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Regardless of weather or not the search was warranted in this case it often seems like much of the hardship and resentment could be mitigated by the tiniest amo
by flippyhead 11y ago
Regardless of weather or not the search was warranted in this case it often seems like much of the hardship and resentment could be mitigated by the tiniest amount of curtesy on the part of the police. I don't understand why cops are often (not always) such total dicks about this stuff. Does treating people like shit really further their aims? Is the thinking that some how they'll "smoke out the guilty" when their anger get's the better of them or something?
- slowmotiony 11y agoBavarian cops are known to be absolute pieces of shit. When I was younger I used to travel to Munich from Poland via bus (because it was the cheapest way), and we got stopped and frisked EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Imagine this for a second - I am a EU citizen of a country that signed the Schengen agreement, and yet I get my passport confiscated and my belongings searched every time I am in Germany. Not even a single "sorry" by the officers either.
- tormeh 11y agoBavarian bureaucrats too. What's up with Bavaria?
- biafra 11y agoBavaria is the Texas of Germany.
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- cygx 11y agoBayern gehört zu Österreich... duda, duda.
- wolfgke 11y agoHaving a Austrian father and a sister who lives in Austria, I say: the Austrian cops are said to be more civil than their Bavarian counterpart (and I'd prefer to live in Austria than in Bavaria).
- rostigerpudel 11y agoActually, having traveled a lot I have come to appreciate bavarian cops (and northern/central european cops in general) as being professional and downright civil when compared to some of their southern European counterparts (say from Spain, Italy or France). I've noticed, though, that it always helps to have at least some knowledge of the local language. There are always A-holes around in the police but consistently getting the frisky treatment would make me wonder if something in my appearance could be seen as cop-bait. Maybe the dreads and the weed silhouette on your cap? Just kidding, but since we don't know what you looked like, it's hard to tell if what happened to you was plain bad luck or something in your looks and/or expressed attitude. Definitely not something that happens to everyone.
- slowmotiony 11y agoI am just a regular normal white guy. You can book a night bus from Breslau/Kattowitz to Munich and I guarantee you will get stopped and searched too. The cops never found anything, but they succeeded in making me hate their guts for the rest of my life.
- sgift 11y agoSo, you hate the guts of people who do their jobs.
- slowmotiony 11y agoIt's not the job of Police to single out people based on their ethnicity and search them for drugs without any probable cause.
- jdietrich 11y agoProbable cause is an American legal concept, not a German one.
- sgift 11y agoIt's the job of the police to single out people based on their experience and search them for drugs/things they shouldn't have/other problems. There are always two sides, it's easy to pick one and then cry foul.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoPeople treat you as guilty until proven innocent.
- a3n 11y agoImagine you make an omelette every morning, or a grilled cheese sandwich every lunch. Imagine when you first start this habit, you make every meal with care. If you've seen the movie "Chef," remember the scene where he's making a grilled cheese sandwich; I've never seen such care. But you're not Chef, you're just a guy making a routine breakfast or lunch. As time goes by you get used to the routine. It's just an omelette or sandwich, you'll never think of each particular one once it's consumed. If there's a hole in an omelette, or the bread in the sandwich is skewed, you won't even remember it later in the day. It's just a thing you do every day, and despite any earlier desire to be the best omelette or sandwich maker, the only really important thing is that you've eaten. Those cops do that job every day, and the only important thing to them is that they've taken someone off the bus and searched them, and they can then report that. Discovery of contraband is just a bonus. The do it every day, and unless they find something they will never see "you" ever again. In fact they don't even see "you" during the event. You're just a resource so that they can make a report. You're just a resource. Would it ever occur to you to apologize to your sandwich for being less than perfect? Would it ever occur to those police to notice the individual, in a routine played out every day, and apologise or even acknowledge? You're just a resource.
- guard-of-terra 11y agoHairdressers and doctors (and even more so baristas) have all the same situation, and yet they usually find means to be polite. So no, it's not excuse, never was, never will be.
- lordnacho 11y agoRight, next time the police are impolite I'll go to the competition.
- guard-of-terra 11y agoThat is neither excuse for them nor for you.
- a3n 11y ago
- crusso 11y agoSome in law enforcement feel that it's better to subdue resistance right at the beginning of the interaction with decisive or even harsh treatment. They go for the "Shock and awe" approach.