Who has had police violate their rights?
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I used to get pulled over for being cute. It was annoying and a little scary being pulled over when you had no idea why. But nothing like I experienced when I was 17.
When I was 17 I was in a car with 5 guys. One was my boyfriend. He and 1 other in the car were in a band. We were waiting for the place they were playing to open.
Cops approached and ordered us all out of the car. They searched us and the vehicle. No one had anything but there was an unopened 12 pack in the car. I was the only one under age.
They took us all down to the police station and held us for hours. They finally let the guys in the band go. The owner of the place they were playing at had called and was upset the band couldn't play.
I was then taken into a holding cell that had cameras and was strip searched. The guys watched the cops watching this happen to me.
They eventually let us all go. I never did anything because I wasn't supposed to be with my boyfriend. I was more afraid of my parents at that time.
I wonder how many others here have been abused by cops.
Believe me, that experience was horrible and still haunts me.
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I guess maybe we can tell our dad that story without getting grounded for life now? Nah, probably shouldn't risk it. 
I wouldn't risk it if I were you.
The whole experience was pretty ugly. We tend to try to forget the wrongs done to us and just move on. But with this one, I'm damned sure glad I got the money!
the world put on Amnesty International's list of human rights violators. SO many citizens have been shot and killed right in front of their own homes by police lately, it's feeling like a war zone.
http://report.wechargegenocide.org/people.html
Last night my neighborhood, Hyde Park -- where Obama's home is, right? -- had a community meeting with over 200 in attendance, the issue being the discriminatory treatment of blacks and whites in this community by University of Chicago Police Department, which has all the law enforcement powers that Chicago Police Dept. does. A lot of understanding of law and a collection of 'incidents' were made known, and the community is in full accord about making this university and its district commanders answerable to the 65,000 citizens their jurisdiction allegedly 'serves and protects.'
This stuff just feeds into my addiction triggers. 
I am so sorry for your loss, for your abuse, for everything.
What horrible experiences. Everyone one of them. Each one is more horrid than the last. To know this cop killed your mom, I can't fathom it.
It's very difficult to discuss molestation at a young age. Even though as adults we know we were victims, the child mentality that it is somehow our faults and we should feel shame doesn't ever seem to completely leave us. I'm just so sorry you suffered so.
Thank you so much for sharing such painful, tragic experiences.
Here is the key point:
In 2010, a team of researchers at the University of California, Davis set out to test the reliability of drug- and bomb-sniffing dogs.
The team assembled 18 police dogs and their handlers and gave them a routine task: go through a room and sniff out the drugs and explosives.
But there was a twist. The room was clean. No drugs, no explosives.
In order to pass the test, the handlers and their dogs had to go through the room and detect nothing.
But of 144 runs, that happened only 21 times, for a failure rate of 85 percent.
Although drug-sniffing dogs are supposed to find drugs on their own, the researchers concluded that they were influenced by their handlers, and that's what led to such a high failure rate
About a month after the results of the UC Davis experiment were released, the Chicago Tribune published a study looking into three years of drug searches by suburban Illinois police departments.
The study revealed that when dogs "alerted" officers to drugs, they were right 44 percent of the time. For Hispanic drivers, the rate was only 27 percent.
Police told the Tribune that when drugs weren't found, the dogs were detecting drug residue that was left in the vehicles.
But that explanation is bogus, according to Lawrence Myers, an Auburn University professor who has studied police dogs for 30 years.
While residual odors can cause false alerts, Myers said, too many dog handlers often use it as an excuse, making it all but impossible to assess accurately the reliability of the dog's nose or the validity of a search.
"Frankly, many times it's a search warrant on a leash," Myers said of the drug-sniffing police dog.
as violation of my rights, but, I was held at gunpoint after I moved into a new apartment as I was doing some carpentry work in the apartment at my landlord request.
I was new to the neighborhood and a neighbor called the police thinking I was robbing the place.
They came up with guns drawn, as I turned the corner and saw them through the kitchen window. I had shorts and a tool apron on and that was it.
I threw up my hands while holding a hammer into the air. They came into the house still pointing the guns at me and yelled to drop the hammer. My Brittany (best dog I ever had) ran out the door and I yelled please don't shoot my dog, he is just hyper and does not bite. I was pretty scared but once they realized I was not a threat they allowed me to retrieve my dog.
This was 1993 and IMO if I were a different color or perhaps this happened now my dog would be dead and I'm pretty sure I would not be typing right now 
tell the story, but it seems these days many others can't 
I got lucky.
I'm not sure that much happened. I had lots of girl friends that went to Sul Ross and they were constantly pulled over for stupid infractions back then.
When I think back on it and really I haven't for years until tonight as I relayed my story I am just grateful I didn't get raped or something. There is literally NOTHING for miles in West Texas. 
