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I’ve messaged her and tried talking to mutual friends about the issue and she’s still doing it. It’s insane that she’s driving 50+ mph and taking her eyes off the road to talk to a camera in order to post on her social media. I have recordings of her doing this, am I able to send them to our local police dept? We’re located in the US on the east coast.

I have a very nosy, meddling aunt, who frequently shows up to my house unannounced and uninvited. I am polite to her but she's a huge gossip so I often don't tell her things, because telling her means telling everyone. When she texts me I respond maybe 25% of the time depending on the text. I also have an abusive ex who stalks me online, not enough that he can get in trouble for it but enough that I try to keep things private so he doesn't know "current" details like when I am and am not home, etc. I'm not too bothered about him learning things a few weeks after the fact but I don't like him knowing what's happening *now*

This past week I had a 4 day work trip to Paris, including flight times I was gone for 6 days. I did not tell meddling aunt. I didn't tell almost anyone, because I didn't want information about this getting back to abusive ex, especially not while I was away from home. I basically just told my mom, my daughters (who stayed with my mom), and a neighbor who agreed to take care of my pets while I was away, and a few of my long-distance friends. While I was away I continued to post memes to social media and a photo of a drink I had in Paris, but there was nothing in the photo that would have revealed my location or made it obvious I wasn't at a restaurant local to where I live, since it was literally just a drink on a brown table.

Meddling aunt texted me on Tuesday to say she'd stopped by and knocked to no answer, and that she would be in town again Wednesday and Thursday. I didn't respond to the text. She texted again Thursday to say she stopped by and left flowers in my door, and that she noticed I hadn't moved my car in several days and she hoped her knocking on the door didn't wake me. I texted back the next day, hours before I'd actually be home again, and said thanks for the flowers. Yesterday I saw her and she said if I hadn't sent that text her next step would have been to call the police??

Anyway I'm just curious, if she'd actually called the welfare check and had made a big deal about not hearing from me, my car not moving for days, the flowers still being in the door where she left them, and bringing up my abusive ex, what is the likelyhood they would have broken into my house to check on me, since I obviously wasn't going to be there to answer the door? Is that something I need to worry about if I travel again without telling her? I'm actually really upset and annoyed that her first thought was to call the police, because even though I didn't respond to her text on Tuesday, if she was really so worried she could have reached out to almost anyone else I'm close to and found out "yes I heard from her this morning" or "Yeah she posted a photo to Facebook yesterday" instead of jumping to the conclusion that something bad happened.

Hello. So, with the northern lights going on, I decided to take a drive to look for a dark spot so see if I could see anything. I drove to a nearby park that doesn’t have a lot of excess light. As soon as I pulled in, an officer showed up, shone his lights on me, and said something over his intercom, which I couldn’t hear.

I rolled down my window, and made a gesture to my ear to indicate that I could not hear him. He then pulled right behind me with his window open, and I turned around and asked what he said, because I couldn’t hear him. He shouted at me that the park was closed and I needed to leave immediately, yet, he stayed parked behind me. WTF? I’m being asked to leave, but being blocked from backing out to leave.

What’s with that man? Somehow, I feel I’m not the only one who has encountered a similar situation looking for somewhere to view the aurora not knowing the hours of a city park.

The point of my post, I guess, is why would an LEO tell someone to immediately leave, but block their car in so they can’t?

Finally, after I was able to leave, the dude followed me to the stop sign to turn onto the main road. At which point, he flipped on his lights as I came to a stop. I held there not knowing WTF I should do. So, I pulled through the intersection with the intent to not block the stop sign. When I pulled ahead, he flipped off his lights, and turned around, and went back into the parking lot.

I’m confused. Sure, it’s my fault I didn’t know when the park closed…I get it. But why the blocking in, and why the flipping on the lights for no reason?

Hell, I just wanted to look up at the sky, now I have this sour taste in my mouth as I feel the dude was just being an ass.

Hi, I'm absolutely a nobody, and never been in a police car to begin with.

As the title reads, I am currently planning to become a police officer of my town, and I was struck with the following part of the test: "Visually locating the listed equipment and switching them on and off"

I don't know what the interiors look like, I have a general idea of what it may look like, but I was recently struck with a very harsh check where one part of the test is operating a police vehicle.

I was reading it and was basically saying "adjust seat position, fasten seat belt, ignition on and start the vehicle" and I said "okay, not too bad", but the problem comes where I have to visually locate all/most of the equipment in a police vehicle. I don't know if I can point out the obvious (like turn signals, headlight switch, and wipers) and pass? Because I have zero idea where each and every button or a thing is, and I'm scared this might fail me from the test to even be considered.

