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Re: How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help

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Post by lettergram »

I would press charges. I have seen multiple times police being shady, including one time when I was pulled over and told I could either pay the officer $40, or go into the court house for an $80 ticket. Supposedly I was speeding the road back, but I didn't even drive on the road they were talking about...

Another time I turned in $2,000 I found in an envelope and asked when I could pick it up if no one claimed it. Called back a couple weeks later and they had no record of it.

Point being, police officers (in my opinion) are no better than anyone else, they could be good or bad, but you need to help keep them in check.

Re: How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help

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Post by prawks »

sergiotapia wrote: post #23
BlackDeath3 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really easy to focus on the bad ones, but good cops exist whether you know it or not.

Like I said, don't give two shits. The risk is too high. All pigs are evil to me and I'll keep the hell away from them. If they abused a white woman in her 30's what the hell do you think they'll do to a latino like me? Pfff.

Reinforcing stereotypes certainly isn't going to do you any favors if you do have to interact with police in the future.

Re: How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help

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Post by deletes »

taybin wrote: post #58
10feet wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you call 911, don't you get the option for Police, Fire or Ambulance? That is the way it works in Australia.

In my location in the US, all three come when you call.

Isn't that kinda an over-exaggerated response, if you only need one of them?

Re: How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help

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Post by BlackDeath3 »

srean wrote: post #47
BlackDeath3 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really easy to focus on the bad ones, but good cops exist whether you know it or not.

Noting your criticism of another comment on this story let me tell you this comment of yours comes across as equally if not more vapid. No one, I think, doubts that there exist good cops. But thats almost irrelevant because its the bad ones that one has to watch out for. You have not claimed so,its not a response to you, but I also dont think "only a few bad apples here and there" holds as well as one would like eith…

Well comments like "the only good cop is a dead cop" come across as blisteringly stupid. I'm primarily responding to those sorts of comments because it seems as though some people really do think that no good cops exist.

I'm not speaking to the rational here.

Re: How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help

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Post by 10feet »

mindslight wrote: post #13
carbocation wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> OP definitely needs to sue the city, as well as the aggressors personally. I upvoted this comment for that; it seems like a prudent step to take. > the only good cop is a dead cop And then I got here and wish I could undo. I don't understand why you would say such a thing. That's just not right.

If police forces were organizations of justice, they would compensate victims of false imprisonment as a matter of course. Say you spend a night in jail for an errant arrest, you get an immediate $2k for time lost and distress incurred. This way, they wouldn't be able to shuffle the damages from their run-roughshod approach onto innocent people. But instead, they do everything they can to stick with and make-proper t…

> If police forces were organizations of justice, they would compensate victims of false imprisonment as a matter of course. Say you spend a night in jail for an errant arrest, you get an immediate $2k for time lost and distress incurred. This way, they wouldn't be able to shuffle the damages from their run-roughshod approach onto innocent people.

Oh yeah, this would not cause more problems than it solves.

Re: How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help

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Post by jessaustin »

BlackDeath3 wrote: post #21
sergiotapia wrote: post #16

And this is why I fucking HATE COPS. I don't care if it's the few, this god damn country-wide gang is a piece of shit and I will do everything I can to avoid them and teach my two children about staying away as well. Fuck these pigs.

It's really easy to focus on the bad ones, but good cops exist whether you know it or not.

...good cops exist whether you know it or not.

So they're like leprechauns?

Re: How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help

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Post by 6d0debc071 »

mofeeta wrote: post #12
mindslight wrote: post #3

OP definitely needs to sue the city, as well as the aggressors personally. Every cop involved in this situation should be spending years in prison for battery, kidnapping, false imprisonment, and torture. Until justice for victims of the police becomes routine, they're nothing but another gang and the only good cop is a dead cop.

If this is really how things went down, then suing the city seems reasonable. The rest of your comment is a little over the top though, no? Have the police in question spend years in prison? The only good cop is a dead cop? I'd imagine the OP doesn't think this way given his usual, positive interactions with the SFPD.

While I disagree with the sentiment I can easily see how this sort of thing reinforces it. If justice isn't justly applied; if the police get a pass for brutalising people; then The Law's not the law - it's just another way of keeping people down.

One of my friends, when I was younger, had the attitude pig until proven cop. And the more of this stuff that's floating around the less tenable the contrary position becomes.

Re: How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help

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Post by cdelsolar »

One thousand good cops do not make up for one bad cop. Cops nearly ruined my life in 2006. I will write about it someday, but suffice it to say, I am out at least $30K (didn't bother doing the math because it's too depressing) and still paying for something I ABSOLUTELY HAD NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH. My only mistake was saying anything besides "I would like to speak with a lawyer" over and over.

Do not speak to cops, ever. They are not there to help you or find out the truth.

Re: How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help

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Post by BlackDeath3 »

jessaustin wrote: post #66
BlackDeath3 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really easy to focus on the bad ones, but good cops exist whether you know it or not.

...good cops exist whether you know it or not. So they're like leprechauns?

I exist whether you know it or not. I'm not a leprechaun.

What is your point?

Re: How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help

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Post by kelnos »

BlackDeath3 wrote: post #37
sneak wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They aren't actually good ones if they go about business as usual in an organization where there are so many bad ones.

I don't necessarily agree with the idea of standing by when you see what you consider to be evil being done, but I think you fail to take a lot of factors into account here.

Where are the good cops when things like this happen? Why don't they speak out? Why don't they throw their bad-cop colleagues under the bus?

Nope. The supposed good cops are bad too.

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