Disclaimer: This post is directed entirely at when people get pulled over for made up reasons or other bullshit.
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With the ticket thing, if you think you would respond equally to all the drivers on the road regardless of what they drive, drive down the highway and watch for a civic with a big wing, evaluate what goes through your head and tell me you don't think any differently of anyone else on the road.
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But police officers are supposed to be above that. They are meant to protect and serve, not to single out honda boys or black poeple. They are supposed to protect the public from dangerous people with disregard for the law.
Here's an example, say your mom was driving a riced out accord when she crashed. What would everyone say if he stopped and said "fuck it, shes probably just a street racer, and a menace to society"
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would you think there could be more to the story if you saw that same car in an area where others have been racing, guns have been fired, people hit with cars and a lot of general public disregard has occured. Wouldn't you be more apt to want to make a point to them or at least check further into the situation?
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Again, the police should be above the prejudice. If the person was doing something wrong when the cop was following them, then pull them over and shake things down a little, thats their job.
But if they follow the logic that "DSM's are at midway, racing is a midway, therefore all DSM's race at midway" we are gonna be in a lot of trouble. They are getting in trouble for supposedly racially profiling, but they don't get in trouble for profiling based on what you drive, it seems like they should be allowed to profile for everything, or nothing at all. If a cop pulled over a black guy b/c he knows that some black people commit crimes, and that was his reason for pulling him over, he would be pretty fucked if the guy who got pulled over decided to call a lawyer or the NAACP.
Cops = Good
Crooked Cops who break rules = worse than criminals in my eyes