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Authors: Dale C. Carson, Wes Denham
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not. His wife’s attorney subpoenaed the GPS tracking information from his car and discovered his visit to the strip joint. They also ran a background check and uncovered an earlier arrest. Years earlier, when he first arrived in America, he had had a passionate romance with an American girl. He had been 22 and she 16. The girl’s mother, however, had been outraged and had had him arrested. The charge was lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor. He was puzzled. In Cuba, sex is the only activity not regulated by government. In many American states, however, it is illegal to have sex with anyone under the age of 18. Fortunately the girl had loved him and refused to testify, so the charges were dropped.
At trial, his wife’s attorney described this arrest in detail and kept repeating the words “lewd and lascivious.” The lawyer always referred to his former girlfriend as a “minor child.” At trial no one mentioned that the girl had refused to testify against him and that the charge had been dropped.
His having been to a strip joint, said the attorney, was evidence of sexual maladjustment and a love of pornography and perversion. The club had a magazine and video rack and sold sex toys, which the attorney described in detail. As a violator of children and a pornography addict, the attorney concluded, our man was an unfit father and should not share custody of the children. The judge ruled in the wife’s favor.
Our man was denied access to his daughters, except under strict supervision, and ordered to pay child support, even though his wife’s income was many times larger than his. He went into a deep depression and spent weeks on sick leave. His union protected him from being fired, however, and he was able to return to work.
THE MORALS OF THIS STORY
1. The electronic plantation extends even into private civil matters. The assumption that an arrest is the same as a conviction often goes unchallenged.
2. All the whizbang gimmickry of modern life, such as GPS tracking and entry and exit records at gated communities, can be subject to subpoena and used at trial. Do you really want people to be able to know your goings and comings?
3. Construction is the only industry in America that hires large numbers of people with arrest records. Our subject would find it difficult to work elsewhere.
4. Minorities often do not understand how the system works and are more frequently blindsided in courts, both civil and criminal.
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TO HUNT AND ARREST IS THE QUEST OF THE BEST
C ops! To stay free, you’ve got to avoid them like the plague. You’ve got to stay out of their sight, off their radar screens, and out of their freaking computers. They’re the gatekeepers of the plantations. They alone have the power to transform indiscretions, stupidities, and recreational drug use into a lifetime sentence of shame and low wages. This chapter is all about cops, the good and the bad, the noble and the ignominious. In many ways cops are extraordinary people. What’s absolutely certain is that they are not at all like you. When you need them, they can be lifesavers. When they need you to make their daily arrest tally sheet look good, they can be life destroyers. To know them is to avoid them, so settle back and learn all about those boys and girls in blue.
Pop quiz. Good police officers spend the majority of their time in which activity?
1. keeping neighborhoods calm by encouraging communication
2. setting an example with courteous, professional behavior
3. serving and protecting the weak and helpless
4. hunting the two-legged beast
The answer is . . . 4. If you selected anything else, you’ve been listening too much to Officer Friendly, the public relations guy giving smiley speeches in school auditoriums and community centers. To arrest-proof yourself, however, it’s important to understand real cops, the guys on the street who can bust you. They are the first group of criminal justice players.
What you’ve
At trial, his wife’s attorney described this arrest in detail and kept repeating the words “lewd and lascivious.” The lawyer always referred to his former girlfriend as a “minor child.” At trial no one mentioned that the girl had refused to testify against him and that the charge had been dropped.
His having been to a strip joint, said the attorney, was evidence of sexual maladjustment and a love of pornography and perversion. The club had a magazine and video rack and sold sex toys, which the attorney described in detail. As a violator of children and a pornography addict, the attorney concluded, our man was an unfit father and should not share custody of the children. The judge ruled in the wife’s favor.
Our man was denied access to his daughters, except under strict supervision, and ordered to pay child support, even though his wife’s income was many times larger than his. He went into a deep depression and spent weeks on sick leave. His union protected him from being fired, however, and he was able to return to work.
THE MORALS OF THIS STORY
1. The electronic plantation extends even into private civil matters. The assumption that an arrest is the same as a conviction often goes unchallenged.
2. All the whizbang gimmickry of modern life, such as GPS tracking and entry and exit records at gated communities, can be subject to subpoena and used at trial. Do you really want people to be able to know your goings and comings?
3. Construction is the only industry in America that hires large numbers of people with arrest records. Our subject would find it difficult to work elsewhere.
4. Minorities often do not understand how the system works and are more frequently blindsided in courts, both civil and criminal.
2
TO HUNT AND ARREST IS THE QUEST OF THE BEST
C ops! To stay free, you’ve got to avoid them like the plague. You’ve got to stay out of their sight, off their radar screens, and out of their freaking computers. They’re the gatekeepers of the plantations. They alone have the power to transform indiscretions, stupidities, and recreational drug use into a lifetime sentence of shame and low wages. This chapter is all about cops, the good and the bad, the noble and the ignominious. In many ways cops are extraordinary people. What’s absolutely certain is that they are not at all like you. When you need them, they can be lifesavers. When they need you to make their daily arrest tally sheet look good, they can be life destroyers. To know them is to avoid them, so settle back and learn all about those boys and girls in blue.
Pop quiz. Good police officers spend the majority of their time in which activity?
1. keeping neighborhoods calm by encouraging communication
2. setting an example with courteous, professional behavior
3. serving and protecting the weak and helpless
4. hunting the two-legged beast
The answer is . . . 4. If you selected anything else, you’ve been listening too much to Officer Friendly, the public relations guy giving smiley speeches in school auditoriums and community centers. To arrest-proof yourself, however, it’s important to understand real cops, the guys on the street who can bust you. They are the first group of criminal justice players.
What you’ve
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