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one of my earliest clients working contract security, ran a paid parking lot. this was ages ago, i was the onsite guard for it, one of my things was walking the lots making sure everyone was paid.
There was this idiot in a Jag. parked. started walking off to the strip club next door. I see him walk by me and I warn him. he gets Entitled-Rich-Dude (with a side of Horny-College-Kid. ProTip. Minivans are better for sex in the car. more room. better seating... better suspension.) he stalks off without paying so I slap a stupid "you owe us" ticket- its not even a city ticket... and we're not going to send it to collection (the lawyers fee costs more than it's worth.)
Anyhow, he had this proximity alarm thing that sounds off if you get too close. "warning this car has a proximity alarm! it will sound in..."... well, I ignore it, slap the ticket on and go about my job. Turns out the ticket on the windshield is enough to set off the proximity alarm. It was sounding for a couple hours.
his battery drains because the alarm is constantly going off. When he comes out, the thing won't start. he sees the ticket and calls the cops.
Says I vandalized my his Jag. I see the cops doing their bored questioning thing, so I walk out and basically make sure they see me. One comes over to ask what's up. So I explained all that. "all i did was put the ticket on. His proximity alarm must have tripped." "Proximity Alarm?" the cop asks. "yeah. You know those things from the 90's that are like 'step away from the vehicle.." "So... those are illegal." (because noise nuisance.) He looked rather happy at that. And up the hill, you could hear this guy making demands of the partner to arrest me. the cop is trying to be "nice" because Entitled Rich Fucks are annoying. The cops basically told him to call for a jump, but ERG "knows PeOpLe"
Any how, after a moment, I say to the cop that had been talking with me, who absolutely doesn't want to bail his partner out "So, I couldn't help but notice, there's a baggie sack covered in suspicious white powder on front passenger seat."
My cop walks up and looks in the window. They ask him to open the car. ("There's a baggie with a suspicious white powder. We have probable cause...")
So the other cop sees this, raises an eyebrow. when he figures out what's going on... the guy gets a rather evil gleam in his eye.
They start that process over hostess powdered donuts. just to piss the rich fuck off. Ended up citing him for the proximity alarm and left it at that, but not before they searched his car.
(who the fuck drives a jag and then has powdered sugar donuts in it? Ew. that shit gets everywhere.)
Hmm...
ACAB but so are rich entitled fucks.
Not sure who to root for here.
Not the Cops trying to falsify evidence because they can't be bothered to stand up to an asshole with connections.
It didn't sound like they were falsifying anything. It sounded like the person in OP's story just had a bag of coke in their car.
Oh there was clear understanding that they were definitely hostess donuts of the powdered sugar variety.
It was a joke on my part and not a serious report. The cops ran with it, because these cops definitely were bastards, and because the idiot Jag owner went full on Karen over something that was ultimately his own fault. (If he had a legal alarm system, if he paid for parking, or he had a shred of self awareness and just called for a jump…)
Cops pull that kind of shit all the fucking time and get away with it because their victims don’t have the resources or contacts to get away with reporting them.
Got it. My misunderstanding.
I wouldn’t say ACAB, mostly because I haven’t met every cop. And rookies probably aren’t all bad- they’ll adapt or quit before long, mind.
But, even assholes sometimes do the right thing. Like saving that single mom’s kid. Huge ego boost. Doesn’t meant they’re not still assholes, though,
I would argue that you don't have to meet every cop because any cop that isn't a bastard is driven out by all the bastard cops. Especially if they report anything inappropriate their fellow officers do.
And staying silent while other cops break the law also makes you a bastard.
Agreed. The rookies will assimilate or resign quickly, but given the thousands of departments full of cops, I imagine there may be one whose still “first day on the job” clean.
It’s an assumption i won’t argue against, let’s just put it that way.
I can understand that position, but I would also say that's more of a technicality than something that suggests the phrase shouldn't be applied.
I don't really think anyone thinks, "oho! You say all cops are bastards, but my cousin Jerry was a cop for two days and he is a good person!" is what anyone actually is trying to suggest when they say ACAB.
Then you root for injuries, like when the Commanders play the Cowboys.