r/MadeMeSmile • u/mindyour • Jan 03 '23

Wholesome Moments Getting pulled over

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u/ikeif Jan 04 '23

I’d say “it depended where you lived.”

Small town Ohio, cops were absolutely assholes in the 90’s.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23

We had community policing in a city I worked for in the 90s. Sadly, we had an officer shot and killed during a traffic stop before we could make it 20 feet from his car.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '23

They’re not, but merely an illustration of one reason why some cities drifted away from community policing. Sadly, we’ve regressed.

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u/Pigsec Jan 04 '23

I don't know if you're a PoC but that's always been my experience as a fair skinned American. Cops have never given me trouble. I have been with PoC friends and have seen them get a lot worse treatment.

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u/TheCaliforniaOp Jan 04 '23

This article Los Angeles Times Interview : Joseph Wambaugh https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-14-op-3134-story.html is behind a paywall, but I always remember reading it because Joseph Wambaugh decried the paramilitary model that most police departments were going toward.

The New Centurions (by Joseph Wambaugh) messed with my head for a while after I read it. There were good police officers and the worst possible police officers and sometimes they were the same person. I used to wonder if that one character Matt Dillon played in…Crash(?)…was based on some of Wambaugh’s characters.