If you’re a guy and you did anything questionable and you have no type of hooks with officer that is stopping you (like your dad is one of the head SCC judges, or the officer is your sister’s husband, or something along those lines) then you are F.U.C.K.E.D.
Girls can get away with DUIs, shitty driving, broken tail lights, etc. All they got to do is look cute and act friendly with the cop if the cop is a guy which is like 99% of cops.
Now if you’re a guy, you might get puled over for a tail light that glows “too dim” or for a “loud” exhaust pipe (and they’ll probably ask to check under your hood to see if you have any illegal modifications to your car, especially around Capitol Expressway).
Cops might even follow you in the Carl’s Jr. (on White & Aborn) drive-thru and ask you to pop open your hood, cause they got some patrol cars specifically meant to look for street racers or illegally modified cars.
Now if you get pulled over for some small “fix-it” ticket type bullshit like that, and you’re a minority, and you look like you somewhat fit some drug user/seller profile, you better pray to god that you and none of your passengers have nothing in your car, cause SJPD is the king of illegal searches. And if someone in the car is on some type of court ordered probation and it shows up on their system, they’ll probably search everything in your car and your trunk without any permission from you.
And the thing is, even though the search is illegal, SJPD always writes something in their police reports that gives them probable cause to search your shit. And in Santa Clara County, their court system has established a policy that is pretty much no tolerance against drug or alcohol related crimes. Which is bullshit, cause over half the judges and lawyers in SCC used to smoke weed at one point or another in their lives, snort lines of coke, or be a binge drinker.
They give off a power trip for sure. They make you feel the heat like they don’t make the law or enforce it, they are the law.
And if you’re in downtown, the SJPD and can pretty much arrest anyone that is “questionably” drunk in public, even if you’re just walking your girlfriend across the street to the parking structure from Taste Ultra Lounge or if you pass out in your car while waiting for your friend to come back from a wack ass night at Tiki Lounge.
And believe me, the drunk tank is fucking racist. Santa Clara County is about 50% white, but maybe 1 out of 20 people in the drunk tank will be white, and chances are he’s a homeless bum from the stories I’ve heard. Don’t see how on St. Patrick’s day, the SJPD rounds up like 30 Mexicans, an 2 Indian guys, and couple more Vietnamese guys, and no Irish people at all. You know those guys are out getting plastered.
Someone please tell me why SFPD shits all over SJPD? SFPD seems to really help the people vs. SJPD just wanting to shit over everybody, write as many tickets as they can, make as many arrests as they can, beat up as many kids as they can, taser as many kids as they can.
And how many times have you been out clubbing and seen in a cop in a patrol car on 1st or 2nd street near the light rail hitting on some slutty dressed girl or tranny that just walked out of Lido’s? SJPD just tries to use the uniform to get play, even if it’s from a Vietnamese tranny that just walked out of Lido’s, that was getting down with some beaner an hour earlier. If yall wanna do us all a favor, arrest all those tall ass ugly tranny’s with adam’s apples. I’d be a tragedy to see one of my beer goggled friends go home with them one night.
It looks like our Incredible Shrinking Newspaper is about to get even smaller, with even less news than it carries now. The editor is actually telling reporters to write shorter stories.
I just wanted to express my condolences to the family of Breanna Slaughter-Eck, the 12 year old girl who was killed a couple days ago riding her bike home from school. As a parent, that story really hit home and is a tragedy that is a parent’s worse fear. I urge the mayor and city council to make public safety their number one priority. Maybe that extra traffic cop or stop sign will prevent the next child from getting killed on their way home from school. Quit wasting time on being politically correct (naming business districts or raising the Rainbow flag over city hall) and do what we elected you to do. Again, my deepest sympathy goes out to the little girl, her parents, and her two little sisters.
Serious condolences to the family of Breanna and sarcastic condolences to our podunk newspaper who felt that was a front page story. Tomorrow it will be a cat in a tree.
The San Jose Mercury News is such a target-rich environment that a mere rant wouldn’t begin to cover its short-comings. However, hearing bad news about the Merc is always welcome, so thanks to #2 by Mr. Reader who brought new attention to old problems at the daily paper. And thanks to Jack at #3 for providing the link to the memo. The Merc must be leaking like the Titanic these days.
