Adam Carolla explains why people hate cops

[BlackTerrel]

Epic rant by Adam Carolla. I love that guy. A couple points:

1. Adam's rant is inspired by a cop who calls in from Chicago and his rant is about LA cops. Adam has lived in LA his whole life and mistakenly believes that cops in other cities are better. He is wrong, I've lived in many many cities and they are pretty much the same everywhere.

2. I understand there are exceptions to the rule.

YouTube - Adam Carolla Talks To Chicago Cop About The Los Angeles Police

 

[Captain Bryan]

I love Adam Carolla.

 

[BlackTerrel]

He continues

YouTube - Adam Carolla on Police

 

[Tabby]

Lol. His rant actually made me feel happy, he made a bunch of great points.

 

[squarepusher]

great

 

[squarepusher]

YouTube - Adam Carolla - Pie Vs. Cake

 

[iSamurai]

Thanks. some of Adam's rants are great, but some I don't like/disagree with. This ones good. The cops in my town are just the same, all they care about is revenue.

A few months ago, I was making a lane change, checked my blind spot 3 times, and got over as a guy was in the lane. I had absolutely no idea he was there and hit him in the side of his car. Damage was substantial but just cosmetic and my insurance covered it. So he pulls over right after the intersection, were there's no shoulder in the middle of the road and I go on to the next street so I'm not stopping traffic. He finally comes and meets me. I say lets trade insurance info and names/info and whatnot, and a witness comes by and gives me his info. The guy is retarded and says "I'm calling the cops", I'm like why do we need to get the cops into this? All he's gonna do is take our insurance info... The cop comes and takes the info then comes to me, sitting with my friends and says he's giving me a 250$ ticket for "unlawful lane change". It was unlawful because a car was in the lane, not because it was illegal to get over. I think the guy and the cop had issues because we were just kids in their eyes. Anyway, that's my story of a ridiculous ticket, the only one I've ever gotten, because I take care to not give cops any reason to milk my money. They got away with it this time unfortunately.

 

[gls]

I love Adam Carolla.

Dirty Work is one of the funniest movies of all time.

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[BlackTerrel]

Thanks. some of Adam's rants are great, but some I don't like/disagree with. This ones good. The cops in my town are just the same, all they care about is revenue.

I find him funny and like listening to him. We definitely differ politically on some issues - he doesn't seem to know or care much about politics. But he appears libertarian in how he generally views the world.

The cop comes and takes the info then comes to me, sitting with my friends and says he's giving me a 250$ ticket for "unlawful lane change". It was unlawful because a car was in the lane, not because it was illegal to get over. I think the guy and the cop had issues because we were just kids in their eyes. Anyway, that's my story of a ridiculous ticket, the only one I've ever gotten, because I take care to not give cops any reason to milk my money. They got away with it this time unfortunately.

Generally cops don't need a reason to milk your money. They'll find something. That's been my experience, at least recently. I'd suspect racial profiling if my white friends haven't gotten the same BS tickets.

 

[specsaregood]

I find him funny and like listening to him. We definitely differ politically on some issues - he doesn't seem to know or care much about politics. But he appears libertarian in how he generally views the world.

He endorsed and was very supportive of Dr. Paul during the presidential campaign. Gave him a great interview, supported the fundraising, talked glowingly.

 

[revolutionisnow]

Its much more the government and policy than "cops" though. This is like hating McDonald's employees because their hamburgers don't taste like your homemade ones. They're just people looking for a paycheck following orders. As far as his belief that some cities do not tolerate it, I think with the larger cities they have more actual crime like theft and murders to deal with, so do not have the leisure time to pull people over for every minor infraction.

 

[BlackTerrel]

He endorsed and was very supportive of Dr. Paul during the presidential campaign. Gave him a great interview, supported the fundraising, talked glowingly.

That's awesome did not even know that. I never heard him on the radio since they didn't carry him where I live and have only found him through the podcast. I've generally heard him talk negatively of all politicians as a whole. Thanks for sharing that.

 

[iSamurai]

Its much more the government and policy than "cops" though. This is like hating McDonald's employees because their hamburgers don't taste like your homemade ones. They're just people looking for a paycheck following orders. As far as his belief that some cities do not tolerate it, I think with the larger cities they have more actual crime like theft and murders to deal with, so do not have the leisure time to pull people over for every minor infraction.

Larger cities than LA? more crime than LA? I'm not sure the statistics but I'm sure LA is on-par if not more crime-ridden than any other large US city.

 

[dannno]

Larger cities than LA? more crime than LA? I'm not sure the statistics but I'm sure LA is on-par if not more crime-ridden than any other large US city.

I think he's referring to individual cities in LA County.. for example Santa Monica and Pasadena have less crime than Compton or Garden Grove... so the cops in those areas that are nice have to rely on dealing with BS crimes.

 

[revolutionisnow]

Larger cities than LA? more crime than LA? I'm not sure the statistics but I'm sure LA is on-par if not more crime-ridden than any other large US city.

Well at one point he was talking about Malibu, which is in LA county, but is another city outside of the city of Los Angeles. I don't think the serious crime rate of Malibu is very high.

 

[andrewh817]

Maybe you get paid the same for not handing out tickets, but you're surely not going to rise in the ranks faster if you're not stealing as much.

The cops don't follow orders of the citizens, they follow the orders of the high ranking officials in the department. Protect and serve means protect themselves (other cops) and serve their bosses.

However much a department tickets, and how the tickets are prioritized depends on the city and the area in the city. If you're in an extremely poor city, it doesn't make sense economically to give out lots of tickets because the people don't have extra money for such things. And if they can't pay what then? The fine goes up and eventually if you can't pay, you're jailed. Feeding the prisoners is expensive, and it's a lose/lose for the government because not only are they not stealing the money from the citizen but they're also paying to house and feed them......

 

[Promontorium]

Dirty Work is one of the funniest movies of all time.

That's Norm McDonald.

 

[payme_rick]

The cop subject is always hard for me to discuss amongst friends, seeing as one of my best friends is a Sheriff's deputy... but we do let him have it at times in a not so serious yet kinda serious manner ha...

 

[Promontorium]

He continues

I have a lot of problems with police, but his "200 years ago" scenario revealed the true problem with cops giving out massive amounts of tickets. America has spent these past 200 years coming up with every law immaginable, cities and states come up with ordinances with the sole pupose of generating revenue. The police are not the progenitors of b.s. infractions. The elected government is.

Ex. Cop pulls you over for being "suspicious" and then makes up false crimes to ticket you. -Corrupt cop.

Ex. Cop pulls you over for tags, stop, go, speed, lights, flags, shades, sounds, that have been put on a forbidden list by voters or those they vote for. -Corrupt government.

 

[gls]

That's Norm McDonald.

LOL. They're both middle-aged, lowbrow comedians...close enough.