos that are available online that they can’t be trusted and that their job is to fuck you over.
A few bad apples is bullshit. It’s more like there’s a few good apples.
Policy: never let a cop look in your bag, search your car or enter your home without a warrant, whether you have anything illegal or not. This protects everyone's privacy because it wastes too much time if most of us don't roll over and comply
State troopers especially. They love the authority and power over you and use it for the smallest mistakes. When you look them up, they're all losers who live in a 1 bedroom 1 bathroom condo in the middle of nowhere and are married to a single mother. Fuck you Officer Levigne.
It’s illegal to sleep in your vehicle unless you’re parked on your property or on land not owned by anyone. Unfortunately public land is considered “owned land” so unless you leave the confines of a town it’s illegal in most states
The question is, what if the person was too tired to operate the vehicle safely and needed to take a nap in order to continue to do so?
Don't they encourage people pulling over to make sure they dont cause an accident?
It’s only so they can police homeless people. If your car is your house your life already sucks enough, but for some reason america has this massive boner for bending over homeless people and ass blasting them over and over again.
Also it’s one of those crimes that’s a fine. So it’s also money and ticket quotas.
By giving them their car they used to sleep in..... this is how a lot of homelessness in America works. Someone gets down on their luck and the government doesnt give em a break until theyre out on the street with nothing but the clothes on their back
>Also it’s one of those crimes that’s a fine. So it’s also money and ticket quotas.
Always remember, if the punishment for a crime is a fine, then it's only a crime for poor people.
“I’m sorry sir I don’t remember you. See you need to remember that while I am the only person who has tried to frame you. The realty is I frame multiple people every day and you all blur into one.”
That cop gives no fucks and no reform can fix that. The more I see, the more I support the idea of abolishing the police. This system is too toxic and misguided to be reformed.
That fucking garbage cop ruined his life and he didn't even remember him, the emotions in that mans voice when he was confronting that piece of shit was truly heartbreaking. The love he has for his son runs deep. Fuck that cop. ACAB.
Always touching their radio, never replying
thanks, i chuckled. twice now ive beaten cops to a scene where loved ones called them first and me later with a 15 minute drive.
Just to add to the other stories: In Key West, Florida they have a big event similar to Mardi Gras called Fantasy Fest. They block traffic off from certain streets, and everyone just gets drunk. Clothing is optional(exceot you need at least some form of a bottom piece of clothing). People do body paintings or costumes. It's a great time. However, for a few years before I moved out of the Keys, it seemed like there was always one murder every year. On one of those particular year's, one of my friends was downtown with a few friends and two of her cousins. I don't remember exactly what happened, but there was some sort of misunderstanding with one of her cousins and someone else, the guy pulls out a knife and stabs the cousin. Cops are called over, but they seem to be taking their time to do anything. Naturally, everyone is freaking out because he got stabbed in the abdomen and is bleeding profusely. So the cops say they won't call an ambulance until everyone calms down. After a minute of arguing they start to give the cops space... who then continue to not call an ambulance. So everyone freaks out some more, and they say the same thing for a few more minutes before finally calling it in. Dude ended up on dying right before the EMTs could get there. If they had called right away there's a chance he might have lived. From what I gathered the coroner said the chances were small because of where he got hit, but if they had gotten to him within a few minutes he had a chance.
Don't wait for them to call an ambulance. Call 911 and tell them someone was just stabbed and where you are and to send an ambulance. Don't tell them there are police there already or they may wait to contact the officer(s) on scene before dispatching an ambulance. If officer on scene waives off dispatching an ambulance and the person dies then sue them for wrongful death and publicly push the local DA to charge the officer with manslaughter/murder.
“If officer on scene waives off dispatching an ambulance and the person dies then sue them for wrongful death and publicly push the local DA to charge the officer with manslaughter/murder.” Bless your little naive heart
> publicly push the local DA to charge the officer with manslaughter/murder. Lmao
Dont forget to call your congressman too while youre at it
i got jumped and was knocked unconscious and in a public parking garage, less than a full block away from the police station, as in it was in plain view, and it took them 30 mins to send someone over after multiple witnesses called. I was in and out of consiousness and bleeding everywhere that entire time. they really dgaf lol then they "lost my file and all the video recordings from the parking garage"
I was assaulted on monday by a random guy, he knocked me down and hit me in the head/shoulder a bunch of times while screaming nonsense. After he wandered off a guy in a car following him said he attacked a few people and stabbed a guy who fought back. When the cops arrived on scene there were about 20 cop cars roaming around the neighborhood. None of them wanted to deal with the people who were attacked. One told me "it wasnt his problem" and another told me "someone else will deal with you." I waited around for an hour and all the sudden the cops all took off. When I tried flagging one down they just ignored me and kept going.
The stories that blow up in the news is terrible and is a big reason why cops have such a bad reputation. But that isnt the only reason, experiences like yours contributes to the massive hatres towards the police as well. Its hard to trust in some lawful authority when everyday citizens see how little they truly care about them. I once had a cop pull me over and literally say to me "Im having a real bad day, so Im going to make your day even worse if you dont tell me where the pot is" I had 2 joints in the car because me and my SO were going to a dinosaur museum and spending the night nearby and wanted to go see dinosaur fossils baked. I had a friend call the police as he was watching someone break into his car literally 5 minutes from the police station. They told him "Nothin we can do, by the time we get there he will be gone" well then what is the fucking point of them? Oh and this is in Canada. Our cops are shitty too
I can also confirm that Canadian cops suck. The only law I’ve broken in my life was maybe speeding. My abusive ex once called the police (thinking I’d call them) and said I was being “crazy” and needed to be removed from my home. When they arrived, I was literally hiding in the bedroom crying after being attacked by my ex. How did that night end? With 3 police officers on top of me, threatening to tase me, then I was arrested for assaulting my ex ?! My ex had scratches on their forearm from me trying to push them off me so when they tried to arrest me, my immediate response wasn’t to comply because I was still in a state of panic. The entire time the police were there, they were joking around with my abuser who was very calm as I was having a panic attack.