Here’s an idea for the Merc to consider. Stop using demeaning labels for some of your former readers, by whom I mean the diverse white Americans in San Jose. In just the last 36 months, we have been referenced with white boy, white privilege, wasp, white flight, redneck, hillbilly, cracker, white trash, nerdy, geek, white-bread, lily white, typical white person, goober, white resentment, acting white, and Wonder Bread. (And no rebuttals allowed.)
Feel free to argue with the two or three that you don’t think express disgust, but overall these demeaning epithets tell us a lot about the Merc at the editorial and publisher level. I imagine these schoolyard taunts gradually wear down readers.
I don’t know of any other demographic that is greeted four or five times a month with disdainful labels like these. The Merc is telling us something—it must be to go and buy a different paper, and ignore their advertisers.
Jack,
This may sound a bit dramatic, okay a lot dramatic, but I think the Mercury News, the Metro, TV Stations, yes even SJI, all news medias, our banks, gas stations, Vet’s Offices, hospitals, medical groups, voting machines, politicians, and businesses in general are victims of what I call the “Pac Man Syndrome”. They are all being eaten up and swallowed by big corporations bit-by-bit, day-by-day.
If you think back to all the Sci-Fi flicks, and books from way back when to present day, you’ll see a pattern of the “Pac Man Syndrome,” through these movies, and books warning us that greed through corporations will result in a gobbling up our freedoms, our independence, taking our once honest leaders and turning them into evil, corrupt puppets, our environment will become so polluted and toxic that we won’t be able to breath the air, and animal life will become extinct. Even our ability to have free thoughts and expression will be stolen a way by those in power who can’t control us through money, or advertising like in the movie Stepford Wives, or Body Snatchers.
I believe we have reached a place in time where people need to stop sleep walking around this planet and start paying some serious attention to what is going on around them. We need to stop looking for new and improved programs that screw us out of jobs, and being able to call and speak to a real human being instead of an automated computer, with a bad impression of a human voice. Bit by bit, day by day we are becoming a planet run by huge faceless corporations, computer programs and machines. If we don’t start paying attention we will eventually create a world where human beings will be obsolete, and money won’t be the driving force, dictatorship and power will be.
The San Jose Police Officer’s Association has created a fund to financially help the family of the 12 year old, Breanna Slaughter-Eck, who was killed while riding her bicycle. The following is a link to donate for anyone wishing to do so.
#12 Kathleen- The Sci-Fi scenario that I see us headed for after Big Government’s alliance with Big Business becomes complete, is an old episode of Star Trek in which the Enterprise visits a planet that is populated with a race of people who are governed by 3 glowing, pulsating, talking brains that are kept under a class dome. The people call these superbeings “The Providers”, and they are completely dependent upon them for everything. “The Providers” provide them with their food. They furnish their shelter. They supply the medical care. They protect them from their own mistakes. The people don’t have to do anything. Needless to say, the people have become a bunch of dull-witted, cowardly, helpless ninnies. Of course, Captain Kirk manages to convince them that they are better off forsaking the security and comfort that is guaranteed by “The Providers” and standing on their own 2 feet- that they will grow into more complete human beings if they are allowed to take risks and to suffer the consequences of failure as well as enjoy the rewards of success.
Many of us share your misgivings about the power of corporations. However, trying to control them by taxing and regulating only serves to strengthen the incestuous alliance that develops between the regulator and the regulatee. In our attempt to weaken corporations we have actually wound up strengthening them.
The current demonization of “Big Oil” could lead to nationalization of the industry. Then we could look forward to Government as “The Provider” of our fuel. After we get national health care legislation we will find that we are dependent upon the Government to be “The Provider” of our medical care. Is this really what we want?
Are we Americans nothing but a bunch of dull-witted, helpless, cowardly ninnies too?
I echo #4; condolences to the family of that little girl, Breanna. I drove by the memorial on Park and Selborn and was moved to tears.
It was a grim reminder that as a driver I must hold myself accountable for driving in a manner which is safe for other drivers, pedestrians and bikes. They too share the road. I cannot depend solely on public officials to force safety. It’s up to me to drive safely and with care.
