Cops of Lemmy?
I assume so, but obviously I hope not…
Cops of lemmy, what’s it like to arrest/beat up/kill poor people whilst defending the rich?
Oh buddy.
Oh, I know.
I work alongside police occasionally, and they really don’t care about enforcing weed laws at all. The ones I’ve spoken to about it say the only time they charge people for possession is as an add-on charge when they’ve been arrested for something more serious. This is going to vary widely by police department, though
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Never understood why this was so accepted.
Two big reasons. First, maybe they want to get the person off the streets for some reason. Maybe they’re violent. But getting individual charges to stick can be difficult, so they just throw everything they can at the person to hopefully get them for something.
Second, it’s something they can use in plea bargaining. To use the above violent offender example, maybe someone is charged with battery and weed possession. The battery charge is hard to prove, but the weed possession is ironclad. The plea deal removes the (easy to prove) weed charge, but keeps the (hard to prove) battery charge. Now they didn’t need to bother with actually proving it, because the plea has them admitting to it. Without that weed charge, their only bargaining chip would be to reduce the violent charge to something lesser.
Whether or not it’s okay is really up to individual interpretation. But those are at least the two big arguments for why it became common.
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I’m a law enforcement officer. I use marijuana to criminalize otherwise innocent and nonviolent minorities so that I can shoot them without consequences.
Pew Pew!
Nah JK I’m not a piggy.
my sister dated a cop from a cop family a couple years ago. she said even long after weed had long been legalized in our state he still had a lot of harmful assumptions he’d make about someone if they smoked weed, along the lines of them just stright up being bad and immoral people, comparing them to more serious and/or violent criminals and vaugly dehumanizing them along with everyone else he saw as a law-breaker.
ultimately as far as I heard he didnt let these judgments significantly impact his work though, never heard a word of him doing anything more corrupt than driving a bit wrecklessly when bored on patrol. I mean I’m sure they did have an impact, but I mean to say he didnt do anything cartoonishly evil about it as long as he and my sister stayed dating.
Alternatively, my friend (the biggest stoner I know) married a cop. Our state never officially decriminalized it. His stance has basically been “as long as I don’t see it, we have plausible deniability and I don’t need to do anything about it.”
Before it became decriminalized in MA in a lot of places the worst that would happen is what stoners would call “the bowl tax”.
The cops would smash your glass. Basically to send a message that your being dumb smoking in an openly public space and making them waste their time on you.
My dude, cops never gave a damn about pot. It was always a pretextual reason to screw with people.
That’s basically what OP said isn’t it?
You see a white dude smoking a joint so you wink at them and move on.
You see a black dude in a car so you put your hand on your holster, immediately your training tells you that you should sense the smell of weed, you approach aggressively make multiple conflicting demands in rapid succession, draw your weapon etc etc.
Later that day you see a white dude smoking a joint so you wink at them and move on.
It’s like they’re reciting a script when they talk about “your eyes are glassy and red” during DUI stops in bodycam videos on YouTube. Because they are reciting a script.
Kinda like the sheriff that pulled me over for unknown reasons who smelled pot in my car (literally never articulated a reason, though context clues suggest they were investigating a stolen and abandoned vehicle). I was borrowing my dad’s vehicle while mine was in the shop. No pot ever entered that car.
But he definitely smelled it. /s
I’d be very surprised if there were many cops here who would out themselves just to answer your question.
If I were to speculate, however, I imagine that they don’t really care that much. Cops have other things to worry about, too, including a wide range of other drugs they can plant on “troublesome” suspects.
Would they be outting themselves tho, look below in the comments to see what I mean.
what
He’s asking how cops feel about rapidly changing drug policy depending on the administration.
Thank you for translating that to English
Impressive translation
American cops
thanks for the explanation.
Funny how you thought someone who works in the police force would be on the platform that predominantly hates them.
Sometimes people just make you laugh.
You won’t find pigs here willing to out themselves
Son of a cop here: I don’t think moral, normal people police officers care a ton about the small possession charges unless it involves DUI or domestic violence of some sort. Catching truckloads of the stuff driving through the small town was a big deal sometimes. I hope/think that hasn’t changed much despite laws going back and forth. Now, to dickhead power hungry hometown heroes that join the force because they got chubby and became skill-less after highschool football, they probably have never changed their stance and will still find ways to tack on charges of public impairment
I mean, we put people away for years for amounts that are now legal in many states.
Yeah, it’s awful. I love THC and criminalization is historically racist suppression. I am not in support of the bad people, just trying to help answer the question! Also important to note that police do not carry out sentences, that’s the court and judges.
I faced a year in jail over .05 grams and a one hitter back in the 1990s. Im white so I was fine but the latino kid who walked past me that day smoking a joint got time.
I’m one of dem dare peollicy ofifimericers. I think, if it doesn’t have anything to oppressing minorities than I’m not interested, ya see.
Every time you speak it’s like an episode of Columbo
I have my fun.
I’d love to know how cops feel, in weed legal states, having to go from busting weed producers and sellers, to protecting them.
Cops don’t have a duty to protect you. Sorry, but you better build your own safety net, cuz the pigs will do whatever they feel like doing.
