> Hmmm, lemme see, the Police descended upon you with guns > drawn for NO reason. Well, I know a little about Police > tactics. I've drawn my gun probably several thousand times, > but always only when I felt either threatened, or when > investigating a felony call which I thought could involve an > armed person. Care to give us a few more details? Like maybe > they were answering a robbery/burglary/etc call and you were > in the immediate area?
The area was MB's version of the "other side of the tracks", where she had found a cheap parking spot to rent with money someone gave her. There was talk of something going on with illegal immigrants a few buildings away, but we were standing on private (rented) property at least a few buildings away with no 'action' in sight, as I said, just talking. At first, I thought it was a joke her friends were playing on us. In my opinion, they had no right whatsoever to do that. I visited two lawyers in the area regarding the incident and was told there was no way any of them were going to fight the local police dept unless, of course, there was a lot of money involved. The other part about MB is the pull-overs. Very often when I drove the length of 17B from one end of MB to the other, I'd see someone pulled over for something. No, that didn't happen to me, but only because I drove the straight and narrow every time (again, thus my warning). In 'fairness', Ft Lauderdale was worse, with their radar detectors all over the place. Maybe it's because these are vacation spots and 'easy pickings', but I spent a few months in vacation areas along the Maine coast and didn't see anything like that there. In fact, in Maine, I wondered what would happen if one needed a cop, since they seemed to be so rare. I distill all this to an "authoritarian attitude" that can creep into agencies. I remember working in the Naval Prison, and how a few guys that worked there really got into the role. Remember the Stanford prison experiment? The thing with me is that I really don't like 'authority figures'. Sure, people can't go around hurting other people, so there's a real need for police to protect us (and thank you for doing that!), but there's a line between protecting and domineering that some people - and communities - have crossed, and that's what I saw in MB and Ft Lauderdale. Bill > John _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
