They sure do
They sure do
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My favorite is "let me yell sit the fuck down at you while I shove you to the ground and plant drugs next to you so I have reasonable suspicion to arrest you".
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you forgot to add that their partners are simultaneously yelling "hands up" , "lay down" , and "turn around"
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We out here doing the hokey pokey fr
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Ah but what if you're a victim of a crime? Definitely don't ask victims of crimes what their opinions on the police are after having to call them.
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Well, the live ones, anyway...
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I called the cops once after my apartment was broken into. They stomped around, flipped all my shit over, and "dusted for fingerprints." Then they accused me of attempting insurance fraud because I said I had more electronics than they expected.
I've never known a victim of a crime who was relieved after police intervention. Have you?
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They demanded to know what my weed bowl was for when my home was broken into among other things that night. Funny that they found my legal pot but not the cut window screen or the footprints on the bed next to it as they insisted we must have left the front door unlocked
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Shouting all this as he's beating you handcuffed and on the ground
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Indeed. That's why I don't deserve this ticket, Your Honor.
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You know, there is this one simple trick to avoid getting a speeding ticket. Coppers hate it.
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Being rich and white?
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That also gets you out of manslaughter charges I heard.
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Defunding police may sound simple but it's proving to be tricky
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Wouldn't that result in more tickets? They're not going to cut staff, they'll just get more aggressive.
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DRIVE. SLOWER. I sympathize with a lot of the complaints about law enforcement, but goddamn it, go the fucking speed limit.
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If everyone is exceeding the speed limit, maybe that means the speed limit should be higher.
I'm of the opinion that we should eliminate speeding as a primary violation and refocus police on catching reckless drivers. Of the three tickets I've gotten, two were on empty roads and one I was going with the ow of traffic, and my crime was being from out of state. I wasn't a hazard to anyone or driving aggressively (e.g. serving between cars), but I was technically exceeding the limit. I tend to drive about 5-10 mph over tilhe limit on the highway, and 0-5 over on city streets, because that's what the flow of traffic is. On the flipside, almost every week I have a close call from someone driving aggressively (often below the limit due to traffic), and enforcement is pretty lax there.
I understand it's easier to enforce speeding, but I'm not co convinced it's actually a safety issue. Yes, speeding is often involved in other crimes, but it's merely because of you're breaking other laws (e.g. driving drunk, weaving in traffic, etc), you're also likely speeding. The only time I've seen speeding be an issue is when there are other hazards, like snow or rain, in which case even going the speed limit is unsafe and you should drive to the conditions instead of the posted limit.
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By this point I believe they don't have quotas per se, but their department is wise to the fact that suspicious gaps in ticket issuing probably means the guys are asleep in their car somewhere, and bust their balls.
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Depends on where you are. Many departments have explicit quotas, even if they don't call them as such. However, some states have banned them
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which is such bullshit anyways, because why the fuck are police acting as traffic control
they should be out doing more important things, and there should be a separate organization for vehicles
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I’m sure quotas are real but I’ve never really seen them as being a meaningful issue to get worked up about. Maybe they are more widespread than I realize.
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A certain Mr Peel had some ideas about policing, namely that it needs to be by consent of the population.
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If we got rid of cops, who's going to come to your aid when you call 911 and they don't show up until 45 minutes to 6 hours later?
Better judged by 12 than buried by 6.