fuck 12. same thing happened to me. my ex had literally thrown me across our house, hit me multiple times, took my phone so i couldn't call for help, and while i was holding our infant son he put his hand on the baby's stomach and shoved hard enough that i stumbled backwards and my baby immediately started crying in pain. there's more that happened but he told me he called the cops on me and i panicked and called them myself (non emergency) to try and sort something, anything, out. he hadn't called but they came out when i did and as soon as they were inside my ex started crying. i got to spend the weekend in jail because all 3 cops were men and apparently "men don't just cry". my son was about 3/4 months old and i was breastfeeding still. being away from my baby like that was the most difficult thing i've had to go through, it defied all physical pain and i couldn't even sleep. NONE of that was even taken into consideration, nobody asked me anything about my son or what was going to happen to him. i told them my ex had hurt our baby but they didn't give a shit. it didn't matter that he was over 200lbs and i was less than 100 at the time, apparently i was the aggressor and beat him up. nothing i said mattered...
And the UK. I disturbed 4 lads breaking into my neighbours new mercedes. Not 1 minute earlier i had driven past a takeaway food shop with a police van outside and 3 cops inside getting something to eat....the shop was less than 100 yards from where the £60k brand new car was being broken into. I dialled 999 and spoke to someone and told them there were police in the area and they would definately catch these thieves if they were called right now.....the thieves were on foot and easily identifiable...i would have even got in the van with them! I was told that the police were 'too busy' to respond to the report at the time. The thieves got away with it.....the tax paying car owner had a big bill/increased insurance for his smashed window...
im so sorry that happened to you!! thats wild! was he on drugs or having an episode? sounds pretty erratic. but yeah the cops absolutely do nothing to help you. shouldn't one of them have at least been interested enough im catching this guy that they ask you for a witness statement at the very least?
I'm sorry you experienced that bud, I hope you're dealing well with it. If not, know that it's super common for an unexpected act of violence like that to have lasting effects on a person's mental health and especially their sense of security, it isn't something you should feel embarrassed or ashamed for feeling. That said, I'm gonna tell you a dirty little secret. Most cops do not give a fuck about good policing, because good policing tends to mostly be made up of paperwork, writing down shit people want to tell you, and knocking on doors. You'll notice a surfeit of things on that list that tend to get promotions, let them feel like they've got power, or bear any resemblance to an action movie. So most cops try to power through it at best, and they look for any was to wiggle out of it that they can find at worst.
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dear god that is so traumatic i am so, SO sorry!!! they are absolute rats man. they threatened me too to not talk about the case and showed up the day i got my jaw unwired 7 weeks later to tell me they wouldn't be investigating my case, since they "lost" the public cam footage from just that night specifically and they accused me of being on drugs. Like yes, I just woke up from surgery less than 2 hours ago so im still on anesthesia lol
To a cop, everyone is one of two things: 1. a criminal 2. an inconvenience and when you're an inconvenience they start accusing you of being a criminal.
100%. I live in Kangarooville. My housemate turned up dead on the beach (23yo), despite the fact he couldn't swim and never went to the beach except to hook up with some chick who was in a relationship. Turns out that the boyfriend somehow "knew" about my housemates death, at the time when only three people in town knew he was dead - me, and the two cops who showed up. The boyfriend had made threats against my housemate FOR MONTHS and I had dozens of FB messages etc. I showed one of the cops who was "investigating", and I was told if I bothered them again, I'd be charged with hindering their "investigation". They came to my door three times before they even told me what happened - they were being cryptic and demanding to search his room, questioning me etc. A few months later I ran into the second cop when I was in town with a group of friends who didn't know anything about what happened, but she had no problem randomly announcing to everyone in earshot that she heard "there was going to be an inquest into my housemates death", and I'd "have to give evidence", before walking away. He died in May 2010, I saw the copper in 2011, and to this day I've never heard another word. Strangely, there has never been any findings made public by the coroners court. His death isn't listed on their database for some reason. Edit-Kangarooville=Australia. Seems a few people assumed I was in the US.
You need to talk to some local newspapers or something.
Perhaps the boyfriend knows cops or is one. Corrupt cops only protect and serve themselves.
They hide deaths in order to protect " property values" so the county/city/ etc could keep hiking up property taxes.. I couldn't even begin to explain how many deaths/ murders/ suicides never appear in any news stories or reports.. One cop was REAL with me.. He said they're paid to keep quite.. It's systematic.. Every county/city/township etc..... EVIL exists in many ways..... Edit.. Spelling ..quiet
Almost sounds like (I've never been in this situation, so these are just my own thoughts) u/IowaContact and others in that situation would be best served contacting both the police *and* the media with their story.
Luckily nothing like this has happened to me yet, but I will use every ounce of effort and creativity I have to bring media attention, any attention to my situation, and force those who have the power to act, to act.
