© KJRHOklahoma Highway Patrol Capt. George Brown
In recent months, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer and an Oklahoma City Police officer have been accused of repeatedly raping women, often during traffic stops.
After a Tulsa County sheriff's deputy was arrested last week for sexually assaulting a woman while responding to a 911 call, Tulsa NBC News affiliate KJRH decided to ask the Oklahoma Highway Patrol how to stay safe during a traffic stop.
The department noted that troopers should always be in uniform, and that women were allowed to keep their car door locked, and to speak with officers through a cracked window. A trooper should rarely ask a person to come back to the patrol car, OHP advised.
Comment: The problem is that people are afraid to stand up for their rights during interactions with police. And for good reason, if you pay attention to the number of police shootings on civilians in the news. There are numerous instances of police responding negatively when civilians stand up for themselves. What's to stop the police from claiming that being uncooperative by keeping your door locked is probable cause and arrest them? Police shoot individuals with impunity these days, so you can't blame people for not wanting to be assertive in their interactions with police.
"There are certain situations where we do that," Capt. George Brown told KJRH. "If someone doesn't have a driver's license on their person. We asked for an ID or driver's licence, if they can't provide it, rather than stand outside the car writing [a ticket], which puts us in a bad location, we may ask a female back to the car so we can get her information."
The KJRH anchor said that Brown concluded with this advice: "The captain says anything that happens inside a troopers car is videotaped, and he says that supervisors do review those tapes."
"He says the best tip that he can give is to follow the law in the first place so you don't get pulled over," the anchor added.
Comment: What's to stop a psychopathic individual who rapes women from pulling someone over who has not broken any laws? How about we stop blaming people and start pointing the finger at police agencies who routinely allow for psychopathic behavior to exist and flourish.
Brown told KWTV that OHP was working to regain the public's trust.
"There are entirely more good officers than there are the few bad apples that exist out there, and we want people to know that," he explained. "We have a lot of good troopers, a lot of good officers out there doing a lot of good things daily, and we want to continue that and have the public continue their trust in us."
Comment: Actually, if one pays attention to the stories coming out of late, it certainly appears as though the bad apples are the rule, not the exception:
- Psychopath alert: Cop tasked with protecting children from pedophiles just confessed to being a pedophile
- Police State USA: Dozens arrested, reporters detained, assembly rights restricted
- Video of deadly St Louis police shooting raises questions: Kajieme Powell was mentally ill
- Homeless man shot to death by police while "illegally camping" in the foothills of New Mexico
- Missouri teen murdered by police for not walking on the sidewalk - protest ensues
- Newly released video disproves police depiction of fatal shooting in St. Louis
Watch the video from KJRH, broadcast Sept. 17, 2014.
More 'good' than 'bad' cops? Could be, but they remain silent and let the 'bad' ones stomp all over them and everyone else. Silence equals acceptance. It is a choice when one chooses not to choose and lets those who are, make that choice for them, one they might or might not agree with, something we will never know because of their silence. Round and round we go.... when will it stop? only our choice will know.