Which is the weirdest part to me. They are hiring new officers to send them to police academy *but* they're also wanting them to have those basic knowledge that not everyone is too fond of... I am lost on where or what to study since I doubt any city wants to be transparent about inside of a police car. Could you guys have some words of "see this" or "search that"? Thank you so much!

I’m currently going through the police hiring process and have a really big issue.

Whenever I do sit-ups, a day or two after doing them I start to have excruciating lower back pain (to the point where I can barely walk/move). I’ve been going to a physical therapist lately and he’s told me it is due to a herniated disc.

I’ve honestly had this issue for years which only starts to hurt a day after sit-ups, no other workout causes this issue. I’ve put this off for quite some time as I thought it would stop popping up if I just stop doing sit-ups for months but that is not the case.

So… my main question is, are sit-ups very common during the academy? I really don’t want to end up being kicked out of the academy since I’m an out-of-state applicant.

As the title states I come from a big family of cops. I plan on talking to all of them about it as well but I’m unhappy in my current career and I’m still young enough to switch career paths. I wanted some “unbiased” advice. I’m from Ct and I’m 25 years old. My dad passed and I wish I could talk with him about it to get his advice but just looking for some pros and cons of what it’s like now.

Just trying to gather various shift schedules for detectives, specifically homicide. Just wanted to see how various agencies across the country do it!

Sooo… I cashed my payroll check at a check cashing store and put the cash in my wallet. I didn’t inspect it, I just put it in my wallet. A week or so later I paid someone with a $100 bill from my wallet. The next day they called me and said that the $100 bill I gave them was fake. According to them they gave the bill to someone else who discovered it was fake when they tried to spend it at store. So now the person I gave the $100 bill wants me to take the fake bill that he has and replace it. Any advice? Thank You.

There’s a house about 8-10 houses down from me that has extremely overgrown lawn. We do have HOA in this subdivision. The lawn is literally 6-8 feet high. It definitely stands out from the rest of the houses on the street. I noticed the driveway lights have remained on and the car on the driveway hasn’t moved (at least from what I can tell). I don’t talk to my neighbors at all so I’m unsure if I should call a welfare check on this person or just leave it alone.

Someone on Nextdoor has posted about how ridiculous the lawn is and I know others posted about a welfare check, but the post has since been deleted by the original poster.

How would you go about this,if you were to do anything about it?

It sounds like a phone on vibrate, and it’s always 2 buzz’s in quick succession.

For an example listen at 4:37 in this video

What is that?

I accidentally went past a school bus with a stop sign out. I understand that this is a large fine but I also read online that a first offense can result in 30 days in jail? I was wondering how practical this is. I’m in NY by the way.

I’m in the hiring process for a pretty big department, but they need bodies just like everyone else. I’ve been forth coming about everything I’ll mention here, and I’m coming up on my background check.

I have absolutely zero criminal, traffic or drug flags. I hold a Top Secret SCI w/ Poly (Current DoD contractor) but I do have credit flags

First and foremost my job history is solid, 4-7 years per job and I’ve only had about 3 since in my current industry once you’re in you don’t really leave.

My credit however went to absolute shit through a divorce. Ex wife stopped paying bills on everything I co signed for, it was brought up in court but being that I co signed I was still liable so I understand. But between a car, apartment, credit cards (totaling only about 35k realistically) and with me having to pay my own bills I went through DoD counseling voluntarily and they suggested I look into Bankruptcy so I did. Chapter 13 for 3 years with a really low payment plan of $300 a month.

It didn’t affect my top secret other than being asked why and could I be blackmailed for it. Im a year in on my BK, never missed a payment (I opted in for them to take it directly out of my checks currently because the self pay portal always took 8-10 days to process and I didn’t ever want it to look like I was behind)

Is this going to severely affect my BI through the police department? I’ve been lurking Reddit for a while and I believe employers can’t use it against you as long as nothing negative comes from it (again blackmail typically) and a lot of police departments if you have it would rather see you take care of your debts in that matter rather then fall behind and be drowning in debt. It was my only option at the time rather than to drive myself absolutely broke.

Any BI input? I’ve been stressed about it for a month and just would like some clarify from a reliable source.

I paid a maintenance guy to do some home repairs and paid half in advance and the guy ghosted me and seems unwilling to return the money. Is it worth my time to report him for theft? Will anything come of it? Thanks everyone!