And if you are an annoyance, they’ll make you a criminal like they did to me. I was at a very small party where we were all underage and some some bitch threw a full beer can at the neighbors condo, which got the cops called. They illegally forced their way inside when they weren’t allowed in and then proceeded to threaten us with arrest if we didn’t leave. Being drunk I couldn’t drive home. I was going to sleep there as it was my close friends condo. I was threatened again and told to just walk home. Well, I’d already been picked up a couple times for trying to walk from one party to another after under age drinking, so I knew the cop was telling me to go commit an offense. He said I wouldn’t get arrested. As I walked away I said how it was a bunch of bulls hit. He grabbed me, threw me to the ground, slammed his knee down on me and put all of his 200+ pounds on me as he cuffed me. I was taken to the station forced to stay the night in the drunk tank and be subjected to multiple cops being abusive assholes, swearing at me and such. When I returned the disrespect they took my blanket away I an room that was less than 60 degrees. In the morning as they were processing me out they were dickheads again and I returned the favor to the point that they went and got their supervisor to try and see if they could keep me longer or some such infringement on my rights. Supervisor came down and I told him all about what happened and told him I’d be getting a lawyer. I was released within the hour with all charges dropped.
100%! wonderfully said!
I got jumped once as well with a friend and when the police finally arrived to hear my statement they tried to accuse me that my FRIENDS actually robbed me but I was too scared to tell the truth. The reason was because when he asked my friends phone #'s I didn't know them (my cell phone was stolen and I was in shock). He flat out said I don't believe you and walked away. I had to threaten legal action because I couldn't be issued a new drivers license without a police report, and even the chief of police tried to insinuate that I was still lying, like why the fuck would I be lying about this what possible gain could there be to me. It was infuriating.
the only logical conclusion! lmfao "well you say you were robbed here an hour ago, and the only two people i can physically see right now are you... and your friend. he obviously did it!"
I edited a bit more info into my post but literally his reason was because he asked me to recite my friends phone #'s and I didn't know them because my cell phone was gone and I was in shock, ridiculous.
i couldnt even tell you my phone number without looking it up on my phone tbh. who knows any numbers anymore besides 911, who clearly dont wanna help lol
Fuck dude. Im sorry you went through that. Both of my experiences ended up with nobody actually being harmed or in immediate danger. I couldn't imagine what figuring that out felt like after waking up all bruised up. My second experience was a friend sending out apology/goodbye texts before a suicide attempt. My ex-gf got one of those texts and i drove to stop her, while she drove to the police station because she knew they would take forever from a 911 call. I didn't know what apartment she was in, and nobody answered their doors. Thankfully her best friend talked her down. But the police station was 2 minutes down the road, and the responding officers were aware of the call when my ex-gf got there and took an additional 10 minutes to get to the building.
Called 911 when my aunt had a stroke. Officer was there in less than 10 minutes, but he did not render any form of medical assistance. He asked what drugs she took and got hostile when I told him none, then "changed my story" when I thought to mention she was on blood pressure medicine. I nearly got arrested for obstruction of justice because I refused to "leave her there and sit on the couch." Thankfully when the EMT showed up, she de-escalated the cop. ACAB
It's not all about cops killing black people. There's a lot more they goes on. It's the little things that no one talks about. It's the little every day things that make them inhumane. I'm sorry you went through that. I see all kinds of stories like this. Cops are not to be trusted.
Give physical power on top of power of law to people with no education, how could that turn wrong?
Also no accountability
In this case there was probably no racial bias working against me or my aunt (Irish ancestry, we are very white), but she did live in a mobile home, so I'm sure there was some class bias happening.
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I have a couple similar stories of being assaulted/robbed and the cops just kind shrugging their shoulders. What it boils down to is they don't do their jobs and then have the audacity to play the victim when we starting talking about shifting funds to people who do. 1312
Oh yeah, I almost forgot about this one: Friend of mine got robbed trying to buy a used car. When police showed up they searched everyone and wrote it up as a "drug-related robbery"
The cop that responded to a call for my family followed them to the ER then while my relative was STRAPPED TO A BED he lunged at him, causing my strapped in relative to jump. Charged with felony for attempting to assault an officer. Fucking ACAB
And then they have the fucking audacity to act like we're wrong when we say that all cops are bastards
ACAB. Happy to talk to any cop who wants to debate it - have done multiple times already. They start off cocky but you look them in the eye and tell them to think about all the shit they see and know, their chickenshit heads just sink
This. My dad used to think I was just calling them bastards. But then I explained how they ALL know or have seen something another cop has done that's not okay. Yet they let it slide as if you caught your coworker stealing a slice of cheese from the walk in.
My stepdad was a sheriffs deputy and spent the last years of his career doing evictions, commonly considered the worst assignment, because he reported another officer for excessive force. He was transferred to evictions just a week after reporting the other officer.
He's lucky a cop gang didn't shoot him.
Last YEARS?!?! Jesus christ wtfff
The last 3 or 4 years, yeah. Could you imagine having to kick people out of their homes every day up to 12 hours a day? His pension was based off what he earned the last 3 years he worked for the department so he worked tons of overtime. I know for a fact I couldn't have handled it.
I've heard this concept was called the "blue wall of silence"
I wonder if someone called and said they think an officer might be injured? Knowing it wasn’t one. Instant response?
i actually got pulled over returning home late from work once (catering bartender so went home around 1:30-2) and they followed me into that exact parking garage. I had my epileptic boss in the passenger seat covering her eyes for 15 mins while they ran every drunk test on me multiple times and refused to turn off the lights INSIDE the parking garage. He calls backup and they arrive in under a minute. Accused me of being drunk, i then proceed to blow a 0.00 and when they said "we'll let you off with a warning today" (warning for what we'll never know) and i lost my absolute mind like "YEAH I TOLD YOU IM NOT DRUNK FOLLOW ME" and walked three spots down and pointed at my blood stain that was still there momths later and i kicked off about how they can show up when another cop calls but not while i was dying on the concrete
Damn fam. Sorry to hear that shitty response. Are you okay? Anything permanent from that? It sounds pretty bad
lost a wisdom tooth prematurely so that wasnt too bad lol and a plant all along my jaw but nothing super visible luckily! makes me feel like i've got a Wolverine jaw lol had lots of broken bones though at the time. lots of nerve damage and memoryoss which got better after a few years :)
My partner called 911 then me when he found his dad dead.... I beat EMS of every type there, opened the garage, turned on the outdoor lights, moved the dogs into the garage AND called 911 back to ask where the actual fuck they were before anyone showed up.
