Ferguson and the Justice Department Report

[Brakeman]

Personally, I don't find it all that hard to obey the law. ..

Okay. So, say you're sitting at the bus stop, doing nothing, and a cop pulls up in his car. He tells you to come over, takes your license, and runs your license for warrants. Okay with that?

A cop would only do that if he thought it wasn't wasting his time. In my case it would be wasting his time. The reason it would be wasting his time is simply because I know how not to be an asshole to my neighbors and I obey the law. If he didn't have the right to ask for my license, then he did something wrong, not me. I could refuse and make a big deal of it or not, but because I don't break the law, it's only a few moments inconvenience for me.

How about you and your 3 black friends in a car with the music up loud, and a cop drives up and gives you a citation for public disturbance. No one has complained, which is a pre-requisite for that charge.

Again, ass-holes behave inconsiderately to the point where they depend on the timidity and fear of a neighbor to be afraid to call the cops on rude loud music. I would not disturb the public with my music because I myself do not wish to be disturbed with obnoxious loud music from someone else.

How about you finish playing basketball at the park one summer, and you're cooling off in your car, and a cop pulls up, blocks you in, and accuses you of being a pedophile because there are children in the park. He pulls you out of your car and performs a pat down. The officer points his gun at your head and asks to search your car. You refuse, because, you know, constitution. Now the officer arrests you, charges you with resisting arrest, making a false declaration for saying your name is "Mike" instead of "Michael," and 8 other charges including both having and expired driver's license and having no driver's license at the same time.

Of course I would have a problem of being falsely accused. My lawyer would too, but this story is obviously concocted as it does not follow reason. There is obviously so much more to the story if it is not all made up at the start.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/15-mo...-ferguson/

We're talking about more than just cops writing tickets. They were actively encouraged to write as many citations as possible.

Again, cops are paid to write citations and perform arrests. They should be pushed to get the taxpayer's monies worth out of their salary. Only when their citations are not true or their arrests not just is that a problem. Your example of a man falsely accused of pedophilia is an example of police misbehavior, but larger quantities of police action do not equate police misbehavior.
As I said in my earlier post, "It doesn't matter one whit if they issued lots of citations as long as the citations were true bills."