For me this means things like not using my cell phone while driving, leaving 5 or 10 minutes early so I’m not rushing to a destination, and looking both ways TWICE before making a right or left turn because I never know when someone is going to come from “nowhere” and walk/ride in front of my car.
Again, my heart goes out to Breanna’s family at this horrific time.
I love how Prop 13 allows the residents of Willow Glen to be as big of anti development NIMBYs as they want. They get all the benefits and none of the drawbacks of a housing market spiraling out of control.
Maybe Johnny’s rant had a belligerent tone from the ‘hood but he’s right-on about cops in general. Almost every last one of them has a superiority complex and serious attitude problem based on some sort of childhood insecurities they still can’t come to terms with and for which they are compelled to over-compensate, at the expense of the innocent.
If the Mercury was still a decent paper instead of the “San Jose Today” joke that it has become, maybe they’d launch an investigation into the bad behavior that is obviously perfectly acceptable to Chief Davis.
#16- Mark T. not ALL Police Officers are bad. Your comments are an unfair over generalization. The POA collects money all the time for citizens in need. See # 11. I’ve seen Police Officers cry when talking about a child they found dead, abused, or beaten.
They have a victim fund, and collect money and toys for children too. I have seen Police Officers perform many acts of kindness that go untold because they don’t have an ego, just a kind heart~
Kathleen, there are just as many—indeed likely MORE—horror stories about innocent people being stopped by and/or abused by police as there are cutsie teddy bear-collecting-for-kids ones. I’m talking both personal accounts as well as published. I stand by my assertion and it’s not as much of a generalization as you tend to think.
SJPD sucks.
If you’re a guy and you did anything questionable and you have no type of hooks with officer that is stopping you (like your dad is one of the head SCC judges, or the officer is your sister’s husband, or something along those lines) then you are F.U.C.K.E.D.
Girls can get away with DUIs, shitty driving, broken tail lights, etc. All they got to do is look cute and act friendly with the cop if the cop is a guy which is like 99% of cops.
Now if you’re a guy, you might get puled over for a tail light that glows “too dim” or for a “loud” exhaust pipe (and they’ll probably ask to check under your hood to see if you have any illegal modifications to your car, especially around Capitol Expressway).
Cops might even follow you in the Carl’s Jr. (on White & Aborn) drive-thru and ask you to pop open your hood, cause they got some patrol cars specifically meant to look for street racers or illegally modified cars.
Now if you get pulled over for some small “fix-it” ticket type bullshit like that, and you’re a minority, and you look like you somewhat fit some drug user/seller profile, you better pray to god that you and none of your passengers have nothing in your car, cause SJPD is the king of illegal searches. And if someone in the car is on some type of court ordered probation and it shows up on their system, they’ll probably search everything in your car and your trunk without any permission from you.
And the thing is, even though the search is illegal, SJPD always writes something in their police reports that gives them probable cause to search your shit. And in Santa Clara County, their court system has established a policy that is pretty much no tolerance against drug or alcohol related crimes. Which is bullshit, cause over half the judges and lawyers in SCC used to smoke weed at one point or another in their lives, snort lines of coke, or be a binge drinker.
They give off a power trip for sure. They make you feel the heat like they don’t make the law or enforce it, they are the law.
And if you’re in downtown, the SJPD and can pretty much arrest anyone that is “questionably” drunk in public, even if you’re just walking your girlfriend across the street to the parking structure from Taste Ultra Lounge or if you pass out in your car while waiting for your friend to come back from a wack ass night at Tiki Lounge.
And believe me, the drunk tank is fucking racist. Santa Clara County is about 50% white, but maybe 1 out of 20 people in the drunk tank will be white, and chances are he’s a homeless bum from the stories I’ve heard. Don’t see how on St. Patrick’s day, the SJPD rounds up like 30 Mexicans, an 2 Indian guys, and couple more Vietnamese guys, and no Irish people at all. You know those guys are out getting plastered.
Someone please tell me why SFPD shits all over SJPD? SFPD seems to really help the people vs. SJPD just wanting to shit over everybody, write as many tickets as they can, make as many arrests as they can, beat up as many kids as they can, taser as many kids as they can.
