So, I just had a run-in with police...

[lacktheknack]

The ticket-checkers on our city's commuter train are policemen, so I've had my ticket checked by police.

That's it.

I live pretty far from any police stations, so that helps. I go to a school near the main police station, but people aren't stupid enough to try anything around there. I can't help but feel that I'd be pegged as an "instant suspect" if something bad happened while I was around, though (I've managed to accidentally scare people clean off the sidewalk and into the street simply by cutting my hair too short). But it hasn't happened, so I don't know.

 

[dfphetteplace]

While I was in a band in 2001, we went to Canada to play a show. This was right after 9/11. On the way back over the bridge between Canada and the US, they pulled us into customs and started to go through everything. They were positive we had drugs on us, even though we were all straight edge. They took the seats out of the van. They opened the backs of the guitars. Looked through all the drums. Of course they didn't find anything, and had just wasted ours and their time. They made us put everything back together and finally let us go after several hours.

 

[lacktheknack]

You basically just had someone harass you & rifle through your belongings. Pretty cool, huh?

If you had matched the description of a "murder suspect" or "armed robber", they might have shot or electrocuted you if you got twitchy or frightened!!

No, you wouldn't. That's like saying "You'll be struck by lightning if you stand next to a window in a storm".

 

[RedDeadFred]

A cop once bought me my coffee when I noticed that I'd forgotten my wallet at home. That's the only "run-in" I've had with one.

 

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

The only time I had an actual run-in with law enforcement was when I first had my license (had been driving about six months or so) and I got pulled over for speeding. The officer asked for the usual (license, insurance, registration), asked why I was pulled over, to which I replied "Speeding". He said "Yup", wrote me a ticket and we parted ways. I guess he was happy I was honest, or the fact that I had a clean record, since he dropped the MPH I was doing substantially.

 

[Ryan Minns]

I'm a large man who fits the description of every known criminal to exist so I've had my fair share of run ins... the most hilarious was when I was questioned for about 40 minutes because somehow fit the description of... and I am giving the EXACT description "A 16 year old malnourished aboriginal boy" ... I was 25 at the time, sporting a rather largish belly and to top it all off my skins as white as the milk I keep in the fridge...

I've met some good officers, once an officer ran at me from behind and tried to tackle me for, as usual, fitting the description of someone and injured his shoulder in doing so since I don't fall easily. He attempted to use this to his advantage claiming I attacked him of course but I was shocked when his fellow police officer started having a go at him telling him to stop being a fucking moron and he won't have his or other police officers reputation ruined because he wanted to be a prick... I had a serious man crush happening at that time.

 

[TheRussian]

Damn, the fuzz are dicks around your college. I've only had a run in once, when I was late to college on an exam day, thankfully the officer knew what he was doing and I didn't arrive on campus late. I feel sorry for the humiliating search you endured, I wouldn't have been as lucky.

 

[mrhappy1489]

I walk to work every day starting at 5am, when it's still dark. I get this crap all the time. They always say those exact words 'there's been allot of breakins in the area and I match the description of the suspect'. I'm pretty destinct... Big beard and long hair... Look like Ned Stark... I should stop breaking into houses.

Your alive, NEDDDY (screamd like Homer Simpson)! OT, I've never had a bad run in with the police, but I live in Australia and the police over here seem to be a genuine sort. I'm not saying that you weren't in Australia just saying that I think ours a pretty good, aside from the whole tasering and killing a foreign student.

 

[nexus]

You basically just had someone harass you & rifle through your belongings. Pretty cool, huh?

If you had matched the description of a "murder suspect" or "armed robber", they might have shot or electrocuted you if you got twitchy or frightened!!

No, you wouldn't. That's like saying "You'll be struck by lightning if you stand next to a window in a storm".

Oh really?

--Dorner manhunt: Lawyer calls shootings of paper carriers 'unacceptable' [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/02/dorner-manhunt-shootings-newspaper-carriers.html]

An attorney representing two women who were delivering newspapers when they were shot by police during a massive manhunt for an ex-LAPD officer called the incident "unacceptable," saying his clients looked nothing like the suspect.

