this is the thread where we talk about how much we hate the police

u probably make like 40 bux a week, u dont pay anyone shit

The cop: "Okay, you have to stop this demonstration now, or we'll arrest you! Do you get it? If you don't we'll arrest you!"

The demonstrator: "Hold on, if we don't "get it" you'll arrest us? I don't think it's according to the Finnish law to arrest someone just for not understanding what someone said."

The cop: "THE FINNISH LAW HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS!!"

uh, I make considerably more than $40/wk and pay my taxes. the thing that really gets me is that they didn't just hand us the citation while we were there talking to us - they led us to believe everything was okay, went back to the station, and mailed the citation for "improper permits" and "police overtime" after the fact - even though no event happened. Seriously, what kind of underhanded bullshit is that for a public servant.

Back in 1991 a woman hit me while my car was in the breakdown lane, totalling it. Her hubby shows up and seems a bit too chummy with the investigating cop. Fears are confirmed the next day when the accident report shows me in the middle of the road instead of on the side. Guy even draws in skidmarks for her ABS equipped car, and shows my car proceeding at an impossible angle to get to its eventual resting place. Cites me for 'obstructing traffic.' I go to a lawyer, she basically says "It's your word vs. the cop and the judge is not likely to believe you." I end up losing the complete value of my car (thank you NJ insurance laws) and getting hit with an exorbitant insurance surchange (to the point where I have to move out of the state). Thanks mister officer, hopy your buddy at least bought you a beer.

A friend of mine of mine got into a fight with an drunk off-duty cop who was assaulting his girlfriend outside of a restaurant. Rushing to rescue this woman resulted in drunk cop's backup (on-duty) buddies being called, a beatdown being issued and imprisonment.

Even after he was released. Friends of the drunk cop stalked this guy at his home for months straight to the point where he couldn't drive away from his house without being pulled over and frisked less than a block away.

See also "Bluegrass Conspiracy".

Our cops have Segways now though... I'm hoping for a low-speed Segway police chase sometime in the future.

Shakey, I have no idea what you're talking about.

There is this one bike cop that patrols downtown named Officer Schmuck. He's a pretty cool guy.

Yeah, you're gonna have to go into specifics if you're looking for sympathy.

I have never once had an interaction with a cop that did not involve power-tripping bureaucratic bullshit

That's true, though.

okay, well its kinda complicated but basically it's like this - my band and I were planning on putting on a show at a park. Unbeknownst to us, we did not have all the proper permits. The cops found out about the planned event, showed up at 8am just before we were gonna start unloading at the park, and told us the event was not going to happen because we didn't have the permits, etc. We say, "okay, fine", and don't hold the event at that park. After talking to the cops for a little bit, we leave, the cops leave, everything is okay. $1,400 citation shows up in the mail 5 days later - claiming that we held an event without the proper permits, and cops had to work overtime for security for the event. WHAT THE FUCK.

F*ck tha police
comin' straight from the underground
young nigga's got it bad 'cause he's brown

Were there cops at this alternate location?

No. And we discussed the alternate location with the cops and they told us they didn't care if we went there. Lying sacks of shit.

here's how the Dallas PD rolls: http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2005-08-04/news/schutze.html

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Let me give you an example how the city hammers them. On February 9 or 10, the Davenports had an impromptu meeting at City Hall with City Manager Mary Suhm in which they pleaded with her to end the persecution of their business. They say Suhm was not unsympathetic but told them they needed to plead their case instead to city council member Leo Chaney, in whose district their car wash is located. Suhm has confirmed to me that the meeting occurred, and she confirmed the Davenports' basic version of events.

On February 11--within 48 hours of when the Davenports say they met with Suhm--five Dallas police patrol cars carried out a drug raid on their car wash at the corner of MLK Boulevard and Myrtle Street. Customers and a vehicle were searched, but no arrests were made, because no drugs were found.

The police department incident report states the raid occurred because a police officer "received a complaint regarding the possible sale of illegal narcotics at the car wash." The report says the officer drove by the car wash, saw suspicious activity and "in the interest of officer safety, called for cover elements to assist."

But after the raid an honest cop went to the Davenports on the sly and told them the whole thing had been a political set-up ordered from on high. The cop told the Davenports there was a way to track it: He said they should make a public information act demand for text messages sent back and forth between the five patrol cars.

They made the demand. Recently they received the text messages, which they showed to me. This was not a response to a 911 call. Instead, it was orchestrated from headquarters. The text messages reveal that the five patrol cars, far from rushing in to provide cover, all assembled beforehand at an agreed location a few blocks from the car wash "as per deputy chief."

Then the unnamed deputy chief, apparently running the operation by cell phone, told the officers when to "roll." At the end of the operation, one officer even complains to the others about being ordered by a deputy chief to make so many questionable drug arrests.

Let me run this back for you: The Davenports go to City Hall to ask the city manager for mercy. She directs them to a politician. Within the next 48 hours five cop cars raid their business, apparently on the basis of no real evidence. Then the cops in the raid fudge official documents to hide the role of the police hierarchy in ordering the raid."

Sting is a pretentious chucklehead, fuck those guys.