I was in a completely different jurisdiction far from home last night on personal business with some people that aren't important to the story and we were loitering on public property. A police officer from this municipality stopped, walked over to me, and told us that the facility was closed and that we needed to move along. You know what I did next? Huh? Huh!? Guess! I said, "Thanks. I didn't know." Then we got into my truck and left for the Starbucks down the street. The injustice! The horror! I really showed him what for, didn't I?
I thought all you guys had secret handshakes that you whipped out when you needed to be let off the hook by your Badged Brothers?
It's a good thing he didn't just throw his weight around and jack you up or beat the shit out of you on the side of the street, considering he's a god and all and you're just a mere mortal in that situation, because then you'd have been forced to hope his superiors would do something about it after you reported it.
I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of secret handshakes. However, I did what I did out of principle. The cop wanted something to happen and he was polite about it. I didn't see any reason to hassle him and he didn't need to know who we were or what we were doing, so I chose to be compliant, which can actually be a good thing if you want to keep snoopy cops out of your business. I'm just glad he didn't show up earlier. Not ten minutes earlier, I had put the shovels and axes back in the truck. Just another hippie no one will miss.
Amazing how that works. You're polite with me, I'm polite with you, nobody gets kneecapped on their way home from work.
Nah. I would have exercised my constitutional powers after identifying myself. Oh, and I thought about you a little while ago. I was speaking with dad. He was wronged by a member of the Alabama Marine Police. He went through channels and filed a complaint. He received a written apology from the guy's Lt., a copy of the written reprimand that went into the officer's file, and a verbal apology, by telephone, from the officer.
Aren't we still waiting on more facts from that? I honestly haven't followed it and wouldn't have posted in that thread at all, but Chaos Descending asked for my opinion.
I was just pointing out how (relatively) smoothly things tend to go when you're polite with law enforcement. Ranting and raving generally tends to get you nowhere pretty fast.
So, what, my method with all authority figures of "*crosses arms* *teeth bucking eyes closed sneer* I di'n't dooooo nuthin!!!", doesn't endear them?
I totally agree. My son has the instinct for being ultra-polite to the cops every time he's pulled over. He's a regular Eddie Haskell... "that's a lovely badge you have there sir..." I guess he's watched COPS enough to realize he doesn't want to be on an episode!
That's great. My uncle got 72 stiches and 6 months for "resisting arrest" after asking "why" when the Barney Fife of the town he lived in decided he needed to push someone around and knew he wouldn't get shit for it.
What do you want me to say? I refuse to fall over myself and bend prostrate before humanity for something someone else did. Oh, and about your uncle, I reckon it sucks to be him.
Not really, but presenting yourself as any type of threat will ensure a beating. Like I said before, nobody can outrun a radio. The time to fight a cop is in the courtroom, not out on the street. Having said that, I have had a few buds shaken down by the cops. You can kiss that money goodbye, unless you want an ass beating plus lose the money.
Just don't make it sound like the only thing one needs to do when police overstep their bounds is file a complaint, because even if it isn't just dismissed out of hand by the police department looking after their own, it's often too litttle too late. All cops get tarred with the same brush. So long as they stand behind the blue wall to project force, they all get blamed for the abuses of their brethern and the willing accomplises of the people in charge.
Then go in, guns blazing, and see what happens. Life is what it is. The situation is what it is. You either deal with it...or revolt.
I just know I wouldn't want to be a cop. The ones around here don't make too much, but they face a shitload of stress and drugged up thugs. Plus if they do their job, half the town wants their head on a pike.
I love it when cops beat the shit out of you with that stick after they handcuff you and try to run their hands all over your butt, only for them to find out they got the wrong person then cut you loose with no apology or anything. Them fat fucks.
I'm not suicidal, but I'm also not going to shed tear one when some bully with a badge gets popped in a dark alley. All you cops have done is make me cheer for the bad guy when one of you gets taken down. I love the law but I hate cops and that is a mess entirely of your own making.
Jeff's attitude makes me cheer the cops on when they give a suspect a good beat down for being an ass.
How about when they beat a citizen because they know they're untouchable? Oh right, that never happens and whan it does the police department will fix the problem.
Yup. The complaint was on departmental letterhead signed by Captain Blues. But, it didn't have the impact you're thinking about. It let the Marine Police know that someone was watching them. Someone that knows the rules that they can't bullshit.
You've shown that you have the same mindset of the braindead hippies that called all soldiers babykillers. Congratulations.
