I've been arrested before:

[Aerows]

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	Disorderly Conduct
	3 (50%)
	Drunk and Disorderly
	0 (0%)
	Resisting Arrest
	1 (17%)
	Mouthing off
	1 (17%)
	Kicking a mailbox in the course of my arrest
	0 (0%)
	All of the above
	0 (0%)
	Drunk Driving
	1 (17%)
	Suspicion of having money (so we suspect drugs!)
	0 (0%)
	Assault
	0 (0%)
	Battery
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[Aerows]

1. I'm not black.

I'm pretty sure I would have been shot in the street for the combination of that nefarious behavior.

Note that everything but drunk and disorderly was dropped.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. Kicking a mailbox?

[Aerows]

3. List of charges.

I kid you not. "Destruction of Federal Property".

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. That's like the "damaging city property" for getting blood on their uniform.

[Aerows]

24. You get everything thrown at you

You feel like the worst criminal that ever existed.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

29. They want you to say, "I'm sorry." to the judge. Instant admission of guilt.

[sir pball]

52. Well, if they're feeling mean. I skated with 6˚ criminal mischief

$50 fine, a day of picking up trash, and 30 days' probation, all for a cleaned record.

Then again, it's hardly an uncommon crime in rural New England..

[Aerows]

66. Mine also ended up getting expunged

for community service. It was stupid, but it's not like there isn't a person in this world that hasn't disturbed the peace at a party.

[catnhatnh]

4. I've been arrested before...

....noon-but I was much younger and it took a whole lot of drinking.

[Aerows]

6. Only time I have ever been arrested

and yes, I was drunker than hell. Which lead to my decision to not drink so damn much and stay out of such situations.

[onethatcares]

64. never, ever.

go to jail sober. It really messes with your head. Much better to wake up and wonder, "what the hell did I do last night"

you'll find out soon enough.

[ripcord]

65. I did time in LA County Jail for battery

A guy punched his girlfriend in the mouth at a bar and I beat the crap out of him and even kicking him until he urinated on himself so I guess you could say I literally kicked the piss out of him. I know I went overboard but one of the few things I draw the line at is men abusing women.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. no

[Aerows]

14. Wish it hadn't have happened.

I was young, and yes, our crowd was getting disorderly in the respect that we were singing loudly and obnoxiously in the street.

[PowerToThePeople]

7. Sad to have to vote the way I did

But, truth is truth. Been several years since I have had any alcohol now, but there was a time when * was POTUS that I was trying to drown out the world around me with a bottle.

[Aerows]

8. Only thing more embarrassing

is getting arrested for being drunk off of your butt on foot, and "kicking a mailbox" as you got arrested.

[fadedrose]

9. No arrests, not even close

but my mother and the nuns gave me hell all the time, spanking too.
Maybe that's why I didn't go to jail ... never thought of that till now.

[NOLALady]

36. The nuns gave me hell

and I had my share of spankings.

I was arrested for carrying a sign demanding the right to vote.

[Recursion]

10. Walking home from work with my paycheck in cash in my pocket

Lived in Columbia Heights back before it had a Target (or even a 7-11). Cop sees me, asks why I'm in the neighborhood, I tell him I'm going home, and he searches me for money, and thinks I'm there to buy drugs. I can either give him the money or go to jail, and since I need the money to not get evicted (I'm already behind) I pick jail. Luckily I got a cheap bond (privilege! and no I'm not being sarcastic there) and could still pay my landlord. Lots of Ramen that month, though. (I was working for a job that infuriatingly only paid once, at the beginning of the month, in a hard check, and I didn't have a bank account because I couldn't wait a couple of weeks with illiquid money.)

(Ironically, now that I'm on the grid I'd probably love a lump payment on the 1st of every month.)

[Aerows]

13. This is exactly

the things we face.

I know I was being a young and stupid person, but this escalates quickly if the police believe you have no power or money. Or education. I changed my ways - definitely, but you can't change your ways if you are shot in the street.

