I’d love to know too. I’d be surprised it there were statistics being recorded.
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No clue, but I don’t assume strangers are racist, as a general rule.
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Sophomore son says he’s been at 5 or 6 parties that the police have come to break up during his 3 semesters at school. He is unaware of any arrests. They just broke up the party and sent kids home.
LEO son became very friendly with the local police department at school because of his work with the rescue squad. I’ll text him when he wakes up this afternoon to find out what his experience was.
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Apparently Mr. Butler didn’t want to talk to the cops, or comply. He grabbed a police officer’s gun and used it against them. He may want to lawyer up.
“This was one of those so-called routine jobs for patrol officers. Which is to say there are never routine patrol jobs for NYPD officers,” NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban said.
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I think if cities want to transition to unarmed civilians conducting traffic stops that people here should volunteer to work the overnight shift in their area.
Has anyone here ever participated in a ride along program with their local police?
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My H did a ride along program in our last community. They were working together to conduct ALICE training for his company, and he was offered the opportunity. Small town though, not big city.
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That doesn’t matter, it’s still great that he took the opportunity to head out with an officer.
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Sometimes traffic stops don’t go as planned. The individuals in this vehicle decided not to talk to the cops either. They just decided to start shooting.
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Both can be true - policing is a difficult, challenging and under-appreciated job and, in many cases, it makes sense to “lawyer up” if questioned by the police about a crime (outside of required information). They really can use anything you say against you in a court of law.
While police may not have arrest quotas, closing cases is certainly part of the job. Of course, most cops want to get it right and usually do, especially these days with the proliferation of cameras. However, there are plenty of situations in which they get it wrong. Not because of bad intent, but simply a mistake, a bad ID, or other error in the case. Nothing wrong or suspicious with someone saying they want a lawyer before answering any questions that may implicate them. That does not mean they suspect the cops of wrong doing or have no respect for them, nor does it mean they are guilty. It may just mean they are using another part of the system.
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I have no issue with people that could be the subject of an investigation exercising their Miranda rights.
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The safety of that really depends upon the road, traffic, and the car you are driving, and its condition. I don’t do it anymore, but the times when I did drive 100+ on empty highways were safer than my pre-retirement commute where traffic often went from 60 to 0 without notice.
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When it comes to driving, some of y’all seem to have taken Jack Burton a little too seriously:
Well of COURSE empty highways are safer than crowded highways. But I can’t agree that driving 100mph is safe.
It’s hard for me to put into words how happy a random reference to Big Trouble in Little China makes me. Well done, in a totally random, guilty pleasure sort of way.
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I have seen too many videos where cops try to id people when they have no right to do so. Then the encounter gets escalated for no reason.
In most states you don’t have to give a cop your id when you are just walking down the street, but too many of them think they can get the id.
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Law enforcement can ask anyone for identification, or for their name. Whether a person legally has to comply is a different matter.
Correct, only 24 states have “Stop and Identify” laws. An officer needs “reasonable suspicion” that a person has, is, or is about to commit a crime before a person has some legal obligation to provide their name.
I wonder what percentage of people that refuse to provide their name to a law enforcement officer have something to hide that would result in their arrest?
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Well when they don’t have a legal right to id someone and they ask and get told no then too often things fall apart. Cops don’t like being told no even when the citizen is correct. They will detain them and the cop ends up breaking the law.
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Sometimes. Or sometimes the person is a crime victim who needed help but was too scared to ask. Anyone remember Elizabeth Smart? Or the too tragic case of Polly Klaas?
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I was recently in several airports and was delighted to see signs in each bathroom cubicle outlining what to do if you needed help. The code words to use with a flight attendant or gate agent if you are being held against your will; how to alert a security guard, TSA agent or other law enforcement agent that you are being trafficked without letting your captor know, etc.
How awful to be in a situation like that- a bustling airport with tens of thousands of people around who can help you, but too scared to find a police officer (or convinced that a police officer is in cahoots with the person trafficking you).
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