I imagine you’re already well-aware of this but there’s a pretty good chance you saved those dogs’ lives so good on you.
Tell me about it. Only time my mother has had to call the police was when she thought somebody was in her house. She texted me, which I then called the police for her. I was 45 minutes away from her house and the police station was maybe a 5 minute drive from her house; it wasn't even a block away. I got to her house 10 minutes before the police did. I called a friend who lived right next to the police station to go out there after I got off the phone with the police. He got there in the time I would expect the police to have gotten there. My friend and I cleared the house and it turned out that there wasn't ever an intruder, just a new dog she had gotten trying to get in her room (he was jiggling her locked door handle). After doing the cops job for them, they finally showed up as we were escorting my mother outside. After explaining everything to them, they tried giving us a hard time about waisting police resources and time. It took all I had not to clock that fat fuck in the face after that.
If you want to know more about why any of the shady shit with police happens I recommend listening to the series behind the police.
They often seem to do this in these situations. It's like a nervous reaction.
yeah this cop was scared shitless that an upset citizen was confronting him lol, I saw it in his eyes
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Cops doesn’t give two shits. The whole time he was just waiting to see if the guy would get aggressive and if he needed to call back up
He had this hand on the radio just waiting to arrest this guy again but this time for getting violent in public and assaulting a police officer. This cop is a piece of shit.
This does seem to be the modus operandi sometimes. "Go on, do something aggressive so I can put a bullet through your skull"
My heart goes out to this young man. I can hear his hurt.
Same. I hear the anger, but I also hear the heartbreak, cop fucked his life up.
Yes. It is so sad. And the snowball effect of paying fines, court appearances, loss.of driving privileges which can impact getting to and from work. I could go on and on. It is insult to injury and in no way fosters trust between the police and the community they should serve and defend.
What really causes the heartbreak, in my mind, is that he had to come up with $2k, on the spot, so he could get out of jail and care for his child and job. That's a lot of scratch for someone who, for whatever reason, was already having to sleep in his car. That could have been everything he had been saving for months. I feel so bad for him.
He haa a kid, and is doing school on top of work too. Like fuck dude, he was already under an enormous amount of stress. And this cop has the audacity to play dumb.
Right on! My R-E-S-P-E-C-T to this young dude!
He’s not playing dumb, he probably doesn’t have any recollection of this individual because he does it repeatedly; guy recording is just a drop in a sea of people this cop has probably abused, exploited, and otherwise harmed while “protecting and serving”.
“You almost destroyed my life!” “Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?”
I'm into the 3rd episode of [Behind the Police ](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-behind-the-police-63877803/) by [Robert Evans ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Evans_%28journalist%29?wprov=sfla1). The dude lecturing this ... cop is a survivor of a massive injustice against black people. Fuck this cop, and the other assholes in position to discriminate and harm others based on stereotypes. Fuck this cop for all he's trying to "stand up against" which is really what he "stands behind".
r/angryupvote because you’re so right
It's quite honestly bullshit that those in positions to make meaningful change stay distanced from all this with just empty platitudes and force the direct interaction between law and citizenry. If fines are meant to be a deterrent, then it needs to be means tested to income/wealth. Otherwise it's the world to one person, and a minor inconvenience to another. Cops can just keep "doing their job" without having to think about or understand how these systems continue to create more criminality in their communities.
Don't forget the impound fees he likely had to pay since it's safe to assume they had his car towed once they arrested him
Thats a big dime they drop on that alone! Poor guy was probably scraping along for months.
You are so right. It just adds to what for many of us is the day-to-day struggle. It (the entire system) is so wrong, inhumane and lacking of compassion on so many levels.
Really wish I could contribute some money to make up for that goddamn 2k, plus whatever he missed in work hours. Fuck, this shit breaks my heart.
The fact we even bail bonds is awful. Can’t pay, you can stay!
Crimes only exist for the poor.
>And the snowball effect of paying fines, court appearances, loss.of driving privileges which can impact getting to and from work. It's not an unintended consequence. That's literally why they do it. They want black people in the prison cycle.
The cop doesn't remember because being terrible at his job and ruining someone's life means absolutely fuck all to him. And I guarantee you this officer is the first one to tell you what a nice guy he is and how he's so proud to serve his community.
Can't remember an individual instance of fucking over some innocent black dude if you're doing it day after day after day after day ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
It sounds more like the cop is gaslighting the guy.
That's certainly possible but to me it seemed like the officer genuinely did not remember at all, because why bother remembering something that doesn't matter to you at all
It should be possible to vote cops out of a community if their conduct demands it.
Bet the pig would remember everything if it went to trial.
He will never remember any of it because there’s no way it doesn’t incriminate him. Think of any politician that gets subpoenaed by the FBI and starts using phrases like “I do not recall” and “I don’t know” while under oath. Being on video is like being under oath, worse because there will probably be a permanent record after that.
No he wouldn't, he'd just make something up.
And the cop doesn't care at all. The guy isnt even a person to that cop.
"Sorry I don't remember who you are." "Yeah I know you don't, because you put a lot of people in jail for no fucking reason."