And how many times have you been out clubbing and seen in a cop in a patrol car on 1st or 2nd street near the light rail hitting on some slutty dressed girl or tranny that just walked out of Lido’s? SJPD just tries to use the uniform to get play, even if it’s from a Vietnamese tranny that just walked out of Lido’s, that was getting down with some beaner an hour earlier. If yall wanna do us all a favor, arrest all those tall ass ugly tranny’s with adam’s apples. I’d be a tragedy to see one of my beer goggled friends go home with them one night.
SJPD just cares about $$$.
Bottom line.
It looks like our Incredible Shrinking Newspaper is about to get even smaller, with even less news than it carries now. The editor is actually telling reporters to write shorter stories.
http://kliv.com/CONTENT-CUTS-ANNOUNCED-AT-MERCURY-NEWS/2364956
Maybe they should just call it Mercury Lite!
Reader #2
Here is the URL for the memo itself:
http://www.poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13384
I just wanted to express my condolences to the family of Breanna Slaughter-Eck, the 12 year old girl who was killed a couple days ago riding her bike home from school. As a parent, that story really hit home and is a tragedy that is a parent’s worse fear. I urge the mayor and city council to make public safety their number one priority. Maybe that extra traffic cop or stop sign will prevent the next child from getting killed on their way home from school. Quit wasting time on being politically correct (naming business districts or raising the Rainbow flag over city hall) and do what we elected you to do. Again, my deepest sympathy goes out to the little girl, her parents, and her two little sisters.
Serious condolences to the family of Breanna and sarcastic condolences to our podunk newspaper who felt that was a front page story. Tomorrow it will be a cat in a tree.
The San Jose Mercury News is such a target-rich environment that a mere rant wouldn’t begin to cover its short-comings. However, hearing bad news about the Merc is always welcome, so thanks to #2 by Mr. Reader who brought new attention to old problems at the daily paper. And thanks to Jack at #3 for providing the link to the memo. The Merc must be leaking like the Titanic these days.
Here’s an idea for the Merc to consider. Stop using demeaning labels for some of your former readers, by whom I mean the diverse white Americans in San Jose. In just the last 36 months, we have been referenced with white boy, white privilege, wasp, white flight, redneck, hillbilly, cracker, white trash, nerdy, geek, white-bread, lily white, typical white person, goober, white resentment, acting white, and Wonder Bread. (And no rebuttals allowed.)
Feel free to argue with the two or three that you don’t think express disgust, but overall these demeaning epithets tell us a lot about the Merc at the editorial and publisher level. I imagine these schoolyard taunts gradually wear down readers.
I don’t know of any other demographic that is greeted four or five times a month with disdainful labels like these. The Merc is telling us something—it must be to go and buy a different paper, and ignore their advertisers.
#5 Nam Turk: Only if it’s a very small cat, apparently.
Jack,
This may sound a bit dramatic, okay a lot dramatic, but I think the Mercury News, the Metro, TV Stations, yes even SJI, all news medias, our banks, gas stations, Vet’s Offices, hospitals, medical groups, voting machines, politicians, and businesses in general are victims of what I call the “Pac Man Syndrome”. They are all being eaten up and swallowed by big corporations bit-by-bit, day-by-day.
If you think back to all the Sci-Fi flicks, and books from way back when to present day, you’ll see a pattern of the “Pac Man Syndrome,” through these movies, and books warning us that greed through corporations will result in a gobbling up our freedoms, our independence, taking our once honest leaders and turning them into evil, corrupt puppets, our environment will become so polluted and toxic that we won’t be able to breath the air, and animal life will become extinct. Even our ability to have free thoughts and expression will be stolen a way by those in power who can’t control us through money, or advertising like in the movie Stepford Wives, or Body Snatchers.
I believe we have reached a place in time where people need to stop sleep walking around this planet and start paying some serious attention to what is going on around them. We need to stop looking for new and improved programs that screw us out of jobs, and being able to call and speak to a real human being instead of an automated computer, with a bad impression of a human voice. Bit by bit, day by day we are becoming a planet run by huge faceless corporations, computer programs and machines. If we don’t start paying attention we will eventually create a world where human beings will be obsolete, and money won’t be the driving force, dictatorship and power will be.
