Couple Arrested For Asking For Directions

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I've worked in downtown B-more for decades and this story absolutley does'nt surprize me. The City Police force has quite the reputation for being unable to attract quality canidates for police officers, low pay, very dangerous working envirement, back and forth charges of racism, not always a lot of support from the State's Attorney's office, not a lot of public suport either. It seems much of their idea of serving as a LEO means seeing oneself as an absolute superior being, as they gleefully take away citizens rights.
All in the BS phony name of being focused on crime, while just pumping up the Mayor's stats.:fire: :cuss:
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Is'nt it the responsibility of the arresting officer to reasonably secure a vehicle they are having impounded (like roll up the windows)?
 
This story has made headlines for the past few days. The officer that was behind this now is making claims that this couple was rude and blah blah blah.

In Baltimore City you have to understand that race is a big issue constantly...it certainly was here.:barf:
 
I have read alot about Baltimore PD in the last few months and have only one question. What is going on in the minds of the people??? If only ten percent of what I have seen is true it needs disbanded and reorganized. Arrested for trespass on a public street? How is that even possible in theory?
I am also disturbed to see 70 cases a day thrown out. Baltimore is not that large of a city to have that kind of number. In this area you start getting 1-5% dismissed or 10-15% aquited and questions about you comptancy will be asked.
 
Idiots that wear badges.

If true, this "Officer" should be summarily fired and have her sorry ass kicked to the curb.

Add two more to the Us vs. Them club.

Sad.

12-34hom.
 
12-34hom said:
Idiots that wear badges
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Being a frequent visitor to both Orioles and Ravens stadiums in Baltimore I can attest to the sheer vindictiveness of the city's law enforcement staff; there seems to be a reckless pursuit of ticketing by police following sports events. Even legally parked cars are ticketed and I have watched officers writing tickets on cars legally parked at or along Baltimore's Inner Harbor, which is adjacent to Raven's stadium and close to Orioles' stadium. Police routinely pull cars over and back up traffic just to meet quotas during late evening rush following sports events. This happens just the same in Washington, DC so perhaps their is a protocol being followed. Further the signage in Baltimore city is of little help to a visitor; leaving the stadiums the novice out-of-town driver is forced to go northeast through city past Inner Harbor, rather than south to get on I-95 to go either N or S on interstate. Thus, I feel this news story is legit since that seems to be what happened. Story gives credence to being prepared when travelling, not depending on local police, and not asking directions...

Sad.
 
Most LEO's are good folks, but some take their position way to seriously...

If this is all true these cops should be fired.


C
 
Baltimore City PD has a very, very tough time finding qualified applicants.

My wife told me today Ron Smith on his afternoon show on WBAL discussed this issue. He pointed out we teach our children to find a police officer for help when they are lost or in need of assistance.

Adults must now be on their own . . . This seems like a big waste of police time and harrassment for harrassment's sake.


If the couple had ACTUALLY committed a crime, I'm quite sure the officer could have found something better than trespassing to list on the charging document.
 
To Cuda;
This is not a case of an officer taking thier job to seriously. This is a case of some moron that got a badge pined on for what ever unknown reason and decided to show thier back side.
I am an officer who takes my job seriously, that very much includes public relations and perception. The officer one of the posters mentioned that had him follow the officer out of an area. That is an officer taking the job seriously. We are seriously there to help, to serve and protect to the best of our ability.
 
Personal opinion: That part of the country is all eat up with the weirds. Must be something contagious comes out of Congress. A few years back, mainstream media news reports spoke of the felony records and extensive misdemeanor records of a high percentage of the WashD.C. cops. They'd hire most any thug that was upright and breathing, apparently. This was during their druggie-mayor daze.

Dunno if Baltimore is any better. I haven't been through there for some 17 years, but it doesn't seem to have gotten better with age.

Art
 
Mr. Shield529.

If you are the same guy by the same handle that posts on missouricarry.com, I applaud you.

Most here think I am a cop-basher. Not true.

Hey, if a trooper asks to search my vehicle during a traffic stop, he deserves to get his boots peed on.

Thank you for stepping out of that thin blue line.

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So everyone is clear, the couple is white. I'm not sure of the race of the officers involved.

As a Virginian who was a resident of Baltimore until late last year (back in the land of sanity, hallelujah), I'm not particularly surprised. I was very careful to avoid getting into any situation where I would be in contact with the local police. I was very lucky, I lived in the inner city and didn't experience any crime firsthand. I know I felt less secure in inner-city Baltimore than I did in inner-city Richmond.

There was also a report of the Balto transit cops stopping a trio of male strippers and shaking them down and confiscating their money (over ten grand). The charges were dropped but they didn't get their money back.

It's a pretty messed-up city, folks.
 
how the heck do you trespass on a public street? :scrutiny:

But seriously, if you do the crime the police have every right to arrest you. But there should be a line in the sand where resisting arrest no longer applies when it comes down to you being harassed and your civil rights being violated and you are protecting yourself. And when a police officer can be placed under citizens arrests for committing a crime which is what happened here as described. False arrest and false imprisonment to start off with in this particular case.