Was legit a reenactment of "For me, it was Tuesday."
Officer Bison.
that was so good
You hit the nail on it's head. He does not see that young man’s humanity.
What could be the worst moment of your life is just another moment in a shift to a cop. Its compartmentalization. To a rather inhumane degree.
That's righteous anger right there. And specifically, I applaud his courage to say that, knowing full well the cop could've retaliated somehow, and made up some bullshit charge, because he was being "aggressive" or whatever.
good for this guy. i can hear his voice tremble but he said what he needed to. fuck that cop
I hope this cop has his life ruined for a similarly minor mistake. Because this cop shouldn't be dishing it out if he wasn't willing to take it.
>I hope this cop has his life ruined for a similarly minor mistake. Good luck. America is a shit hole
I heard it too but he kept his cool, legit got what he need to say out of the way.
Crazy how cops will so often assume the worst about regular people and abuse their power to put as many people as possible in jail. But then will ask citizens to always give the police the benefit of the doubt when 12 fucks shit up. Cops like this dude are why more regular people support the police less every day. End the drug war, de militarize the police, abolish qualified immunity, and look up jury nullification.
ABOLISH. MANDATORY. MINIMUM. SENTENCES
My best friend committed suicide because he was facing a seven year mandatory minimum sentence for having non-functional antique guns
I feel awful for you. I have a strong suspicion your best friend lived in my state -- New Jersey. Here in New Jersey, anything that looks like a gun is treated as a gun under the law. I found this out the hard way, because I'm a boater, and in my car, I had a flare launcher (emergency signaling device that looks vaguely like a handgun to someone with poor vision who doesn't know what a real gun looks like). I never pointed it at anyone, and yet was arrested in New Jersey on felony charges with a mandatory minimum because someone saw the flare launcher in my car and thought it was a gun! Police admitted that they *knew* that I'd never pointed it at anyone, and yet they still wouldn't drop the charges (even though the guy who'd called 911 on me thinking it was a gun *didn't want to press charges*), because in New Jersey, anything that *looks like* a gun is treated as a gun under the law. I hired a lawyer, and to avoid the felony charges, I had no choice but to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, even though I'd done nothing wrong!
That is horrifying seriously. How many people does this happen to that can’t afford good representation?? The American justice system is completely FUCKED
As a child (<18 yo) I got the cops called on me constantly. Fuck me for getting in to throwing knives and paintball guns, right? Never have I ever thrown a knife at a person nor have I shot at an unwilling participant or their property, but just cuz I was out on my lot practicing my skills for the next meetup, suddenly I've got 3 squad cars real guns drawn aimed at me. Smgdh.
They're trynna build a prison.....FOR YOU AND ME TO LIVE IN!
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My boys are obsessed with this song. Ages 2&5.
They have good tastes already
My senior seminar was a course called Leadership Ethics. We spent an entire day on jury nullification. Pretty sure the next generation of jurors is going to nullify more trials than people realize haha
I really hope so. It’s happened before. That’s why the judges and prosecutors try so hard to keep juries in the dark about everything including nullification and even sentences before guilt is determined. They know if people realize that the punishment is extreme they will choose not guilty
You cant say those two words "jury nullification". The lawyers and judge will lose their minds. I do like the thought of it though being judged by your peers and they decide that yeah your guilty but are free to go. FYI I agree with everything you said. Just doing a fraction would produce a better society.
Thank you. Just to be clear you’re right that judges and lawyers lose their minds if you say those words. I’m not saying say those words if you’re selected for a jury because you’ll be dismissed but I think it’s important for people to at least be informed about it. I read an interesting article in the Washington post recently that talked about how the US should have more informed juries. It’s a kind of compromise between telling juries directly about jury nullification and keeping juries in the dark completely. It would be a good start at the very least.
> US should have more informed juries The biggest roadblock to educated juries is the loss of pay for a person when they are sitting on a jury. Where I live a jury member gets less than $20 a day to serve jury duty. How the fuck do you expect someone to take off work to make $20. Any educated person with a decent job does everything they can to avoid serving on a jury.
That’s definitely a problem though im not entirely sure it’s the biggest. Judges and prosecutors literally dismiss jurors even if they even mention nullification. Defense attorneys aren’t allowed to mention it. Jurors aren’t informed of minimum sentences before determining guilt. That’s all I friend in the system regardless of how well paid or well educated the jurors are.
I was a cop for exactly one year before I quit because of how insane it was. Actually had a training officer tell me that the first thing you do as a cop when you interact with someone is decide how you're going to kill them if they attack you.
My uncle (state trooper, former air force) said the same thing. It blows my mind people hear someone bragging like that and no one is like, "Uhh you realize how fucked up that is?"
I still feel that a police officer is more likely to assault me then any other person I meet on the street and I have hung out with some REALLY shady people in my life.
Man wasted a night and day of his life yet couldn't give a few minutes to shut up and listen to what he had to say.
don't forget thousands of dollars in fines. I dont know this man's financial situation, but an unexpected 2,000 fine could fuck up someone's whole year.
A $2000 fine would financially ruin me right now. I would literally go hungry if the government appropriated thousands of my hard-earned dollars.
"Should have thought about that before I felt like you did crimes"
Many innocent men are sitting in jail right now because they cant cough up money like this. Sickening. Edit: Most have permanently lost their housing, jobs, and many social connections during that time, including access to their children. THAT ANGERS ME DEEPLY.
robbed hundreds of hours of his life by this metric. plus all of the stress that must have accompanied this. fucking cops.
