# Why I hate my local police.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-my-local-police/162988>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 21, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-my-local-police/162988 "2003-03-21T03:06:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![bjohn13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@bjohn13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bjohn13)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-hate-my-local-police/162988/21 "2003-03-22T04:40:53Z")

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By the way…I have a personal experience to relate. When I was a teenager, I drove a Mustang that got a lot of attention from the local police. I also worked a lot of weekend bar rush shifts which would necessitate my driving home at the wee hours of the morning. If a weekend went by without me getting pulled over, I was extatic.

My parents never really did anything about it because they felt the police were just keeping an eye on me.

When I turned 18, I used my right to consult an attorney about the situation. The third one I talked to said he could “get the ball rolling”, and he would only charge me if we actually had to see any court time. Seems I had found a lawyer that liked to pester the police department about harassment claims.

I do not know what he did, but I haven’t been pulled over only twice since then. That was ten years ago.

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