Out of Pod Experience

The country that screams "WE ARE FREE" the loudest is trying very hard to convince you that it is true.

Where I have lived, cops always respected my 4th amendment rights. I have lived in Oregon and Washington. From what I hear, those two states have uncommonly nice cops.

A small city I used to live in in Texas is like a police state. There's no public transportation and not many taxis, so they get a lot of just-barely-over-the-line drunk drivers. Cops stealth camp the routes to the few bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. Got a tail light out or fail to use a turn signal on a 30 mph residential street-- bam, pulled over for DWI. The tow truck is there inside of 3 minutes to impound your vehicle. The court then puts you in a probation program that goes on for a couple of years. You have to pay for monthly drug tests and probation meetings. In the end, the county makes $8,000 - $10,000 per arrest.

If you're not intoxicated and they can't get an arrest, you still get hassled for half an hour while they try to make you confess to something. And while they're at it, they search your car. If you had the guts to back-talk them, a couple of more patrol cars show up to intimidate you. And you'll probably get the full car search, where they go over every inch. Careful, don't bump into a cop, or you might get assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest charges.

If you live close enough and can just walk to a bar, they have camps for you to. Bicycle cops in ninja black cycling suits silently stalk you after you come out of the bar. If you wobble or give any indication that a public intoxication charge might stick, they stop you and one of the camper patrol cars shows up to haul you off. More money for the county.

It's just out of control. The cops and courts actively and aggressively target the citizens. They're not so much preventing crimes, but running an arrests and convictions industry.

Not here heh not at all, in SoCal. I've been punked by cops quite a few times. Like one night, driving my 4x4 on surface streets and got to an intersection for a right turn. Put my signal on about 60ft out (-35mph area, about right). But at the last moment before the turn my tire hits the uneven surface between the street and the gutter, pushes my wheel back a little and my signal goes off as I make the turn.

Minute later I have a cop pulling me over, says I didn't use a turn signal. I (very nicely) explained that I did but it got pushed off from the gutter. He motions to his partner which goes to the back of my truck. Then he tells me to get out of my truck. Asks if I have any weapons or drugs in my truck and asks if he could search, forcibly asks. Obviously if I say no, it gets towed, so I say go ahead (no attitude what so ever). He escorted me to the back of my truck where his buddy stands there at attention with his hand on his gun holster eying at me. Cop proceeds to rip through my truck like a fiend for ten minutes. The cop standing in front of me has a big wad of tobacco in his mouth and is literally spitting it onto my shoes while he chuckles at me. These are the brain dead idiots in my city, trying to provoke people. I didn't give them the satisfaction, just stone faced stared back at him, took his ticket and put my crap back in my truck, left.

The problem is, we don't get local cops, they are all usually out of county, from far away, detached from the community. These guys usually spend time in the prison system learning how to beat up inmates before going on patrols. Then they get transferred under contract to some beat many miles from their own neighborhood. Never had a problem with a Sheriff or deputy, we elect those guys from our own county/district, they live among us in our neighborhoods. I've had friends that were deputies, good friends actually. But the city cops, whole different thing. And they are armed now big time, militarized. A lot of stuff going on down here, cops killing people, and getting caught on tape doing it sometimes, just totally inhuman acts. Like in next county over, with the Kelly Thomas murder. Let them basically walk too, animals.

hah don't even get me started on LA cops, I lived down there, during the big riots too. Well had just moved out of LA, but was there with friends when it started. Never had a cop threaten to kill ya, eh? yep, been out to Oregon and Washington, nice area. I like Washington and off towards the east. Been researching the crime rates and other problems out there the past couple years, much better than what goes on down here, for sure.

Now you've gone and done it, broke the whole thread, the whole forum! You cant use a google redirection link, wont work. Gotta use the direct site link.

That's what happens when power is concentrated.

As if that is not almost the case now. Not in your house, but watch your email, your phone, cameras on every street corner.

Yeah, keep pretending government is there to protect you from the evil corporations, who are after all, chartered by government.

It is all about revenue.

Dollar Dollar Bill Yall!

P.S. That crap town has so many cops per capita that the local workforce can't handle the hiring demand. They have to import merc cops from all over the U.S. Lately, instead of the regular local redneck types, they have these young Blackwater-like guys. Cool guy black shades, Glocks, and they have some kind of membership tattoo also.