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How to Spot a Criminal (imgur.com)

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[–]uhmerikin 18 points19 points ago

...and people with no shirt on.

[–]brinkofjon 2 points3 points ago

I'm sorry! I thought this was America!

[–]akvaod 0 points1 point ago

/r/gonewild is full of criminals

[–]microseconds -1 points0 points ago

Also, guys wearing wifebeaters. The bad guys are always shirtless or wearing a wifebeater.

[–]asterix299 15 points16 points ago

Another thing I've learned from Cops is to just say "no, you may not search my car"

[–]GeneralScientist 3 points4 points ago

Odd, if I've learned anything from COPS it's that you tell them it's ok to search your car. Only when they find something you just scream it's not mine and I didn't do nothin' over and over while they arrest you.

[–]KNHaw 1 point2 points ago

FYI, an always useful resource for knowing your rights: The ACLU Bust Card

[–]JaxHostage -1 points0 points ago

FYI, they do not need your consent. They can and will search it anyway if the want to.

[–]klaq 10 points11 points ago

sure, they can, but without consent any evidence found would not be admissible.

[–]JaxHostage 0 points1 point ago

That may be, but my concern was not for them finding anything. Even if I did do anything illegal I wouldn't be stupid enough to keep it in my car. My concern was for them wasting my time while my kid sitting sick at school waiting for me to pick her up.

[–]klaq 0 points1 point ago

yeah it really sucks, but that's the USA for you. you do something illegal, you go to jail, police does an "illegal" search, no consequences.

[–]WeenisWrinkle 0 points1 point ago

If you take the case to court, the evidence gained in an illegal search will be thrown out. The police offer might not receive consequences (even though he/she should), but you're not going to get in trouble for denying a search.

[–]WeenisWrinkle 0 points1 point ago

If you are concerned for your time being wasted on a warrant-less search, you are free to deny the search under your constitutional rights. If the police officer has probable cause, he can perform a search. However, if you have given no probable cause, you are free to go as a warrant will not be able to be obtained.

[–]JaxHostage -1 points0 points ago

They can "produce" probably cause simply by walking the dog around your car. Unless you are trained in police dog signs how are you going to dispute that "the dog indicated the presence of narcotics in your car so we are going to search it even tho you said no"?

[–]WeenisWrinkle 1 point2 points ago

Most police officers do not have drug dogs at their disposal for normal traffic stops. Did the officer use this illegal method on you personally? Or are you again basing it off one news story on Reddit where it happened in an isolated case?

However, if this does happen to you, you may request the full video footage from the dash-cam on the police cruiser and use this as evidence to prove the officer fabricated probable cause.

[–]JaxHostage 0 points1 point ago

Yes, personally, a couple months ago. There isn't much point in pursuing it other than to complain. Nothing came of it, it was just a waste my time, and the time of the 3 cops plus the K-9 unit. I got the whole please step to the back of the car with me, do you have anything in the car, can I search it, had the dog walk it, of course it "alerted", took me to the side of his car out of the view of the camera to frisk me, had me sit in the back of his car while they searched mine, asked me about 25 times if I had pot in my car and then finally let me go almost an hour later. Dickbags...

[–]RainDancingChief -1 points0 points ago

This is what people don't understand. You can refuse it just raises suspicion and they have to get a warrant before they actually find anything

[–]WeenisWrinkle 1 point2 points ago

Getting a warrant without cause is not as easy as you might think. I've successfully warded off unconstitutional searches without a problem. If they have probable cause, they'll search. If they don't, they can't.

[–]Nancy515 0 points1 point ago

The problem is u can have unscrupulous officers that will tell a judge extremely skewed facts against u in order to get that warrant. Some know exactly Wat to say to get Wat they want. Only a chosen few mind you but it happens

[–]RainDancingChief 0 points1 point ago

yeah unless they can see something through the windows or something is VERY suspicious about the way you're acting can they get a warrant but you're right, they wouldn't waste time getting a warrant if they have probable cause. If they say they do and find something though, it's up to you to bring it up in court. Getting a warrant is hard, I know that, I never said it was easy, it just pisses the police off when they find someone who knows their constitutional rights lol.

[–]asterix299 0 points1 point ago

pretty uninformed. I have exercised the right before, so you're wrong.

