why are you cops looking for people to pull over for no reason for example, i was driving home today and the cop was at a traffic light and i was on another one that was turnin onto the street the cop was on, k so the traffic light the cop was at turned green and he went, i waited for mine to turn green so i could turn, after a couple minutes it turned green, i was driving exactly the speed limit which was 35, then after awhile of driving i end up behind the same cop that i saw he was driving 25 miles on that street, and then all of a sudden he pulls over to the side, i didnt kno if i should worry, pull over, or keep going. i decided to keep going and then he started following me, i got to my street and turned and he was still following me, i got to my driveway and finaly when i got out of the car he left. y are cops like this he had no reason to be following me i was driving the speed limit, i had my seatbelt on, i had no radio on. y are cops a**holes to the younger generation?
2007-10-12 16:03:38 · 25 answers · asked by hammy 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Quit whining. Follow the law, and you'll be fine, right?
Subject: Police Harassment
Sent by a friend...
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 us 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.
Looking forward to meeting you!
2007-10-12 16:07:23 · answer #1 · answered by Serpico7 5 · 10⤊ 3⤋
"Boo hoo, I was followed and didn't get pulled over. Oh wait, that's a good thing. Thank you officer for keeping my city safe!"
Law enforcement gets alerts, or reports of stolen, missing, suspicious vehicles. Maybe yours was a close match, on closer look, it did not match. You should thank the officer for being attentive.
To Serpico7: That is the best answer! Mind if I copy that for reference?
2007-10-12 21:50:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
nice stuff doesn't arouse the people's curiosity because they like smut is why they dig the bad stuff that's being said about obama from a certain news lie cable channel. negative people thrive on someone doing wrong even if it's only reported that way, they don't care.
2016-05-22 04:27:52 · answer #3 · answered by iva 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, a good proactive officer finds crimes and doesn't just wait to be called to one. When he was following you, he was probably looking for anything that you could have been doing wrong. Since you weren't, you didn't get pulled over. Most of the drunks that I arrest, get caught because I pull them over for something other than that. When I follow someone, I look for something (i.e. fail to signal, crossing the center line, fail to dim) than I administer the traffic stop. I don't write a ticket for that, I am looking for something bigger. If there is no problem, I let them go with a warning...or a ticket for whatever crime they were commiting. (a $100 warning that could save your life is worth it to me). What next, are you going to ***** if we don't respond to a call fast enough now??
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Mr Citizen,
Well, Mr. Citizen, I guess you've figured me out. I seem to fit neatly in the category where you placed me. I am stereotyped, characterized, standardized, classified, grouped, and always typical. Unfortunately, the reverse is not true.. I can never figure you out. From birth you teach your children that I'm the boogeyman and then you're shocked when they identify with my traditional enemy, THE CRIMINAL. You accuse me of coddling juveniles until I catch your kid doing wrong. You take an hour for lunch and several coffee breaks each day, but point me out as a loafer if you catch me having just one cup. You pride yourself on your polished manners, but think nothing of disrupting my meals with your troubles. You raise hell with the guy who cuts you off in traffic, but let me catch you doing the same thing and I'm picking on you. You know all the traffic laws, but you've never gotten a single ticket you deserved. You shout "FOUL!" if you see me driving too fast to an emergency call, but raise hell if I take more than ten seconds to respond to your call. You call it part of my job if someone strikes me, but it's police brutality if I strike back. You would not think of telling your dentist how to pull a badly-decayed tooth, or your doctor how to take out your appendix, but are always willing to give me a few pointers on the law. You talk to me in a manner that would assure a bloody nose from anyone else, but expect me to take it without batting an eye. You cry "Something has got to be done about the crime!" but you can't be bothered with getting involved. You have no use for me at all, but of course it's O.K. if I change a flat for your wife, or deliver your child in the back seat of my radio car on the way to the hospital, or save your son's life with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, or work many hours looking for your lost daughter. So, Mr. Citizen, you stand there on your soapbox and rant and rave about the way I do my job, calling me every name in the book, but never stopping to think that your property, your family, or maybe even your life depends on me or one of my buddies. Yes, Mr. Citizen, it's me, the lousy cop!
