My dude, cops never gave a damn about pot. It was always a pretextual reason to screw with people.
That’s basically what OP said isn’t it?
You see a white dude smoking a joint so you wink at them and move on.
You see a black dude in a car so you put your hand on your holster, immediately your training tells you that you should sense the smell of weed, you approach aggressively make multiple conflicting demands in rapid succession, draw your weapon etc etc.
Later that day you see a white dude smoking a joint so you wink at them and move on.
It’s like they’re reciting a script when they talk about “your eyes are glassy and red” during DUI stops in bodycam videos on YouTube. Because they are reciting a script.
Kinda like the sheriff that pulled me over for unknown reasons who smelled pot in my car (literally never articulated a reason, though context clues suggest they were investigating a stolen and abandoned vehicle). I was borrowing my dad’s vehicle while mine was in the shop. No pot ever entered that car.
But he definitely smelled it. /s
Funny how you thought someone who works in the police force would be on the platform that predominantly hates them.
I’m a law enforcement officer. I use marijuana to criminalize otherwise innocent and nonviolent minorities so that I can shoot them without consequences.
Pew Pew!
Nah JK I’m not a piggy.
my sister dated a cop from a cop family a couple years ago. she said even long after weed had long been legalized in our state he still had a lot of harmful assumptions he’d make about someone if they smoked weed, along the lines of them just stright up being bad and immoral people, comparing them to more serious and/or violent criminals and vaugly dehumanizing them along with everyone else he saw as a law-breaker.
ultimately as far as I heard he didnt let these judgments significantly impact his work though, never heard a word of him doing anything more corrupt than driving a bit wrecklessly when bored on patrol. I mean I’m sure they did have an impact, but I mean to say he didnt do anything cartoonishly evil about it as long as he and my sister stayed dating.
Alternatively, my friend (the biggest stoner I know) married a cop. Our state never officially decriminalized it. His stance has basically been “as long as I don’t see it, we have plausible deniability and I don’t need to do anything about it.”
I used to work 911/dispatch and nobody gave a shit about weed. It’s still not even broadly legal where I worked.
Do you think people call 911 to report someone smoking pot? I doubt that has happened since the 90s.
What happens on the street during police encounters and what people call you about are not the same thing.
Cops of Lemmy?
I assume so, but obviously I hope not…
Cops of lemmy, what’s it like to arrest/beat up/kill poor people whilst defending the rich?
I’d love to know how cops feel, in weed legal states, having to go from busting weed producers and sellers, to protecting them.
Cops don’t have a duty to protect you. Sorry, but you better build your own safety net, cuz the pigs will do whatever they feel like doing.
Son of a cop here: I don’t think moral, normal people police officers care a ton about the small possession charges unless it involves DUI or domestic violence of some sort. Catching truckloads of the stuff driving through the small town was a big deal sometimes. I hope/think that hasn’t changed much despite laws going back and forth. Now, to dickhead power hungry hometown heroes that join the force because they got chubby and became skill-less after highschool football, they probably have never changed their stance and will still find ways to tack on charges of public impairment
Cops be railing lines, I doubt they care sbout weed much these days unless its like the other commenter said, an added charge