[Recursion]

23. Excellent point

you can't change your ways if you are shot in the street

And I have another huge advantage: I'm at a "genteel" enough level of employment now that nobody asks if I have a criminal record (charges were dropped, but what if they hadn't been? I found out that carrying cash in my own neighborhood is in fact a crime, apparently). Ironically, it would have been easier for me to get the next job I went to (an administrator at a datacenter -- that's it's own story and the reason I hope I never work at a for-profit again) than to go back to my previous job driving a forklift, because the warehouse would have pulled my rap sheet and the datacenter didn't.

[Aerows]

26. That is the Heart of Everything.

You cannot be productive, you cannot be anybody if you are in a grave. Or in a jail.

[fadedrose]

11. For what?

Whatever made you think of this topic for a poll?

Are we out of candidates already?

[Aerows]

12. This is general discussion

I was discussing our criminal justice system. How skewed it is.

I would have likely been shot if I was a black male.

Instead, everything was dropped except the drunk and disorderly and I paid a fine.

[Warpy]

15. I was never booked

My drugs were prescription and I made the cop feel like the idiot he was.

[TDale313]

17. Never been arrested...

But the first time I got pulled over is an example of white privilege. Back in the early 90s, and I was early twenties. Had had very little contact with police, and kinda slow on the uptake sometimes. Heard a siren, didn't think it was for me for longer than I should have, when I knew it was for me I actually waited and took the next exit to get to a wider/safer spot to pull over. It was to let me know I had a break light out and I got a fix it ticket and a "just pull over on the shoulder next time" friendly warning. I can't help feeling things likely would have gone differently if I were a black man and not a 5 foot tall white woman.

[DemocraticWing]

18. I was arrested for something I didn't do

The charges were eventually dropped, but jail sucks. A lot.

[Aerows]

19. It was stupid.

I had a Christmas party and we all got loaded and went caroling. The officer grabbed me by the waist and my foot grazed a mailbox.

[msanthrope]

20. Yes...SCOTUS reversed......

http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1987/1987_86_803

[Aerows]

22. We were drunk off of our butts

Christmas caroling. I guess we sucked.

[msanthrope]

27. I was protesting Reagan's sale of chemicals to Saddam, who used them on his own

people.

The nuns I was arrested with were nice.

[Aerows]

30. Much more noble than my venture

but at least we both are alive and kicking .

[msanthrope]

31. Me? If I could see where to kick I would. nt

[Aerows]

32. Oh shit.

It's getting better, I mean you can post?

[LeftOfWest]

35. If I had car that could drive around the world I wold give it to you.

I really mean that. read here A lot.

Voting rights/Human rights.




I see/read you put yourself out there. 'bring me a fracking car now equal rights now'. ok not that but close.



Kick.

For putting them-selves out there voting rights human beings.

paradox internet posters.

[Kennah]

21. Never arrested. I lead a dull life.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

25. I'm a middle aged mostly white woman who drives a minivan.

I am invisible. I also have no finger prints from fifty years of dish washing. I should pursue a life of crime.

Occasionally white folks get mistreated by the cops. My daughter's boyfriend was attacked by a rabid Toronto cop because he had on a red shirt. The cop knocked him to the ground, beat the crap out of him and took him into the station before realizing it wasn't the right guy in a red shirt. Then, of course, the cop wanted to charge him with resisting arrest to cover his ass. Luckily, a medic and a superior officer intervened in his favor. He was out of work for two weeks because the beating was so bad. The pictures were horrible. Even if he was the right guy, he wouldn't have deserved to be attacked like that. At least he wasn't shot. Are Canadian cops armed?

[Aerows]

28. I'd have to look that up

But I assume your daughter's boyfriend is alive because they don't deploy lethal force at the drop of a hat.

Like I said, I would have to research it.

