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An Ex-Cop's Guide to Not Getting Arrested
The Atlantic Monthly Group ^ | NOV 07, 2013 | MIKE RIGGS

Posted on 11/21/2013 2:46:39 PM PST by not2be4gotten.com

Link is actually:

www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2013/11/ex-cops-guide-not-getting-arrested/7491/

"When cops see four young males in a car, they immediately wonder if this is a crew of criminals out to do a job." If you're going to ride four deep, have one member of your car wear a highly visible item of clothing indicating what you do for a living. For instance, if you're all construction workers car-pooling on the way home from a job site, someone in the car should wear a hard hat. Seriously.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: policestate; publicsafety
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To: not2be4gotten.com

Do hard hats come in pink?


21 posted on 11/21/2013 3:14:05 PM PST by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: not2be4gotten.com

I have no tattoos, no piercings, no weird clothes, no long hair, no felonies or misdemeanors, no swagger or attitude, I don’t swear, smoke, do drugs or drink, yetTHE COPS ROBBED ME OF MY CASH ON THE STREET.

It can happen to you if it happened to me.

Watch out for cops, I sure wish it didn’t have to be that way.

I used to support the cops but some cops are criminals.


22 posted on 11/21/2013 3:17:02 PM PST by gaijin
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To: not2be4gotten.com

Someone forward to Zimmerman.


23 posted on 11/21/2013 3:17:57 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: not2be4gotten.com

When Kevin Trudeau gets out of prison again, he will plagiarize this and call it “Tricks to stay out of prison: What they don’t want you to know”


24 posted on 11/21/2013 3:19:15 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: not2be4gotten.com

I think one of the best pieces of advice, within the article if it’s the same article that I’ve read before, is to just not antagonize the cop. He’s in the stronger position of inconveniencing you, if you become unnecessarily argumentative.

Anything that he does write you up for can be challenged in court later. There is nothing to gain from getting mouthy right there.


25 posted on 11/21/2013 3:20:31 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: not2be4gotten.com

“If crying fails, and you’re willing to do whatever it takes to not go to jail, Carson advises you to “foul yourself so that the police will consider setting you free in order not to get their cruiser nasty.” Vomit on your clothes. Defecate and urinate in your pants. Then let the officers know what you’ve done. If they arrest you anyway, you’ll get cleaned and reclothed at the jail.”

At this point I think a real problem cop is just going to make it all the worse for you. And getting cleaned and reclothed at the jail doesn’t sound like an exact cup of tea in exchange for the possibility that you might have been released if only you could work up a deuce before he puts you in the cruiser. Maybe that’s just me.

Freegards


26 posted on 11/21/2013 3:21:10 PM PST by Ransomed
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To: Alaska Wolf

Always, always inspect a rental before driving off the lot.
Trunk,under the spare, glove box, under and between the seats. I’ve found empty beer bottles under the seat. For starters.

Even if they can’t get you for drinking they can get you for open container (ticket). And since you’re from out of town you’ll probably pay.


27 posted on 11/21/2013 3:25:30 PM PST by glyptol
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To: glyptol

My main concern is always the possibility of illicit drug residue.


28 posted on 11/21/2013 3:29:19 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (I)
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To: Boogieman

I read this once before its a load of carpola.


29 posted on 11/21/2013 3:42:31 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

The article is total bull cheet.


30 posted on 11/21/2013 3:50:31 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Yaelle
"The best advice is in the comments, don’t let an officer search your car. "

So, you say "no", and they they tow your car to search at the police station. You haven't won anything.

31 posted on 11/21/2013 4:04:09 PM PST by jackibutterfly
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To: gaijin; fwdude

The recent body cavity search w/ two enemas and surgical colonic searching of an individual who “failed to signal his turn in traffic”... should give fwdude something to think about. Probable cause has much less meaning these days and if you match the many written laws, there will always be something you are doing illegally (this is the goal of the Statists, and marxists— the sheer weight of illegality for everyday behaviour). Deo Vindice.


32 posted on 11/21/2013 4:06:49 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Alaska Wolf
My main concern is always the possibility of illicit drug residue.

An ex-LEO - retired but still part of the club - told me about the amount of drug residue to be found on a lot of currency, and when I asked about the possibility of this eventually getting on my wallet, he chuckled but then got thoughtful...

Anyway, when I heard about the Deming, NM drug warriors awarding free enemas to people because some semi-trained mutt thought the driver's seat was a hit, that conversation came to mind.

Mr. niteowl77

33 posted on 11/21/2013 4:07:56 PM PST by niteowl77 (Establishment Republicans possess fewer guts than the last gnat that hit the windshield of your car.)
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To: fwdude
Uh..., how about just not breaking the law? That always works for me.

I think licking boots will work for you.

34 posted on 11/21/2013 4:08:01 PM PST by ClaytonP
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To: fwdude

You aren’t really that naïve, are you???


35 posted on 11/21/2013 4:17:15 PM PST by gibsosa
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To: fwdude

That’s funny, really, very funny


36 posted on 11/21/2013 4:21:42 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: agere_contra

What’s wrong with a free prostate exam?


37 posted on 11/21/2013 4:23:07 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: fwdude
Uh..., how about just not breaking the law?

From the article:

Don't drive perfectly, or too slow. Don't slouch or put too much heavy stuff in your trunk, causing your car to ride low.

Even the popo says your theory is crap.

38 posted on 11/21/2013 4:25:43 PM PST by cizinec ("Brother, your best friend ain't your Momma, it's the Field Artillery.")
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To: niteowl77

I heard that something like 70% of US currency tests positive for some drug or other.

The cash they stole from me was just what was in my wallet — pretty aggravating, all the same. If it had been some huge, drug-related sum I could understand, maybe, but casually robbing citizens over the course of a routine Terry stop seems totally amazing to me.

Maybe most cops are good..?

I sure would like to think so...


39 posted on 11/21/2013 4:29:58 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin
“I have no tattoos, no piercings, no weird clothes, no long hair, no felonies or misdemeanors, no swagger or attitude, I don’t swear, smoke, do drugs or drink, yetTHE COPS ROBBED ME OF MY CASH ON THE STREET.”

Years ago my mom was driving north from Florida after spending the winter there. Mom was probably about 80, and my sister was 55 or so. The cops pulled her old Cadillac Eldorado over with FL plates as it “fit the profile” for drug runners.

For over an hour they had them out on the side of the road going through all of the car, suitcases, etc.

40 posted on 11/21/2013 4:36:27 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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