The San Jose Police Officer’s Association has created a fund to financially help the family of the 12 year old, Breanna Slaughter-Eck, who was killed while riding her bicycle. The following is a link to donate for anyone wishing to do so.
http://www.mercurynews.com/valley/ci_9593405
Interesting video I just received from a friend:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1EXKLVgEx0
How do they manage this when the US can’t?
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1814787,00.html?xid=feed-rss-netzero
South Side Johnny, you’re obviously a drug dealing racist alcoholic, give it a rest.
#12 Kathleen- The Sci-Fi scenario that I see us headed for after Big Government’s alliance with Big Business becomes complete, is an old episode of Star Trek in which the Enterprise visits a planet that is populated with a race of people who are governed by 3 glowing, pulsating, talking brains that are kept under a class dome. The people call these superbeings “The Providers”, and they are completely dependent upon them for everything. “The Providers” provide them with their food. They furnish their shelter. They supply the medical care. They protect them from their own mistakes. The people don’t have to do anything. Needless to say, the people have become a bunch of dull-witted, cowardly, helpless ninnies. Of course, Captain Kirk manages to convince them that they are better off forsaking the security and comfort that is guaranteed by “The Providers” and standing on their own 2 feet- that they will grow into more complete human beings if they are allowed to take risks and to suffer the consequences of failure as well as enjoy the rewards of success.
Many of us share your misgivings about the power of corporations. However, trying to control them by taxing and regulating only serves to strengthen the incestuous alliance that develops between the regulator and the regulatee. In our attempt to weaken corporations we have actually wound up strengthening them.
The current demonization of “Big Oil” could lead to nationalization of the industry. Then we could look forward to Government as “The Provider” of our fuel. After we get national health care legislation we will find that we are dependent upon the Government to be “The Provider” of our medical care. Is this really what we want?
Are we Americans nothing but a bunch of dull-witted, helpless, cowardly ninnies too?
I echo #4; condolences to the family of that little girl, Breanna. I drove by the memorial on Park and Selborn and was moved to tears.
It was a grim reminder that as a driver I must hold myself accountable for driving in a manner which is safe for other drivers, pedestrians and bikes. They too share the road. I cannot depend solely on public officials to force safety. It’s up to me to drive safely and with care.
For me this means things like not using my cell phone while driving, leaving 5 or 10 minutes early so I’m not rushing to a destination, and looking both ways TWICE before making a right or left turn because I never know when someone is going to come from “nowhere” and walk/ride in front of my car.
Again, my heart goes out to Breanna’s family at this horrific time.
I love how Prop 13 allows the residents of Willow Glen to be as big of anti development NIMBYs as they want. They get all the benefits and none of the drawbacks of a housing market spiraling out of control.
Maybe Johnny’s rant had a belligerent tone from the ‘hood but he’s right-on about cops in general. Almost every last one of them has a superiority complex and serious attitude problem based on some sort of childhood insecurities they still can’t come to terms with and for which they are compelled to over-compensate, at the expense of the innocent.
If the Mercury was still a decent paper instead of the “San Jose Today” joke that it has become, maybe they’d launch an investigation into the bad behavior that is obviously perfectly acceptable to Chief Davis.
#16- Mark T. not ALL Police Officers are bad. Your comments are an unfair over generalization. The POA collects money all the time for citizens in need. See # 11. I’ve seen Police Officers cry when talking about a child they found dead, abused, or beaten.
They have a victim fund, and collect money and toys for children too. I have seen Police Officers perform many acts of kindness that go untold because they don’t have an ego, just a kind heart~
South Side Johnny, and Mark T-
Just a glimpse of what Police Officers deal with everyday:
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9603906
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9601972
Kathleen, there are just as many—indeed likely MORE—horror stories about innocent people being stopped by and/or abused by police as there are cutsie teddy bear-collecting-for-kids ones. I’m talking both personal accounts as well as published. I stand by my assertion and it’s not as much of a generalization as you tend to think.
#19- Mark T.- I disagree but I respect your right to your opinion on this issue.