Hernandez, who attorney Glen T. Jonas said was shot twice in the back, was in stable condition late Thursday. Carranza received stitches on her finger.

Spoiler: Picture of Truck Riddled with Bullets

This was a pretty big story, you might have heard of it. Actually I take that back, the "fugitive cop" was the big story, not the fact the LAPD started shooting at everything. They recently claimed Dorner was killed, they burned him alive in some cabin when they set fire to it.

America.

I've had a few bad run ins with the police, I'm not a criminal and have never committed a crime worthy of being even questioned by the police for. I've had a cousin gunned down & killed on the street in front of his mother by police, literally the only black man within miles. I don't even live in a city, I live in a standard rural backwater town.

I take shit like this very seriously, I don't know why people shrug it off like it's nothing or even funny?

 

[dudehead]

Alright, I was really high one night and decided it would be a fantastic idea to walk through the neighborhood in my underwear playing Front Bottoms' songs on guitar.

So I'm walking, and I see a car- unmistakably a police SUV- coming at me and start panicking about what to do. I don't miss a note, by the way. Anyway, I came up with the plan of singing and playing louder and with more emotion so that if he heard he would not doubt that I was doing exactly what I looked like I was doing, and not that maybe me playing guitar in my underwear was to cover something else up (I was really high)

So my heart's pounding but he just drives by and I sigh with relief and then SQUUEAAK he slams on the brakes and puts it in reverse and pulls up next to me and rolls down his window. I can't tell if my balls retracted into my body because of the cold or because of fright.

Me: "Hello"
Him: "We've heard there's kids havin a party makin' trouble in the neighborhood. You seen any?"
Me: "Nope"
Him: "Alright then."

And he drove away.

 

[Mossberg Shotty]

Apparently I look like a "hooligan" because I've had quite a few run-ins with the police, even just being 18. I seem to get flagged down everytime I pass a cop car on foot. However, since I'm generally a law-abiding citizen, its never resulted in anything serious.

 

[chainer1216]

have i had similar experiences?

BUWAHAHAHAHA! yes.

you see, i wear a trench coat, in truth its a wool suit coat,very buisnessy, but its black and long and that's all that matters. and to make matters worse, i'm an insomniac who likes to go out for walks. i get stopped and searched by the police regularly. some are nice, others have threatened me in varying ways, but most just seem indifferent, like i was wasting they're time, which to be fair, i was.

the most common thing i hear from them is to stay out of the alleys, but...i never walk in the alleys, too creepy for me. i don't know why they always say that.

 

[BlackFlyme]

Can they do that where you live? In Sweden they aren't allowed to search your bag just like that.

I'm fairly certain that it isn't allowed here in Canada, but then again I was the one who suggested that they take a look so that I could show that it wasn't me and leave sooner.

You basically just had someone harass you & rifle through your belongings. Pretty cool, huh?

If you had matched the description of a "murder suspect" or "armed robber", they might have shot or electrocuted you if you got twitchy or frightened!!

Can't say I wasn't a bit nervous, but they didn't actually touch my stuff. I was the one who took my bag apart.
Though I did freak the officer out when he heard my jacket jingling. I keep all my spare change in a side pocket, as my wallet can't hold coins.

Dude that's nothing.

If it was anything like my encounter, the first officer didn't even know what the suspect looked like, and was just looking for people who seemed 'suspicious'.

Damn, the fuzz are dicks around your college.

To be fair, the city it is in has a bit of a reputation for things like this. Though I was actually stopped less than a block from my house, not near the school or anything, I commute there daily by bus and people walking around with suitcases in my town is much more uncommon. I get asked at least twice a week if I just came back from holidays.

 

[Truglington]

Not to be mean, but where is 57% passing?

 

[lacktheknack]

You basically just had someone harass you & rifle through your belongings. Pretty cool, huh?

