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Posted by Jeff Rosen on Fri Aug 29 22:12:07 2014, in response to Say Olog-bird.....did you read this yet?, posted by streetcarman1 on Fri Aug 29 20:35:59 2014. Streetcar, sorry I'm not Olog but I'd like to tell an experience I had as a cop. I was in the 111 Pct in Queens when we get a burglar alarm call in Little Neck, a predominately white neighborhood. Alarm jobs are 99% accidental trips so they're not taken as seriously as a 911 call. When we show up we see a black man loading musical equipment into the trunk of his car in the driveway. To us it looked completely legit, probably a band member going to a gig. He was dressed nicely and it certainly didn't look like a burglary. But on a radio call the cops MUST investigate. We would be wrong if we just left. So I got out of the radio car and said "excuse me sir, is this your house?", a question I would have asked anyone regardless of ethnicity. Well the guy got very defensive and started making all kinds of accusations that we only stopped him because he's black. I told him about the alarm and asked him to check it for himself. He did but was still defensive. I told him he should be glad we question someone when his alarm goes off. That's what he pays the alarm company for. No matter what I said he continued with the accusations. You see, as a cop sometimes you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. |
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