niteowl said:

How did he "detain" you?
Did the cop take you to the station, for questioning?

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I'm not sure that just stopping you and asking "Who/What/When/Where" could be considered harassment or detainment.

Sounds like a stretch to me

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Anytime a criminal (murder, rapist, thief...) is taken off the streets....I feel that the police have done their job of protecting me.

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Paradigm said:

No, but detaining people who aren't doing anything wrong is.

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They detained me in order to ask those questions.

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1stimer said:

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Anytime a criminal (murder, rapist, thief...) is taken off the streets....I feel that the police have done their job of protecting me.

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How often do you get this "feeling"?

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blowback said:

Shit, a cop searched my car last month because (he asked) and I told him I was an art major. This was the ONLY reason he had to search my car other than I had long hair. Thats fucking harrassment.

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niteowl said:

blowback said:

Shit, a cop searched my car last month because (he asked) and I told him I was an art major. This was the ONLY reason he had to search my car other than I had long hair. Thats fucking harrassment.

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If you let him search you car.....how is that harassment?

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niteowl said:

Still a far cry from harassment tho.

Can you see why the cop stopped you?

It is his job to "protect and serve". Any group of people walking the streets at night should not be upset with a simple questioning from a police. How many times has a group of kids (under 25 IMO) been prowling the streets at night looking for trouble of some sort.

If all he did was stop and make sure you weren't trying to start any trouble.....how is this a bad thing?

If he had taken you to jail and gave you a lot of shit......then I could see your complaint.

But your just complaining about, well, nothing really.

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niteowl said:

Even if he asks to search the car, police don't just ask. They intimidate. The implication is that if you say no, you'll be in serious trouble.

WRONG

I have been asked three times if they could search my car. Each time I told then no. I have still never been searched.

If you let a cop search your car its your fault not the cops.

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Krishna said:

Redstorm said:

Why people rightfully dislike the police:

(note that these apply to police officers in limited cases and does not stand for all officers)

1. Police officers are taught to be intimidating and to coerce a subject into consenting to searches.
2. Police officers commonly racially profile and hassle minorities for something as little as walking down the street at night.
3. They can often be too eager to use force.
4. Smalltown police have nothing better to do that drive around and try to bust parties that are doing no one harm.
5. Police excess brutality (especially in the case of minorities)

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in addition, i find the police to be yet another reminder of our way of dealing with sociological problems - instead of looking to the root of them, and trying to fix things there (in the case of criminality, for example, poverty, crappy education systems, industries controlled by a top-down, nonparticipatory economic model, etc) - we deal with the symptoms so mr and mrs joe blue america can keep watching tv and ignore that there are problems out there. the same thing is seen with our military policies (ie attacking iraq now, while still supporting absolutely absurd dictatorial regimes/"free trade" policies that are going to lead to the same bullshitty problems developing again in some other 3rd world country), our approach to a 'welfare system', etc etc etc... the whole thing digusts me, and police, as a very real and very concrete example of this, remind me of my disgust daily.

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niteowl said:

If a group of people is walking the streets at night....
the cop has probable cause to stop and question you, which is what he did.

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