"His mother-in-law is dying right now".. "I'm almost done."

[DerbyCat]

Scuds, your story hits home - there isn't a cop on the street that doesn't *profile*, although it's not as racist as civilians make it out to be, I think it really is more socio-economic (and there are more poor minorities in big cities)... when I was going through FTO (field training) with the San Jose PD, I drove past a hispanic guy straddling a bike and talking with a guy who was drinking a beer in the driveway of the guys house (or so I assumed). My Training Officer asked me, "don't you think you should stop and talk to those guys?" I asked, "why should I?" His reply was, "a grown man wearing anything other that those silly tight riding shorts and riding an expensive bike is only riding a bike because he doesn't have a license. His license was probably suspended, maybe for a drug violation or maybe he has a warrant. Your PC (probable cause) for the stop is the guy drinking the beer in public." My reply to him was, "So, based on your logic, a cop would have reasonable cause to question my father who lives in Los Altos (an upper-middle class town in the Bay Area) for drinking a glass of wine in his yard while he was talking to the neighbor who was on his oldest son's bike because he was testing it out after repairing the chain." My T.O.'s reply was, "only if your Dad looks like a dirtbag."

Another time I stopped a black guy who was driving through a hispanic neighborhood known for drug sales. I never saw him stop or talk with anyone, he was just driving through in the middle of the day. My PC for the stop? Faded month tab on his license plate. I walked up to his car, explained my reason for the stop, explained that the neighborhood was known for drug activity and asked if I could search his car. He said he appreciated my polite request but he'd had enough cops search his car and they always tore it up and never found anything, so he was saying "no" to my request. I told him that without his approval (and without seeing anything illegal in plain sight in his car) I couldn't search his vehicle. I was back at my patrol writing a fix-it-ticket when a senior officer at the scene decided he didn't need permission so he walked up to the guy and told him, "I'm searching your car, move out of my way" and proceeded to trash the car - Result: no drugs found. Black guy drives away with a ticket and a messed up car, but he never complained to HQ, must have just figured it was a price for being "black in America".

These are just a few of the reasons why I'm no longer a cop.

[alysheba4]

Uncle

[MaTH716]

The officer resigned.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4033626

[ninetoone]

I love happy endings.

[AeWingnut]

Originally Posted by DerbyCat

Another time I stopped a black guy who was driving through a hispanic neighborhood known for drug sales. I never saw him stop or talk with anyone, he was just driving through in the middle of the day. My PC for the stop? Faded month tab on his license plate. I walked up to his car, explained my reason for the stop, explained that the neighborhood was known for drug activity and asked if I could search his car. He said he appreciated my polite request but he'd had enough cops search his car and they always tore it up and never found anything, so he was saying "no" to my request. I told him that without his approval (and without seeing anything illegal in plain sight in his car) I couldn't search his vehicle. I was back at my patrol writing a fix-it-ticket when a senior officer at the scene decided he didn't need permission so he walked up to the guy and told him, "I'm searching your car, move out of my way" and proceeded to trash the car - Result: no drugs found. Black guy drives away with a ticket and a messed up car, but he never complained to HQ, must have just figured it was a price for being "black in America".

These are just a few of the reasons why I'm no longer a cop.

I've been pulled over (twice) because my name ends in a vowel
yes, they asked to search
it was 3 am
and I didn't have a gun so I said yes to the search
man... he looked twice at everything and said things like, "that's a funny place for a gas tank"

WTF

I kept waiting for him to reach in his pocket and pull out a packet of powder and claim to find it.

That actually happened and the cop got busted. the kid was the son of some cop in another town

ooops

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by AeWingnut

I've been pulled over (twice) because my name ends in a vowel
yes, they asked to search
it was 3 am
and I didn't have a gun so I said yes to the search
man... he looked twice at everything and said things like, "that's a funny place for a gas tank"

WTF

I kept waiting for him to reach in his pocket and pull out a packet of powder and claim to find it.

That actually happened and the cop got busted. the kid was the son of some cop in another town

ooops

Jesus, where do you live? Hazzard County .

[AeWingnut]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

Jesus, where do you live? Hazzard County .

I was leaving Chicago headed home on 116

it makes perfect sense
really
it does

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by AeWingnut

I've been pulled over (twice) because my name ends in a vowel
yes, they asked to search
it was 3 am
and I didn't have a gun so I said yes to the search
man... he looked twice at everything and said things like, "that's a funny place for a gas tank"

WTF

I kept waiting for him to reach in his pocket and pull out a packet of powder and claim to find it.

That actually happened and the cop got busted. the kid was the son of some cop in another town

ooops

I can give you a couple towns near Chicago where the cops will let you slide BECAUSE your name ends in a vowel as long as it's not one of those Mexicani names. Another hint I got a long time ago from a cop was if you don't want to be pulled over DON'T wear a baseball hat (especially backwards), have anything hanging from the mirror, be out driving after 1am or have bumper stickers UNLESS they say Child on Board or My Kid is a Honor Student at .....

There are ways to stealth your profile.

Gives me an idea for the 'Ole white lady' driver's mask to be selliing soon in a liquor store/head shop near you.