If you had matched the description of a "murder suspect" or "armed robber", they might have shot or electrocuted you if you got twitchy or frightened!!

No, you wouldn't. That's like saying "You'll be struck by lightning if you stand next to a window in a storm".

Oh really?

--Dorner manhunt: Lawyer calls shootings of paper carriers 'unacceptable' [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/02/dorner-manhunt-shootings-newspaper-carriers.html]

An attorney representing two women who were delivering newspapers when they were shot by police during a massive manhunt for an ex-LAPD officer called the incident "unacceptable," saying his clients looked nothing like the suspect.

Hernandez, who attorney Glen T. Jonas said was shot twice in the back, was in stable condition late Thursday. Carranza received stitches on her finger.

Spoiler: Picture of Truck Riddled with Bullets

This was a pretty big story, you might have heard of it. Actually I take that back, the "fugitive cop" was the big story, not the fact the LAPD started shooting at everything. They recently claimed Dorner was killed, they burned him alive in some cabin when they set fire to it.

America.

I've had a few bad run ins with the police, I'm not a criminal and have never committed a crime worthy of being even questioned by the police for. I've had a cousin gunned down & killed on the street in front of his mother by police, literally the only black man within miles. I don't even live in a city, I live in a standard rural backwater town.

I take shit like this very seriously, I don't know why people shrug it off like it's nothing or even funny?

You might notice that you can get struck by lightning while standing by a window. The point is that it's very, very unlikely.

Also, I can't see how LAPD WOULDN'T be investigated very thoroughly at this point. Is this all you have? The most notorious story you can find? Find me the cavalcade of stories where people are shot while submitting nervously to the cops because "they looked suspicious", and you'll have a point. You won't find them, though, so you don't have one.

EDIT: I'll reinforce the "nervously submitting" part, because I imagine you'll try to ignore that. However, seeing how it's the context of your original post on the matter, I'm not going to let you move the goalposts.

 

[BlackFlyme]

Not to be mean, but where is 57% passing?

It's a passing mark, I had gotten 20/35 on my test. At my school, you need at least 50% on a test/report/paper/whatever to pass.

 

[Jadak]

Dude that's nothing.

Spoiler: spoilered for space

OK, this happened on Dec 23rd of 2001. I'll never forget that date.
First thing to know, I had actually been hit by a car earlier in the evening. (Long and different story)
(I was badly bruised & shaken up from the accident, but otherwise fine.)
But this was at about 7:30 in the evening, and the weather was very mild for late December, so I was just
wearing a light grey sweat shirt over my scrubs (I worked at a blood center at the time).
I'm walking past the parking lot of a church a little less than a block from my apartment, when a spotlight
hits me. I looked around and saw a police car had it's spotlight trained on me. I shrugged and turned to
walk towards the police car, but the officers inside used the car's loudspeaker to say "Stay where you are."
So I shrugged again, kept my hands in clear view and waited. After about 20 seconds, the officers used the
loudspeaker again, this time to tell me to put my hands in the air, which I did. At this point, one of the
officers stepped out of the car and trained his gun on me. Yeah. Pointed his *gun* at me. The officer who
had stepped out of the car then instructed me to turn around and face the church, kneel, and put my hands
on my head with my fingers interlaced. Of course I did as instructed. Then the second officer got out of
the car, came over to me and took my hands off my head and put them behind my back and handcuffed me. Yup.
At this point I informed the officer that I had been hit by a car earlier that evening and my arm was very
sore. He undid the handcuffs and re-did them using two pairs linked together, so that my arms were not
twisted behind my back. He then raised me to my feet and marched me over to the car, and put me in the
back. Read me my rights. Asked if I understood my rights. I said that I did. I asked if he could tell me
what this was all about. He told me that a convenience store about 2 blocks away had been robbed at gunpoint
and they were looking for the perpetrator, and that I "roughly matched the description". They then informed
me that I was not actually under arrest, but 'being detained', and that they were going to bring the witness
to the robbery over to see if they could make a better identification. So I waited in the back of the police
car thinking "oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit....." for a while until a second police car
arrived. I was taken out of the first car and put in front of the second car, I think that they meant for
the car's headlights to keep me from being able to see the witness, but I could see her pretty well.
The witness was a young hispanic woman. I was instructed to turn to the side, then turn to the other
side then turn facing front again. The witness looked incredulous, and even in the poor visibility
and with little lip-reading skill I could tell she was saying "That's not the guy" to the officer in the
car with her. He asked her to if she was absolutely sure. Had her look at me again. Had me go through the
turning this way and that again. She was absolutely positive that I wasn't the guy. The car with the witness
drove off and the officers who had detained me took the handcuffs off of me and apologized. I told them not
to worry about it, I understood they were doing their job & trying to keep everyone safe, wished them a
good evening & merry christmas, They drove off and I finished walking home.
But here's the kicker.
A few days later I was drawing the blood of an officer who was a regular donor at the center I worked at,
and I asked if they had apprehended the guy they were looking for in the armed robbery. He told me that
yes, they had apprehended the perpetrator, but he wondered how I knew about it. I told him what had happened.
And he became *furious*. I asked why he was so upset and he told me. The guy they were looking for was:
Over six feet tall.
(I'm five-foot-nine on a tall day.)
Had short blond hair.
(I have hair most people call black but is actually dark brown, well past my shoulders.)
Had blue eyes.
(My eyes are dark brown, almost black.)
Had no facial hair.
(I have an awesome Clark Gable mustache.
So yeah, I went through all that because I "roughly matched the description".

