Illegal to talk to a Police Officer?

[Ducimus]

Ive seen way too many of these threads. Particuarlly on fark.com. It's always about "fight the power!". Or those damn dirty cops.

If i was a cop, and some jackwagon asked me, "Mind if i video tape this?", my first thought would be, "Oh great.. one of THESE guys. Mr OMG I'm being Oppressed". My reply would probably be, "No sir, i have enough supervision on my dash game as it is. Everything is already being recorded for posterity". My wanted reply would be, "What, so you can go whine on youtube when you get home? I don't F'ing think so!".


Best way to deal with cops? Recognize they are a properly constituted authority, and theres always going to be someone who can tell you what to do in society, be it your boss at work, or law enforcement. You don't have to respect the man, but you do have to respect the position. Anyone ex military can relate to that. Comply with the directions your given, and don't back talk. Be honest, be polite, don't pop off with an attitude.

If there's a problem, just get his badge number with the date and time of the incident and bring it to the courts. All three of those bits of information will be enough. Date, time, and badge number. Back talking, being a smart ass, or in particular non complying will get you into hot water. Just don't do it, or you'll end up as the butt of a joke on the next episode of a cop reality TV show on Spike network that I like to watch so much.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

. My reply would probably be, "No sir, i have enough supervision on my dash game as it is. Everything is already being recorded for posterity".

But that's the problem the video is not recorded for posterity, it is recorded to protect the cop and to further the prosecutor's case.

I wonder how many times when the video shows something in favour of the defense or something that shows impropriety on the cop's fault that something happens to the tape?

You can't have too much evidence in a case.

This gives me a chance to reverse the oft told phrase: If the cop has done nothing wrong he or she has nothing to worry about. Right?

That's what the police tell us. And a cop would not lie to us.

[Ducimus]

[Stealhead]

You really need to see clips of Russian,Brazilian,and French Paris cops and see what they'd do the second you back talked them.Like the guy in the car he would have been grabbed and pulled out of the window and thrown on the ground for talking back like that.

I recall years back we had this Brazilian exchange student at my school and he went with and some friends to see a movie in front of the theater was a fairly heavy set cop and some kids where actually vocally mocking him though he just ignored them the Brazilian kid was shocked that the kids where doing this and seemed to have no fear of disrespecting authority."You would never see that in Brazil" he kept saying.

Generally speaking 97% of American cops are fairly decent and many give a lot of breaks when they could be much harsher legally not saying that there are not bad cops out there but they are the minority.I can recall a few times in my younger days getting away with much.Like once some squadron mates and I got hammered and decided to ride around the base on our bikes we saw a Security Police(Air Force for Military Police) car coming so we tried to ride down this trail but they had seen us.Clearly we where all drunk and could have been taken in for that and for evading but they just told us to go back to the dorms and stay out of trouble we all should have spent the weekend in the stockade according to the UCMJ.Another time a buddy and I got caught sneaking back onto base in Turkey when the base was on lock down(what can I say there where some pretty Turkish girls in town)that is a pretty serious violation and the SPs let us go Scot free in both cases I just got very very lucky that SPs that caught me felt like being lax a did not apply normal standards.I guarantee you will find far more stories of cops giving people breaks than being oppressors it is just that later type makes the news.I have tons from not so law abiding civilian old friends.

I agree that some folks out there just dont like any form of authority(until they need their aid that is) and feel cool for bucking it.Want to see what happens when the police go away? look at New Orleans hours/days post Katrina.You need some one who enforces rule of law like it or not.

By they way almost all police patrol cars in the US have cameras in them so they don't have much to hide or they'd not have them in place and they can tell when cameras have been turned off or tampered with.And you would need to have a given state,county,cities statues books to know what is an arrestable offense in that area.



@Ducimus he should have farted in his oppressors general direction to stop him.