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I can understand where John D A.K.A. cloudcroft is coming from.
My mother worked in the public school system from 1965 until 1980 as a high school teacher... we were stalked (mother, me, sister), threatened with death (the family), and I was assaulted twice in high school over grades my mother assigned.
Personally, I have dealt with enough young folks, some from 'good' homes, who are entitled, spoiled, arrogant, disrespectful, antagonistic, rude, stupid, and generally disagreeable individuals to have to be around. On more than one occasion, I have taken the bail money and immediately revoked their bond for 24 hours to drive the point home that not only was this the real world, but by signing my bond, they were using my good relationship with the courts and the Sheriff to go out and walk around until their next court date. They were not out of custody, rather the Sheriff and the courts had assigned me the custody of the individual and my instructions had the force of law.They had already signed a contract that specifically stated their expected behavior on bond and what my remedies were if they were in breach of contract. I got through to some, but far to few. It was easier to deal with the career criminals as they knew how the game went and I had a reputation as a hard nosed bitch, but a fair one. I helped folks get jobs, back and forth to court, hooked up with social services, back and forth to doctor's appointments, grocery shopping, etc.
I had death threats, I have stared down a drug dealer 'with connections' while he had his hand on his knife that he was known to slash and stab folks with, I have had Aryan Brotherhoodin my office at 2AM with a 9mm condition 1 gun sitting on the desk in front of them, and the .45 they didn't know about in my hand under the desk pointed at them,and them higher than a kite on meth, a meth-addict higher than a kite assault me, a meth head that moved into the rent house next to my office accosted me outside my office as I was leaving at 10:30 on a Sunday night, he tried to intimidate me physically and when that didn't work, try to assualt me. I have had one drug addict that I ran out of my office late at night after he wandered in when he saw my lights on. I called mybounty hunterand he showed up and I told the d-a to leave, left the room and the bounty hunter rode his ass until he was out the door. Funny part was that the cops were looking for him and they picked him up a block from my office. I got a call from those same officers at 6am asking me if I laid hands on him. I said, "If me or my bounty hunter had laid hands on him, he would have needed an ambulance to leave my property." The next statement was that we had tased him. I replied, "Do you see any burn marks on him, as we don't have any tasers, just stun guns which would leave a mark." The next statement was that I put a gun to his head, to which I replied, "Isthere a red circle in the middle of his forehead? If not, then I did not pull my gun as I would have jammed it into the center of his forehead." By this time the cop had me on speaker phone and all of them were laughing uproariously. Neighbor d-a also called to file a report on me "to be put in her file" about the incident in which he claimed I pulled my gun and brandished it at him. One of the detectives called me and I explained the incident, knowing full well he was recording the conversation. I had another d-a accuse me of stealing from her when she got herself thrown in jail when all I did was pick up her german shepherd so she wouldn't end up in the pound. When the detectives called me down for the interview, all I could say was, "What use would I have for any of her junk?" Then, another d-a accused me of stealing his stuff when he asked me to move it from the place he was to his girlfriends place when he had to spend 30 days in jail. I had taken my brand new digital camcorder and recorded the apartment when I went in, then the truck with it all loaded on, then when I had it all unloaded in his girlfriends apartment, showing the change and boots and some other junk he said I took. Little S.O.B. is lucky I forgot to unload his father/grandfathers' Gibson guitar and delivered it to his hand after he got out or the little bimbo would have stolen that too. Of course, when I suggested that I take his stuff to his mother and store it in her garage like she wanted him to, he told me he knew his d-a girlfriend wouldn't steal from him, they were in love. And this guy was 34 years old. I would think he would have known better if he wasn't loosing brain cells by the bucketfull every time he smoked or however he did the meth. And he was the oldest one I have talked about here and most of the others were under the age of 25.
As for cooperating with LE, well, there are two sides to that street. I have also had my share of civil rights trampled, back alley politics, carrot with one hand, stick with the other from LEO ... there's good and bad in any system ... but beware when you expect civilized behavior at all times. I have found that some will lie at the drop of a hat andsome do it habitually. I have had LEO try to slander me with other business owners in this town. I have had wires worn in on me. I believe that my vehicle was bugged at one time. It got so bad that I went out of the local to find out if a wiretap was working on me or my home or my business. At times, I have found more forthrightness in career criminals as they will abide by a code of conduct to a certain extent.
It is a lot easier being a PI/SG than a bondsman! Not as exciting, but easier on these old bones. It's been almost 2 years and my back is still 'delicate' and recovering from some of the stress I put on it.
Again, I believe that Brian was completely in the right and the officer was completely in the wrong and he got caught with his pants down around his ankles! I see this incident as BigBadBubbaKop gonna teach YoungBlood a lesson. Only he couldn't pull his head out of where it was when he realized he was being taped ... Good on Brian!
I'm just saying that other folks might have a slightly (OK, majorly) jaundiced opinion of younger people based on our personal experiences.
I also believe that as members of this society, we have an implicit responsibility to not be a part of the problem ... when the problem is put in our face, it is also our responsibility to address it effectively, which may not be at the time of the occurance, but later with supervisors and higher as needed. To give ourselves the strongest case, we need to be ready with audio and/or video at all times.
