Dale Carson is a defense attorney in Jacksonville, Florida, as well as an alumnus of the Miami-Dade Police Department and the FBI. So he knows a thing or two about how cops determine who to hassle, and what all of us can do to not be one of those people.
Carson has distilled his tips into a book titled "Arrest-Proof Yourself," now in its second edition. It is a legitimately scary book — 369 pages of insight on the many ways police officers profile and harass the people on their beat in an effort to rack up as many arrests as possible.
"Law enforcement officers now are part of the revenue-gathering system," Carson tells me in a phone interview. "The ranks of cops are young and competitive, they’re in competition with one another and intra-departmentally. It becomes a game. Policing isn’t about keeping streets safe, it’s about statistical success. The question for them is, 'Who can put the most people in jail?'"
Which would make the question for you and me, "How can we stay out of jail?" Carson's book does a pretty good job of explaining — in frank language — how to beat a system that's increasingly predatory.
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3 comments:
defecating yourself? seriously? this is the best a former cop can come up with? how about obeying the law and if a cop hassles you report him to internal affairs. he's right in that they are very competitive about arrests but if they get enough complaints against them then it won't matter how many arrests they get if enough people complain. They'll never get promoted. then they might realize just what a crappy position they've put themselves in.
5:41 PM
what fantasy would do you live in? go try to file a complaint against a cop and see what happens. YOU might be the one getting locked up.
bad cops, prosecutors, judges, they all get promoted, especially after doing wrong.
What you describe is WHAT it's supposed to be, not HOW it is.
been there and done it. the system does work. bad cops cost the taxpayer dearly. although there should be a national database kept of bad cops this would prevent them from moving on to another locations and repeating the same bad behavior.
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