Are you not reading what you are quoting, j? I said apparently. And you damn well know that because you freaking quoted it.
Oh, that’s an argument that everyone can stand by. :rolleyes: You’re a low-paid officer of the law and thereby you have every right to question a person who is NOT breaking the law if they have been smoking pot? HUH? She’s a teenager on a train with red eyes? What is so wrong about that and what does she as an individual “like her” have to do with law enforcement procedures?
Even if she had been smoking pot, you think that she would confess to smoking pot? If that were the case, I think there would be more people behind bars with total honesty.
It’s statements like that which make people distrust law enforcement. It’s statements like that which make people think twice about even bothering to respect police officers. It’s statements like that which make you look like a complete ASSHOLE, law enforcement officer or not.
Then you go and spout:
Ummm, huge difference. Clearly red eyes can be red for a variety of reasons not just ingesting or smoking substances that may or may not be legal. Allergies, pink eye/conjunctivitis (or other eye conditions which I currently have), lack of sleep, dust, dry air, etc…it is unreasonable to assume that a person is “high” simply because of red eyes. However, when someone is swerving all over the road, a correct assumption is that someone is reasonably a danger to themselves and/or to others on the road and that person needs to be stopped. A person who is stumbling can easily have a medical condition that creates this, even for a brief amount of time due to things like epilepsy. With that in mind, is the epileptic breaking the law by stumbling and falling down? No, but an officer of the law should never assume the worst when confronted with something like that.
Then you had the audacity to spew this:
Um, there is HUGE difference between a person on a train with red eyes and a person wandering around a house in the middle of the night. I mean really, what is your argument here? Who is at fault here?
I think it’s the officer for being a fuckwit. If an officer wants respect and officer treats people with respect just like any other person on Earth. Just because one is an officer of the law, one should not go around asking people if they are on drugs. I too would have been ticked off by the questioning.
As for your pulling over the guy with the tricked out car, consider it a “lucky” snag. It wasn’t a feeling, it was your assumption (and this is where I get in trouble with this I am sure) that because the kid is driving a car that seems to have signs all over it stating that he’s into drugs and probably carries illegal weapons that netted you the bust.
I for one think that drugs are not the evil of our society that the government makes it out to be. IMHO, it’s the government creating the problems by restricting and creating the environment by which drugs and crime go hand in hand today. It’s a debate that will never be resolved but I think Prohibition was a prime example of why “the drug war” doesn’t and wont work.
Anyhow, your comments make me sad that my cousin is working towards becoming a sherriffs deputy. I know what a reasonable and straight thinking person he is and I sure as fuck hope he doesn’t end up an asshole like you that thinks that everyone is to be guilty before proven innocent.
< annoyed is the word of the day for me now >
Well, first off, you don’t go around asking every red-eyed person if they have been smoking pot. Keeping his/her eyes open and awareness to the surroundings is needed but staring down (which is what the OP apparently felt) a person and then asking them if they are on drugs is a completely arrogent way to “enforce the law.”
I expect those with which are in our employ to treat everyone, suspicious people or not with the utmost respect. This particular officer made the OP feel intimidated and frustrated by his actions. I too would have been pissed off at the officer for going out of his way to assume that I am on drugs for the simple reason of having red eyes. Had the officer asked her if she was okay (again red eyes can be due to many different reasons including contant medical issues) would have been a better way to approach his suspicions than asking her if she had been smoking pot. The way the officer went about it puts anyone (pot smoker or not) on the defensive.
If your idea of an officer should be as you stated in other posts, as much as I dig you sweetie, is how you expect police to treat people, then please let me know if you ever become one so I can avoid your jurisdiction. God forbid a person has red eyes, doesn’t have a perfect walk or exihibits any sign that isn’t perfect in the eyes of your very trained eye because you know that anyone with red eyes or a not perfect walk has GOT to be high or doing something illegal.
Jeeeeeeesus! I only just noticed this comment, despite the fact that it appeared on the first page of the thread.
My friend, if you’re in law enforcement and you don’t know the difference between these two things, may i suggest that you ask to be re-trained in a hurry, because if there’s anything we need less than intimidating cops, it’s ignorant intimidating cops.
I don’t think we’ll be seeing fushj00mang anytime soon.
Yeah, and not only that, if you exercise your rights and call him an asshole when he asks you a questions you just might get hit, cuffed and taken in, don’t you think?
Of course he is probably the only policeman in America that might do that.
No, I don’t think so. He’s not a policeman. Try to keep up.
If you choose to live your life in submissive fear, it’s your call pal.
Well, I thought he was a policeman - he sure talked like one.
As far as submissive fear is concerned, I only submit to that with the women in my life.
With policemen I exhibit courtesy, regardless of how they act. So far I haven’t found it necessary to file charges against one.
I doubt we could be pals.
I am reading what you post; I am disagreeing with you.
APPARENTLY, he thought she was easily intimidated; he was wrong.
So are you.
Guess what? You shouldn’t carry a gun, either.
'Fess up; you’re really that cop, aren’t you?