[NOLALady]

33. Carrying a sign in front of City Hall,

demanding the right to vote. I was 15 and couldn't vote anyway, but my GrandMother was old enough.

[NCTraveler]

53. You are wonderful. Thank you so much. nt.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

34. No idea why

My girlfriend and I had had a stupid fight and I arrived very early in her neighborhood the next morning. i parked my car near her house, hoping to catch her before she went out, to talk to her and try to smooth things out. Suddenly two police cars arrived at my front and rear and police officers came out with drawn guns. I assume a neighbor called the police on me. The police put me in hand cuffs and slammed me to the ground. Fortunately, very fortunately, my girlfriend came out of her house and saw me lying face down in the street. She started yelling at the cops. She had a way to cut right through your soul with her words when she was mad. The cops didn't want to let me go. She yelled at them "what's your probable cause?" We were both students in law school and my girlfriend's mother and father were both lawyers (her mom had been murdered in her law office by a street kid who was high on PCP and who tried to rob her). The cops said, with my beard, I matched the description of a man who was wanted for murder. My girlfriend wouldn't let up, and said she would make a big stink, involving her dad who in addition to being a lawyer was the President of a local college. Finally, the cops with great reluctance unlocked my cuffs and let me get back on my feet. Their cars stayed about another hour in the middle of her street in front of her house. My girlfriend and I got back together after that incident.

[shenmue]

37. I changed my pants in a gas station parking lot once

And the New Jersey state police still didn't arrest me. Cowards!

[Aerows]

41. MOON OVER NEW YORK

That's funny .

[irisblue]

44. wild & dangerous you are, indeed

[Lyric]

38. Mistakenly arrested for something I had nothing to do with.

All charges dismissed, of course.

[panader0]

39. Do we have to go in to this?

And is it just arrests or different charges?

[Aerows]

40. Look at all of the stupid reasons

people have been arrested.

And thank goodness we are all still here.

It is definitely a conversation worth having if it saves lives.

[panader0]

42. I was once court ordered to repair a cell I had damaged.

The grate to the mechanical room came off so easy. I was given thirty days to repair it and showed up on the thirtieth day.
No one will pull that grate off again.
I had a couple of misdemeanor possession (weed) charges, and a couple of other things, but nothing for over 25 years.
It took me until my late thirties to grow up.

[laundry_queen]

43. When I was 12 or 13

I was arrested for shoplifting. I was definitely swayed by my much older friend who told me it was a great way to get stuff. Since she had a mean streak, i didn't dare not do it with her. We both got caught. I did some community service (And was grounded for the entire summer).

My brother (white male) was once assaulted by a cop (also white male) when he was 18 or so. Basically, my brother was in a bar (probably drunk- legal age is 18 here) and didn't know it was an undercover cop. My brother was belligerent with the cop, mouthing off or something. The cop got mad and punched my brother, who then punched back. The cop beat up my brother, and then charged him with assault. All charges were dropped because there were so many witnesses that said the cop punched first and that my brother got the worst of it.

For many years, my brother hated cops. Then he married a cop, LOL.

My brother and I, despite being arrested as teens, are now upstanding taxpaying citizens with degrees and jobs.

[Aerows]

68. And thank heaven, that's what happened.

You were able to grow up, get a degree and become an upstanding citizen. You can't do that if you are dead, shot by an overzealous police officer.

[gwheezie]

45. Arrested during a protest

Charges dropped, there were too many of us to bother with.
Hassled several times. Once for prostitition, no kidding. It was the 70's. I had on white boots with an enormous wedge and a leopard mini skirt, red afro wig and I could hardly stay on my feet with those pre gaga boots. So my boyfriend was walking too fast and I was stumbling behind him, so I yelled hey wait for me and he stopped. So I ran up to him, started to fall and wound up on my knees with my arms wrapped around his waist. Just at that moment 2 transit cops grabbed me and accused me of soliciting. My boyfriend did most of the talking and convinced them we were together

[Iggo]

46. Um, yeah.

[NightWatcher]

47. The Man has never caught me

[MineralMan]

48. Other: For protesting the Vietnam War at the Pentagon.

Arrested but never booked.