[satan's twin]

Originally Posted by AeWingnut

I've been pulled over (twice) because my name ends in a vowel
yes, they asked to search
it was 3 am
and I didn't have a gun so I said yes to the search
man... he looked twice at everything and said things like, "that's a funny place for a gas tank"

WTF

I kept waiting for him to reach in his pocket and pull out a packet of powder and claim to find it.

That actually happened and the cop got busted. the kid was the son of some cop in another town



ooops

1. How in the hell would the police know your name ends in a vowel without stopping you? Is your name stenciled under your zodiac sign in the rear window?

2. I just rechecked the dictionary just to be sure. "Retard" does not end in a vowel.

[AeWingnut]

Originally Posted by satan's twin

1. How in the hell would the police know your name ends in a vowel without stopping you? Is your name stenciled under your zodiac sign in the rear window?

2. I just rechecked the dictionary just to be sure. "Retard" does not end in a vowel.

1. It's pretty simple. he sits behind and runs the plate.

2. I expect an apology.

[alysheba4]

im black......i havent really had a problem with cops, i do what they ask. wow, thats a shocking revelation

[satan's twin]

Originally Posted by AeWingnut

1. It's pretty simple. he sits behind and runs the plate.

2. I expect an apology.

1. By golly, not being as versed in the warp-speed advances in the police sciences as a sharpie like you, I'm astounded to learn that the Chicago P.D. now has the capability to check a license plate from a squad car. Do they still carry the whistles?

Curious indeed that in the face of massive finacial shortages, scrutiny from citizen review boards, manpower shortages, low morale and a staggering escalation in crime, this police dept. would find the energy and the initiative to ferret out that dastardly menace now lurking upon our citizenry, downstate motorists who's names end in vowels! Curiouser still when you consider that half the constabalary protecting us against this scourge is none other than like tribesmen WHO'S NAMES ALSO END IN VOWELS!

Rather than a case of abuse of the badge, this would seem to be an incidence of police profiling. It would seem the CPD correctly identified a lost rube in his turnip truck and performed a civic service by pointing him in the general direction of Hooterville.

2. Apology? Begone, gnat.

[AeWingnut]

Originally Posted by satan's twin

1. By golly, not being as versed in the warp-speed advances in the police sciences as a sharpie like you, I'm astounded to learn that the Chicago P.D. now has the capability to check a license plate from a squad car. Do they still carry the whistles?

Curious indeed that in the face of massive finacial shortages, scrutiny from citizen review boards, manpower shortages, low morale and a staggering escalation in crime, this police dept. would find the energy and the initiative to ferret out that dastardly menace now lurking upon our citizenry, downstate motorists who's names end in vowels! Curiouser still when you consider that half the constabalary protecting us against this scourge is none other than like tribesmen WHO'S NAMES ALSO END IN VOWELS!

Rather than a case of abuse of the badge, this would seem to be an incidence of police profiling. It would seem the CPD correctly identified a lost rube in his turnip truck and performed a civic service by pointing him in the general direction of Hooterville.

2. Apology? Begone, gnat.

sigh

1. you do not comprehend well at all. I said I was returning home from Chicago on 116. I never said I got pulled over in Chicago. CPD it wasn't. The cop sat behind me for a long time before pulling me over. Claimed my license plate light was out. It wasn't. When I pointed it out to him, "well it should be brighter" He ran the plate and was profiling.

2. Yes, an apology is something you do when you are wrong and have wronged. Obviously you lack character and class.

[satan's twin]

Originally Posted by AeWingnut

sigh

1. you do not comprehend well at all. I said I was returning home from Chicago on 116. I never said I got pulled over in Chicago. CPD it wasn't. The cop sat behind me for a long time before pulling me over. Claimed my license plate light was out. It wasn't. When I pointed it out to him, "well it should be brighter" He ran the plate and was profiling.

2. Yes, an apology is something you do when you are wrong and have wronged. Obviously you lack character and class.

"Lack character and class?".........................Who let Scary Clown jump out of his Jack-in-the-Box?

I go away for a few days on business and return to a lecture from Mr. French? I don't think so, Gomer. My patience with your nonsense ends now. I believe I have been more than fair wading through the crap and stupidity you have routinely posted here over the past few years without dropping the anvil on your head that you so richly deserve. Character and class aren't the issue. It really doesn't bother me that you are incredibly odd nor do I care that when you eat, you grasp fruits and vegetables with your feet. I do object to your inflicting your idiocy upon the rest of the class. Obviously, your issues are many, and none of them related to the fact that your name ends in a vowel.

In the future, try using that cerebral mass under your skull for something other than separating your ears. And while you're at it, try to have a purpose before lobbing in another one of your dopey off-topic insights usually thrown in from the dark side of Neptune for no other reason than to satisfy your vanity. Before trying another post, ask your handler if he'd loosen your leash to stimulate some blood flow so you can practice writing your 'thoughts' down to see if they make sense before experimenting here.

In another thread today, I saw where you told someone else they 'didn't get your sense of humor'......Um, guilty of that over here, as well, boss. (Then again, I really didn't get the genius of Slappy White either, God rest his soul.) Perhaps in the future, if you could add 'Slappy, Jr.' after every post where you are infusing some of your nutty Neptune humor in for levity, I'll get up to speed on your zaniness that up to now I have been missing.