NEWS: The Ghetto Handbook: Another Great Example of Police Stupidity

Exactly!

damn, i love that show.

The only thing I hate about that show.......

Yeah, God forbid servants of the public trust be held to a high ethical standard.

Or for that matter a high grammatical one.

I don't think that this book was THAT bad of an idea, if it was done more professionally. A freind of mine who teaches at high school went to a seminar that gave him the same lesson. There are a lot of people really don't know what these words mean. If that's were you work, that's what you need to know. The poem in the back was was over the line. No excuses.

FACT!

sorry. i've grown up around a lot of cops too. about 89% of them were big fat motherfucking dickheads. to be polite.
i'm a really nice guy, and somewhat kinda smart too, and i don't cause trouble. but, you'd think i was a minority crackwhore in tenesee the way i get fucked with. mainly for being under 30, having longish hair, piercings, and generally not being one of the fold. some of my friends have policemen for fathers and they're great, and one of my friends is actually a policeman as well. but, in the nice, white, small town where i grew up, i couldn't even walk around my own neighborhood after dark without being harassed. and it has only changed slightly since i have gotten older and moved. a number of times. and most of them had no fucking clue what the fuck they were doing. i call them, too. and they might even help a little. but the balance is definitely skewed pretty damn well in the other direction.

It broke my heart that brown bear joined an air band.

sometimes i get the feeling that assholes are sort of funneled into the police force....like it was meant to be or something. other times, i think that it's a conditioned thing. if i had to constantly deal with the scourge of the earth, then i might develop a bad attitude too. not saying it's excusable, but don't you think that job would be a total grind? i can't even imagine having to go through domestic violence calls on a daily basis. i imagine it could harden anyone's personality in a hurry...just saying.

Yea around here if you choose to walk to work as opposed to driving a car you better expect to be hassled on an almost nightly basis. Which includes asking you everything from where you are going, where you have been and where you live to actually getting frisked because they have "had some reported robberies in the area"...and me being one of about 12 other people I know who were wrongly arrested (which means you spend a night in jail, pay hundreds of dollars for bail, are found by the DA that the cops never had a grounds for arresting you so they drop the case before it ever goes to court. Then you have these arrests sitting on your record regardless of the fact the charges were dropped every place you try to get a job sees it as something you are guilty of so you have to pay another few hundred dollars to get your record cleaned). So I dont take to well to people not holding cops to a high standard. Its because of mindsets like that and the idea that cops are somehow a cut above your average joe that allows things like that to happen ... and yea I have never called the cops and I seriously doubt I ever would, I prefer to take care of myself

Looking at it from the other side, some of these could actually be helpful.

Possible sentences overhead by a police officer:

"Yo dawg, roll wit me ouside an check my 22s" - Are they headed outside to do a transaction regarding guns and bring them back into the school or going outside to take a look at a set of $1500 22" rims on a car worth less than that? Given the number of guns in Houston schools, the former is a very real concern.

"So I axed that bitch...." - Was the woman in question asked a question, murdered with an axe, or simply removed from the pool of possible booty calls?

Poor taste? Maybe. However, if we talking about tolerance for differing viewpoints, shouldn't we accept that this guide is simply a differing viewpoint?

That was funny!