I got curious, so I had a dispatcher I know run an experiment with me. I blocked my number and dialed the administrative, non-emergency lines that go directly to the dispatchers. Their caller id reflected “unavailable”.
I then blocked my number and dialed 911, and sure enough, my number did show. Apparently, with all the grants available for 911 systems having to keep up technologically, you can’t remain anonymous and call 911.
In the future, dial the admin lines (if you have that at hand), in order to maintain anonymity.
I don’t know all law enforcement is bad, and I think the bad ones ruin it for those who are in for the just cause. But I have yet to find a law enforcement officer help me with anything. 9 months ago I got hit by a hit-and-run driver, and chased him to get his license plate. Once I got it, I went back to the scene of the accident to report it to police. They arrived, only to scold me for chasing him. I explained how I wanted to get the plate #, to further receive useless verbage about how a description is enough. Here I stand 9 months later without a police report. This guy had his wife/girlfriend in the car, with 2 little ones in child seats in the back seat, running 2 red lights to avoid me. If this isnt the biggest piece of shit male I have ever seen, I would be surprised.
You have to protect your own interest, bottom line.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
I don’t know all law enforcement is bad, and I think the bad ones ruin it for those who are in for the just cause. But I have yet to find a law enforcement officer help me with anything. 9 months ago I got hit by a hit-and-run driver, and chased him to get his license plate. Once I got it, I went back to the scene of the accident to report it to police. They arrived, only to scold me for chasing him. I explained how I wanted to get the plate #, to further receive useless verbage about how a description is enough. Here I stand 9 months later without a police report. This guy had his wife/girlfriend in the car, with 2 little ones in child seats in the back seat, running 2 red lights to avoid me. If this isnt the biggest piece of shit male I have ever seen, I would be surprised.
You have to protect your own interest, bottom line.[/quote]
That’s some bullshit treatment from those supposed to be serving the public. I’d file a complaint with the PD. Some cops are just plain lazy. Light a fire under his ass. Depending on the damage you incurred, the statute of limitations to prosecute could soon run out.
[quote]5.0 wrote:
MaximusB wrote:
I don’t know all law enforcement is bad, and I think the bad ones ruin it for those who are in for the just cause. But I have yet to find a law enforcement officer help me with anything. 9 months ago I got hit by a hit-and-run driver, and chased him to get his license plate. Once I got it, I went back to the scene of the accident to report it to police. They arrived, only to scold me for chasing him. I explained how I wanted to get the plate #, to further receive useless verbage about how a description is enough. Here I stand 9 months later without a police report. This guy had his wife/girlfriend in the car, with 2 little ones in child seats in the back seat, running 2 red lights to avoid me. If this isnt the biggest piece of shit male I have ever seen, I would be surprised.
You have to protect your own interest, bottom line.
That’s some bullshit treatment from those supposed to be serving the public. I’d file a complaint with the PD. Some cops are just plain lazy. Light a fire under his ass. Depending on the damage you incurred, the statute of limitations to prosecute could soon run out.[/quote]
I didnt tell the whole story, only because it was hard to contain myself. I had to notify the police officers taking the report that I was on probation. They then asked to search my car which I denied. I asked for probable cause, and they had none. I said that I would allow it if their commanding officer would be present at the time of search.
I was not going to risk any kind of a plant of narcotics, since I had a narcotics violation. I would file a complaint, but I already know that nothing will happen. Believe me when I tell you, please be careful everyone. I am not a conspiracy theorist, just seen too much shit in my day to be careless again.
It flabbergasts me, that in today’s day and age, that crooked cops are even around. I say that from a standpoint of police candidates having to jump through so many hoops to get the position to begin with.
Application, several interviews, psychological exams, polygraphs, physical exams, and sometimes more. To have to wade through all that, just to plant weed on someone down the road. Crazy.
[quote]PRCalDude wrote: If you continually have bad interactions with a particular group of people, in this case, law enforcement, then developing a bias towards that group is normal and rational.
That is, it’s normal if you’re not deliberately doing something to provoke a bad interaction with that group of people. People mentally pick out patterns and form heuristics based on those patterns. [/quote]
You said “normal and rational.” How is it “rational”?
[quote]pushharder wrote:
5.0 wrote:
It flabbergasts me, that in today’s day and age, that crooked cops are even around…
Ha! Boy, have you got a lot to learn.[/quote]
You misunderstand. The part that amazes me is the mentality whereby someone throws caution to the wind – for absolutely nothing. To work so hard to achieve something, and then to be dishonest? It’s that that flabbergasts me. Considering all a cop has is his integrity, how can one operate without it. They deserve whatever they get.
[quote]5.0 wrote:
pushharder wrote:
5.0 wrote:
It flabbergasts me, that in today’s day and age, that crooked cops are even around…
Ha! Boy, have you got a lot to learn.
You misunderstand. The part that amazes me is the mentality whereby someone throws caution to the wind – for absolutely nothing. To work so hard to achieve something, and then to be dishonest? It’s that that flabbergasts me. Considering all a cop has is his integrity, how can one operate without it. They deserve whatever they get.[/quote]
It flabbergasts you that this particular line of work seems to attract just as many power hungry hateful and spiteful people as it attracts honest hard workers? Why? I am very skeptical of people who jump into that line of work as opposed to the ones who use it as a stepping stone to “detective” or something higher up in law enforcement. I honestly think the credentials and the education requirements should be much higher…but then, far less would actually make it to be a cop if things were that way.
Law enforcement officials never think Big Brother is watching or listening. In their mind, there is no necessity to maintain their so-called “integrity.” They know with great confidence how hard it is to discredit a law enforcement officer in a court of law. But once the camera or microphone records the truth, all of a sudden they play possum as if they didn’t do anything wrong.
Cops are people before they are cops, and since people are capable of some horrible things, cops are too by default.
I took a crim law class where the instructor was on the force for 30 years. Retired. Said roughly 15% of cops are corrupt, and I don’t think that has changed in decades. Just a constant figure.
I’d need to look it up to verify, but he was sort of the Poliquin of instructors. Lots of interesting info.
It flabbergasts you that this particular line of work seems to attract just as many power hungry hateful and spiteful people as it attracts honest hard workers? Why? [/quote]
It may, although I don’t see how they get through. There’s no 1:1 ratio, good cops to bad. That may have been the case 20 years ago, but not today. Stringent hiring procedures, precedent case law, policies and procedure, video and audio recording equipped patrol vehicles, and so on. All in place because of the few officers who violated constitutional rights years ago. It’s a best effort at checks and balances to weed out the bad eggs.
I am not making excuses for them. But i think i understand why they often become like they do.
Take any two groups of people. Let them form bonds amongst their own group. Then pit those two groups of people against each other. At first there are attempts to be fair and reasonable. But as the grievances mount the the “its us vs them” attitude prevails, the rules go out the window.
Dito with the average people hating cops. The number of dip shits who blatantly and with full knowledge of the legality of their actions who get upset when they get caught astound me.
The checks and balances for police are usual Internal Affairs, and even they are questionable. When a police officer does something wrong, rarely do I see any kind of punishment enforced. Maybe a paid leave of absence. Often times, police themselves are upset when they are asked to obey the same laws we as citizens are asked to obey. When they break them, they have this “I should have a free pass since I am a cop” attitude. Its pure bullshit.