[–]iluvgoodburger 2 points3 points ago

What he's saying is if they want to fuck you they're going to figure out a way to, and that is true

[–]JaxHostage -5 points-4 points ago

On the contrary. I am speaking from first hand experience. They asked, I said "NO", they proceeded to walk their dog around my car and indicated that the dog "alerted" to the presence of narcotics and searched my car anyway. Didn't find anything, not even a donut... as there was nothing to find. Wasted my time and completely changed my opinion of the police. As far as I'm concerned the only good cop is a dead cop. I wouldn't help a cop if he was bleeding to death in front of his kids. In fact I'd probably thank the guy who shot him. Fuck cops. Karma is a bullet.

[–]WeenisWrinkle 2 points3 points ago

As a cop, I feel very compelled to downvote this comment. However, I will refrain - maybe since your opinion of cops is 100% completely changed by each encounter, you'll now believe some cops are good while they're alive.

[–]JaxHostage 0 points1 point ago

That experience was the straw that broke the camels back. My previous encounters with cops, a couple of routine mundane traffic stops over the many many years I have been driving, public encounters just involving conversations in passing, as well as conversations with police I have known on a personal basis have brought me to the conclusion that most, not all, cops are little more than power tripping dick bags. It is my firm belief that people don't take positions of power with altruistic intentions. I was once of the mindset that criminals get what they deserve and if that includes being tazed, man handled, or shot, so be it. While I generally still hold that to be true (I harbor NO sympathy for violent criminals), I feel that the behavior of criminals is exacerbated by the response and attitude of the police. Like begets like. The more I read about police acting like common thugs the more apprehensive I have become about them in general. I believe the best course of action when encountering a cop is the same as with any other dangerous animal, speak in a calm voice, back away slowly in a non aggressive manor, and if a confrontation is inevitable fight for your life and go for the eyes. If you are one of the decent ones then I will exclude you from my generalization, but on the whole you should let your piers know that their collective attitude of arrogance, impunity, callousness, dishonesty, and entrapment only undermines your standing in the community and puts you in a "us vs. them" situation. Police are suppose to be above the situation, not contribute to the problem. If it was possible I would give the police a vote of no confidence.

[–]WeenisWrinkle 0 points1 point ago

Maybe we should start paying police officers higher wages - that way the power incentive is less.

Don't forget, police acting appropriately does not make for a good news story. Your mindset that 'most cops are little more than power tripping dick bags' is probably a little jaded by news stories. My experience with officers in my area before I became an officer was usually very professional.

[–]thrashhard702 0 points1 point ago

From the encounters I have had, it truely depends on where you are. Las Vegas metro police are fairly lax when it come to a lot of things compared to Henderson cops (they are neighbor cities).

I have only had a handful of encounters where the officers were proffesional and acted appropriatly. Most the time they act like thugs with gang mentality. 95% of the time I was doing nothing wrong so they had to let me go after wasteing my time (and theirs).

That being said there are cool, fair and proffesional police officers.

[–]JaxHostage 0 points1 point ago

I'll agree with that. I think police, fireman, and soldiers should be among the highest paid people in our society, they should also be the most honorable. Power corrupts I suppose. The media is another problem in and of itself, they report the worst of it. It doesn't have to be 5 cops beating a homeless man to death or a cop shooting a dog because he showed up at the wrong house to be a egregious.

[–]FakingItEveryDay -1 points0 points ago

For me to believe that such a thing as a "good cop" exists, someone would have to articulately explain how someone can be good and voluntarily accept a job where a major responsibility is to deprive people of their freedom for non-violent and victimless activities.

How can you believe yourself to be a good person when you voluntarily agree to kidnap people if they possess or sell a plant that the politicians don't like?

Since you claim to be a good cop, perhaps you can answer this. Because as I see it, saying there's a good cop is like saying that there are good gang members. Sure some are worse than others, but they victimize innocent people for a living. They can't be that good.

[–]WeenisWrinkle 2 points3 points ago

I might not be able to explain it as articulately as you might like, but my primary responsibility is to protect the rights given to citizens in the constitution - it is also my responsibility to uphold the law as it is written in my jurisdiction.

It is not my duty to only enforce laws that you agree with. It is my duty to enforce ALL applicable laws. It is YOUR duty as a citizen to elect leaders that will vote to repeal laws against marijuana or whatever other plant these politicians (that YOU voted into power) don't like. If you don't like the ruling of the majority, you are free to move to a state in which the majority votes differently. You really have to love that freedom!

I don't claim to be a 'good cop'. I'm just a cop that does my job to protect my community from others infringing on their rights. Cops like me guarantee your:

  1. Personal property rights - if someone takes something that is lawfully yours, I make sure they do not get away with it. If someone injures you or harms you physically, I make sure they do not get away with it.
  2. Personal liberty rights - If an individual (or organization) is infringing on your rights protected under the constitution, I rectify the situation.

