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Originally Posted by SBXVII
mlmpetert,
Ok, I think my issue is that players are getting stopped "legally" and they are tweeting as if they are just another innocent black man getting pulled over and harrassed by the Po Po, then fans jump on board and slam the police. Lets look at it this way, how many law enforcement officers are there across America? and out of all those you only hear about the 1% who are bad. Yet because of those all officers are bad because they all want to violate your rights. Thats like me saying I visited another message board and the MODS there act like Nazi's, so of course I would say I hate MODS because their all Nazi's with control issue's. < I don't think that way but you get my point.
I'm not advocating letting the officer search your car. What I'm saying is from the police view point it's ... if you are not doing anything illegal then you have no reason to not let the officer look. Is it a right way to think? No. But thats reality. All I was doing was passing on some friendly advise as to how to keep the Po Po from wanting to search your car. Simply put don't do anything illegal or have anything illegal on your person or in your car, but that should be a given.... all I suggested was be polite and say no you'd rather they not search your car. But for just a moment put your self in the officers position... 1 out of 10 cars on the road will have drugs in it, logically if I search 10 cars I'm bound to find drugs, so if I have probable cause I search and if I don't I ask, my chances of finding drugs and getting an adda boy from my boss just increased. I'm sure you all want to make your boss happy as do they. and I pointed out that their asking to search is like your neighbor asking to search your car... you can always say no.
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Are these numbers from the trusted and official 'I make shit up' stat book?
The numbers vary from location to location. There are good police and there are bad, just like regular folks. It is difficult to put a number to it.
Just know that if you are in a known drug corridor and you are a person of color, you will be treated differently than a white grandmother. Profiling is real and it exists big time. "Cause" to search a vehicle is very easily invented. Your word against his.
Yesterday I drove on I-10 from San Antonio to Houston. There were three cars pulled over by police along the way. All three cars were getting searched by police and the occupants were standing outside the car dumbfounded. They were not handcuffed, so you know they were not caught red-handed. It was a fishing expedition on the part of the police.
Highway offenses are low hanging fruit. Mean time violent crimes go on in big cities, all while the police are setting up speed traps on the highways. Not a good use of man power, but writing tickets is a good and easy source of income for the city government.