tldr: I was cuffed, read my rights & put in front of a witness when the police were looking
for a guy who looked nothing like me.

And while that is probably my most impressive run-in-with-police story, it is in my
opinion, far from the worst.

lol, I'd say the description they were working with at the time must have been "male".

 

[Wuvlycuddles]

Well, I once got arrested for criminal damage, put in a cell for a couple of hours, interviewed aaand I had to go into the big police station in a nearby city about a month later so they can justify their budget by using a shitty digital camera to take my photo to show the person who called the cops in the first place. Yeah.... the whole thing was ridiculous.

Especially considering I was arrested for wearing a hoody, yes, that's all the description the witness gave and that was reason enough to take me back to town when I was about 10 minutes from my house, meaning I had to do nearly the whole hour long walk again. Oh and the fuckers implied I was a pothead cause when they searched me they found a tobacco pouch and asked me "You don't have anything illegal in here?" and proceeded to search anyway even though I said no.

Oh the interview was horrible too, judging by their attitude I don't think they particularly cared I was innocent and tried to convince me I should confess, get my caution and go home.

 

[dystopiaINC]

only had one run in with with a cop, me and 3 or 4 friends got together and were shooting a each other with some air soft guns in a wooded cut through behind some houses. It's a deep area with a small stream, in between 2 steep hills. more than once somebody would walk down the the hill cross the bridge and on the other side, we were splitting up into teams and each starting from one side of the bridge. just a standard get it your out last team with plays wins type games, we were using spring powered air soft guns that shoot plastic BBs, and we made sure to stop all shooing when people needed to get by several adult had been through and asked us what we were playing, none of them had a problem and a few actually liked the idea (some nice old lady) about 2 hours after we started some kids wanted to come down, we were all reloading between games and there was no active shooting going on, they saw the air soft guns and went back the way they came, showed up later with some older guys that my friend actually knew, we let them see the guns and let one of the guys shoot one off, after they went by a cop showed up, on of the parents of the kids called about a bunch of kids with BBs guns he asked to see the guns asked if we had eye protection (we did) asked if they could hurt you, (worst I've ever seen are very small welts), and he asked ow old we were, all of us were 18 at the time, and he let us go, told us not to play there because the kids walk through, (only problem is that's the only wooded area that's not a public park or private property