[Charles de Gaudless]

49. I was nowhere NEAR that bank when it got robbed!

And I don't CARE what the video shows! Obviously doctored!

[underahedgerow]

50. No, but does it count if I've been held at shotgun-point by 2 sheriff's deputies?

That's a story.

They felt really bad about it.

[Lil Missy]

51. No, but I drove drunk hundreds of times and could have been arrested if caught. n/t

[BillZBubb]

54. Other: Numerous times for protesting. Once in Canada for hopping a freight train...

Good times!

[Phentex]

55. I think protesting should be one of the options...

Many could relate.

[BillZBubb]

57. Yep. Protest arrests have a variety of different (bogus) charges as well.

Failure to disperse, unlawful assembly, failure to obey a lawful order...

I got arrested once on the street while walking to the place where the protest was occurring--I hadn't even got there yet!

[beltanefauve]

74. 2004 RNC in NYC

Disorderly Conduct and "Parading Without a Permit". Agreed not to break any laws in NY for the next six months. (I'm from out of state anyway) Supposedly my record was expunged. I joined a class action suit, and with the help of the ACLU, sued the NYPD for false arrest, excessive detention and for the deplorable conditions we were kept in.

[DFW]

56. Had a scare once

In my college days, a couple of us drove from Philadelphia down to Mexico during Christmas break, and one of the girls had loved in Argentina and insisted on bringing some yerba maté with her. On the way back, US customs in Brownsville Texas found it in the car and thought it was marijuana. They asked what it was, and we told them. I said I realized what it looked like and asked if they had any way to test it so we could be on our way. They said they were going to test it no matter what and arrest all three of us if it tested positive. I said I hoped it wasn't similar to marijuana. I said I had no idea what marijuana tasted like if made into tea, but this stuff was pretty foul-tasting when made into tea. The customs guy did his thing, and said, "well, it looks like we're going to have to let you go. Whatever this stuff is, it's not marijuana." I said they'd get no objection from me if they wanted to keep it, but I was giving them fair warning not to drink any tea they made from it, because THEN they might really want to arrest us. He laughed and sent us on our merry way.

[2naSalit]

58. I've been arrested but not for any reasons offered...

I was arrested for weighing too much (in a semi-truck). And another time for not stepping on the brakes so the cop could see that I was slowing down while being monitored by radar and not having more than $10 on my person to pay him off after the stop... I down-shifted but didn't need the brakes since I wasn't going all that fast in the first place... oh, and having an out-of-state driver's license even though I was an interstate driver.

When I called the dispatcher to get me out of jail and he refused to do anything about it, he was fired the next day.

[ProfessorGAC]

59. I Picked Disorderly, But. . .

. . .actually i was detained. Never processed. Me and three friends got in a big fight in the front yard of some house. In a monumental example of "wrong place, wrong time" it was the front yard of a cop's house!

He came out, gun drawn (but not pointing at anybody), called his pals, and they took all 10 downtown. My dad came to get me and my cousin. Nobody was arrested or processed, but pretty clear that i came "this close" to a disorderly charge.

[Throd]

60. Stole a car and smashed it during a police pursuit.

[higherarkies]

61. It ain't what you do ...

It's what you get CAUGHT doing.

[2naSalit]

81. And therein lies

a great deal of the problems we have now with the "look what I got away with" assholes on social media creating a competition of assholes who commit copycat crimes to see who can top each other. I see it at work everyday, you don't want to know what I wish would happen to people like that.

A mindset we can do without.

[Fozzledick]

62. I was charged with "disturbing the peace" for attempting to disturb the war.

I always found that ironic.

