I’ve been handcuffed and never arrested. There’s probably no mention of that in any sheriff’s department report either.
I guess the thing here is to not jump to conclusuions about someone’s experience with law enforcement just because you and no one you know has ever had such an experience.
Try growing up the daughter of two meth heads and getting constantly trolled by everyone with a badge because they think you’ll be holding and will be an easy collar. Or you just get handcuffed when the deputies show up to search the apartment you live in.
It’s a huge reason I don’t miss California. I had to get used to the Park County (Wy) Sheriff’s dept. because they’re genuinely awesome people and they’re always friendly and respectful to me and my new family.
I guess that’s what has made me all the more intolerant of bad cops is that I know what good cops are like and there’s no excuse for the other departments to act any other way.
Last Monday I had outpatient surgery and had a bad reaction to the anesthesia. It made my behavior a little erratic. My wife was concerned and called the Dr. He told her to call the paramedics.
Here in Yuma County Az the Sherriff’s dept responds along with the ambulance. I had no idea any of this was going on. When the ambulance and the Sherriff’s deputies arrive they come in the house and talk to me. I’m sitting on the couch at the time. The paramedics evaluate me and tell me I should go to urgent care and get checked out and I don’t need to go to the hospital. I was cool with it. They leave and the deputies stay.
They start asking me questions; where I was born, where I work. I was agitated but cooperative. Then they talk to my wife and she tells them she was concerned because I wasn’t myself. She told them I walked into the coffee table and knocked it over before she called. Well that was it, I was asked to stand up and turn around, at which time they cuffed me. My wife kept telling them I hadn’t done anything wrong but they didn’t listen to her. I was arrested for Disorderly Conduct and taken to jail.
In court the next day The judge was pissed that I was even there. He couldn’t believe I had been arrested and had to spend the night in jail. He threw out the charge on the spot and released me.
Unfortunately I had to self report to our Security Manager because I hold a clearance and was arrested. So now I have to deal with that crap for the next month.
I am still puzzled as to why I was arrested.
Me too. As a kid, like 100 years ago. A bunch of us were screwing around late at night in a park (ok...it was a cemetery), the cops showed up and I happened to match a description of someone they were looking for. ~5 of us kids and the 2 cops zeroed in on me immediately. Once they realized I was a large ~14 y/o kid, and not the guy...done. Easy. They yelled at us and sent us home. The guy they were looking for was apparently dangerous. My Dad’s response....’why were you there?...dumba$$...’.
I was not put into a police car, however.
I was not driven off in that police car.
I damn sure didn’t resist. Scared the crap out of me.