You may only remember situations in which non-violent and victimless activities are punished, but most of my job is protecting your rights against other people who would gladly take them away.

[–]Aloysius7 0 points1 point ago

You, or any cop, can't guarantee 1. or 2.. Cops are a re-active force. People call the cops after they have been victimized. Sure, some of the criminals get caught, and arrested, but that doesn't keep them from doing it again, and it doesn't always fix the problem.

[–]FakingItEveryDay -2 points-1 points ago

Yous seem to be unwilling to question the morality of majority rule and want to fall back on the "just following orders" defense. I don't buy it. It especially doesn't fly when you voluntarily signed up for the job knowing what the laws you would be expected to enforce are. By doing so you imply that you think these laws are good. You therefor think that you have the authority to control what individuals do to their own bodies. In effect you behave as if you and the politicians who write the law, own the citizens.

Let me pose this question, if it's not your job to decide what laws to enforce, would a good cop be found enforcing Jim Crow laws 70 years ago?

Would a good cop in 1850 be returning escaped slaves under the Fugitive Slave Act?

Morality does not depend on majority rule. And majority rule does not absolve an individual of their moral responsibilities.

[–]WeenisWrinkle 2 points3 points ago

Yous seem to be unwilling to question the morality of majority rule and want to fall back on the "just following orders" defense. I don't buy it.

Do you have a job? Do you question the morality of each job description you are given and only complete tasks that fall into your moral paradigm? You don't buy that if I only enforce laws that I agree morally, I am fired? Just like any other job.

Enforcing the law is my job - I take it very seriously, but it's not up to me to decide which laws are 'good' and which laws are 'bad' from a moral standpoint. I place my trust in my community to use their voting power to enact laws that are in the best interest of the community. It's not a perfect system, but it's the best system we have come up with. I vote with my morals, I enforce the laws that the majority created like a professional law enforcement officer is supposed to do.

I believe that if a cop is doing his job as a professional, he is able to remove his own morality from the job. My job is to trust the morality of the voters when I'm on duty - I exercise my views on the morality of the laws at the voting booth.

[–]FakingItEveryDay -1 points0 points ago

Do you have a job? Do you question the morality of each job description you are given and only complete tasks that fall into your moral paradigm?

Yes and yes. Fortunately I haven't been asked to do anything immoral in my job. This is because I chose a job where I had a reasonably high expectation that I wouldn't be. You chose the opposite, then try to deny responsibility for your choice.

My job is to trust the morality of the voters when I'm on duty

Then I can take by implication that you think that cops enforcing the immoral will of their governments through history have no moral responsibility for their actions. On this I can't agree. Such men rationalize away their own responsibility and enable some of the worst atrocities this world has experienced. Any man with respect for equality of humans would have never returned an escaped slave, law or no law. And any man who values personal freedom today will not put another man in a cage for a victimless offense against the state.

[–]asterix299 1 point2 points ago

And you were probably acting like a little twit asshole the whole time so the cop decided to give you a hard time. All the donut munchers want is respect, just give it to them and they will leave you alone.

[–]JaxHostage 0 points1 point ago

Nope, actually I had left work early and was on my way to pick up a sick kid from school and explained it as such. He chose to be an ass , much like you are doing now.

[–]NormSonOfAGunderson 29 points30 points ago

I thought it was the black faces you need to stay away from?

[–]atimholt 22 points23 points ago

Are you talking about black, perfectly rectangular faces or are you being racist?

[–]iluvgoodburger 11 points12 points ago

It's reddit so take a wild guess

[–]logancook44 4 points5 points ago

No, it's the people without a shirt. They always get arrested.

[–]IHaveAScatFetishAMA 1 point2 points ago

What about black blurry faces?

[–]txking12 -1 points0 points ago

sometimes I lick my own poop for fun

[–]chocolate_coffee 0 points1 point ago

ಠ_ಠ

[–]birdocrank 10 points11 points ago

pretty much mitch hedberg's blurry bigfoot joke... but his was funny.

[–]cburke529 5 points6 points ago

That's what I immediately thought of too. So much better.

"There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here."

[–]Se7en_Sinner 9 points10 points ago

Don't forget Japanese genitalia.

[–]ChickinSammich 5 points6 points ago

Yeah, you can always tell if it's a real Japanese woman by the forcefield pixelating the air around her vagina.

[–]Breathing_Balls 0 points1 point ago

I could probably get myself off with that image.

[–]fleur_delyk 7 points8 points ago

Please no: "Pictures of just text - Make a self post instead."

