Profiling?:

I pulled a guy over the other day who accused me of profiling!

Let me give you a little background as to the circumstances.

I responded to a burglary in progress call in this neighborhood that has about 4 streets, however there is only one long street that acts as the entrance and exit to the neighborhood.  There are maybe 150 houses total.  Anyways I go and check out the house and a woman said the suspects just left, she said there was a black male driving teal honda accord with short black hair about 6′ ft.  So I go back to this main entrance area (it is about 10:00 am) almost everyone in the neighborhood is at work, so there are very very few cars coming down this street, maybe like 4 cars every 10 minutes.

After a minute or two here comes a black male driving teal honda accord with short black hair about 6′ ft.  I pull him over and he turns out to live in the neighborhood and is going to work, (he wasn’t the suspect).  But, he still got an attitude with me, because I pulled him over.  I explained the situation (how he fit the profile of the suspect), and I apologized for taking about 2 minutes of his time.

He still ranted somthing about racial profiling.  I again told him that I appologized for any inconvenience and explained if it was his house with the broken windows, doors, stolen jewelry and television he would want the criminals captured, or for me to at least try if they drive right by me.  He still wasn’t satisfied.  Then I told him it was my job to catch criminals that try to break into his and other’s houses and I’m going to do my job.  Furthermore, I explained that I was acting under the full color of law with my articulatble and reasonable suspicion based on being a State of Georgia certified peace officer with valid probable cause that would stand up in any court system.  I also informed him of my full name badge number and offered to let him use my cell phone to call my supervisor for the terrible atrocities I did to him.

Of course he didn’t want to do that and decided it was best to just be on his way 2 minutes later, when if he didn’t spend most of the time arguing I really only would have taken 40 seconds of his time.

So many people waste so much time trying to find some kind of injustice being done to them, trying to be a victim.  If we all just sucked it up, quit complaining and just handle difficulty or a bad situation (because stuff happens) we could really make a difference and get things done.