2007-10-12 19:51:42 · answer #4 · answered by River 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YOU STATE YOU AND HE WERE AT AN INTERSECTION AND HE WAS THEN IN FRONT OF YOU GOING 25 (PATROLLING OR CRUISING THE NEIGHBORHOOD?)
THE OFFICER PULLS OVER TO THE SIDE AND (MAY HAVE GOTTEN A CALL / STOPPED TO JOT DOWN A NOTE ABOUT A SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE IN AREA OR A CRIME JUST GONE DOWN BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR?)
THEN HE PULLS OUT AND FOLLOWS YOU AND FOLLOWS YOU AND FOLLOWS YOU?
YOU PARK THE CAR AT HOME AND GET OUT WONDERING WHAT IS THAT COP DOING?
THANK GOD YOU DID NOT FIT THE DESCRIPTION OF WHAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR?
HE PROBABLY FOLLOWED YOU, GOT AN ID, RAN A 10-29 AND 30 ON YOU, YOUR VEHICLE. WHEN THAT CAME BACK CLEAN OR HE FELT YOU DID NOT MATCH THE PERSON(S) HE WAS LOOKING FOR THEN HE MOVED ON PATROLLING HIS ZONE.
GOD ALL YOU YOUNG KIDS ARE PARANOID ABOUT NOTHING. THE OFFICER WAS DOING HIS JOB AND NOW HE IS AN ASSHOLE?
WELL SO GOES ANOTHER ASTUTE EVALUATION ABOUT POLICE AND THEIR TACTICS OR METHODOLOGY?
2007-10-12 18:28:43 · answer #5 · answered by ahsoasho2u2 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
So what are you whining about? He never pulled you over and was simply following you. What is the big deal? I follow people all the time while I am waiting for registration info to come back from dispatch.
Why do you generalize when you say "why you cops looking for people to pull over for no reason". first of all, its our job to look for people to pull over, its called traffic enforcement. second, we dont treat your generation any differently that any other generation. Im 24 and I have no bias or prejudice against ANY type of age, sex, race, etc.
I guess I just dont understand what you are so uptight about. Relax, he was just following you! Paranoid much?
We're coming to get youuuuuu...................
Boo!
2007-10-12 18:24:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
lol this reminds me of White Castle...
anyways i guess it really does depend, cuz there are good cops and bad cops, but we only notice the bad ones, you know?
so then we think they are all bad
but in any case, yeah, if a guy wanted to be a cop they really need to watch out for the bad ones,
and i'm told that some cops do this cuz they are VERY bored, i would be if all i did was drive around
-heck, can u get arrested for j-walking in LA?
2007-10-12 18:02:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Think about what your city would be like if there wasnt any cops. Think about them out there putting their life on the line to keep you, a person who just called them all "a**holes" safe. How often do cops get recognition for what they do?? Never. They always get sh*it for what they dont do. Maybe he was on the lookout for a car like yours, maybe you swerved and he thought you might be drunk. It sounds like he *was* looking for someone. Stop for a second and think, I know at least once in your life a cop has helped you out. Next time you see a cop being what you call an a**hole, think about what he has done for you. And maybe you could smile or at least nod at him.
2007-10-12 16:24:25 · answer #8 · answered by EXPECTING 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
So what's the problem? Did you get pulled over? Did you get a ticket? If you aren't breaking the law, why worry if a cop is following you or not? Obviously you have issues with police.
2007-10-12 16:16:10 · answer #9 · answered by Leather and Lace 7 · 7⤊ 2⤋
If you wasn't doing anything wrong then you don't have anything to worry about. There is always going to be some a**holes in every line of work.....get over it. Maybe you just looked suspicious to him. He's just doing his job. I can't get over the fact that people like to dis cops then when something goes wrong and they need help. They call em' up.
2007-10-12 16:18:02 · answer #10 · answered by Mrs. CT 4 · 5⤊ 2⤋