mineral oil primitive, Ms. Hindenberg, discuss talking to cops

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025135778

Oh my.

MineralMan (64,686 posts)    Sun Jun 22, 2014, 03:14 PM

When the Police Come to Your House, Ask Them Why.

A few years ago, a couple of cops came to my house and started pounding on my back door. I went to the door and opened it. The doorbell doesn't work, so they may have been frustrated, and I had to come up the stairs from my basement office. Here's the dialog, as best as I can remember it:
 
"Can I help you?"
"We're here for Firstname Lastname."
"Nobody here by that name."
"We have a warrant for the arrest of Firstname Lastname."
"As I told you, there is nobody of that name living at this house."
"He'd better give himself up."
"What address is on that warrant?"
"3065 Streetname."
"Uh, this is 3056."
"You'd better tell Firstname Lastname to give himself up."
"You'd better go to the front of this house, where the house number is right beside the door. This is 3056, not 3065. The house named on your warrant is across the street and three doors up the street. In fact, there's a car driving away from 3065 right now."
 "Shit!"

And then they ran to their car. No apology. No nothing. Last I knew, Firstname Lastname came back about an hour later, and never did get arrested. Dyslexic cops, I guess.
 
I don't know, but I do talk to the cops if they come to my door. I ask them questions.

Warpy (76,991 posts)    Sun Jun 22, 2014, 03:22 PM

2. "Slip the warrant under the door and let me have a look at it"

was my response when the cops were going door to door in Boston, looking for some left wing desperado in the 70s.
 
They always just went away.

However, yes, ask questions. And hope they're not doing one of those obviously unconstitutional "no knock" warrants where they wreck your house before they realize they're two streets from where they ought to be.

MineralMan (64,686 posts)    Sun Jun 22, 2014, 03:26 PM

4. Not a felony warrant, I assumed, since they knocked on the door

instead of breaking it down. I'd have reacted differently had they done that, for sure. But, they didn't, so I was annoyed and amused at the same time, so I just sent them on their way.

Warpy (76,991 posts)    Sun Jun 22, 2014, 03:33 PM

5. Well, it was no warrant at that point

They were just going through student neighborhoods on a whim after a bank robbery by a bunch of self appointed left wing revolutionaries resulted in the death of the guard.
 
They avoided going where those idiots were more likely to be hiding, the tougher, mostly black neighborhoods. White kids were easier to push around, I guess.

<<<wonders if Lamond's going to object to the last paragraph.

[Ogre]

Warpy (76,991 posts)    Sun Jun 22, 2014, 03:22 PM

2. "Slip the warrant under the door and let me have a look at it"

was my response when the cops were going door to door in Boston, looking for some left wing desperado in the 70s.
 
They always just went away.

However, yes, ask questions. And hope they're not doing one of those obviously unconstitutional "no knock" warrants where they wreck your house before they realize they're two streets from where they ought to be.

Obviously bullshit, how would she know the PD was looking for "some left wing desperado" unless she read about it after the fact.  A bid fat  to Warpy for her dishonesty.

William Gilday, who along with his Weather Underground accomplices robbed the Brighton branch of the State Street Bank and Trust Co in September 1970.  The robbery resulted in the death of Boston Patrolman Walter Schroeder a father of nine.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/09/16/william_lefty_gilday_dies_at_82/

[BattleHymn]

I have found the best way to avoid cops it to not live in a neighborhood crawling with democrats.

They avoided going where those idiots were more likely to be hiding, the tougher, mostly black neighborhoods. White kids were easier to push around, I guess.

instead of breaking it down. I'd have reacted differently had they done that, for sure. But, they didn't, so I was annoyed and amused at the same time, so I just sent them on their way.

Just imagine the big guy, The Weeper, Omaha Steve, coming a'knocking on somebody's door.  The Omaha PD probably sends Steve out on "missions" to question perps for repeatedly flushing condoms down the sewer- the kind that he used to fish out with his net on a big stick. Nowadays, the PD sends him out just to get him away from the front desk so they can do some real police work.  Steve doesn't mind, because he gets to swing by Bear's Bar on the way to his missions, to stock up on mini-tacos.       

The missions always ends the same, with Steve either getting distracted by a bribe of some mini-tacos on the porch (in a union made brown paper sack- the only kind he will accept), or Steve getting stuck in the doorway while attempting to execute one of those no-knock warrants.

[Chris_]

I have found the best way to avoid cops it to not live in a neighborhood crawling with democrats.

Sound advice.

[DefiantSix]

MineralMan (64,686 posts)    Sun Jun 22, 2014, 03:26 PM

4. Not a felony warrant, I assumed, since they knocked on the door

instead of breaking it down. I'd have reacted differently had they done that, for sure. But, they didn't, so I was annoyed and amused at the same time, so I just sent them on their way.

Yeah, you'd have reacted differently, MM.  You'd have curled fetal position on the floor and laid in a pool of your own urine while they went about their business, tough guy.