I can't WAIT to harrass people....
Recently, the Toronto Police Services board ran an e-mail forum (a
question and answer exchange, the topic, "Community Policing." A civilian
email participant posed the following question:
"I would like to know how it is possible for police officers to
continually harass people and get away with it?"
Sgt. Berezowski, a cop with a sense of humour, replies:
First of all, let me tell you this, it's not easy. In Toronto we
average one cop for every 600 people. Only about 60% of those cops are
on general duty (or what you might refer to as "patrol") where we do
most of our harassing. The rest are in non-harassing departments that do
not allow them contact with the day-to-day innocents. At any given moment, only one-fifth of the 60% patrollers are on duty and available for harassing people while the rest are off duty. So roughly, one cop is responsible for harassing about 5,000 residents. When you toss in the commercial, business, and tourist locations that attract people from other areas, sometimes you have a situation where a single cop is responsible for harassing 10,000 or more people a day.
Now, your average ten-hour shift runs 36,000 seconds long. This gives a cop one second to harass a person, and then only three-fourths of a second to eat a donut AND then find a new person to harass. This is not an easy task.
To be honest, most cops are not up to this challenge day in and day out.
It is just too tiring.
What we do is utilize some tools to help us narrow down those people
which we can realistically harass. The tools available to us are as
follows:
PHONE: People will call us up and point out things that cause us to focus
on a person for special harassment. "My neighbour is beating his wife" is a code phrase we often use. This means we'll come out and give some special harassment. Another popular one is, "There's a guy breaking into a house" or" So and so has a grow op". The harassment team is then put into action.
CARS: We have special cops assigned to harass people who drive. They like to harass the drivers of fast cars, cars with no insurance or no drivers
license and the like. It's lots of fun when you pick them out of traffic
for nothing more obvious than running a red light. Sometimes you get to
really he up the harassment on when you find they have drugs in the
car, are drunk, or have a warrant.
RUNNERS: Some people take off running just at the sight of a police officer. Nothing is quite as satisfying as running after them like a beagle on the scent of a bunny. When you catch them you can harass them for
hours.
STATUTES: When we don't have PHONE or CARS and have nothing better to do, there are actually books that give us ideas for reasons to harass
folks. They are called "Statutes"; Criminal Codes, Motor Vehicle, Liquor Act, etc... They all spell out all sorts of things for which you can really mess with people.
After you read the statute, you can just drive around for awhile until you
find someone violating one of these listed offences and harass them. Just last week I saw a guy smash a car window. Well, there's this book we have that says that's not allowed. That meant I got permission to harass this guy.
It is a pretty cool system that we have set up, and it works pretty well.
I seem to have a never-ending supply of folks to harass. And we get away
with it. Why? Because for the good citizens who pay the tab, we keep the
streets safe for them. Next time you are in my town, give me a single finger wave, that's another code word.
Posted by: mikey742
That was one funny reply!!
Posted by: Cinderella
LMAO!! great reply
Posted by: RPD931
Nice!!!
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