cops and communication disorders

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Since I have to carry a GPS unit to keep track of my location and direction, I speak out my location at intersections or whenever anything different happens into a digital voice-recorder that I keep running continuously when I'm away from home.

I've already recorded a few encounters with people voicing threats of violence and obscenities, and instances of the super "polite" police saying things when they think other people can't hear.

Here in California, it's mandatory to carry photo-ID at all times, and the State only issues one, only one Driver's License or one Identification Card, but not both to the same person. So, if the police confiscates your ID (which they "never" do), you're an illegal non-person. A couple decades ago, protesters were protesting oppressive foreign governments that had such ID requirements, while the police just a couple blocks away were arresting homeless people for not having current and valid IDs. (When the states of the USA do it, it's OK, or ELSE!! !).

Having paper ADA impairments' documentation didn't work for me when I requested reasonable accommodations at the Federal District Court Building in San Francisco. The armed guards refused to read it, and struggling against my impairments, the Court Clerks played stupid. And my lawsuit was about discrimination against disabled people by Federal employers, which the courts ruled never happened. My congressman wrote back to me with the explanation that the Equal Access To Justice Act didn't exist either.

When I lived closer to the SF Bay area, news stories were frequent about the police shooting anyone with anything that looked like a gun, from brooms to cell-phones. The joke back then was, that if your a victim of a crime, call the police and double the chances you'll get shot.

If there is a sidewalk, pedestrians are suppose to be on it. If there is no sidewalk, they are then suppose to walk against traffic. If there is a sidewalk that only extends part of the block, then the pedestrian, walking with traffic, on the sidewalk (as required by law), is in trouble when the sidewalk runs-out, because jay-walking is illegal too. On garbage day, the sidewalks are usually blocked off with the containers, but here in the USA, all law abiding citizens drive anyways, or so holds the NT moral majority.

Also, some police officers think they enforce the law, but that they are not obligated to follow it.

Tadzio

If they take your ID and forget to return it (or "forget" to return it), there's nothing to stop you going to the department of motor vehicles, paying the replacement fee, and getting another one. Still, it sounds like a crap thing for a police officer to do.