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How often do you think that happens?Exactly, not walk up with guns drawn.
You just defended defunding the police.
Is there a reason why is it not possible to catch criminals and not harass citizens at the same time?And don’t come crying to us when some lowlife with no insurance, a suspended license, and driving a car that’s unsafe to be on the road while drunk blows through a red light and kills someone you know because without the threat of traffic stops it will become chaos.
There were parts of LA where LEO was absent/otherwise occupied and motherfuckers would run reds on the reg enough that I looked out for it. Ever driven in a foreign country? Cause that’s what it could look like here eventually.
Interesting I work with some Russians who love it here. They were astounded by this "coffee with a cop" event at a Starbucks. He's like "In Russia the cops will just beat and rob you. What are you all complaining about?" Also in Mexico I've been shaken down (bribes demanded) for nothing a few times. Over here I've had my car tossed a few times after going 56 in a 55 or whatever, yes, but they don't find anything and send me on my way. I'm really polite. Cops are scary all over.
In my early 20s I thought I was pretty adventurous so I set off on a bus adventure through Mexico. There were a lot of military searches and checkpoints, no big deal. The federal cops were the real jerks. Dudes with like stained wifebeaters, toothpicks, smelling like booze, .45 tucked into the waistband, gold tooth, necklace badge etc. I think they were called "PGR" which has something to do with the DA. The whole M.O. was board the bus at 2am, start tossing the overhead luggage and screaming in sleeping passengers faces. The more indigenous looking the passenger, the meaner the cop. Everyone was pretty much terrified but shrugged it off. Also no presumption of innocence, that legal construct so despised by Fecal....they had absolute power. Night and day compared to US coppers.Federales searched our car once for being gringos in the parking lot at K55. Found an old pipe under the seat (no weed though). Fucking dude pointed his gun at us while his buddy searched the car. We were scared shitless.
I thought it was Auto that knows what women want.I'm not Caca, I'm not gonna speak for them the way he tells us what women want.
To kill their babies.I thought it was Auto that knows what women want.
the bait is set....That turned dark quickly
Be careful what you're fighting forI hope a cop stops you for a broken tail light and then kneels on your neck for 8 minutes because you didn't know what time it is and you were not in your neighborhood at 2 AM.
It would be all worth it.
No way he's the nicest person you'll ever meet, he said so himself!Be careful what you're fighting for
You think you are a nice person but you are a dick
"It would be all worth it"
Serbian coming through loud and clear
Just like Trump is the least racist person you will ever meet and nobody respects women more than him.No way he's the nicest person you'll ever meet, he said so himself!
Berkeley is the only place I've seen up here that has homeless tents inside of a freeway on/offramp cloverleaf (University Ave exit). Maybe that's not a city jurisdiction, but still..Going back to the OP about people in Berkeley lobbying to prohibit the cops from doing traffic, let me say that if that's what they really want then I think that's the right decision for them to make.
Sooner or later people need to come to terms with the idea that the cops at the street level enact the priorities of the agencies which in turn answer directly to the civic leaders. Departmental culture and priorities (including withdrawing, when that's the case) starts at the top, not the bottom.
It was the civic leaders who decided to surrender the Seattle substation to the CHAZ, not the cops. And it was the civic leaders who eventually reconsidered that decision and reasserted their jurisdiction and control of that area. Not the cops.
405-710 interchange down here also.Berkeley is the only place I've seen up here that has homeless tents inside of a freeway on/offramp cloverleaf (University Ave exit). Maybe that's not a city jurisdiction, but still..
Yeah, it's all over the place around here.405-710 interchange down here also.
And to know as little as possible about who a crook is while doing it, at least in your opinion.The job is to go catch crooks when you're able to.
A hug & reassuring voice would do itIf I get a call to handle the meth head who's accosting people at the local stop-n-rob my job is to handle it. IDGAF if the reason they're out of control is because they were raised by a single mom or their shthead 1st grade teacher demanded they be put on Ritalin or they're angry at Orangemanbad. None of that matters in that moment. The job at hand is to bring the meth head under control so as to stop them from committing more offenses.