OH NOES! THE PO-PO! Options

[fameONE]

After reminiscing about high school parties where me and my friends drank underage, then bolting out the back door when whatever house we were at got raided, I came to the realization that I've had several bad run-ins with police. To this day, I harbor a bit of resentment toward the police force (but I respect the institution of law enforcement, oddly enough).

What are some of your cop stories?

[brooklyneast05]

i don't like the cops. feels like anytime i've been stopped or anything they are unnecessarily jackasses to me or treat me like i've done something serious when i really haven't.

[fameONE]

i don't like the cops. feels like anytime i've been stopped or anything they are unnecessarily jackasses to me or treat me like i've done something serious when i really haven't.

I've been roughed up by the police on more than one occasion. When I was younger, I was into a lot of things I shouldn't have been. For the most part, I was the punk delinquent with good grades, but still managed to get into illegal activities. Shortly after getting my license, I took a drive to Jersey (from Delaware) to see my aunt. Its not a long drive to Camden, but I came back late. I started to nod off at the wheel, so I pulled over. A cop pulls up, gave me the third degree, searched the car, pushed me around, and eventually let me go. I never understood it. I always said to myself, "if I ever became a cop, I'd never do shit like that."

[Mikeplyts]

I had one experience where my brother went insane and did something very terrible. I had to be the one to choose if he had to go jail or not.

Also, in some of my more ridiculous, idiotic periods, I tried to graffiti a building in downtown but me being my stupid self at the time, I graffitied on the very front of the building where everyone could see it. Yeah, that got me in some trouble with the cops.

[superstitious]

Damn.

About six years ago, I had an incident where someone had been sending me letters, showing up at my garage, knocking at my door in the middle of the night, etc. I went to the police station only to be turned away by this female cop taking my story. She told me that I was some stuck white girl that didn't want to be hit on by a man of color (the guy was hispanic).

I'm a single parent, right? I mean, I was scared to death and I couldn't even get help from the police. It was the most dreadful feeling of helplessness I'd ever had.

Fortunately, my mom called the sheriff directly somehow when I called her from my car (right after the lady turned me away). I can't even imagine what she said, but apparently it was enough to have a male cop meet me at my car and take care of things (as much as they could at that point) right away.

Good thing they did. The stalker was dumb enough to sign his full name on one of his letters and as it turns out, was wanted by the law, awaiting trail (they could not tell me the reason) and I was told to stay away and not even make eye contact with him. To make matters even worse, that guy ended up being a maintenance worker at my apartment complex - meaning, he had keys and access to my apartment.

God that was a scary time.

[DoubleJ]

I rem when I just started working for Goldman Sachs and my friend got his new car. We were going to drive into the city that night to go hang out so my boy tagged along with us to go shopping for some outfits at the mall. Well we got pulled over in a notoriously known ***hole section of JC called The Heights. They pointed guns at our heads and dragged my boy out the car while the other kid and I stayed inside.

They told my other friend to put his hands on the headrest and that if he moved they would blow his f*cking head off. So the cop comes up to me and asks me for some id so I pull out my wallet and give him my state id and my work id.

His response was " Oh you work for Goldman?! Yeah you're ok you can step out of the car and have a seat on the curb. You have nothing to worry about."

They then proceed to rough up my friends and even put a flashlight in my boys mouth because they thought that he was on coke or something because he is this skinny puerto rican kid.

My friends always remind me of how I got off and they didn't.