[–]logancook44 5 points6 points ago

Am I the only one that hates this debate? I mean, it's a rule, and I agree it should be followed, but who cares if it is a picture of text? It is funny, it goes in r/Funny. We're getting too uptight on Reddit.

[–]13osiris13 1 point2 points ago

No. Reddit is a very serious place.

[–]Interwhat 1 point2 points ago

This is clearly a Facebook screenshot. See how he included the Like and Comment buttons? That makes it ok.

[–]Hoobleton 2 points3 points ago

When I was a kid I thought getting drunk gave you a blurry face because I saw drunk people on the news with blurred faces.

[–]mamajamerson 0 points1 point ago

Now this actually made me laugh.

[–]notcleverchris 4 points5 points ago

Or you can just avoid crackheads, that'd probably work.

[–]Surfacetovolume 0 points1 point ago

There's still "crack"?

[–]segman8 1 point2 points ago

Aww yea

[–]theduderman 1 point2 points ago

It's funny, because it's wrong. Only the drunk rednecks had their faces blurred, all the criminals were usually clear as day.

[–]General_Apathy 1 point2 points ago

The Ring taught me the same lesson, but in more terrifying fashion.

[–]JaxHostage 1 point2 points ago

How to spot a criminal? They are usually wearing a badge...

[–]stilldash 0 points1 point ago

And definitely don't take video tapes from them.

[–]FINN_Stoned 0 points1 point ago

oh sweet, thanks!

[–]jeffbell 0 points1 point ago

No wonder that bigfoot has shunned humanity.

[–]chaos_control 0 points1 point ago

I was expecting something racist Youtube. I'm very disappointed in you.

[–]budperson 0 points1 point ago

Shit, thanks!

[–]moneymizzlle 0 points1 point ago

and certain clothing brands

[–]iluvgoodburger 0 points1 point ago

What I learned from cops: while male shirtlessness is not against the law, it correlates so highly with arrest that it might as well be.

[–]BootiusTootius 0 points1 point ago

What about staying away from faces?

[–]WeenisWrinkle 0 points1 point ago

I think Bigfoot is blurry - that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault.

[–]scnavi 0 points1 point ago

And crack.

[–]KNHaw 0 points1 point ago

What? No mention of Cop Department from Futurama?

Smitty: That's it. Now put up your hands.

URL: Nice and slow. Aw, yeah!

Smitty: And while you're at it, unblur your face.

[–]Cheeseyx 0 points1 point ago

You can see a criminal in just two easy steps:

  1. Steal a mirror

  2. Look in it

[–]ooboontoo 0 points1 point ago

It is exactly the opposite for The First 48. They blur the faces of innocent people to the point where I wish they would blur everyone until they get a confession. As it is now as soon as they start talking to someone without a blur you know they are guilty as sin.

[–]redditP 0 points1 point ago

Groooo-ooan...

[–]omnilynx 0 points1 point ago

A lesson that Stephen King also teaches.

[–]thisisthejoke 0 points1 point ago

The faces aren't actually blurry, they just add that when they make the show.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

and niggers

[–]khaloisha 0 points1 point ago

Either a criminal or a japanese porn actress.

[–]Beaumont21 0 points1 point ago

I learned that from The Ring

[–]KhalKhaleesi7207 0 points1 point ago

The bad guy is usually the one covered in blood.....or semen

[–]JackRubysGun 0 points1 point ago

Why is it that criminals are the ones driving old cop cars?

[–]RedditorsOnFacebook 0 points1 point ago

Redditors on facebook.

[–]FalconOne 0 points1 point ago

I just thought of doing a skit, get a bunch of the famous Youtube actor people to do it.

the plot is like this, a bunch of friends are in a new town, and they've been warned about the dangerous spots, but its too late, they end up in a part of town with gang activity, and you see them all getting surrounded by blurry face people, being threatened with knives and guns.

I would watch it.

[–]ImpartialCat 0 points1 point ago

relevant

[–]Sweenunit 0 points1 point ago

I just look for the closest cop, they're everywhere

[–]awesimo 0 points1 point ago

The most important thing I learned from Cops is that if I shut the fuck up, I won't incriminate myself.

[–]RaoulDuke92 0 points1 point ago

they always seem to have really rude names as well...

[–]Fender6187 0 points1 point ago

Please correct me if I'm wrong (as this community is readily capable of doing). Is this not a Mitch Hedberg quote?

[–]Darth_Hobbes 0 points1 point ago

Discrimination! People of all face-clarity-levels should be treated equally.

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