Asperger's, the Law, and POLICE

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Wow, judging from what is being said, it seems like north American cops are a suspicious lot.

I've had mixed experiences from the police. The Hampshire police were pretty good when I was assaulted.

The Met (London) are no so brilliant. I remember being put under suspicion just yards from my house, just for walking with my eyes trained to the ground. They tried asking me where I lived. Like I'd seen them up here too often. Many time I though I could go, but that kept trying to ask me more questions, staring me in the eyes. If they knew anything about my neighbourhood or similar they'd know that then number one suspects for a breaking are the cowboy labourers who do work for the yuppies in an almost continuous stream. They are not going to rob the house they are working on, but they can observe all day who is coming or going. There are a lot of houses, and these labourers get paid in cash and are not tied down. Other than that leafleters might find a car do left open and have a rummage in the glove compartment.

Tip on not getting robbed, don't put valuables in view. it would seem obvious but some of these yuppies still don't learn. Another cleaver trick is to get a second door bell as if the house id divided up.

Another time I was going down to my local tube and I witness what turned in to a fight between two people. It turned out remarkably to be an argument over the price of an illegal DVD. What happened is they jutted out in front of me as I started walking, from a side entrance to a block of apartments near the tube. There started fighting. The one guy appeared to have something of the other guys. He began making his move, the other guy was trying to get it back, run after him. He got a length of PVC wiring cover and smashing it over his head, and this fractured with fairly superficial effect. Then the other guy got some scissors out of his pocket and stabbed him in the neck. The guy was pretty luckily, or he had a hard neck (probably done some iron neck training), the scissors didn’t penetrate instead they buckled. The stabber then tried to play the innocent victim and say the other guy attacked him unprovoked. I was probably one of the few to see the actual stabbing, and almost certainly the only one to see the whole fight from the start. He concealed the scissors in his hand and then when over to a bus stop and sneakily on placed on the top of a bus stop. The other gut couldn’t speak English because he was a Chinese immigrant, and his opponent was clearly on drugs, classic wasted away crack and smack look. The remarkable thing is it happened and started just literally next to a police station. As I was one of the first to see where these people had come from and followed it all the way through I was taken down as a witness. Anyway the MET were pretty casual about the affair. Quite slow to get in touch. I’m not sure my evidence amounted to much. The Chinese guy was not interested in pressing charges, checked himself out of hospital. They did tell me that they couldn’t interview the other guy immediately because he was coming down.

I don't care for most cops, but everyone on here should remember that they are pricks to NTs as well. The type of people that gravitate to this job are seldom the brightest, and few could be expected to know anything about AS. They do tend to assume that weird behavior is an indicator of criminality, so many of us will fare poorly in encounters with police.
I feel like I understand cops better than I understand NT civilians. I tense up when I know cops are in range, and tend to focus on avoiding doing things that attract their attention. I know the pitfalls of talking to cops better than the general social pitfalls of being AS in an NT world. So I haven't done too badly in my encounters, although I loathe those interactions.

I haven't had much interaction with police, but one thing that helps is to be polite and they'll treat you the same way. If I was accused of something worse than a traffic violation, I'd tell them that I won't talk to them without a lawyer there with me. After all, innocent people can say something that could lead to them being falsely convicted of a crime.

I have been the target of suspicious persons reports and Ive also been questioned by the Cops on 2 urban University campuses. However I have never had any serious trouble with the police nor have I had my place of residence subject to search, thankfully. It doesnt suprise me that Aspies are viewed by police as being suspicious persons or potential criminals.
Nightbender-WHY and HOW did they midiagnose you with Bipolar disorder and put you in the loony bin?

I like the police and have always wanted to be one of them. If you are not breaking the law you have nothing to fear.

In general, they've treated me with about as much respect as they showed for anyone else. I just keep my mouth shut and don't speak unless spoken to. If I disagree with something, i'll argue it in court.

The only bad run-in I had with the law was when I was eight or nine years old. One of my friends dads was a cop and one day he found a lot of things from his truck missing and a shirt with my name on it in the back of his truck. My friend came knocking on the door and told me his dad had sent him. I went over there, not knowing what to expect and as soon as I got to his house, his dad was up in my face yelling out at the top of his lungs. He accused me of stealing tools from the back of his truck (because kids love electrical saws and drills) and the caps from his tires (what would I do with those?) He created a huge ordeal and eventually my mother and stepdad came outside to see what it was all about. He started threatening to send them to jail because of my actions and telling them he has a witness who saw the whole thing. He had us on his yard until the witness came by after work and said the boy in question was older.

Maybe you should've consulted your witness first numbnuts!

Canadians, know your rights!

http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/index.html