Streetalk: Are your hometown cops better than ours?
September 12, 2009 at 8:50 am by Jeff Slate in Streetalk
Chris, Beachwood, N.J.: Jersey cops are much more easy to corrupt. Give ‘em a few bucks and you can do whatever you want. These cops in Atlanta are a little bit dumber, so you don’t have to corrupt them. New Jersey generally has a lot more crime so they know the bribe rate. But being in the South, you have much more gun privileges — so Atlanta cops would be much faster to draw their guns and shoot me than in Jersey. New Jersey is very strict in who gets guns and how they get to use them.
Chris, Suffolk, Va.: Where I’m from, the cops are complete dicks, assholes. They go around following people, fucking around with them for no reason. You can be doing the speed limit and they’ll still follow you for six, seven blocks, and then they’ll pull off like they weren’t going to try to pull you over, anyway. So from where I’m sitting, Atlanta cops are pretty cool. They’re keepin’ the peace. My dad is a cop in Norfolk [Va.]. Atlanta police look like everyday police with an attitude that they’re actually serving the public.
Daniel & Steve, London: British police don’t care. They treat you like crap, really. At least in America, they actually help you cross the roads. In England that wouldn’t happen. They’d just let you crash. I’d say pretty much the U.K. police are all rubbish, especially the Welsh police. If anything like [Dragon*Con] was going on in London, they’d shut it down. Here in Atlanta, they seem very accepting of everything. In London you have to have a license to buy a BB gun. They’ve clamped down on everyone.
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September 12th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
I am from Birmingham and a suburb called Hoover.
Hoover is better than APD.
Bham…. not so much.