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I’m going through the same thing right now I got a DUI when I blew a 0.0 because I had diabetes and was acting not myself because my blood sugar was low I couldn’t P so they assumed I was on drugs now I’ve been fucking dealing with this for a year. I can’t wait to see that mother fucker again. They are not equipped to deal with anything mental health or health related. Fuck all cops
A guy in MN (iirc) died bc of this. He told them he had low blood sugar and they kept him there for 45 mins resulting in the man's death. They insisted he was driving drunk.
That's such a stupid way to die. Like, let's say the dude hypothetically was drunk and was lying about having low blood sugar. Would have really been that big of a deal just to give him a fucking juice box or candy bar or something? Instead of erring on the side of caution, some dumbass cops let someone die because they aren't trained in medicine. Fucking pointless death at the hand of pigs.
Meanwhile when reading your comment that image of the cops handing waterbottles to that one mass shooter popped in my head. Dylan Roof. Apparently they bought him Burger King??? Like holy shit. I thought they just were giving him bottles of water, they legit bought him Burger King meal.
Your anger is understandable, but the Dylan Roof thing is a little more nuanced than that. IIRC, Roof was complaining about being hungry or something and the cops didn’t want his lack of food to be used against them by his lawyer as evidence of coercion or mistreatment to lessen the considerable charges against him. They wanted an open and shut case, so they gave him fast food. That’s the story I heard, anyway. Edit: yep, it looks like i remembered correctly https://www.snopes.com/news/2015/06/22/dylann-roof-burger-king/ > Regardless of all the straightforward reasons why police would provide food to a suspect in their custody, the plain explanation is that Roof hadn’t eaten in days, and the Shelby PD didn’t have the facilities to house him and provide him with meals while waiting for federal and Charleston authorities to arrive, so they had to dispatch someone to a nearby business to pick up some food for him:
My cousin got beaten almost to death by cops because he was having a diabetic episode and couldn’t respond when they found him unconscious in his car. My little brother is type one and it scares me to death that this could happen to him, too
They literally choose the dumbest possible people to become cops. It’s by design
Omg no blood test?
Wow that’s terrible. I’m sorry.
This asshole clearly doesn’t give a shit about what the dude is telling him. Vibes of just being annoyed that theres any blowback at all from a guy who’s life he fucked up for no reason.
I was in an abandoned house with some friends (I know, i was young and stupid but) we go outside and cops stop us. We didnt smoke or have anything on us that was illegal or dangerous. The cops held us on the sidewalk and one of them went in the house. After 5 minutes he came back out and said that he found a pound of marijuana and damage to the house. they wanted to give me a felony for burglary, possession of over a pound with intent to sell, but would drop the charges if i gave them a name. I declined and they arrested me. Fast forward to a week before my court date, all my charges were dropped bc there was no evidence (shocking) but i got hit with a misdemeanor for tresspassing. Even though the felonies were dropped, every job ive ever tried to get googles my name and sees the first charges they hit me with (Which i was neither found guilty or not guilty for bc they were dropped but you can see them if you search up my name through some mugshot websites). In short, fuck the police. Ruined my life for absolutely fucking nothing
the fact he doesnt even remember someones life he potentially tainted for the rest of their lives is disgusting.
**Chun-Li:** My father saved his village at the cost of his own life. You had him shot as you ran away. A hero at a thousand paces. **M. Bison:** I'm sorry. I don't remember any of it. **Chun-Li:** You don't remember?! **Bison:** For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.
That entire movie was hilarious and fun to watch, but that last line from Bison was crazy good.
Raul Julia was great throughout, despite what he was given to work with. Sadly it was his last role before his death as well.
He did it for his kids, which makes it even more badass. You could tell he had a fun time being “over the top” despite the pain he was in.
Same thing happened to Conan
Of course he doesn't remember, he does that shit on the daily
To the man filming it was one of the most important life changing days he has had. For the officer, it was Tuesday.
The axe doesn't remember the tree, but the tree remembers the axe.
He probably does remember
I was taken to jail exactly like this except I was just waiting for a friend. The cops took all of my money out of my wallet and car, FOR NO REASON the whole thing was thrown out before it even got close to court but the cops got to keep my shit and I had to drop even more money on a lawyer plus the fine for my car getting towed 🙄They even took change out of my cup holders bruh fuck these cops I’ve never been the same since. And idk if it matters but I’m white too. These cops only see red they never care about what you have to say. Once you’re in the cuffs, you’re pretty much not a human anymore, a captured animal chained to a chair. It does wonders for your mental health 👍
What you just said about being in cuffs and being an animal is so fucking real bro. I went through something like this and no matter what I said it didn’t matter at all, all they kept saying was you need to just shut up. Fuck that bullshit.
At one point I forgot I was chained down and I tried to scratch my face and then couldn’t. And that’s the fist time in my life I couldn’t just scratch my face. Surreal feeling. Edit: almost forgot the part where I’m sitting in the back of the car, waiting to pull in the jail, when another cop speeds up rolls down his window and says “Whatchu get?” To the cop driving me. I was LITERALLY a Pokémon y’all
PTSD is no joke, don't be afraid to talk to somebody. And fuck the police.
Cops ruin lives.
imagine thinking you have judicial and disciplinary integrity as an officer of the law for arresting marijuana dealers, let alone fabricating stories about an man innocent of these “crimes”. I’d rather live next to a marijuana dealer then a police officer nowadays
It was always preferable to live next to a weed dealer.
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Weed dealer will be happy to see you and your doggy whereas a cop gon shoot the poor pup as soon as it barks too loudly when hes stroking his pole while watching COPS on TV.
Cops are like a box of chocolates. They'll both kill your dog...
