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Missouri Police Officers Bring Unsuspecting Drivers To Tears With Secret Santa Traffic

nero_bolt — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 06:51:39 GMT

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sheriffs-deputies-kindness-brings-drivers-to-tears/

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Earlier this month, in Kansas City, Missouri, the Jackson County Sheriff's Department was out looking for people. And when they spotted a subject, they went after them, in a sting operation the likes of which this country has never seen.

What made this operation especially unusual was the man behind it: a fellow in a red hat -- known to these men only as "Secret Santa."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sheriffs-deputies-kindness-brings-drivers-to-tears/

What made this operation especially unusual was the man behind it: a fellow in a red hat -- known to these men only as "Secret Santa."

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leona.helmsley.presiding — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 07:08:02 GMT

Nero posting a story that makes black people look good? Have I entered an alternate universe?

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crusader-rabbit48 — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:18:28 GMT

No.

You are still in Italy.

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kopenhagen5 — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:34:22 GMT

Nice story, thank you.

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imastawka — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:40:03 GMT

Nice one, nero. Merry Christmas to ya

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goldenjet16 — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:57:16 GMT

I think a certain someone should see this! 😉

Very nice nero!

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imastawka — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:16:02 GMT

She probably has, but can't figure out how to spin it her way.

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fayekinnitt — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:59:19 GMT

Thank you, Nero - great story. It's refreshing to see some positive news from the US posted here.

Merry Christmas!

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dwilke33 — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:32:15 GMT

What a neat story. It pulls at your heartstrings.

God bless the wealthy gentleman that does this good deed every year.

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dwilke33 — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:33:45 GMT

Oh Joani, what say you? 🙂

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aps1080 — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:45:00 GMT

Great story.

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softail-joanie — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 19:23:10 GMT

Oh Joani, what say you?

Yes, Danny Salts of the hightway patrol brought me to tears.

Pulled me over,

said I weaved in the road,

made me leave the car.

and kept me prisoner until

I had to call my dad

to drive 50 miles,

come and get me.

and when I came back

the next day, they had

a sticker on the window

saying it was abandonded.

This was on my way back from court in Franklin county where sheriffs

had beaten, raped, robbed and abducted me for being in my own home

in my own bedroom. I spent a week trying to sleep in my car

in a noisy store parking lot and been on the road for 100 miles.

after they dismissed the case rather than give me a jury trial.

Would you like to hear about how they brought me to tears when they took my bicycle, abducted me, and left me in an unfamilar area to walk in the blarring sun? The police are really good at bringing people to tears, one way or another,

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fayekinnitt — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 19:38:53 GMT

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dwilke33 — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 19:45:13 GMT

And, there you have it. 😛

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lionrose.7 — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:33:59 GMT

LOL I was waiting for that and you guys asked for it hahahaha

Nice to hear a great story about the police

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simone4010 — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:43:28 GMT

Joanie

I can see by your posts that you are a really passionate person, however, I think your passion is misdirected. Whilst you continually blame police for all your problems, you will never get to the root of your real issues.

May I suggest you find something you really enjoy doing to focus on, anything that brings you joy. While you in the library, there is a couple of books I would really recommend you read. One is Psycho-cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz and the other is You can heal your life by Louise Hay. These two would be a great start.

It all starts with you Joanie, only you can change things.

Have you ever heard that saying "What we think about the most, we attract"? What are you attracting today?

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goldenjet16 — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 03:09:47 GMT

Police Harassment, Chula Vista style -
From a neighbor - retired LAPD commander
Police Harassment

Recently, the Chula Vista, California Police Department ran an e-mail forum with the local community (a question and answer exchange) with the topic being, "Community Policing." One of the civilian e-mail participants 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?"
From the "other side" (the law enforcement side) Sgt. Bennett, obviously a cop with a sense of humor replied:
"First of all, let me tell you this...it's not easy. In Chula Vista, 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 follow:
PHONE: People will call us up and point out things that cause us to focus on a person for special harassment.

"My neighbor is beating his wife" is a code phrase used often. This means we'll come out and give somebody some special harassment.
Another popular one: "There's a guy breaking into a house." 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 driver's licenses 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 heap the harassment on when you find they have drugs in the car, they are drunk, or have an outstanding warrant on file.
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 to determine why they didn't want to talk to us.
STATUTES: When we don't have PHONES 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 Codes, 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 offenses and harass them.
Just last week I saw a guy trying to steal a car. Well, there's this book we have that says that's not allowed. That meant I got permission to harass this guy. It's a really cool system that we've set up, and it works pretty well.

We 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 try to keep the streets safe for them, and they pay us to "harass" some people.
Next time you are in my town, give me the old "single finger wave." That's another one of those codes. It means, "You can't harass me." It's one of our favorites.

Hopefully sir, this has clarified to you a little bit better how we harass the good citizens of Chula Vista.

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imastawka — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 03:16:12 GMT

OMG you know she'll take it as gospel!

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aps1080 — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 03:22:45 GMT

That is very well done.

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softail-joanie — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 03:49:42 GMT

Oh, i know, they select me because i wasn't really attacked by two drug crazed teens, i went after them, it's a hobby of mine. Looking for boys smoking pot and hitting them. no, first i bring them into my house, then i hit them.lol. it's really fun.

then i smoke in areas where it's not allowed, my mom thought that one paticularly funny since i can't stand to be anywhere near it. but i sucked it up and started smoking, just because i didn't like being told i couldn't. thats fun too.

Then the shoplifting, no wait, they changed to to filming in the store, no, that was recanted as well, well its something, just so much fun all that abuse i get from the sheriffs

oh, i know, i didn't answer the question, "not such a tuff guy now are you" i just took it as a smart allically remark and tried ti ignore it. I shouldn't have stepped away while he was talking to me even though he said i was free to go. My mistake.

Ya know, come to think of it, I was riding my bicycle in the middle of the road because i just love to block the flow of traffic.

I wasn't reading a book in my car, that was a cover story for breaking into someone else's car.

That truck i drove to the bank was stolen, that lady who block me in the parking space and called police was a brave hero.

Is that who I am?, is that how you really see me? i just did all these things they say i did, and they were just being the nice generious people by dismissing the case without conviction. It's not because they were worried about how a jury would view their actions. they did good. I deserve all they did to me and they should do it all again. Oh forgot, i did it to myself, they would never harm me. such nice kind people.