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Like they don't care about community. Like they don't care about the law. Making loud noises. Dressing strange but flashy. I don't know. Are you going to prete

by hasenj 9y ago

Like they don't care about community. Like they don't care about the law. Making loud noises. Dressing strange but flashy. I don't know. Are you going to pretend like there are no way for people to act suspicious now?

g-clef 9y ago
Those aren't drug dealers (I've met a few, they didn't act like that...either that or I only met the really boring drug dealers). The only place you see "drug dealers" acting like that is tv/movies. "Suspicious" is walking up to the front door of your house and checking if it's locked. It's walking into your backyard without permission. It's looking in the windows of your house without permission. It's checking the doors on your car to see if they're unlocked. I'll even grant you that suspicious could be hanging out in a running car in front of an empty house for 30 minutes or so. However, it's not dressing flashy and being loud. (Though feel free to call the cops if they're being super-loud at 1am in a residential area. That's just rude.) If your definition of "suspicious" includes "this person doesn't act like me" with a dollop of "this person acts like the cartoon black people I see in movies", then you should absolutely be prepared to be called out.
- seabird 9y ago
  You have only met really boring drug dealers. I have come across plenty of them, and only the rural and disconnected suburban operations try to fly under the radar. When you're close enough to a fairly large city, the operation running that show is usually a lot more bold/brash, and their equally brazen subsidiaries will reach out into the suburbs and rural areas. This is where things start to get extremely obvious. I'm not sure if it's because inner-city police resources are allocated toward crimes other than drug dealing, or the drug dealers don't have an understanding of what will incriminate them/draw suspicion, but you definitely know when they're working the area.
PhasmaFelis 9y ago
> Like they don't care about community. Like they don't care about the law. Making loud noises. Dressing strange but flashy. That pretty much just describes teenagers.
smt88 9y ago
> Are you going to pretend like there are no way for people to act suspicious now? People can act suspiciously, sure. But that doesn't mean that behavior is actually correlated with committing a crime. People are suspicious of a lot of things they shouldn't be. As other people mentioned in this thread, just being black and walking through a white neighborhood will get you plastered all over NextDoor. Are you going to pretend like most people have an accurate, objective way to determine which behaviors are worthy of suspicion?

by hasenj 9y ago

g-clef 9y ago

Those aren't drug dealers (I've met a few, they didn't act like that...either that or I only met the really boring drug dealers). The only place you see "drug dealers" acting like that is tv/movies. "Suspicious" is walking up to the front door of your house and checking if it's locked. It's walking into your backyard without permission. It's looking in the windows of your house without permission. It's checking the doors on your car to see if they're unlocked. I'll even grant you that suspicious could be hanging out in a running car in front of an empty house for 30 minutes or so. However, it's not dressing flashy and being loud. (Though feel free to call the cops if they're being super-loud at 1am in a residential area. That's just rude.) If your definition of "suspicious" includes "this person doesn't act like me" with a dollop of "this person acts like the cartoon black people I see in movies", then you should absolutely be prepared to be called out.

seabird 9y ago
You have only met really boring drug dealers. I have come across plenty of them, and only the rural and disconnected suburban operations try to fly under the radar. When you're close enough to a fairly large city, the operation running that show is usually a lot more bold/brash, and their equally brazen subsidiaries will reach out into the suburbs and rural areas. This is where things start to get extremely obvious. I'm not sure if it's because inner-city police resources are allocated toward crimes other than drug dealing, or the drug dealers don't have an understanding of what will incriminate them/draw suspicion, but you definitely know when they're working the area.

PhasmaFelis 9y ago

> Like they don't care about community. Like they don't care about the law. Making loud noises. Dressing strange but flashy. That pretty much just describes teenagers.

smt88 9y ago

> Are you going to pretend like there are no way for people to act suspicious now? People can act suspiciously, sure. But that doesn't mean that behavior is actually correlated with committing a crime. People are suspicious of a lot of things they shouldn't be. As other people mentioned in this thread, just being black and walking through a white neighborhood will get you plastered all over NextDoor. Are you going to pretend like most people have an accurate, objective way to determine which behaviors are worthy of suspicion?