Poll on police abuse of power

[tapermaker]

117. three times i have been drawn on

The first time was when I moved to Millington Tenn. from key west FL. I was in the navy ,and the first few days I was in tenn. were spent getting to know new people and settling in, getting ready to attend my A school.As I was walking around base I was suddenly surrounded by plain clothes NIS officers .These 4 guys had their guns drawn and escorted me to a office in a nearby building .I was stripped searched and informed that I was being detained because someone said I stole their money( over 500.00).I was then questioned for 6 hrs without a meal or water in a very menacing way.I was slapped along side of my head everytime they didn't get the answer they were looking for.I was afraid , but stuck to my guns. It was only after they looked in my wallet and found I had 200.00 and a receipt from the bank for 568.00 in FL. that they let me go. I never got a sorry or explanation as to why they were so sure I had done something wrong.I never found out who had fingered me or had any repercussions from shipmates , so I think the NIS guys told them I was clean.

second case happened when I asked police to put an alarm in my house , because my daughters mother( freshly my ex) was robbing me blind when I went out of town for work.later that week i went for 3 days out of town.upon my return, i was exhuasted and plopped down face first on my couch and went to sleep . I was awakened by shouting coming from the dining room . I opened my eyes to a large gun pointed at my head. Seeing that and knowing my hands were tucked under my chest out of sight i didnt move and listened to the officer tell me to not make any moves.He stood behind the wall and told me to slowly show my hands. I did as he asked and another officer behind me i didnt know about put me in hand cuffs.I was escourted from my house into a police car very roughly. After talking to an officer i was able to convince him i was not there illigally. A few days after that i left again and she was caught. she came in and made herself at home making a sandwich from the fridge. The police show up and call me saying she was in custody.I told them to let her go as i didnt want her to have a record. i just wanted her to leave my home alone when i was gone to work . They were annoyed with my decision ,but she never bothered my home again even though the police took away the alarm when i didnt press charges.

I used to own a sweet canary yellow RS camaro in my days after breaking up with my ex.It was the beginnig of my midlife crisis i suppose. I used to get pulled over constantly especially when i had two or more in the car. One time i was with my daughters uncle when guns were drawn in a safeway parking lot. they first asked us to show our hands and then came to the door and asked us for id. We gave it up and asked why the drama . First they said i had one exhuast pipe that was an inch lower than the other. When i made the remark that this was the first time in my life a cop had drawn a gun on me for a Vehicle infraction , they changed their story to saying they thought my passanger had a warrant out on him. He didnt so we were allowed to go. I think they just thought i was hinky for some reason . i Blamed the car after being pulled over time and time again w/o getting a ticket. always some lame excuse. I sold the car on trade in for a subaru about 2 yrs later and have not been pulled over in the last 20 yrs.