[balloonlady]

Originally Posted by marlu

I'm poor and I drive an old car. I try to maintain it but sometimes things get overlooked.

Sounds like your boyfriend is profiling poor people.

I've always obeyed the law but I've never trusted cops.

Pofiling happens. My dad is a cop and he calls it "keeping an eye on the likely suspects". I told him it was bu**s**T

When my husband was pulled over I told him he was guilty of "driving while poor in Kansas." We saw a hummer with tags that had been out of date for a year and it was still on the road. How anything that big goes unnoticed for a YEAR is beyond me.

[marblez]

Not much support for law enforcement here, eh?

That's okay, when your next-door neighbour is being assaulted by her husband or your local 7-11 gets held up at gunpoint, there's people like me that stay awake for 12 hours straight at 4am in order to help. Then we go home to our families. As much as I am called some nasty, nasty names daily, my life threatened, I'll still be there for you! Some of my co-workers have bullet wounds.

Just remember that! Try going on a ride-a-long one night Once you see a mangled body in a car accident, speak to the family of a missing alzheimer's patient and see someone whose home has been broken into, you'll have a different outlook on life. And that's just in one night. Perhaps you'll see that we're not "out to get you" but to just do a job and go home safe.

[balloonlady]

Originally Posted by marblez

Not much support for law enforcement here, eh?

I have lots of support for law enforcement. My father has been a cop for nearly 25 years and I know how important/dangerous the job is. I'm just saying profiling DOES happen. No use to pretend it doesn't.

[cbmare]

I got stopped once for a tail light. Or better yet, for a tail light that wasn't working. I pulled over and rolled down my window. He walked up, sniffed and asked if I had an open container in the car.

I looked to the back, then back at him and said, "Yeah. Kinda." I had the entire back of the blazer filled with garbage bags filled with empty beer and soda cans. He looked in and realized that I was going to the recycle center.

He mentioned my tail light and told me to keep my window open to air out the car.

We were both chuckling at that one. Yep, I had open containers. They were empty, which in Calif. can land you in jail, but they were obviously not being consumed or recently consumed.

I think you'll be OK.

[almostheaven]

I've driven wrecks many times and didn't get pulled over. I have no doubt that profiling happens. I actually find its somewhat necessary if done properly. You can drive a beat up wreck all day long and not get pulled over. But if you drive it after 9 pm through Beverly Hills, you'll likely get pulled over...especially if there have been recent problems in the area.

I bet that's why this guy pulled me that day because of my lights. It was Friday night, late. I guess he couldn't know that it was just mom and daughter coming back from Wal*Mart. But still. He DID see me turn them on yet had to make a U-turn to come get the "bad guys". So he could've run my plate and found I'd just stolen that car and just discovered the headlights weren't on when I saw the "pig". Much to his dismay though, he ran the plates and found not even one speeding ticket. LOL