You should watch the movie called "things we lost in the fire" It kind of sounds like what your talking about.
Detroit sounds like a scarey ass place to be a druggy.
What's scary to me is driving minding our own business and a burb cop pulls me over. I have a scip bottle on my motor cover in plain view. It's hydrocodone 10mg each. Quantity of 125, a months worth for me.
Cop grabs the bottle and starts accusing me of selling. I told him his department (gave him the person's name) desk told me that it was the legal way to carry it.
Cop who pulled me over said it still was suspicious and advised me to only carry what I need for a day in a smaller scrip bottle.
So i get a smaller phial with the scrip info onit, all legit.
So now I am in Rosevile mi and every body knows in the tri-county knows Roseville cops.
This time I get pulled over, bottle out in plain sight..only one pill in the bottle..
cop accuses me of selling. I say the bottle is too small to hold 125 pills. He says if I am not selling them than I must used all and should not be driving.
The drill here is they take you in to the station for a piss test and of course if you are taking hydro it'll be positive. DUI
I whipped out my phone on speed dial and called my attorney.
These guys are known for "Over zealous" hook ups.
But when the cop heard the receptionist of my lawyer answering on speaker phone he took the rhetoric down a few notches.
He let me go but not with out the usual "Don't drive dirty in my city".
Brothers and sisters this our criminal justice system at it's worst. To get the magnitude of how bad it is, Google Sterling Heights MI and also Google Roseville Mi. Compare the stats: Population, land area major thoroughfare.
You will see Sterling is much larger than Roseville, population and size. Sterling is one of the forth largest cities in Mi. Roseville does not make the top 20.
And yet Roseville's court building houses three times more court buildings than sterling or any other burb.
They have a main traffic artery that connects all the burbs from the working poor bordering Detroit all the north into the affluent municipalities.
For the longest time this Fascist City has criminally ticketed everybody and his uncle who comes down Groesbeck Highway for the most trivial of reasons.
They're favorite targets were the very young drivers and the working guy who lives from pay check to pay check.
The don't target middle age guys driving late model vehicles or work vans with
big name service companies on them.
Roseville tried to lean on the middle age guys too, but so many lawsuits resulted from the citing officer mis conduct they now only stop us older guys only if it's a "sure thing"
But to day if you go in a Roseville courtroom you will still see and hear the misjustice of the pettiness of a court system just out to make money.
One poor Hispanic guy was working two jobs to feed his family and he needed time to pay the bullshit traffic infraction they charged him with.
He could not make the payment schedule the court laid down and they threw him in jail instead of accepting what the poor guy could afford.
Guys who show up with an attorney get off and the judge is very polite to the defendant .
No attorney, you're dog meat. They take a guys car and make him serve time if can't pay.
Yep, they got nice a cash machine going for them selves in Roseville.
My attorney (God love him he saved my ass from that predator town) said if Roseville were investigated like common criminal they could be charged under the Rico Act.
Twenty six years ago they arrested one of my service techs for DWB in the burbs.
I got so pissed cause I knew the guy was right and would not take a chance on breaking a traffic law.
I almost got a beat down from the entire Roseville PD. The desk sergeant was real shitty to me when I tried to bail my guy out by check. I went home and brought back cash. we exchanged words (Understand i was former Special Forces not too many years out of Nam. I was stoked and ready).
Desk sergeant got in my face. I pushed back. The PD was all around us...so I called my attorney on the pay phone.
The cops cleared the room quicker than a Japanese Super Flush toilet. And they let my guy go.
Abuse of authority, my biggest beef in the world.
And the shit they did to my tech while in custody.....let's just say everybody
needs an a/c or a furnace repair guy some time. Cops are incurably impatient, it's a character flaw common to all Roseville cops..
At the time we had a big Yellow Page ad for the business.I attracted all the people who wanted a tech NOW and we did not disappoint.
Eventually all those cops that abused my guy(his civil right, that is) called for either a refrig repair, a/c repair, or a a Furnace repair. That big yellow page ad caught the impatient cops eye. We responded to the call together (on the advice of my attorney) Those gents all were left in the wind waiting for parts that never came. My guy got his pound of flesh.
God that period of my life was so tumultuous.
Sorry but I guess i just got going on a jag and didn't stop.
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