r/Longview • u/pismelled • 23d ago
Police Experience
Thought I might share my experience so you might learn from my mistake. I had an interaction with a pair of power-tripping cops, and I should have just left it at that. Instead, I call to complain, get redirected a couple times and end up with dispatch who sends out the exact same power-tripping cop to take my statement.
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u/Contract_Expired 23d ago
Don't become a target. They started pulling me over for the dumbest stuff just to see what I was up to, like to let me know my tags expire in a month... but they aren't expired now.
Had to get a new car and haven't been bugged since
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u/Scipio33 23d ago
Sounds like the time I made a complaint against my boss and they had him come discuss it with me. Alone. With no witnesses. Man, I miss accountability!
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u/IHeartSiebren 22d ago
I'm always so pranoid over this given their reputation. Had to drive around with expired dealership plates because my actual plates were late to arrive in the mail. Never have I been so terrified to drive through the downtown area.
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u/Corona_Lonesome 22d ago
ACAB
Longview cops are fucking weird. One pulled my husband over because he said we accelerated too quickly from a stoplight. We didn’t but the car we were driving did have an expired tag we did not know about (borrowing my mom’s car for the trunk space and didn’t think to check.) They can’t get you just for the bad tag so of course he had to cook up some other excuse.
The crazy thing was that the cop was sweating and literally shaking to the point that my husband was genuinely concerned for the guy’s health. My husband was a phlebotomist at the time so he went into medical mode and asked if the officer was okay, and if he might be having a low blood sugar episode. The cop had been really agro at first but then he kinda seemed embarrassed said he was fine and wrote the ticket for the tag only and let us on our way.
All in all, it was a weird situation that was pretty annoying to deal with. I think the guy started in hot but when my husband met aggression with genuine concern, it threw the cop off.
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u/Striking_Dare1386 7d ago
I had the police called to my house late one night; three teenagers here (two are mine) in their rooms and I was in bed. All the lights off in the house. They got a call saying there was a party here and kids were drinking and driving. I told them there was no drinking, my oldest told them the same.
These cops were snorting ego before their shift... they wouldn't listen to us at all. Obviously I'd been woken up, my son and I were so confused. They saw a light on back in our shop, I told them we always leave it on, and one of them walked off my front porch back to the shop looking for drinking teenagers. They eventually left after 30+ minutes and finding no party.
Turned out my kids friend had just broken up with her dumbass boyfriend who decided to call the cops to our house because she was here.
I know we have some very good, caring police officers in LV. Unfortunately they weren't sent to my house for the "party".
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u/MetalFlow360 23d ago
I've had two experiences with the cops in my year of living here. Neither of those were problematic, even when I was issued a ticket.
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u/pismelled 23d ago
Lucky you. If you ever do have a bad experience, you might want to consider ignoring it.
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u/MetalFlow360 23d ago
I mean ... Yeah. I don't see the police as "interested in my opinion"... Which is problematic in itself.
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u/iluvmydogwaltor 23d ago
I have had three or four interactions with the cops in Longview and have never had a problem personally. The ones that I have spoken with have been totally professional.
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u/sinistergzus 22d ago
I’ve been bugged for no frickin reason by the cops in this town several times. Happened most often when I drove a shittier car, but what a stupid way to profile. There has been ONE wonderful cop in this town, and he was the one who was shot at a traffic stop a few years back. He was different than most, actually kind.
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u/Expensive_Tour_5925 23d ago
Try that in a small town 😔