Most cops are great folks, but there are plenty who aren't and who give the rest a bad name. They should in no way be tolerated and citizens should be allowed to protect themselves. Sure courts are nice, but I am a citizen not a subject and I shouldn't have to spend hours in jail and thousands for a lawyer and months of my time in the courts to make it right. That makes me a subject, and this is not a place of subjects, least it wasn't meant to be. If that's the case how long before cops just do it because they can know they can get away with it and just deal with it later? Or when the court system gets on board and corrupts itself just as badly?
 
Is there not one honest cop on that police force. If there is they are standing aside watching the police dept comment crime. Surely there is one honest cop that would be a whistle blower. Is money more important than stopping criminal cops. If I was a cop on that force I would blow the illegal scam. I could not live with myself if I did not.:confused: :confused:
 
Shield529:
By "position way to seriously" I was refering to their taking the authority they have to another level. Basically I'm a cop and you're not you do what I say or else...

I applaud those who understand "To serve and Protect"


C
 
This is the best idea EVER. Get everyone to hate the cops, that way you don't have to pay retirement for the 10% that get killed. (WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU TRY TO DRAW MORE FIRE TO YOURSELF??)

Just wonderful thinking.

And I will not drive near that city. But if I got locked in the jail over night and something happened to me, I would get everyone involved. EVERY time a cop brings someone to jail they risk getting hunted down if something happens to that person. There are plenty of times that cops have been killed years after by someone that they tossed in jail for a night.

If I was a police officer I would really really think hard about that before I ever thought of bring someone in for "trespassing" on a public street.

Also is the PO(ticked off) rate of your subjects directly linked to your rate of survival? So why would you increase the PO rate when you don't have to?


I am also starting to see why these city's need to give their cops machine guns. If they keep up this PR campaign they will be using APCs to patrol, and that won't even be safe.

(I don't hate police officers..... Well only the ones that think they ARE the law. I know three police officers and they all seem to be reasonably friendly on the job)
 
"My guess is that the officer was white and the couple black"

My first thought was exactly the opposite. People on this board are chomping at the bit to find a case of white against black racism.
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Well, you did see the rest of the sentence, "or vice versa". Why mention black first, I guess because of my friends and acquaintances the black ones are more likely to have had experiences of police harassment than the white ones so it comes to mind that way first (and they are FAR more likely to have experiences of obviously racially related harassment).
 
Not to mention sued in civil court for harrassment and civil rights violations.
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Problem arises when it's the people of the community that have to pay the judgement through their taxes. Only way to do it, but a shame, none the less.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I have a healthy respect for the vast majority of proper LEOs and a healthy contempt for the punks on a power trip. Or in this case, a PMS'ing witch. I'm afraid I would make it my first priority to make her life a living hell.
 
Wow, just wow. That's insane. If this story is true the coppers involved need to be fired and prosecuted. The concept of Trespassing on a public street is ridiculous. It's annoying to see morons like this that give the good officers a bad name.
 
Actually, that doesn't surprise me one bit either. The police have been using that tactic in Baltimore as part of their "zero tolerance" campaign against crime. They've been arresting the kids who hang out on street corners for trespassing, take them to jail for the night, then release them without charging them.



"Zero tolerance?" Of what? Existing?

This so called cop should be tried for official oppression, by a JURY trial, with no plea bargain arrangement deal or Judge only trial, and the death penalty should be considered.

Yes, that is what I said. The death penalty should be considered by a jury of twelve, and the Judge only being allowed to decide what time the trial starts, and then he should have ZERO power to overule anything. The jury should decide all fact, and fairness of law, exactly as the Founders intended "if they felt a Judge was biased".

What will happen though, (and why this type of official oppression continues daily) is because in the minute chance this idiot is charged with anything, "it" has the opportunity to go in front of a Judge only, rather than a jury trial as the Founders wrote into the Bill of Rights. A jury would do something. A judge, properly paid off as usual either through the bribe of money or political capital gained due to "police union support" advertising, will let this idiot off, and "it" will be out there doing it again, and again.

That is why we have cops in this land that think they can tell a man to "get up", and when he complies, shoot him repeatedly.

I used to be pro-law enforcement to the LETTER. But after New Orleans' gun confiscations being conducted with the help of idiots who drove all the way from California to join in the fun of body slamming 80 year old women simply because they were peaceably residing in their own homes exercising their Constitutional rights, and seeing so called "Law Enforcement Officers" using tazers to supposedly "take into custody" an old lady ALREADY IN THE POLICE STATION SITTING ON A BENCH, I am beginning to accept the fact that we have already become a police state, and are absolute idiots for allowing it to happen.
 
Three leters

oops forgot a t...letters

G P S
GPS should be like you’re credit card..."don't leave home without it".
Luckily in Maryland it is impossible to get a CCW and carry:p ,
Otherwise the headlines would read “armed teen shot by police for tresspassing”
 
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