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[kingtycoon]

The federal government came to town & who knew? I guess this all started back when there was that psychotic shooting of those kids down by the windermere station - and it's come back at a time when the police murdered that poor little kid at a playground. These events I guess, are emblematic of the ongoing failings of uniformed authority? I mean - who knew? I never took the local police to be anything but representative of all police everywhere - so maybe I was all wrong? I can't tell you what's the case, I can tell you that I hadn't thought about it in that light before - that the situation of law enforcement would be decayed and horrible here, more so than elsewhere - but that's probably just foolish on my part - given the decay & ruin of every other aspect of life here - you know - in the Waste-Land.

My experience of the Police has always been confrontational and disingenuous. I got arrested for not paying a speeding ticket fast enough. I was handcuffed for four hours before they'd let me pay the ticket. I've been robbed many, many times, fifty? I think around 50. At least 20 of those times were break-ins, wrecked windows the whole thing - in those instances, I showed up before the police, left after them, relied pretty expressly on the two ladies that had a business of boarding up windows after midnight. I think in one case, that I can remember, the police had a form for me to fill out - most of the other times I had to go to the police station during normal business hours. In one instance my money or merchandise was recovered. I have been put in three point position at least 4 times, and in two of those instances I think I was actually the victim of a crime in the first place. Mainly I've experienced the police swearing at me needlessly during any encounter or discussion. That's it.

You? Good experiences? Bad?

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[rasa.livejournal.com]

I don't trust "the cops". Like, my brother's brother in law is a cop and I know him to be a good man who is not out to play GI Joe (uh, though he was in the Army) and he's just a guy trying to make a living. I have a friend whose father was a US Marshall, and he was one of my favorite people in the world. Another friend's father was killed in the line of duty by a crazy man when my friend's father knocked on his door to offer him free parking passes to a city festival.

But in my firsthand experience they are not to be trusted in anything more than ones. One cop = may be okay. Cops = never okay. When my boyfriend at the time assaulted me in March 2010 and I went to the police they made it very clear that they didn't believe me, that I was making it up because I was a spurned lover, and that I was wasting everyone's time.

When they questioned my assailant they asked him if he wanted press charges on me for kicking his window out (BECAUSE HE WAS COMING AT ME WITH A ROLL OF DUCT TAPE TO TAPE MY WRISTS ANKLES AND MOUTH AND I WAS TRYING TO ESCAPE). They told him I was bipolar because I seemed "manic" (I am not) and they questioned me endlessly on "why did you wait till the next morning? why didn't you come right to the police station?" (maybe because I was in shock and traumatized and curled in the fetal position?) When I showed them the bruises on my arms they told me to come back the next day to have them photographed. I did, and I had to take my shirt off and stand in a tank top with three male cops touching me to turn me to take the photos. They later said that the pictures weren't admissable, that since they didn't take them right away I could've gone home and done it to myself.

The entire department failed me, the victim's advocate blew me off and gave me the runaround and then went on vacation after promising "I'll call you tomorrow" but hey at least the cops showed up at the trial, my own lawyer didn't! I agreed to a plea so I didn't have to testify because I knew the cops didn't believe me. They at least interviewed the people in the apartment building to see if they heard anything and 6 of the people they interviewed said they heard me screaming "HELP ME CALL 911 PLEASE HELP HE'S GOING TO KILL ME" for 10 minutes and no one did.

I don't trust anyone who carries a gun though, so that doesn't help.

[kingtycoon.livejournal.com]

Guns, I'm with you. Lately I think it's not a real idea that people won't want or have them. I think the alternative is to just shame as gross those who do.

[rasa.livejournal.com]

On this, we agree.