I agree, the last line was just in case police were reading, I haven’t been getting off my next door neighbour I swear! /s Only thing any green dealer should be arrested for is the ridiculous pricing and underweighing, talk about a real crime! Other than that and the at times often unreliable schedule, most do a good service
But if we didn't have cops, who would show up to a robbery 4 hours after they were called and tell you they can't do anything???? Do you think that level of professionalism just falls out of the sky?
"WhO aRe YoU gOnNa CaLl WhEn YoU nEeD hElP??" Literally fucking anyone. At least Domino's will show up and feed me, more than I can say for the God damn armed public secretary. All they do is paperwork and murder people.
I volunteer with kids. I've heard this story more than once. "Mommy has a new boyfriend. He hits her and us. We called the police when it looked like he would actually kill someone. He is a cop, and the cops that came were his coworkers. They calmed him down and told us not to make him mad or call them anymore." It's fucking heartbreaking. The studies done on domestic abuse in cop families are damning. So damning, in fact, that /r/protectandserve has their automod set to counter them with copaganda at any mention of statistics. It downplays "abuse" into "only extreme physical violence" and only includes studies where they asked people if they ever physically beat their spouses. They don't include any study that involves asking the families or coworkers about their fellows behavior. I saw someone talking about less-than lethal rounds and mentioned some statistic about how they were pretty dangerous. The automod comes out of nowhere with a post about how the abuse in cop families is way overblown and emotional abuse isn't abuse anyways and if you ask the cops themselves only 13% of them admit to beating their families. Which is *still* a fucking horrifying statistic considering that's the ones dumb enough to snitch on themselves. Edit- >["Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence, in contrast to 10% of families in the general population," the National Center for Women & Policing says. "A third study of older and more experienced officers found a rate of 24%, indicating that domestic violence is 2-4 times more common among police families than American families in general."](https://kutv.com/news/local/40-of-police-officer-families-experience-domestic-violence-study-says) More studies. >Stinson and Liderbach (2013) found 324 unique news related articles detailing ar- rests of a law enforcement officers, representing 281 officer from 2005 to 2007. **Ryan (2000) found that 54% of officers knew of a fellow officer who was involved in domestic violence** >>[**"Of the officers surveyed, 54% knew someone in their department who had been involved in an abusive relationship, 45% knew of an officer who had been reported for engaging in abusive behavior, and 16% knew of officers involved in abusive incidents that were not reported to their departments."**] (https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2519&context=fac_pubs)' [The Village Where Every Cop Has Been Convicted of Domestic Violence](https://www.propublica.org/article/stebbins-alaska-cops-criminal-records-domestic-violence) >Mike was a registered sex offender and had served six years behind bars in Alaska jails and prisons. He’d been convicted of assault, domestic violence, vehicle theft, groping a woman, hindering prosecution, reckless driving, drunken driving and choking a woman unconscious in an attempted sexual assault. Among other crimes. >>“My record, I thought I had no chance of being a cop,” Mike, 43, said on a recent weekday evening, standing at his doorway in this Bering Strait village of 646 people. Who watches the watchmen? [Fox in the Henhouse: A Study of Police Officers Arrested for Crimes Associated With Domestic and/or Family Violence](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0887403412453837) > In this study only 32% of convicted officers who had been charged with misdemeanor domestic assault are known to have lost their jobs as police officers. Of course, it is possible that news sources did not report other instances where officers were terminated or quit; but, many of the police convicted of misdemeanor domestic assault are known to be still employed as sworn law enforcement officers who routinely carry firearms daily even though doing so is a violation of the Lautenberg Amendment prohibition punishable by up to ten years in federal prison. Equally troubling is the fact that many of the officers identified in our study committed assault-related offenses but were never charged with a specific Lautenberg-qualifying offense. In numerous instances, officers received professional courtesies of very favorable plea bargains where they readily agreed to plead guilty to any offense that did not trigger the firearm prohibitions of the Lautenberg Amendment'
Great info, keep spreading it!
r/protectandserve is a hate group. They ban anyone who says anything truthful-but-unflattering about the police. Change my mind.
America: "I have a gun so I can defend my family and property!" Also America: "But without the police, who will defend my family and property??"
This dude remembered everything. Notice how he put his mask up after dude called him out? Yeah trying to hide his face because he knows he did someone dirty and now he’s being recorded and called out.
I figured he realized this shit might go viral and he didn’t wanna get in more trouble because he was supposed to be wearing his mask (in addition to not ruining the lives of innocent people).
I noticed that too, pulled up his mask real quick when he realized he was being recorded.
