5 Ways You’re Treated Like a Criminal Every Day
Most people are not criminals. Sure, everybody breaks a law or two, here and there. But for the most part, we’re all a pretty law-abiding bunch. So when you’re not breaking the law, being treated like you are should piss you off. Here are the five most common ways people are treated like criminals, even when they’re not doing anything wrong whatsoever.
1. Flying
After September 11, 2001, everybody was so afraid of the next terrorist attack that we’ve allowed the government to make it more difficult to get on an airplane than it is to buy a sub machine gun. Nowadays, you have to remove all jackets, shoes, metal or anything else that might seem mildly suspicious. You can’t bring liquids, your laptop has to be unpacked, and after all of that, you still stand a chance of being wand-raped by a 200-lb man wearing rubber gloves. Talk about degrading – especially when you’ve just spent hundreds (or thousands) of dollars on a ticket. I know, we all want to be safe and not die in a ball of exploding jet fuel. But this has gotten completely out of hand.
2. Bag Check
This one is so common, we’ve all just resigned to the fact that we have to hand over our personal belongings to complete strangers when entering a store. So it probably doesn’t seem like that big of a deal. And maybe it’s not. But if you ask me, this is just another instance of how retailers have lowered their shopping-experience standards for all costumers because of the various bad apples that any store has to deal with. Thing is, if you don’t want to hand over your bag (or at least have it rummaged through), you’re probably not going to be allowed to shop at that store. The choice is yours.
3. Talking to The Police, About Anything
If you’re a police officer, most of the people you talk to over the course of your life are lying to you. Because of this, cops are an extremely distrusting bunch. Which is why anytime time you talk to them, about anything – even reporting a crime, they act like they just caught you hanging outside a jewelry store while wearing a ski mask. Then, after they’ve made you so uncomfortable, you start questioning whether you are actually guilty of something, they start asking you why you are acting weird. Unfortunately, the only remedy for this one is to talk to the police as infrequently as possible – they’re sure as hell not going to change.
4. Receipt Checking
I cannot think of a single instance that makes me want to punch someone in the face more than having my receipt checked when trying to exit a store. To have just spent money at somewhere only to be blocked from leaving, and treated like a petty shoplifter simply for having the audacity to shop there, is enough to make anyone dream of going on their ass ‘Fight Club’. Sure, it “greatly reduces” stealing. But so what? That’s not your F’ing problem.
So don’t be intimidated: Unless you’re shopping at stores like Sam’s Club or Costco, which require signing a contract to shop there that can include receipt checks as part of the deal, you are not legally required to show them anything (though they are legally allowed to ask). So the next time that Best Buy door jockey asks to see your receipt, feel free to politely tell him to f**k off.
5. Doing Anything (While also Being Black or Hispanic and Male)
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being frisked going to a baseball game
why me?
With the exception of the first Ive never experienced any of these things.
Ive lived in the UK and Netherlands.
Guess this is US-only.
I think it is funny that on the first description of a 200 lbs man wearing rubber cloves and frisking you is totally wrong!! the picture has a semi nice looking female going through a bag! And as with the second comment about not wanting to hand your bag over to get it checked then do the same at the airport if you don't feel like you should go through that scrutiny then don't fly!
Yeah, but they don't do much checking at the ball game. They inspect my g/f's purse, but they didn't frisk me, and barely looked into my kids diaper bag when I went to the circus (ball game stadium). It's a joke really, and that's what really makes me mad. I could have had my concealed handgun on me, and they wouldn't have known. Had anything buried in the diaper bag, and they didn't even move the stuff on top.
They did dig through her purse pretty well, which was strange, considering how large the diaper bag is in comparison.
It's all about the "illusion" of security and such.
I like that I have to waste a bunch of time showing my drivers license, filling out a form with my personal info, and potentially being denied my allergy medicne because it contains Sudafed. Thats how I am made to feel like a criminal.
What gets me are the airports , my fiance had a small emory board in her purse and they used that excuse to further search her wallet , check id , open up her prescriptions , and pretty much give her the third degree . I could see if it was metal or sharp but cardboard ? Give me a break they even questioned the amount of cash she had on her . I just think that is going way too far for somebody with no record .
Lesson learned I guess . We both travel alot lighter now .
its like Prison break
The only ones I kind of agree with are the first two the rest are simply worthless filler as this was a lazy, half assed excuse for an article. It reminds me of a barely started paper finished the morning before it was due hoping it would at least pass. Good premise poor execution.
