Rich Mazur
11 Aug 2018
Law / Stopped by the Poland's Police for no reason while walking at night [94]
I am glad cops do this. They know the stats and that black men in the 15 to 25 age group murder at the rate 17 (that's seventeen) times higher than the same age whites. For this reason alone I don't want them anywhere near my 'hood.
You are right about the window. You need only to produce your DL and nothing else. But, cops have a lot of discretion in deciding what is suspicious and what is not. We do, too, in deciding how far we want to go pushing the rights issue on them. They are humans, make errors, have families just as we do, and are under stress from both ends - all the a-holes who hate them and the ACLU types at the other end. One bad move and the cop is fired and stripped of his pension or dead. This is why I feel it is my obligation to make their lives as uneventful as possible and benefit from this myself.
I do understand that your experience has been different than mine, so I am not saying that you are wrong. We just have different views of this matter.
But I feel for my black friends who always get pulled over in this area even though they have no record and aren't doing anything wrong
I am glad cops do this. They know the stats and that black men in the 15 to 25 age group murder at the rate 17 (that's seventeen) times higher than the same age whites. For this reason alone I don't want them anywhere near my 'hood.
You are right about the window. You need only to produce your DL and nothing else. But, cops have a lot of discretion in deciding what is suspicious and what is not. We do, too, in deciding how far we want to go pushing the rights issue on them. They are humans, make errors, have families just as we do, and are under stress from both ends - all the a-holes who hate them and the ACLU types at the other end. One bad move and the cop is fired and stripped of his pension or dead. This is why I feel it is my obligation to make their lives as uneventful as possible and benefit from this myself.
I do understand that your experience has been different than mine, so I am not saying that you are wrong. We just have different views of this matter.