Years ago, around 2015, when I was a credit card fraud investigator, I worked with a (safe one) grocery store in Laurel, Maryland, USA, who produced all kinds of evidence along with the transaction and card evidence I was able to also provide, including where the fraud ring obtained (via a skimming device) all the cards. We had video, vehicle descriptions and license plates, descriptions of those involved, including ID and names listed on worn employer ID cards, and even gift card numbers they had purchased in bulk to provide to the police. This was a fraud ring of at least 12 people.

The police would not take the case and kept insisting that it was the bank’s responsibility to investigate, even though I WAS the bank representative (a senior technology VP) asking them to get involved and we were ready to hand them the case on a platter.

Why wouldn’t they take this? Banks obviously do not have the power to arrest nor prosecute cases. To this day, my opinion of police is soured based on this experience.

I'm just wondering about this because I remember before Covid and before 2017 specifically in my small city there used to never be any cops sitting out like they do now, and as the years rolled by it just became more and more likely until 2019-2021 where it's basically stayed the same since or relatively the same. Now I see cops posted nearly everywhere and for someone who's been from this area and been living in other small cities off and on for work the same can be said for those cities. The most id see before is when they'd be out on calls at someone's house or with an accident or sometimes rarely eating at Chick-fil-A or something like that; but that was it. So I explained my experience just these past years; do cops sit out a lot more/watch traffic right off the road or in a parking lot or in a place that's either kind of hidden from plain sight more often now?

I know this question sounds way out of left field, apologies in advance.

I'm in an apartment. I have a neighbor, middle-aged female who lives alone, who I know almost nothing about other than anytime I see her walking outside past 8pm she's extremely intoxicated.

She's gone during during the day, almost every day, and at night she'll get dropped off by someone. And when getting dropped off she's typically so intoxicated that she can barely walk up the steps to the second floor where our apartments are.

If I'm in my apartment when she gets home, almost almost every night for the last few months I've heard her fall to the floor, it's LOUD.

I'm really not about interfering with anyone's life, nor do I want to try and intervene on a total stranger's addiction. I have next to no direct evidence of her being a danger to herself (ie, I can't see sprawled out on the floor through a window or anything), all I have to go off is the loud crash she make hitting the ground.

So my questions is, is there anything I ought be doing in this situation? Or do I just have to let sleeping dogs lie as they say and wait for the day I have direct evidence that's she injured?

Do you think adequate law enforcement coverage for traffic and theft situations exist during a funeral for an LEO, or is that an opportune time for criminals to strike and not be caught due to skeleton crews?

I’m interested in hearing from current and past law enforcement officers regarding their opinion whether law enforcement agencies in the US, specifically, owe an apology for the historical mis-treatment of LGBTQ people, as NYPD did for the 1969 Stonewall Inn raid and as Canada did several years ago. I’m particularly interested in your reasons behind such an opinion, either way.

I'll be starting a new law enforcement adjacent unit at my agency soon. Typically after patrolling we have the opportunity to pick up off duty lane closures (Sit behind a construction crew on a blocked lane for visibility).

Most of these are 8-12 hour shifts...what do you do while just sitting in your car to keep yourself busy? I have considered purchasing a SteamDeck or something to play games on so i'm not watching tiktok for hours.

Hi, I recently joined this group,

I have a question regarding if whether or not I should proceed with my TX state trooper application as I recently completed the required documents needing to be turned in before my first documents interview. I have had a history of marijuana use and has been a little over a year long ever since I last used. Is it too soon to apply? I mean, I have had like breaks that have lasted months, and the most I would consume was like 2 grams a week. Please help, what should I do?

So about two weeks ago our junk generator was stolen, it wasn’t really a huge hit for us since it didn’t work, but the dumbass who stole it left their cash app card, what should I do? Should i report the man to LE ?

With all the craziness going on now, I want to be prepared of I end up in a difficult situation. If I’m driving, and get caught up by protestors blocking the road, what options do I have? Assuming they are peaceful, is there any recourse I have to get where I’m going? If they start hitting my car, how do I protect myself and get out of there without running over other people? Same question for trying to enter my work, or school, if people are blocking the way. Am I just out of luck and can’t get where I want to go? Thanks!

Question for those who have went through BLEA in the last 6-9 months. Noticing on the academy videos put out recently they no longer show any direct contact with OC, just spraying boards/etc. Did they also remove the full contact requirement and limit to only secondary?

I am on 2nd floor of 3-floor apartment complex. Everyyyy single day, I hear the damn music from the neighbor who is ABOVE AND OVER. In no world should I be able to hear people who are above and then over a whole unit. Yes, hearing music outside of their own unit is breaking the lease, no matter time of day.

