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gigag04 wrote:55 yo otherwise law abiding citizens need not worry about getting hooked up for walking down the street where sidewalk provided.

Feather-legged charges like that are best saved for special cases. (saying it for the last time)

First time , last time, every time.. You posted what amounts to gray area stuff, and have only to say in effect.. Trust me,, I know more about it then you.. Your just a civilian, you don't know what I know.
To which I agree But yet know personally, you will be called on it time and time again.

I think most understand, your using tactics like this not on the grandpa walking down the street for a qt of lowfat his wife sent him for.. But the guy known to you from prior stops, at 0320 walking down the street in a high drug distro area, after getting a call that another fellow drug dealing thug was just shot two blocks over, and this thug meets a general description, though different color shirt. To bad for him, he is in the street, not the sidewalk.. PC or whatever for the stop, ...onward and upward from there...
The rub to it of course some is LEO out there is using this same type Technic to stop, detain arrest someone for much less honorable reasons.

gigag04 wrote:55 yo otherwise law abiding citizens need not worry about getting hooked up for walking down the street where sidewalk provided.

Feather-legged charges like that are best saved for special cases. (saying it for the last time)

...yer speakin' Greek to the good citizens who are home safe in their beds at night...because you're out there in the dark with the monsters...it's always been that way...and it always will...if they understood, they'd stay up all night praying for you....or not...

speedsix wrote:

gigag04 wrote:55 yo otherwise law abiding citizens need not worry about getting hooked up for walking down the street where sidewalk provided.

Feather-legged charges like that are best saved for special cases. (saying it for the last time)

...yer speakin' Greek to the good citizens who are home safe in their beds at night...because you're out there in the dark with the monsters...it's always been that way...and it always will...if they understood, they'd stay up all night praying for you....or not...

Although I am pretty sure it was unintentionally so, that seems pretty condescending to all non-Leo's. I hold close to my heart all those that defend our rights and keeps our streets safe. That being said I don't think innocent people should or should not be hassled based who they are, where they are, or when they are there. If LEO's want to hassle folks who they personally know as dealers, thugs, etc. that is a different story.

Case In Point: A 55 Year old gentleman who was riding his bike and was of a different race than are all the other residents of my neighborhood was detained for quite awhile because one of long time residents of our area called him in as "suspicious." He didn't have ID on him, and the cops did not believe who he was at first. Very, very sad.

If a guy is a selling drugs, what does it matter if his name is Pete or Pedro? Same if he's not breaking the law.