I usually don't offer up opinions on this subject because I am a little biased but please don't stereotype all cops in a bad light. Not all of us see young people in a nice car and think they are dealing or using. If this officer REALLY had no reason to pull you I would suggest that you do file a formal complaint to his supervisor. A police department cannot just summarily dismiss a complaint without a follow up. And as far as harrassment, Some officers tend to be a little zealous in searching for contraband but if you had witnessed some of the things I have in my career, you would not just shine your light on the passenger seat and cut em loose either. We are out there to protect the safety of each person in our community. If that means taking up a few minutes of someones time at 1:30 in the morning to insure that they do not go a mile down the street and plow into another vehicle because they were high or drunk, so be it. Peace

 

SmokeyBear's got it right! 90% of policemen will not shove you around bulls*it you theyre doing their job. Even though ive had 2 out of my 14 stops turn out where we end up arguing, i still respect them and their job.

 

It all boils down to this:

"When I do good no one remembers, when I do bad no one forgets"

And that holds so well with the media. If you step back and look at what you are fed it will seem as if more cops are bad then are good. And thats because bad/controversy sells. If a cop screws up it's a front page scandal, if a cop saves a life it's a little blurb 90% of the time.


Tallimeca - as for who decides to give credit cards to younger kids, that would be the greedy who know theres a large chance that the kids will screw up and they can get rich of it.

 

Green_98, you're right. I would have to say that 90% of the arresting officers ask me if the cuffs are too tight.

Of course, I always say "yes" and they always say "good".

 

Exactly........so it's the people extending the credit's fault. And like I said, these people are not in their early 20's.

The same thing happens with adults. Adults are supposed to be more experienced and mature......and they over extend themselves on cards, so it's very easy for young adults to do so. Have the people with credit cards dont' even understand how to calculate their periodic and annual interest on their balance. They get a bill with a minimum payment and pay only that. They think they are paying off the balance but during that month they used the card a few more times. They are making payments but the balance keeps building , but they just don't understand it????

So these financial institution is giving credit to these young folks knowing they will screw it up so they can profit...........but it's all the kid's fault???

It's A, partially the kid's fault, B, partially the parents/educator's fault.

I don't understand why they don't make it mandatory to have some kind of financial education in the school ciriculum these days, consisting of teaching kids how to balance a checkbook, understanding interest rates, how to create a budget for yourself and have a balance sheet??? I think that would be great. I would have loved it. Luckily enough for me, my parents tought me well.

 

Is that before or after they starting beating you w/ a rubber hose?

 

A rubber hose? You must've been watching 'The Untouchables'.

They just help me into the car, tell me to watch my head and 'BAM' it never fails. It just can't be helped with the low door openings on these Crown Vics. Sometimes, I need to be moved to another Crown Vic, sometimes two.

Now, the old Dodge Diplomat was an excellent ride. Even though it was smaller, the rear door opening was huge. They could never make me talk with the Diplomat no matter how many times I was placed/extracted.

 

How would you rate the old Caprices?

 

In Beverly Hills it would be the Escape .

 

The old Caprices, please don't remind me.

The rear door was not the problem with the Caprice, it was the seat back, hard as a rock and remember you're cuffed from behind. The only thing I thought about was "holy smokes when are we gonna get there".

When I saw a marked Caprice I just stayed on the bus and went to the next town.

 

Although I rarely enter into this type of dialog, I felt compelled to here. Are you really listening to the nonsense you're spewing. Let's get past the term 'fault' and replace it with 'responsibility'. I work for a bank, and we don't market to high school students. But get real, if you're old enough and (supposedly) responsible enough to sign on the dotted line, and take the card, you better be responsible enough to pay the bill 'you' run up. End of story. In all the cases at work where somebody ran up a bill they couldn't pay, no one at my bank had ever forced them into a credit arrangement. When you wake up and realize that only 'you' control your destiny, not me or anyone else, maybe you'll stop trying to find others to blame for your bad decisions. And as for teaching kids at school to balance a checkbook or develop a budget, I'd agree with you so long as the system taught them how to 'read' first. I have friends with kids in both public high school and junior high right now, and it never ceases to amaze me what they're 'not' being taught (my two boys go to private school for that very reason).

I apologize to everyone else for getting off the topic of this post, but this type of nonsense really annoys me.

 

Don't even get me started on COPS!

My dad was just recently physically assulted by some jerk off cop and NOTHING happened to the cop!

Some lady made a false report about my dad and they woke my parents up in the middle of the night, pushed their way through the front door, and threw my dad on the ground using physical force...cut open his head, bruised his body, and for NO reason! I am still VERY upset by all this.


However, I do agree that not all cops are bad....my husband and I are friends with some cops, and they aren't like that at all.

 

I agree, in addition to age, what you drive makes a big difference. If you buy an L you will get less gas milage, pay more for car insurance,,, and get pulled over more often.

I have never been pulled over in my F-150 for any reason. I can do no wrong. Most of my time is spent driving a stock XLT 2x4. When there is a police car on the side of the freeway this is the best time to pass, because everyone else slows down for you.

I once ran a stop sign in second gear in fron of a police car and he went the other direction.

 

Your bank may not or you may have not witnessed it, but you have to be niave to think that credit card companies don't target younger kids b/c they know that there is a high chance they will screw up.

And if you re-read Tallimeca's post you will see that he also places the blame on the kids and their parents, not the credit card companies alone.

 

Boy has this thread taken a 360 i doubt we will solve the world's problems here, It's probably time to move on.