To whom it may concern (and at this point I doubt that is anyone on the police force):
I own a house on the edge of Smoketown and have for almost a decade. In the last few months I have been stopped TWICE by bullying cops demanding I show them my ID. They have had no reason to stop me other than I am white and driving a work van. I am sick and tired of this treatment. Both times I was spoken to in that condescending tone of voice that says, "I know you're a criminal and I caught you." This last time (Monday 8-19-2010) I was getting some tools out of my garage and the two steroid pumped thugs in LMPD uniforms you've put on the street approached me and DEMANDED I show them my ID. In case you people haven't heard, this is not East Germany and you are not the STASI. You are not wardens and I am not a prisoner. You have no right to demand an ID of a citizen who has done NOTHING. I am contacting the ACLU about this and am considering a lawsuit. YOU MUST STOP THIS CRAP.
One of the "officers" had the balls to tell me he was trying to protect me. This is utter BS. They were trying to get a cheap and easy drug bust, plain and simple. My crime? Being white in Smoketown. If you wanted to protect me you would have foot patrols keeping an eye on the teenage boys with nothing to do in the neighborhood, not a couple of pumped up assholes harassing any white working man that ventures into the area. If you were interested in protecting me it wouldn't have taken FORTY MINUTES for a car to show up after three school skipping teen boys stuck a damned GUN in my face. White trash buying crack has never given me any trouble but it sure does help you to suck money from the Federal tit. Maybe if you pulled some of the cops slowly patrolling the rich neighborhoods and had them slowly patrol the crime ridden areas you might actually do something about crime, but your mission is to make the rich people that donate money to politicians feel safe, not actually fight crime.
If I get stopped like this again I am going to demand to be arrested or left alone. If I'm arrested I will sue the living you know what out of the city. I am not a criminal and I WILL NOT BE TREATED LIKE ONE.
Sincerely,
Alan Miller
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Louisville Cops SUCK
Here's a letter sent to LMPD today after being stopped yet again on Monday:
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3 comments:
Funny, the other night while I was reading your blog, my phone rang...it was the ACLU wanting me to renew my membership. I told them about your blog. She said it was very unusual for a white guy to be harrassed in his own neighborhood.
What a coincidence. I am lapsed member of the ACLU myself (lapsed because I'm broke).
For non-Louisvillians the Smoketown neighborhood is historically black and the housing projects across the alley from my place is pretty much exclusively black. A white man in a white work van is an easy target for the lazy cop looking for a quick crack bust. I bought my house there because there was supposed to be a streetcar running up the street in front of it and the projects were supposed to be demolished and replaced with mixed income housing. Instead the Republicans took the White House and Congress and we got some hybrid buses and roof repairs instead.
When ACLU called, they requested a donation of $50 to renew my membership. I told her I did not have $50 but we continued to talk..about your blog...ended up she asked if I could afford $20. I said yes.
Sucks about your neighborhood.