Jokes How can cops harass people and get away with it?

JLee · Feb 4, 2007

How can cops harass people and get away with it?

Found this on another board:

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 is just too tiring.
What we do is utilize some tools.

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.

LAWS: When you can think of nothing else to do, there
are books that give ideas for reasons to harass folks.
They are called "Laws" -Penal, Vehicle, Health and
Safety, Business and Professional Laws, to name just a
few.

They spell out all sorts of things for which you can
really mess with people. After you read the law, 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 law 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.

fishexpo101 · Feb 4, 2007

HaHa - pretty good. Pretty cool to have a cop with a laid back attitude and a sense of humor.

jtweezy · Feb 5, 2007

haha

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