The last time I saw the data (I'll admit it was a couple of years ago) it was something like 900+ White males to 800+ Hispanic males. IMO, it doesn't matter either way.
According to this data from 2008:
White male/female 912/73 45.5%
Hispanic male/female 945/100 48.2%
African American male/female 106/12 5.5%
http://www.ci.sat.tx.us/SAPD/pdf/sapd_07_2008.pdf
If you look closely, you will also see that the cadets and probationary officers include twice as many Hispanics as whites, so the SAPD is becoming more and more Hispanic. Of course, that does not mean that a Hispanic might not profile his own race.
Last edited by ploto; 02-17-2010 at 04:31 PM.
Here is the deal. People who are not "hispanic" can't understand a hispanic cop profiling another hispanic but in reality they could be the worse ones. They will do it out of jealousy depending where you live or are from or out of thinking they are better than you. You can't give a Mexican too much authority or they go crazy.
Jeez louise where are y'all meeting these cops? I've probably been pulled over maybe 6 times in my life and never has a cop been a prick to me. I know if I was speeding and breaking the law I deserved that ticket and was always greatful for a warning. I mean just be nice to them (like a normal human being should be anyway) and they should be nice right back to you. They are just doing their job.
Though there was this one time I did get pulled over by a Constable in Wilson county and that guy WAS a prick. No " o" or a greeting of any kind, just a terse "I need your license and registration" right off the bat, he didn't even tell me why he pulled me over or ask me why I did what I did. (For the record I passed him while he had someone else pulled over on the shoulder and I didn't slow down or move over while passing him, though I wasn't speeding. This was when they first started pushing that "Move over or slow down to emergency vehicles" thing.) But I wouldn't label every Constable a prick just because of my experience.
Learn to embrace the humor in it. Dike cop = levee in uniform. Hilarious visual, really.
When people pull the passive aggressive silent bull with me, it doesn't necessarily bring out my best side. Might have a lot to do with your interactions with police.
I think some cops are just jerks and I have MAJOR problems with the punishment model as structured in this country, so I'm the last person to go out of my way to defend their actions, but it's really not that hard to avoid such unpleasantness.
SA cops are nothing compared to female cops in Castle Hills.
When I was in high school, I was playing basketball with my friend in his driveway while his little sister (who was in fifth grade) played with sidewalk chalk on the curb. This notorious female Castle Hills cop pulls up, sees my friend's sister and accuses of her vandalizing the curb.
Then she called for back up. I'm not kidding. She called for back up because a fifth grade girl was playing with sidewalk chalk in front of her own house.
was she writing " cops" on the side walk? The 5th graders can be nuts.
Yeah that data might be more current than the one I saw. My point was your last statement.
Y'all would be surprised how far you can get with "yes sir" and "no sir". I got pulled over in high school in my jeep and had a fifth of tequila under the drivers seat and a kilo of weed under the passenger seat. They found the (unopened) tequila and we went through the whole "pour it out and apologize and look remorseful" and they quit looking after that and didn't find the kilo.
Only time i had problems with cops was when i lived in Schertz (schertz PD) and was 17-18. I would get pulled over just about daily...almost always find a reason to give me a ticket. Once was for "excessive lane changes" They almost always pulled me out of my car to search for drugs...although i never had any...
Since then, never really had an issue.
That's the secret.
Who measures weed in kilos? not that i doubt you, i just have never heard of someone having a kilo of pot.
Sure, there are grams, ounces, lbs...but kilos? i thought that was for Cocaine....haha.
I always talk to the law with respect. It has no bearing to the assholes that hide behind a badge.
the only reason I use "Yes Sir" or "No Sir" is to avoid a beatdown. In fact, I've learned that honesty IS the best when dealing with the Police.
I think most of law enforcement does. Those compressed bricks of pot that they bust coming from south of the border, aren't those kilos?
Well, I've been out of the game for a long time but ounces and pounds were retail units. Straight out of Mexico they were compressed kilo blocks that typically were wrapped in brown paper. The kilos were then "fluffed" and repackaged into retail sizes.
I think it just matters where it originates. Metric system, anyone?
"Royales with cheese"
a kilo is a ton to hide under 1 seat in a car.... hmm.... that's a lot of nasty ass mexican press!
A key is not THAT much...just 2.2 pounds. They were baled pretty tight. They were usually about 8" wide, 12" long and 4" deep.
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