Scenes from my trip to the grocery store this morning......

[Takket]

Took three squad cards worth of cops to search this lone black woman.... its possible she requested a female officer to search her (I don't know), but just found this image.... interesting.

[Throck]

1. Its not a government job unless you have at least 2 levels of management handy.

[pwb]

2. Double overtime?

Sunday. Pitiful they needed backup for one women. Fake tough guys everyone. Police exams need to be harder.

[smb]

3. From The "I Am Not Making This Up" Files....

Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops

A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city....

[Bettie]

4. I saw that one as well

It does, however, explain a whole lot.

[Disaffected]

22. Makes sense though,

he was overqualified.

[packman]

26. After retirement, both my wife and I applied for jobs

At a Sony TV plant in Pennsylvania and both of us were turned down because we scored too high and had advanced degrees. Seems they felt we would both be either troublemakers or not "fit in" with the rest of the work force.

[BarbD]

27. Definitely troublemakers.

[machoneman]

29. Often, that's not why. Instead, folks with high IQ's and/or advanced degrees can much more easily...

...quit for a higher paying job. Have seen it happen before......

[Sherman A1]

5. Could be Sunday Morning

and nothing to do.

[louzke9]

23. YEAH, WE'RE BORED.....

Let's go harass some black woman on her way to church. Who's game? It matched a vehicle they were looking for...GRAY!

[louzke9]

24. NO......

Let me fix that.....It matched a vehicle with A BLACK PERSON IN IT!

[LuvNewcastle]

6. They do that all the time around here.

Even if you get pulled over for running a stop sign, they'll have three cars show up while he's writing you a ticket. They should travel in pairs in those squad cars so they can handle it if the person turns out to be wanted for something and requires arrest. But around here, each cop drives his own car. I guess they want to spread them out but aren't they ignoring their area when they all show up for a routine traffic stop? I don't get it.

[beachbumbob]

7. can't tell if the woman is black or night but I suspect she is

and cops take on all new level of reaction

[LisaL]

12. She doesn't look black to me at all.

Looks like a white female with brown shoulder length hair.

[Takket]

17. She was black

The photo doesn't do it justice from the distance i was at, but I could see her quite clearly in the moments before I managed to take out my phone and open the camera.

[madville]

8. What city is this?

Mine posts the jail booking report with mugshots the following day, would be curious to see what she was being arrested for (if she was being taken into custody). Could be something as simple as a warrant for unpaid tickets or driving on a suspended license, that's pretty common in my county. Still requires a pat down before being taken into custody and if they brought in a female officer to perform it on a female suspect that's good policy.

[Takket]

13. Northville, MI

[cwydro]

28. Well, if you follow up, please fill us in.

Tia.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. Did you wait for an outcome?

[Takket]

14. No, why would I have done that?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

18. Why did you take a picture?

[Baclava]

10. I wonder, could this woman sue you for taking her picture without her permission?

I forget how privacy laws work on the internet

[LisaL]

11. As far as I can tell, being out in public, a person doesn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy

[Takket]

15. No.

[madville]

16. There is no expectation of privacy in public

Generally you can legally film anything from any space you have a legal right to be.

[Baclava]

19. Unless you use it to promote a website it comes under publicity laws, thus the photo release form

But then I see peoples faces blurred out in crime scenes and wonder

[onethatcares]

20. do they frisk everyone

that gets pulled over for a traffic infraction? Seems like a large waste of manpower and another question. When did the police begin using black cars and vehicles everywhere. Is it an intimidation tactic or do they get a deal on the paint scheme?

[madville]

21. I used to work for a company that upfitted cop cars

This was 20 years ago but as I remember, black or white were the standard base colors. Everything else was a special order or an extra charge, like specific two-tone paint schemes or if they wanted dark blue cars, silver, etc.

[George II]

25. I live in an almost all-white small town in CT (20K residents) Before we moved here....

....I drove through it a couple of times a week.

I was always amazed that just about everyone stopped by the police for one reason or another, it was a black or hispanic driver.