I tuned in on Cops tonight for the first time in a long time. It was a new episode and so I settled in to watch some crime fighting.
Here is what I saw. Ten or so policemen running a marijuana sting. They were selling little tiny packets of marijuana to black guys down in the hood. Eight hours of crack police work busting guys over 15 dollars worth of reefer. Not only were they NOT taking any drugs off the street they were handing people a possible lifetime rap sheet for buying a couple of joints that they themselves provided.
I’m sure there is another side to the coin on this but I just didn’t get it. Besides it was revolting to watch these guys patting themselves on the back after the job was finished.
12 people were arrested in eight hours with probably 6-8 hours of paper work to follow.
Awwww well, whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you bad boy bad boy…
Oh, aha. You know you’re too smart to watch a police “reality” show on the FOX network. Really, you should pride yourself on being too good for them. Next time you feel the urge to view this tripe (oh wait, I can say shit, this being the pit…), you can come to the SDMB.
[sub]::hopes aha will notice her passionate sucking up and reciprocate somehow::[/sub]
Your right Zoggie I am too good to be watching anything on fox.
Good! Thanks for askin Zog and how about yourself? I am afraid I’ve been out of the SD loop for a bit. We’ve had an ass kicking ice storm down this way.
Well, I would suck up to you too but I am afraid that would be inappropriate for the BBQ pit.
It’s only entrapment if the person wouldn’t have committed the crime without the officer’s inducement. When these kind of stings are directed at people “predisposed” to buy drugs (i.e. drug users) they’re totally legal.
A complete waste of time and police resources, IMHO, but totally legal.
“Up against the wall,
Don’t give me no lip son,
A bank was robbed and you fit the description.
Now I ain’t cher mom
an I ain’t cher pop.
Shut cher music down or you might get shot.
This is a warning so watcher tail
or I’m gonna haff ta put cher ass in jail”.
PE in the house.
Judging from the repeat appearances of these cities on COPS, Fort Worth and Albuquerque are the number one crime hotbeds of the United States. Detroit, D.C. and Baltimore apparently are crime free compared to the Duke City …
You know, this reminds me of the show that was on the other night, about police chases…
What the hell are these people thinking? Picture it: You’re driving down the street, and you see some lights in your rear view mirror. Do you
A) pull over, turn on your hazard lights, put your hands on the wheel, and wait for the cop to come talk to you
B) hit the gas and try to run away
I mean, even if you just robbed a bank, and are looking at 25 years in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison, what makes you think you have even half a chance of getting away? Despite what you see in the movies, kids, you are NOT going to get away. If it was one lone shitkicker cop like in the Dukes of Hazzard, you might pull it off. But it’s not, it’s a whole damn police force, with helicopters, tire spikes, and radios. You’re going to get caught, and when you do, the cops will only be more pissed than if you had just pulled over.
Save yourself a lot of trouble and some additional penalties and when you see the lights in your mirror just pull over. Not to mention the fringe benefits of not putting innocent lives at risk…
well…here in fort worth, they reduced the college requirements for police a decade or so ago…Its been an exciting place to live ever since…
At least when I moved to Utah for a year or so a while back, I got to see lots of video of my home town.
Just so you don’t feel bad, my cousin and I used to watch it a lot at his house on Saturday nights. Yes, we should have been checking out the 34th Symphony butcher the works of Mozart and Beethoven (why do I really wanna say the works of Mozart and Satan?) on PBS, but we didn’t.
Even a cursory glance at the statistics would be dissuasive. Over 99% of police chases end up catching the offenders. You have to be a real box-of-rocks to even try. Even a drunk or amphead with a tiny bit of intelligence would know what their chances are. It’s just plain stupidity.
True and true, aha, but much like the really ugly chick at the bar, I couldn’t be drunk enough to do it.
But that’s just me. It’s only that even after all these years of experiencing first hand how many truly dumbassed people there are in the world, it still amazes me that there are people out there who are so monumentally stupid as to think that they can get away from a police force who is chasing them.
…and don’t get me started about people who think they can hide or run away from a police dog. Too late!
You have to be an idiot to try to hide from a police dog. They can smell your stink, your fear, your fetid, large, panicked-induced, flight-or-fight breathes. They can hear your erratic heart-beat (not really, but good for dramatic effect). They know where you are, and when they find you…
You have to be truly delusional to think you can outrun a police dog. Granted, if you are some Olympic champion sprinter fresh and in training you may stand a half a chance. But if you’re a typical giblets eatin’, liquor store robbin’, barefoot pot-head junkie you’re going to get run down and mangled. Sorry.
And you have to be suicidal or insane to think that you can fight the dog off. Whatever it is you’re pumpin’ on that got you thinking that you’re Superman, the police dog has your kryptonite hangin’. The dog doesn’t know shit about Miranda rights, or about lawsuits, or anything like that. The dog does not feel pity, or fear, or remorse. It doesn’t care about you or your mother, or the ills of society that drove you to a life of crime, and it absolutely will not stop until it is dragged off of you. Hopefully for your criminal ass, this will be before you are dead.
