Well said. I’ve been pulled over a lot. Sometimes I deserved what I got, sometimes not, other times I got off lucky. Depends on the situation.
i’ve got a good story for y’all. don’t have time to post it tho, maybe tomorrow.
Well, that’s what I would hope. But to be a little clearer, I made a formal complaint. After filing the complaint, I was told it would be investigated. A few weeks later, the Chief called me. He indicated that had investigated and decided the officer did nothing wrong. They never addressed the most serious aspect of my complaint, which was that this off-duty officer was OBVIOUSLY drunk and was driving. I deal with intoxicated people on a daily basis in my job, I KNOW how people act when they were drunk, and this guy was drunk. From the way his wife was acting, trying to pull him away, she knew it too and this wasn’t the first time.
When I asked if they had determined if he had been drinking he did not answer. When I said I wasn’t satisfied and wanted to know the next step for pursuing my complaint he said, in so many words, “there is no place you can go…we don’t answer to anybody”. Now, I found that scary. Obviously, the police do answer to civilian authority, but this guy didn’t see it. This made me decide it wasn’t worth it - who wants an out of control police force pissed at them? Interestingly, for months afterwards there seemed to be police cars trolling by my house much more frequently than normal. I am not a paranoid person, but it gave me the willies.
I know this sounds like a B-movie line, but I’d love to meet that prick without his badge and gun.
i don’t mind APD.
most cops arent assholes that ive dealt with and they are just trying to do their job. i dont think people should get pissed if they were driving like assholes and wonder why they got pulled over…
ive been pulled over 5 times by them…last time was 2 nights ago after leaving work and havent gotten a ticket…and also i know a lot of them cuz i work at a coffee place…so that also helps, lol.
Cops enforce the law. This has the responsibility of setting a example… NOT acting like fucking assholes that can get away with anything and they know it.
Cops want respect. I dont give respect unless I get it in return.
Many Amherst cops are idiots BECAUSE they harass people for stupid things. The worst part is that they harass residents… decent people that work, have a family, and pay their taxes. My friend still lives in Amherst and hes a decent kid that doesnt race of do anything stupid. Hes got a nice car that stands out and those morons bother him all the time.
Amherst is like a police state. If residents are nervous to drive around after dark in their own town then something is fucking wrong.
I lived in Amherst for a while as well. FUCK that town. They have the biggest racket of all going. Their court house is full to the brim every time… like no other. There is also one judge (if hes still there) that is the biggest pile of shit to sit behind a bench. He treats everyone like shit. People, kids, women, whaterver… get treated like criminals for stupid shit like expired inspection.
I hate Amherst… with good reason.
McMahon is a fuckign asshole, someone please let me know when he loses his badge so I can kick his fucking ass.
That fucking mother fucker.
having boobies also helps the situation
Haha a few years back a couple of my engineering buddies and I had been studying for Diff Eq’s till 1AM and were about to go crazy so we went for a drive. Spotted a nice looking old (~78ish) Monte in the back of a well lit parking lot (Carruba Collision on the BLVD) so we stopped in to walk over and gawk at it.
We hadn’t even made it to the car before an Amherst cop pulled in. So of course we walk over to the cop all nice (realizing that we were stupid to be in a random parking lot at 1AM.) Then another Amherst cop pulls in. Then a Tonawanda cop, then another Tonawanda cop, then another Tonawanda cop, then an unmarked car.
Next thing ya know, we’re being charged with 2 counts of trespass (one for Carruba, one for actually parking in the next business’s lot.) My buddy is in the Army Engineer reserves and his 89 caprice was full of tools and flashlights and shit, so it didnt’ look good.
The cops were pretty cool though, didn’t take us in or anything cuz we were obviously kinda nervous/scared and cooperative. They were just doing their jobs. Too bad being stupid isn’t illegal, cuz that’s what we really shoulda been charged with.
So my buddies and I went to Tonawanda court, showed up dressed real nice amongst all the juvenile delinquents that were there. The DA took one look at us and started ranting about how we were the 3 cleanest cut boys to ever come through there. We told them that we were all engineering students in the honors program with good GPA’s and explained that we were honestly just looking. He believed us and (despite the fact that Carruba was apparently having problems with vehicles getting broken in to) and recommended our full acquittal. The judge was an old bastard and grilled us pretty hard and obviously didn’t want to let us go, but he sided with the DA and we got an ACD.
All in all we were being pretty dumb, but the Amherst and Tonawanda cops were pretty cool, same with the Tonawanda court.
man i live in amherst with 4 other guys in a house, the cops stopped by a party one time and didnt even say a word about noise or drinking, only thing they were concerned with was some high school kids setting of firecrackers in the park down the street. As for the tickets, i prolly am up there with most tickets on my license. Amherst is not bad with getting tickets, ive been pulled over for speeding and let off with nothing. Some jerk-off cop tho gave me two tickets around this time last year, one seatbelt, one failure to signal. I put those tickets off for so long that they finally suspended my license at the begining of the month, so i finally went to court. They knocked these tickets down to parking tickets and they proceeded to fuck me, two 125 dollar tickets(so i was pissed about that), but i have 6 points on my license already and cant really afford any more than that so i’m happy to just pay the money and have that moving violation erased. These cops are alright though, ive seen much worse. As for the drunken cop situation, that shit IS fucked up and its shitty that theres nothing we can do sometimes, kick the shit out of him if u ever see him out of uniform.
I had to pay Amherst $205 for a no U turn ticket on an empty road at a clearly lit intersection at 2AM on a Tuesday night, which I was only at because of a detour they set up in the first place. I <3 them.
+1
Alright so couple stories.
1am, nothing decent is open in Amherst. this was about 3 years ago. Lived in the dorms. My buddy hizel was driving Jay and I to Jims Steakout on Main st. We’re in the right lane on Maple going west towards NFB. Way back before Delta Sonic a cop pulls out behind us, but to the left of us.
We were in a stock dodge avenger, no mods, nothing non-stock about the car.
Cop is in the left lane right behind us, so we’re in the right lane he’s in the left lane, with his side mirror at about our back bumper.
we’re going the speed limit
My buddy puts his turn signal on to turn left. He slows down from 35 (the speed limit) to literally 20mph, so the cop can pass us. Cop slows down at the same pace, to 20mph, stays so his side mirror is at our back bumper.
So my buddy assumes cop is letting him go ahead. So he turns into his left lane, and goes into the turning lane.
swirlies go on. Pulls us over.
“do you know why I pulled you over?”
“no?”
“oh. um. hmmm. You almost hit my cruiser! yeah, that’s it. you almost hit me. Oh, and your eyes are red. what have you been doing?”
for one, we came nowhere near hitting him. my buddy slowed down 15mph below the limit to let the cop go, cop slowed down to our speed, then gave us a gap.
also, he totally just said “your eyes are red” to have just cause incase he refused to let him search the car. We hadn’t been smoking or drinking or anything, and the kids eyes were crystal clear.
He asks to search the car, buddy is polite and says yes.
searches us, finds my fake id. (NYS id that wasn’t me). “does the person who owns this know you have it?”
“no. i found it.”
proceeds to call the guy’s parents house at what was now 2 in the morning!!! (we had to stand outside in 40 degree weather in hoodies while he searched the car a million times finding nothing each fucking time).
the id thing was stupid that he called, but the real asshole thing I was talking about is how he pulled us ove rin the first place
he fucking calls the owner of the ID
why thank you.