COPS

    I watch one of the longest running reality TV shows around.  In case you been living in a box for the last 14 or so years the show is COPS.  I tune in on every Saturday Night to see what kind of human garbage is out there.  Some of my favorite clips from the show are when the guy whose being arrested is fighting with the Cops, and I mean really fighting, throwing punches and kicking and at the same time screaming "I'm not resisting arrest, I'm not resisting arrest!!" I could talk about the whole trailer park element buy why go there.  Lets just say someone is going to jail when you see the trailers showing up in the background.  

    I worked with this one guy who lived in a trailer park with his wife and kid and he would tell me stories of trailer park land.  Talking about how he would throw useless old garbage into the dumpster (like an old stereo with a broken knob or switch) and no sooner would he walk back to his trailer then he would see a fellow neighbor taking it out.  Then there was some incident that involved his son with another boy in the park.  Some sort of fight broke between his son and this other kid.  When my coworker went to talk to the kids' parents about this incident their reaction was, "It's ok, what do you expect, we live in a trailer park"  W.T.F Just because you live in a trailer park doesn't mean you have to live up to the stereotype.  God Dam it's a stereotype.  And my coworker was no better.  When I asked him why he doesn't leave the trailer park he said because he owned his trailer which had value.  And in the Silicon Valley owning is gold.  The funny thing about what he was saying was that when he did decide to move to The Toilet in the California Central Valley he got nothing for his trailer because he couldn't sell it because it was too old.  Since he was renting a space/lot from the trailer park he really didn't own shit.  I believe he had to pay someone to demolish it.   But back to Cops...

    Is it me or are you tired of watching the busting of prostitutes .  Just seems like every show has a 10 minute segment showing a string a men getting busted for picking up prostitutes or a string prostitutes getting busted by undercover cops.  I find this boring.  My hand starts to reach for the remote control to see if "Behind the Music" on VH1 is on.  Then there's this whole regional problem I have with cops.  Seems like all the crime takes place in Fort Worth Texas, or Little Rock Arkansas.  I've only seen one segment  filmed in California.  And that was in Modesto. I've never seen a San Jose chase scene or bust, same could be said for San Francisco.  I suspect there is no crime or domestic violence where I live. (Yeah, right) To the producers of Cops, stop showing the busting of whores and more footage from different areas of the United States.

    Why can't people just stay calm and shut the fuck up!!  Little bit of advice to future perpetrators of the law.  When you get busted with an ounce of weed, or you know you have some shit in your car that's not supposed to be there, like a crack pipe under the front seat, SHUT the fuck up.  Let them find it!!  I can always tell when the driver is lying. 

    First, the driver says something like "Why did you pull me over, officer"  Why not just say, "I have three small bags of rock cocaine in my crotch, officer"  You were pulled over because A. You're driving some sort of shitty car that caught the cops eye.  B. The car you are driving surprise, surprise, is stolen (of course you don't know this because your cousin didn't tell you, and when you got pulled over your cousin jumped out and ran) C. The Cop who pulled you over knows that you don't have a valid drivers license. He knows this because he busted you 6 months ago and your license was revoked.

    Second, when the victim/suspect/innocent civilian is asked to get out of the car, then out of no where the person starts to act irrationally.  There are a few levels of this type of behavior.  1.Driver keeps asking why was he/she pulled over? 2.The driver starts getting upset. (Because they know that hiding spot behind the stereo isn't going to withstand a full cop inspection. And the more illegal shit they have in the car the more upset they get!) 3.(this is a tough one, and sometimes throws me off) The driver doesn't say anything.  When the driver doesn't say anything I then look to body language.  If the drivers head is looking down, then boom, guilty as sin!! If the driver is looking up and watching the cops, then I think this person may be innocent (or may be looking for his/her chance to run)   

    Three, the driver makes a run for it.  Either by way of car or by way of foot.  And when asked why they ran, more often than not the response is "I was scared"  Bullshit, you lying mother fucker!!  Two minutes later the cops find out that the person has three outstanding warrants.  You were scared because you know you dumb fucked up.  Instead of saying that you we're scared you should say something like this  "I ran because I was scared you were going to find out about my three outstanding warrants, oh yeah, and that I have a body in the trunk of the car, but it's not mine"

    Or how about this, don't say anything and shut the hell up.  In America, in the land of stereotypes, and racial profiling, you are still innocent until proven guilty in the court of law.  Don't say anything unless you have a lawyer present.  When the cop tells you that if you cooperate he will write it up in the report and perhaps the DA will be more willing to cut you a deal, so what!!!  If you have a pound of crack in your trunk,  I don't care how much you cooperate with the police you're still going down big time.  Why, because you have a POUND of crack in your trunk!!

    Maybe Cops isn't always filmed in Texas, but it sure seems that way.  Maybe not all trailer park trash is going to jail.  Maybe someone is just giving a ride to a woman they just meant on a street corner.  Perhaps a driver who jumps out of a crashed vehicle is just trying to get some exercise.  However, a pound of crack in the trunk is still a pound of crack in the trunk no matter how you CUT IT.  Learn to be quiet.  Do not say anything.  I'll give you a little piece of advice that I read in the book "What Cops know"

    After a person is interviewed about a murder and is arrested on that charge and booked in the county jail.  A guilty person will fall asleep, where as an innocent person will scream his/her innocence the whole night long.  Why?  Read the book.....

.....Cops is a great TV show