Monday, February 5, 2007

All cops do is harass people...

Found this quite ammusing...
Recently, a California website ran an e-mail forum (a question and answer exchange) where the topic was "Policing the Community."One of the civilian email participants posed the following question:*"I would like to know how it is possible for police officers to continually harass people and get away with it?"*From the "other side" (the law enforcement side) a cool cop with a sense of humor replied:
It is not easy. In California we average one cop for every 2,000 people. About 60% of those cops are on patrol, where we do most of the harassing. One-fifth of that 60% are on duty at any given moment and are available for harassing people. So, one cop is responsible for harassing about 10,000 residents. When you toss in the commercial, business and tourist locations that attract people from other areas, sometimes you have a situation where a single cop is responsible for harassing 20,000 or more people each day.A ten-hour shift runs 36,000 seconds. This gives a cop one second to harass a person, and three-fourths of a second to eat a donut AND then find a new person to harass. This is not an easy task. Most cops are not up to it, day in and day out. It is just too tiring. What we do is utilize some tools to help us narrow down those people which we harass.They are as follows:
-PHONE: People will call us up and point out things that cause us to focus on a person for special harassment. "My neighbor is beating his wife" is a code phrase we use.Then we come out and give special harassment. Another popular one on a weeknight is, "The kids next door are having a loud party.
-"CARS: We have special cops assigned to harass people who drive. They like to harass the drivers of fast cars, cars blasting music, cars with expired registration stickers and the like. It is lots of fun when you pick them out of traffic for nothing more obvious than running a red light. Sometimes you get to really heap the harassment on when you find they have drugs in the car, are driving drunk, or they have an outstanding warrant.
-RUNNERS: Some people take off running just at the sight of a police officer. Nothing is quite as satisfying as running after them like a beagle on the scent of a bunny. When you catch them you can harass them for hours.
-CODES: When you can think of nothing else to do, there are books that give ideas for reasons to harass folks. They are called "Codes" Penal, Vehicle, Health and Safety, Business and Professional Codes, to name a few. They spell out all sorts of things for which you can really mess with people. After you read the code, you can just drive around for a while until you find someone violating one of these listed offenses and harass them. Just last week I saw a guy smash a car window. Well, the code says that is not allowed. That meant I got permission to harass this guy.
It is a pretty cool system that we have set up, and it works pretty well.We seem to have a never-ending supply of folks to harass. And we get away with it. Why? Because the good citizens who pay the tab actually like the fact that we keep the streets safe for them. Next time you are in my town, give me a single finger wave. That will be a signal that you wish for me to take a little closer look at you, and then maybe I'll find a reason to harass YOU.

23 comments:

Amber said...

Pretty cute. =)

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Anonymous said...

Talk about specious reasoning. The cop should have brought up the fact that cops regulary abuse their power and have been caught dealing drugs (Los Angeles), commiting bank robberies, molesting kids (Kansas), contract killings for gang members etc.

Google rampart and you will see how bad the cops really are. They are not protecting anyone. They are only used for revenue collection by the states until they get automatic cameras that can do the job.

Cicero warns us that "the more laws the less justice."

Unknown said...

I agree that this cops reasoning is shockingly unintelligent. Every time i've had to deal with a cop (minor traffic violations) they've tried to harass and intimidate me. Instead of doing their job and handing me a ticket for the violation, they use the situation to belittle and harass me, THEN give me the ticket.

They betray the trust we give them by treating minor offenders like bank robbers and murderers. They like to feel powerful and use their job (and the subtle hints at the gun on their hip) to dominate and intimidate you.

But just let them know that you will press charges against him if he continues to harass you. They usually shut up and give you the ticket. They know they are abusing the badge, they just take advantage of the fact that most people don't know their rights. I believe that is what the OP was referring to, and the cops response was a ludacris attempt at unrighteous justification. Yes there are bad people out there. Yes we pay you to stop them. But that does not give you the right to harass and intimidate good people. Not only is it illegal, but it makes good people not want to help the cops when they are in a position to. The general public distrust cops, and they have reason to.

So I'll put the question out again. Why are cops such assholes and bullies to good people? This time I expect an intelligent response.

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