Slap choppin', slam wowin' Vince Offer was recently treated like a criminal and rightfully so… but there is no doubting that this dude is a marketing dynamo, check out some of his finest work here: http://www.precioustimeny.com/blog/?p=2829
What a tool
we are living in a failed economy and prior democracy, the usa we once knew no longer exists we are all treated as rodents and not humans. we are looked at by big corporations and the government as a means to make money not as human beings. sad but true. hopefully this will change but not without resistance from the giants that have come to enslave us. this is modern day slavery in the future historians will address the human rights abuses imposed on american citizens by big corporations and our government
Unfortunately, to many African Americans are in prison, and about 70% are born out of wedlock. Most are Democrats and buy off on the Democrat message that started with LBJ and the "Great Society", African American men were emasculated by in large, the women and children were raised in housing projects resembling Dachau or other concentration camps where they were actually "Enslaved" again. They continue to vote for the same people who enslaved them, Democrats, by a margin of 91%. Now the have a Socialist as President of the US and he is now attempting to Socialize America and do what the Demorcrat have done to Blacks for 45 years. The only problem is that WHITE and BLACK people who are NOT lemmings are going to have no part of it. I suggest that African Americans wake up. I suggest that all Americans Wake UP!
I'll give you receipt-checking, but why are you encouraging people to not talk to the police? They already have enough problems with crime being under-reported and people reluctant to testify. Would you rather suffer through a little rudeness (not my experience) from a cop, or have someone rob you because there was no one to step up the first time they did it?
You left out being a cop.
Doesn't matter who you are, what color, religion, sexual preference or anything else. If you do your job, even a little bit, somebody will call you racist. You're just picking on me because I'm (fill in your whine). Happens every day just like clock work.
If you are a hobbyist photographer like me, you can be treated like a criminal. Since 9/11, photographers have been stopped and questioned for taking photographs of trains, bridges, freeways, and just about anything else that is man-made. I've been questioned by police twice while pursuing my hobby. In the UK, it is even worse, with photographers arrested just for taking photographs of "sensitive" subjects. And don't even take photos in the presence of a child that is not yours. I remember a news story of a man photographing his back yard garden who was beaten by a paranoid neighbor who thought he was photographing his child.
Try going to any rock concert. You get divided into lines of males and women, frisked by a security officer of corresponding gender. I understand the need to protect the audience, and the media rights of the performers, but come on. A search as thorough as I got at the last concert I went to should not be performed unless you are being placed under arrest. They even make you unhook your bra so they can check inside for contraband.
I saw this link and stumbled upon this website via a story on MSN about prisoners plagiarizing poetry. At first, I thought this article was entertaining and seemed like a site I needed to bookmark and look through further. Until I came upon item #5. I now see it’s yet another disgusting display of white men kissing the black man’s a** because that’s just what we’re supposed to do. Why? Because we owe them. Even though no living slave is alive today, and blacks are put to the front of the line for jobs, schooling, especially those who actually manage to not contribute to society but to be detrimental.
If #5 has any truth to it, such as legitimate racial profiling by police officers (which I encourage, and any good police officer or investigator will tell you profiling is a vital part of law enforcement.) These groups of people mentioned in #5, blacks and hispanics, have brought it upon themselves. If you need proof, just have a look at the statistics, in any state, of the imprisoned population paying attention to the race of the criminals. Not all blacks or hispanics are guilty, but most of them are. In this case it’s not a bad apple or two, it’s a bad tree, and only a few bright ones manage to skip by with the help of whites down on their knees.
Even this “innocence project” is a joke. For those who don’t know, it’s an organization that revitalizes old cases where the imprisoned criminal insists he’s innocent. (What a laugh to the 99% of those in prison who are also “innocent.”) Using DNA evidence that wasn’t available at the time the crimes were committed, hundreds have been exhaunerated. However, my firm belief is that these guys are not entirely innocent. Hard working Americans who truly are innocent and who aren’t already involved in illegal activity don’t accidently get randomly charged and convicted. They did something wrong, they just didn’t get charged with their other crimes. They got caught and charged with something else. Hell, maybe their sentence should’ve been longer.
As if that isn’t enough, these black criminals are released and paid $80K/year for each year they were in prison. They’re also given an all expense paid “attempt” at a four year college degree to an institution of their choosing. Makes a lot of sense as I’m sure most of these guys would’ve made anywhere near $80K/year. $25K-$30K maybe, to the 1-2% of the population who actually held a job. And BTW, dealing drugs doesn’t qualify as a full time job. Since America is now the laughing stock of the world, the sheep will make it so even drug dealers will soon be able to get their own health insurance. What a great country we all live in.
What? It’s true.
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