re: In your life how many interactions have you had with LEOs?

Probably around 10 or so. All were good except for 2. One when I was high school I was rear ended at a red light by a black guy who was drunk. Ponchatoula city cop who is black and is now a lawyer let the guy go. Then about 10 years ago we roll up to our tailgate spot in the grass Between the soccer field and Tiger park. Now keep in mind there are tailgaters on either side of us. This fat rub of shite Marshall rolls up and tells us we have to move them ask me the truck to us belongs to. Tells us he is going to tow him ( it was the poster known as Rouge ).
Says if we aren’t moved when he comes back we are getting a ticket and getting towed. Now this is clearly free parking and we have a tailgate map to prove it. Dude was a dick. A few minutes later Jerry Stovall comes out of the softball stadium and we are bullshitting with him and tell him the story. He said we should have punched him in the throat, yeah good times.

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Pulled over when told to.
Never ran away when they wrote ticket.
Never took an officer’s taser.
Lived to tell this story.

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WHITE PRIVILEDGE!!!

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Many with none involving arrest due to my white privilege. Several should’ve involved arrest but there was always a sober driver.

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This has validity. I've had 2 that deserved arrest. One was a DUI. I was hammered but driving a car for people who were worse off than me. I was "sober" by comparison. I guess they didn't want to bother with 2 DUIs and a PI. If we were black? They'd have made the effort possibly.

Second, I at least had sense to not drive. BUT I started my car and took a snooze. Cops woke me up. Laughed at me. Congratulated me for ultimately not driving, Just making sure I wasn't dead. "Please tell me you dont have a warrant." I did not. I slept it off on my buddy's (who was now outside due to flashing lights) couch.

These were all during the stupidity of college FYI nothing recent.

a handful, all ok except one...

I got pulled over in st francisville and i didn't even realize he was flashing his lights and i didn't have a safe place to pull over right away. When i finally did the ginger cop said, i almost pulled a gun on you cause you wouldn't pull over...

I’ve been ambushed a couple of times through the years by the state collection agents / highway robbers. Maybe I just drew the bad ones but they seem very arrogant (much more so than city and SO). They seem to kinda get off on trying to intimidate people. I was not driving unsafely (as I suspect is like 99.9% of the trooper’s prey) the trooper just saw an opportunity to make the state a little bit more money from someone who is already working hard, paying taxes, and their own salary.

Anyway, I do support police and will stand shoulder to shoulder with them against these terrorists. But GOOD GRACIOUS, stop robbing the public with speeding ticket abuse! That has become like 90% of a troopers job.

So, no... Not a fan of troopers. Their uselessness seems to far outweigh their helpfulness. Stop writing tickets and let the SO’s take care of the parish.

Between Traffic Stops, getting detained for public intoxication, checkpoints and interactions on the water with game wardens. Probably 25-30, all of them went smooth

In Shreveport.. at Mardi Gras my fourth semester of college, the girl driving the vehicle I was riding in became nauseous right under the bridge, about 200 yards from our destination. I was the only other rider in the car who could drive a stick so I hopped in, got in the driver seat and before I could even shift into first I was arrested for DWI by a bicycle cop. I had drank 2 beers to this point but I was 20 years old. Total cost: over $5k. Truly one of the most disgusting humans I ever have encountered.

EDIT: I got a random down vote already. What bitc4 mot4er f5cker thinks the police officer that arrested me was doing the right thing? I was not impaired whatsoever. The DWI laws are well intended but this is just another example of bullshite with a bowtie.

After I got the DWI I worked at a local ISP for 4 months, collected CCNA and CCNP certifications and went on to be an instructor at Dyess Air Force base until 9/11 happened. Then I went back to school. Honestly my mistake was ever returning to this State.

EDIT2: Removed profanity laced string aimed at citizens that don't have the ability or have existing privileges which makes them not question the laws of this State. Removed stereotypes of said people.

2 dozen give or take, mostly as a teenager because they seemed to stop all teenagers in certain areas where they knew cocaine was being sold. This was in the Northeast. Never a real issue if I answered questions and was not a dick. A few buddies who tried to be wiseasses would get pinched and put in the car. When we were a little older it was usually drinking in public issue which was and still is illegal up there. The big mouths got arrested the respectful kids were dispersed. In Louisiana a cople times. once had my car impounded because I forgot to put the updated insurance card in my glove box. Ran a red light and got pulled over. Had to get a ride an pick my car up and pay a fine the next day.

plenty probably over 50

did a lot of illegal shite when young and in a small town. Got pulled over so many times just cause it was me and doing nothing wrong that would warrant a traffic stop.

Dealt with several a-hole cops. Never in any of those interactions was I disrespectful or resisted or gave them any reason to put me in jail.

Only once was i put in jail.

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Got a few tickets and got let go multiple times.

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Did these revenue generating tickets cause financial problems for you at any point? Like make you have to dip into savings or a credit card? Particularly nasty timing in the tickets for me. And like I mentioned in the insurance thread.. I've never filed a claim because I am a good driver.

Can't municipalities find a better method of revenue generation than tickets? If not. Defund. Easy fix.