Posted on 01/06/2012 8:10:43 AM PST by Altariel
A Chicago police officer allegedly turned a $132 speeding ticket into a pick-up opportunity when he later tracked down the female driver and asked her out, saying the least he could do for the money he cost her was to treat her to dinner, according to a lawsuit the woman filed in federal court.
Evagelina Paredes filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Chicago, accusing police officer Chris Collins of violating her privacy, according to the Associated Press. She alleges that after she was ticketed on Oct. 22, Collins searched for her address in the motor-vehicle database and left a handwritten note on the windshield of her car, which was parked outside her apartment in the Chicago suburb of Stickney, asking her out on a date.
In the note, a copy of which appeared was included in the court documents and was obtained by the Associated Press, the 27-year-old police officer tried to woo the female driver with humor and a seemingly heartfelt plea.
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You folks are right, and I was plainly wrong.
I was tempted not to reply codetoad as he pointed out my error in an offensive way, but when I'm wrong I own up to it.
“Do you need to learn the definition of intimidation?”
Obviously it is you that needs to know the definition.
Having a law enforcement officer ask for a personal favor using information demanded by him in his official capacity as a law enforcement officer is intimidation.
What would a woman think would happen if she said no to a law enforcement officer that has already violated ethics and the law? Violence? Stalking? Harassment? Abuse of position? That is the very definition of intimidation.
I found your support of this creep offensive. If you found my response offensive then you need to grow the hell up.
“I find this thread appalling. Anyone who defends this miscreant’s behaviour has no understanding of professional ethics. I wonder if these folks’ employers know what sort of people they are. I wouldn’t hire them to dig ditches.”
No kidding. I am amazed at how numb people are to their rights and the abuse of power that this creep showed. They actually feel offended that they were called out on their support of such creepy behavior.
I used to work for a large cell phone company. About the time I was hired on a huge story was going around the place about an employee that looked up a famous person’s data. I’m not sure they even did anything with it. It was just known that they accessed the customer’s data because they were famous.
The employee was fired.
Thanks. I’ve had to do that myself. That said, it gets easier the more you do it. I know from experience. ;)
“There would be a big red mark in his employment file that would follow him for the rest of his career.”
I understand what you are saying but the effect would be nothing would be entered into his record nor would there be any punishment. She did right in taking actions that the law enforcement agency has no control over, otherwise they would simply bury her complaint. It is a sad state of affairs that a citizen feels the need to take legal action when in a responsible world she should only need to file a complaint to have an effective result.
I have found both personal experience and through family that is in law enforcement that actions they have no control over are the only ones that get their attention. They have that “Blue Line” that separates them from us and they will side with the blues every time. A court action gets their attention, so, in my opinion, this lady did the right thing. It stops them cold as nothing else will.
Not an excuse for stalking but there’s a good chance she led him on to try to get out of the ticket.
I’ve known pretty girls that told me it works every time. Some flirt and some cry. They drive like maniacs and have perfect records.
My ex girlfriend was pulled over going 110. She played dumb and all she got was a wink and a verbal warning.
>>> “Dang, I’d have been impressed by the effort, and if he was even remotely attractive, I’d have gone out with him. But I’m kind of a sucker for bald guys in uniforms. Especially if they smell good. ;^)”
“Effort”? What effort? His pulling you over as you were going about your business & extracting your address and other personal info under color of law? and then swinging by the place where youj sleep to drop a note on your car?
D’ya think maybe he sat there in the parking lot for a while and stared at the windows in hopes of catching a glance of his target? Frankly, this guy’s actions are creepy, and the smarmy, cheesy-humble tone of his note reads as a conscious attempt to hide an iron fist in a silk glove, IMO.
He’s a 27-y.o. Chicago cop. Merely boyish & naive by this point in his life? Yikes.
OTOH if you really want to meet bald uniformed guys, buy a house outside of a curve on a blind hill. Mount your mailbox where it’s most likely to be hit by inattentive drivers. Trust me, you’ll meet troopers as long as the ditch past the mailbox is deep enough to trap the car that hit it. Apparently I have the perfect trooper-meetin’ culvert, only I don’t appreciate it. LOL
You think he might have gazed up at her window? Oh how awful! You know... nowadays, Romeo would be considered a creepy stalker. We’re living in touchy, touchy times.
Good points.
There was a time when I was more aggressively political in person. One thing I once did was hang out in a leftist bar, become roaring drunk and argue politics. The owner of that bar turned up at my house. She was a drug addled, sexually confused, redheaded mess who loved to talk about her gynecologist. Adamantly pro-abortion, freely admitted to having had several, but prone to bouts of drunken weepiness about no longer being able to have children, "I practiced contraception so long I just got too good at it" was one memorable slurred line.
She asked me out, after tracking me down via a credit card receipt. Turned her down, things went downhill in the leftist bar after that, fights and such. I stopped going, stopped drinking and became Christian, or rather returned to it.
So, I can understand why this woman decided to pursue a legal course. It creeped me out and I'm a guy. That wacky bar lady wasn't a police officer, either.
You could have stopped right there, because you are right. It is a very stupid thing to do.
Problem is this guy didn't dream this little scheme up all by his lonesome. The same 'cop courtship' has been employed by countless cops. Sometime it works, sometimes it don't. Only difference is some wont take a polite 'WTF are you thinking' for an answer and turn into Pepe le Pew .
“Fullerton”
You have a point with Fullerton. I can imagine the heat the cops are getting there and the entire department deserves it.
Not a frivolous lawsuit. Every time that state powers are abused and the government abusers are caught, they need to be punished.... Severely! Obama needs to be the first POTUS put into jail is one good example.
Obviously you enjoy being offensive but even when you are right you seem like an ass.
You’re walking down the block, a cop asks you your name, you can tell him because it’s not personal information.
If the cop gets it off the license, then he is misusing his office.
I bet you are anti-authoritarian and take offense to anyone telling you anything.
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