Funny Police harassment story
A Sergeant, obviously a cop with a sense of humor, replied:
“First of all, let me tell you this…
it’s not easy. In Chula Vista, we average one cop for every 600 people. Only about 60% of those cops are on general duty (or what you might refer to as “patrol”) where we do most of our harassing.
The rest are in non-harassing departments that do not allow them contact with the day to day innocents. And at any given moment, only one-fifth of the 60% patrollers are on duty and available for harassing people while the rest are off duty. So roughly, one cop is responsible for harassing about 5,000 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 10,000 or more people a day.
Now, your average ten-hour shift runs 36,000 seconds long. This gives a cop one second to harass a person, and then only three-fourths of a second to eat a donut AND then find a new person to harass. This is not an easy task. To be honest, most cops are not up to this challenge day in and day out. It is just too tiring. What we do is utilize some tools to help us narrow down those people which we can realistically harass.
The tools available to us 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 used often. This means we’ll come out and give somebody some special harassment.
Another popular one is, “There’s a guy breaking into a house.” The harassment team is then put into action.
CARS: We have special cops assigned to harass people who drive. They like to harass the drivers of fast cars, cars with no insurance or no driver’s licenses and the like. It’s 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, they are drunk, or have an outstanding warrant on file.
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.
STATUTES: When we don’t have PHONES or CARS and have nothing better to do, there are actually books that give us ideas for reasons to harass folks. They are called “Statutes”; Criminal Codes, Motor Vehicle Codes, etc… They all spell out all sorts of things for which you can really mess with people.
After you read the statute, you can just drive around for awhile until you find someone violating one of these listed offenses and harass them. Just last week I saw a guy trying to steal a car. Well, there’s this book we have that says that’s not allowed. That meant I got permission to harass this guy. It is a really 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 for the good citizens who pay the tab, we try to keep the streets safe for them, and they actually pay us to “harass” some people.
Next time you are in my town, give me the old “single finger wave.” That’s another one of those codes. It means, “You can’t harass me.”
ht/ shazzam
Good!
Chula Vista Cali. Sierra Madre could have been filmed there. Only one place worse in Cali. Nueve Idria. Almost had to shoot my way out of there back in 89. Badges, we don’t need no stinken badges.
Funny story. And I needed a good story in place of the everything going to hell stuff. Bad guys everywhere. While those picked to stop them stand aside. hint hint John Mitch.
But I’m sure the LEO’s explanation is a definition of profiling in the perception of some people.
That is a good one. I know some cops who will enjoy the story.
Sorry. Your story is BS. There are very many bad actors on forces across the nation. To suggest that there aren’t is enabling idiocy. Sure, dismiss the misconduct. Dismiss the thousands of innocent lives destroyed by the unregulated militarization of law enforcement East to West and North to South in just these last few years.
Shamanski, should’nt you be out shitting on the side of a police car or something? Fuck you.
You tell him Bad_Brad ! Maybe he could move to Mexico where the cartel has more power than the police. Wouldn’t that be more like a liberal utopia?
That type lights an old fuse. Fucking pussy. Sometimes the sound of snapping bones is therapeutic. They make me turn green.
Shamanski –
It’s called proportionality.
On one hand we have black violence, black crime, black culture. On the other we have police violence, police crime and police culture.
You actually believe the crisis resides with the police?
You really think a civil citizen has more chance of being assaulted or killed by a police officer than by a black person? (The qualifier being that you have to live in an area near a substantial black population.)
You’re delusional.
8 years ago my father died at his home with my mom by his side. First person on seen was an El Dorado County Sherrif. By the time I got there neighbors, the Sherrif, and my mother were l sitting around the family room crying there eyes out. That Sherrif checked in on my mother daily for at least four weeks. Never did get his name. Shamanski, you live in a narrow little world listening to people with a fucked up agenda. Wise up son.
This story reminds me of when I was a cadet/reserve with a local police department. Some civilians would yell at an officer about how he’s just writing them a ticket so he can fill his quota.
His answer was, “I don’t have a quota. My sergeant lets me write as many tickets as I want.”
You’re on the wrong side of history, Shamanski.
No sale here. No one here will agree to destroy the fabric of civilization.
Move along, wayward child. You are not a builder of good things.
I live in a neighborhood with retired/ active duty cops and military. Never been accosted by any of them.
No one can tell me that cops aren’t being assaulted and killed a hell of a lot more than they are assaulting and killing the public. when the LSM shows 1 or 2 videos of a cop/ non cop shooting, they run it to death so that it seems like it’s happening over and over 24/7. Rather than showing what 0bama is doing. Who is killing a lot more people with 0bamacare, as one example.
NY has a mayor problem. Not a cop problem.
Be polite to a cop….it goes far.
Cops are NUMBER ONE!!! And I’m extending my index finger, NOT middle finger…..
Shamanski: here’s one for you (vertical), and one for the horse you rode in on (horizontal).
@ Bad Brad
Our Shammy “pal” (/s) could just as well be from the other side of the spectrum…I’ve read stuff just like that from the “bunkered in Montana next to my 500,000 round armory waitin’ for the government drones, shtf” crowd.
Shamanski, guys like you make me wish I had more middle fingers. There, just took me one day and I was able to use that line.
This is like that old joke e-mail about wanting to take the day off and between weekends, holidays, smoke breaks, lunch, yadda, yadda that there is really only one day a year that you actually work. So, no. You can’t have the day off.
Is anyone going to deny that militarization of modern policing has taken place?
I don’t think Shamanski is trying to say F ck the Police.
I’ll just try to split the baby and say that there are a lot of bad policies that are causing too many situations to be needlessly escalated or trampling of constitutional rights. Be it deprivation of property rights without due process, filming in public, or being secure in your papers and person – digital or otherwise.