(December 11, 2014 at 6:47 pm)Tombochan Wrote: @Parkers Tan,
If you still live in Oxnard, we're neighbors. I live in Ventura and though I'm 65 am enrolling at Ventura College and will transfer to Oxnard to complete courses for an Addiction Counseling certificate.
Several years ago, while still active in crack addiction I was standing around a known drug transaction area waiting for a dealer to bring back a rock. The police came and because of my behavior and the location had probable cause to search me and found my very dirty pipe. I'm white, of very conventional looks and I was polite. After taking me to the substation and interviewing me, where I admitted to being a regular user, they released me without charges.
What do you think the odds are that I'd have walked if I was black, polite or not?
Tom, congrats on kicking, bud -- that's some wicked shit, and you seem to be living proof that it ain't too late.
I'm betting that with either department VPD or OPD, you'd have been in jail before you could give them your last name.
My son and I eventually moved to Ventura after years in Oxnard -- we lived down in Hueneme for a while, then up on the north end on Ventura Road, before we settled into a nice little place in the Ventura Avenue neighborhood than was a lot more laid back than N Oxnard. I liked the VPD much more, but even so, I have no doubt that there are minorities in the city who could tell a different story.
I moved back home to Texas a couple of years ago, but I'll be headed back to Ventura this upcoming June.
