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Unreasonable suspicion.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights (From public domain.) What made me become so skeptical of cops? Certainly, plenty of socializers tried to keep me and my school classmates enamored of cops from the earliest age. I played with cop and fireman toys. I watched Dragnet, Adam-12, Hawaii Five-O, Baretta, Columbo, Police Woman, Kojak, and plenty of other entertaining police shows that shined a favorable light on cops. When, at age five, I passed by a man being led away in handcuffs near the bank, a man nearby counseled me that "crime does not pay." Cops spoke to students for assemblies, and convicts only came to the Scared Straight presentation telling us crime does not pay (but apparently this was an effort to get parole release). Fortunately, I missed the D...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).