I managed to avoid getting clubbed that day by knowing when to run and when not to (some
of my friends weren't so lucky) but I did catch a few whiffs of tear gas.

The federal courts later ruled that I had been "illegally detained" as the result of a criminal conspiracy between Nixon White House aides Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman and the D.C. chief of police to violate the civil rights of anti-war protesters, but I had in fact been obstructing traffic as a deliberate act of civil disobedience. The Federal District Court awarded me (and 10,000 others) $1000 in damages for the civil rights violation and the Supreme Court upheld their findings but dismissed the damages on the grounds of "sovereign immunity".

[onethatcares]

63. before what?

[Nevernose]

67. I've been arrested twice

Both times essentially for being a smart mouthed asshole. The cops were hassling me about something as usual -- because when you live in a shitty neighborhood the police assume that you're a shitty person -- and it took me thirty years to learn how to pretend to respect authority.

[OriginalGeek]

69. Spent a night in Garland city jail

my friend and I were walking from a friend's house back to my friend's house
Cops swoop in on us and order us to stop walking and accused us of messing with their traffic barricades some number of blocks away from where we were (I would have had I been there but we were busy getting high at the previous friends house from whence we came. We were nowhere near their barricades).
During this unreasonable search and seizure they discovered a pair of hemostats and a bag of cigarette tobacco and rolling papers on my person.
Immediately assume it's drugs and and run our licenses.
Discover unpaid traffic tickets outstanding and take us to jail (That part was legit. Our bad.)
Had a good time in jail smoking smuggled cigs and drinking coffee on the state. I think we were in teh drunk tank as there were several people there and nobody seemed to have done anything serious.
In the morning friends mom bailed us out (paid the tickets).
I smiled smugly as officer had to give me back my legit papers and stats and bag of tobacco. I could see on his face that he was terribly upset they hadn't found us long-haired hippies in possession of weed.

The funniest part is that may have been the only 24 hours for about a 6 year stretch that I DIDN'T have weed on me. Sorry coppers - no bust for you.

[shanti]

70. Never. n/t

[countryjake]

71. By separating Assault & Battery you've made it impossible for me to vote.

It's been many decades ago now, but I was mercilessly beaten up, arrested, charged with a felony, and imprisoned, for merely asking the question, "What's going on?" to a gigantic cop.

I never laid a hand on anyone, but you're quite right, I would have been shot in the back for running away if I were Black.

[steve2470]

72. I hope it was worth it!

I kid, I kid!

Seriously, I've never been arrested mainly because 1) I've been lucky and 2) my dad put the fear of God in me about being arrested. I'm sorry you were treated poorly.

[bunnies]

73. Other: being homeless. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

75. Have not, but sooner or later will

since I do cover places and situations where arrests do happen. Given my own health care issues, more than once I have wondered if I should stop.

But if I die in jail, it was not suicide.

[GReedDiamond]

77. Arrested once, for cannabis possession, back in the early 70s...

...during which I was pistol whipped on the back of my head, then, after tossing the gun away, the cop bashed my head against the concrete curb.

Since I was bleeding profusely from the head, the cop added on some trumped-up charges, such as, resisting arrest, and a few felony counts, including assault and battery on a "peace officer."

I had a total of six felony charges - don't remember what all they were, but they were all tossed out by the Judge when I agreed to plead to a misdemeanor possession charge at the first court hearing.

My sentence: I paid a $500 fine, and walked. No jail time or probation.

My lawyer got $1000 - best thousand bucks I ever spent.

[elias49]

78. DUI, sorry to say. 35 years ago.

3 years ago, I quit drinking. And I've been loving it!

[Scootaloo]

79. I provide my answer in comic strip form

[cherokeeprogressive]

80. I rear-ended an L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy the night Mike Tyson bit Evander Holifield's ear off.

BAC was .14 and I'd say all in all it cost me $50,000 and my marriage.

The Deputy falsely claimed injury and retired at 90% of his base salary.