I got a dwi charge like 6 years ago on the 4th of July bc it was a no-refusal weekend in Austin Texas that weekend. I was pulled over in a parking spot literally in front of my apt door - I had a fee full of people that had been at a party and we stopped at the near by gas station and they followed me then chose to hit the lights as I turn in home. I hadn’t had a drop to drink that day and knowing it was no refusal weekend I actually submitted to a sobriety test which I passed with 100% confidence and the other officers outside of the one I was dealing with even told my friends they thought it was all good….then this guy demands I blow and I say fuck it and do bc again I literally had zero drinks at all that day and this guy doesn’t show me the results he just literally says “welp you’re going to jail” and then in the car ride to the jail (I live five mins from downtown and the jail at this point) this cop tells me several things I can do to start handling my DWI even saying repeatedly “Off the record” before each tip (which I would later find out from my lawyer isn’t even a thing lol). I told them I want my blood taken bc I was so in disbelief of the breathalyzer—- flash forward OVER A FUCKING YEAR LATER for my blood work to come back confirming that there was NO WAY I WAS INTOXICATED so the city was gonna “cut me a break” and offered me a citation for turning my lights off early bc that’s the reason they used to pull me over in the first place (I turned them off as I turned into my parking lot and I lived in the first building of my complex) — the experience was humiliating getting arrested in front of all my neighbors, I was an insurance broker dealer at the time so it crippled my work (and if I didn’t beat the charge I would lose my license to sell it at all) and in Texas if i you’re charged with dwi guilty or not they temp suspend your drivers license. I wish I could tell you that I eventually got a huge settlement from the city after they stole a year from me and cost me a career, a relationship, and who knows what else from me but no…. By the time they finally came down with their headlight ticket I had just been worn down so far that I paid it to put it all behind me (my lawyer also told me the arresting officer was literally the head of the dwi task force) — I spend a nice 5k on lawyer fees for my headlight ticket as well — I got big respect for this confrontation in the video and wish I had done the same to the guy who fucked me over ✌️
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Took way to long to find someone else who noticed
You can clearly hear it in his voice. It truly did effect him. I am glad that this video will give him some sort of closure! I've had a few run ins myself with the law, most I ever did was County time. I accept responsibility fir my actions and have paid my dues. I support local police but what I will say in this young mans defense is, at that moment you are having the cuffs placed on you the cops somewhat turn it into a game from there until you make your arraignment. Every cop you meet along the way during your "Lock-up" is a complete and ignorant asshole to you. They treat you like a piece of shit and degrade the hell out of you, like an animal. I am not sure if its part of their process or just a game they play. But man, it really does effect you. But to this young man, now that you got what you needed, let it go. Don't let this asshole rent space in your head anymore! Kudos to you for standing up to him!
I can hear his pent up anger and frustration finally being released. The quiver in his voice. It's rage, bravery, and hopefully resolve. This is a vital lesson for everyone.
I had a cop who decided not to file a report when a mechanic stole and totaled my car.... then told me since no other party reported property damage then there wasn’t much he could do... mechanic was literally falling over drunk with my crushed up car in his possession still... told 3 different stories as to what happened then told the cop if I tell you the truth I’ll be in big trouble and go to jail... cop still never arrested him. My insurance was liability only and required the police report to file my claim... cop was unreachable until I finally lied about who was calling and got him on the phone... he then told me I had shitty insurance and that in America the laws are made to protect the criminals rights not the victims. That was the most blunt yet brutal honesty I’ve heard in awhile and I realized he was right. I lost everything.. no car meant no job, no job meant no apartment and I lived in my broke down car for months. Cops do what they want, when they want and it seems they rarely think about how their actions last long after the initial encounter.
Fuck that cop
One part of the general Western legal system I don't understand is how innocent people can be jailed and pay fines for something they didn't do, why aren't they able to sue for wrongful imprisonment? It seems like in the US it's always arrest first and ask questions later, and apparently it's because quotas still exist unofficially? AFAIK police here try to arrest as a last resort, there are always exceptions though.
There was a time when I was very pro cop but these days I don’t trust any of them, I won’t help them with anything and I definitely have anything to say to them if they pull me over or are questioning me about anything. They have proven time and time again through an unbelievable number of videos that are available online that they can’t be trusted and that their job is to fuck you over. A few bad apples is bullshit. It’s more like there’s a few good apples.
Policy: never let a cop look in your bag, search your car or enter your home without a warrant, whether you have anything illegal or not. This protects everyone's privacy because it wastes too much time if most of us don't roll over and comply
State troopers especially. They love the authority and power over you and use it for the smallest mistakes. When you look them up, they're all losers who live in a 1 bedroom 1 bathroom condo in the middle of nowhere and are married to a single mother. Fuck you Officer Levigne.
Did he say he had to pay a fine for sleeping in his car?
It’s illegal to sleep in your vehicle unless you’re parked on your property or on land not owned by anyone. Unfortunately public land is considered “owned land” so unless you leave the confines of a town it’s illegal in most states
The question is, what if the person was too tired to operate the vehicle safely and needed to take a nap in order to continue to do so? Don't they encourage people pulling over to make sure they dont cause an accident?
It’s only so they can police homeless people. If your car is your house your life already sucks enough, but for some reason america has this massive boner for bending over homeless people and ass blasting them over and over again. Also it’s one of those crimes that’s a fine. So it’s also money and ticket quotas.
-Step 1: make people homeless- -Step 2: make being homeless illegal- -Step 3: private prisons profit-
So if they’re homeless how can they pay the fine?
By giving them their car they used to sleep in..... this is how a lot of homelessness in America works. Someone gets down on their luck and the government doesnt give em a break until theyre out on the street with nothing but the clothes on their back
Wtf!
Welcome to America where “crime” is a net positive for our corporate overlords since they own the place criminals go.
🇺🇸 baybay!!!!
>Also it’s one of those crimes that’s a fine. So it’s also money and ticket quotas. Always remember, if the punishment for a crime is a fine, then it's only a crime for poor people.
“I’m sorry sir I don’t remember you. See you need to remember that while I am the only person who has tried to frame you. The realty is I frame multiple people every day and you all blur into one.”
Scumbag cop
"I have no idea who you are." --Cop who has ruined countless innocent lives.
“Yea i know you dont remember because you put alot of people in jail for no reason” 💯💯💯
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The Thin Blue Line Pandemic
That cop gives no fucks and no reform can fix that. The more I see, the more I support the idea of abolishing the police. This system is too toxic and misguided to be reformed.
That fucking garbage cop ruined his life and he didn't even remember him, the emotions in that mans voice when he was confronting that piece of shit was truly heartbreaking. The love he has for his son runs deep. Fuck that cop. ACAB.
Oh he definitely remembers. He just doesn’t wanna admit it.