Have called the police non-emergency line maybe 6 times now, but the people living there have known every damn officer who's shown up and they wind up talking about football that their kids are in and other BS. Have knocked on the door maybe 4 times in the past month and asked them to turn it down and they either turn it SLIGHTLY down (so it knocks my unit still) or spite me and make it even louder.

I'm at the point where I'm just going to call the police and send management and e-mail EVERY time I hear it, however, my main concern with the management part is that I am paying monthly and have the lowest rate in the whole place since I was grandfathered in, so they could tell me to leave at any moment with 60 day's notice.

I'm hoping to God maybe the police will get tired of going there and be like, "look, we keep coming out here, stop playing your music loudly" but that doesn't seem likely at this point.

The general police call goes: "ok, we'll send someone out." 50mins go by. They knock on their door, go "oh heyy" in a friendly way because they know each other, talk about their kids in football, and then they laugh and joke with each other, then the police drive away. And the ONE time a cop they didn't know showed up and seemed hopeful, it took them 1hr to come out so by the time they got out here, they had their music off, so nothing happened.

In no world should I have to stay in my bedroom all day (where I hear it the least and have the most peace) because I feel like snapping if I go out to my living room or kitchen the moment I hear it. I should never feel uncomfortable or pissed 24/7 in my own home anywhere except my bedroom. And I swear to God I am not that "Karen" type. This has just gone long enough and I cannot take it anymore.

What can I do from here and what happens after police leave these types of calls, especially when they know the people being reported, and just drive away with no results? Is paperwork filed? Is an outcome reported to a supervisor or anyone?

Hello, I went over the speed limit 10 miles during rain, got pulled over and ticketed 114 dollars. I don't have a problem with paying the fine, the real question is will I be getting points on my driver's license that everybody higher lawyers to fight off so their insurance doesn't go up? P.S yes, I was in the wrong and I almost never drive as I shouldnt

I was watching a Rosscreations video and when the cops showed up & asked if he had been arrested, he said he has but other than that he wasn't answering any questions unless he has to or a lawyer was present. The cop said "Fine. If you were arrested we have you in our system anyways."

What is this "system" and how current is it? If someone gets arrested in 1985, is you pull them over, will you show their most current information or whatever was on file in 1985?

Alternatively, what do you show for someone who has never had any police interaction before?

Alright, I'm floating this out there out there to get an actual gauge of where my own head is? So, I work in a jail. I'm in mental health. I'm around corrections all the time. I'm also around cops all the time (but don't have too much interaction besides small talk).

I'm struggling in the world of dating because of the wild things I see and I try to tell the tech bro I've met on hinge at dinner a funny story and he gets sad, you know? I also work nights and that gets weird.

So, baseline, I struggle to date someone that doesn't have experience with, like, the stuff. I'm not attracted to corrections officers in general based on perceived disparities in our value sets. But cops I admire. I think if I dated a cop, I could be proud of what he does and I could respect him. So, now I've got it in my head that I really think that I should try dating a cop.

My first question is...is this pushing me into badge bunny territory? I'm very self conscious of this.

Second question is: is my own perception of the similarities or connections we have in our career off base? Because I'm certainly not on patrol. I just see what they bring through the sally port.

Also, I know. I said not to, but feel free to eat me alive.

I might visit the US, but if I do have to call the police at night and go outside to speak with them, how can I avoid ending up being mistaken for a threat to the police?

I got banned from r/AskLE for asking this question and everyone kept saying I was trolling and baiting even though I was sincerely asking this out of a genuine concern.

Hi guys, not sure if this is a common/silly question to ask or not, but wanted some more insight.

I recently moved out of state to Louisiana, was a CO back in my home state for a good year but we had Jailers, so completely separated from the Sheriff's Department. Since I moved down here I've been looking into more careers in law enforcement and I guess wanted to know what it's like being a cop down here and what areas/departments are the best? Back home I was pretty aware of the departments for about three different towns/cities/counties, including the ones I worked alongside of in the jail, so I was a lot more comfortable with the idea of working out on the street as law enforcement. Down here is a whole different ballgame since I'm not familiar with the people or area.

Was just wondering if anyone had any advice or tips. Would really appreciate it.

Would applying for volunteer position at an agency I plan to re-apply too be a good decision? What are sworn officer opinion on this and does this help build a solid rapport with the agency? I plan to volunteer for the summer and then reapply in August or end of July.