I think it's about time we put a stop to the actions of the Charles County Sherrifs office and the Maryland State Tropers in Charles County.
We moved to the Bannister area about a year ago. It is a decent sized subdivision that has a rec center, a pool, a church, a 7-11, a Shopping center in walking distance, and schools. Seems like the perfect subdivision, right? Wrong.
It started a few months after we moved here. We have a Ford Focus (Unfortunately), and at this time our radio was broke and could not be turned down nor off. My husband went out for diapers and as he was pulling in are driveway, a County officer blocked him in. He was given a ticket for loud music, petty right? Another officer pulled up, I didn't know what was going on and went out to my garage to see what was going on. My husband was trying to explain when I was verbally abused by the original officer and told to go back in my house. (Technically, I was, since I was in my garage). But I went in anyway. I noticed that there were 3 young male publically drinking, they walked right by the cops and proceeded into the wooded area. Nothing was said to them. We paid the ticket and let this go.
We noticed that there were always alot a cops coming and going by the rec center at all hours of the night, at this point we figured it was because we have a night watch in our area. Then we were told by people that they were doing drug deals. We found that a little hard to believe. Then we noticed that a car would be parked in the median of the road that faces the 7-11, pool, rec center, and school. The person inside would flash his lights to the cop by the rec center, then that cop would flash his lights to a car behind the school, then a car would pull behind the school and a drug deal would go down. Amazing, huh? There cops what are the people here going to do or say?
On many occasions, the neighbors here have had to call the police for many things, like loud music at 1am, etc., drug activity, fights, etc. Only a few times did the cops ever show.
Back in February, my husband was working for a scam company. He refused to go along with their scam, so he was fired. On the day he was fired, 3 other employees pulled up and blocked his truck in. Well, we were trying to get his tools off when we, including myself, were threatened and harassed, so much so that we called the police. It took them over an hour to arrive. While they were here, my husband got a cell phone call from the owner of the company which threatened his life. This happened infront of the cops. We were also harassed and threatened by the employees. The cops didn't do anything. We were told that they could make as many threats as they wanted. We knew that wasn't true. But we were told that this would be filed in a police report. A week ago, I tryed to get a copy of this report to attach to a lawsuit (the company owes him alot of pay), and found out that no report on that day was ever filed, not even something saying that came out. Luckily we have a copy of incoming and outgoing calls made on his cell phone.
About a month ago, our 5 year old twins were graduating from Kindergarten and we went along with our neighbor. Know that we also have a 18 month old (at that time) and our neighbor has a 3 year old. Well, my husband was talking with a guy we know, he asked my husband if he had any money so he could get a soda. My husband handed him a pocket full of change. A woman walked by them and says, "I know what you'll are doing." (Note: this woman was a size 12 trying to wear a size 6 shorts and tank top). Well, she went over to the school to an officer that we know, and told him that my husband was dealing drugs. First and formost, so you can understand why we get so upset, we do not do drugs nor have ever. We don't associate with people that do and take it very personally when some makes a acusation like this. The cop told her that he knew us personally and that he knew we were very against that. Well, she wasn't happy, she went into the school and called the cops.in the mean time, we were taking our children to our cars (which were parked by 7-11), she walked past us again making smart comments, got in her car, and tore off to the school parking lot. She sat on her hood and waited. A cop showed up and was walking through the path to us, and a cop came through the parking lot in another cruiser and blocked both our cars and our neighbors car in. The cop said what she told them. We told the cops whatever, this is just someone trying to start something. Well, the cop searched my husband in front of our neighbor, friends of our from their school, and most importantly; our children and our neighbors. I told them that I would press charges against them for this, it was embarassing and unnessasary. We voiced our unappreciation for this, even told them that when the people in the neighborhood call, they don't show. The cops laugh. Then the one doing the search says that he always comes out when he's called over here. I laughed, this cop has NEVER been over here. We just went home, wondering how we were going to show our faces after someone discrases you like this. All because you helped someone out. Please.
Two days later, my husband goes up to 7-11 for some sodas. Comes back and calls the officer that did the search. It turns out that the man that was with this woman walked into 7-11 as he was leaving and says, "Look it's that f??? Drug dealer." He'd had it. He got the officers recorder and was told him to please call, he never did, even after leaving several messages. To this day, whenever we go somewhere they show up and try to start something. Eventually their going to push it to far and one of us are going to loss our tempers and probally knock them out, then when the cops are called, what are they going to do, they instigated this problem and refuse to do anything about it.
It's amazing over here, you always know what cops will discriminate against blacks and what cops will discriminate against whites, and which cops are just real a? Holes.
To give you an idea on this, my neighbor and I were in a bad car accident back in March. It wasn't her fault but the cops made it to look that way, in fact they have now changed the report 4 times. Funny, huh? Anyway, when a cop finally showed up, my neighbor, who was driving, gave him her id. He started laughing, and replys, "Oh, this should be good, you have a provisional and your 21." He turns to me and says, "Bet your only about 20, huh?" still laughing. I replied, "No, I'm 26." He then says, "Oh, yell, that's a big difference." He makes similar remarks to the man driving the 2nd car in the accident. We tryed to tell the officer the details of the accident, but he kept insisting on talking to the woman who caused it. His original report had her story. I ended up calling his supervisor to find out that he was transfered the day after. He didn't follow protocall either. Because of the extent of the accident, he was to mark the road and take pictures. The only time that was done is when we did it ourselves for the insurance companies.
Just last week, we walked to 7-11 (it was nice out) and saw a state trooper (in daylight) making a drug deal. We watched him hand the guy money, from his cruiser, and take a bag of drugs.
We also had to move out of the way on back roads, because these cops and young kids were racing.
It's amazing how the people that are there to protect you and to set examples for you are the absolute worst criminals around. But who's going to listen, who's going to do anything about these actions, Anyone? What are we supposed to do?
April
Waldorf, Maryland
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