Experience With Undercover Police Activity

[DMH]

I was at the skatepark the other day with just myself and one other kid there. We were playing SKATE when a couple of guys without skateboards/bikes/anything walked in with their hands in their pockets and walked over towards us. One dude was wearing a wife beater and eras and the other guy was some lanky goofball with Asics. They stood right in front of me and just looked around, so I was like "You guys checkin' out the park?" The suspicious nature of these fellows got my adrenaline going a little bit, so I skated past them and out to a more open area in the park (it's fenced in, and they kind of had me in a corner) because I felt like they might try to jump me or something. As I skated away, the wifebeater guy yelled "Do you know where I can get some weed?" When he asked that, I was kind of relieved because I thought they were just being shy about buying drugs. Initially, I thought, "Sure I could help these kids," but I then remembered that everyone I knew was out. So I told him that and he was like, "Not even somebody for a dime bag?" That seemed strange because nobody really sells weed in that amount around here, and then I thought it strange that he was speaking so loudly in the first place if he actually was nervous about it. So they left and, as they drove away, a black car with super tinted windows very clearly followed them out. I recognized the following car as one that I had seen just a few minutes earlier idling outside the skatepark for no apparent reason.

Does this at all seem like some kind of undercover police activity, or am I just paranoid? It actually freaked me out a little bit because I am pretty naturally trusting and generous, and I could have potentially gotten myself or someone I know in pretty bad trouble had I actually found some for them.

Anyway, have you guys had any similar experiences?

[steenz]

i got caught with yoyaine at disneyland by undercover security

[grimcity]

Yep... when I worked at one and ran another bar I used to get approached all the time with that shit. Some of them were pretty believable, but I never hooked up strangers with anyone I knew (or acted as middle man). Sure enough though, one cat I suspected wound up being a narc, as he popped about six of my friends. After that, if I suspected a narco, I just spread the word about the sketchy vibes I had on 'em and they'd be out the door after getting turned down or dismissed within a few minutes.

Anyway, I was there to sell beer so fuck 'em if they ain't buying my completely legal yet more dangerous booze.

[holden caulfield]

dude, NEVER hook people up with ANY illegal substances if you don't know them. You have everything to lose and very little to gain. Whether it be an undercover or some asshole looking to rob you, (even if its a small amount, some turds just get off on fucking with people and provoking fights), the odds are stacked against you. I've seen scum bags at my park rob people for a gram just to feel big and then pull a gun when other skaters tried to back the kid up. Clearly assholes just looking to start shit. Better just avoid the whole thing.

[DMH]

The thing is that this town is pretty small and most of the people in it are generally decent. I think it caused me to get a little lazy, and I think I subconsciously knew that I genuinely couldn't help them regardless so it didn't seem like a big deal to begin with. I definitely needed to play that a little wiser, though. Street smarts aren't always my game.

[Strike A Pose]

The fact that you even acknowledged having access to what they wanted was the first mistake.


"I don't know these niggas! I don't fuck with these niggas!"

[Beer Keg Peg Leg]

i see people get busted by undercover cops for drinking beers at the skatepark all the time, luckily it hasn't happened to me yet...it's ridiculous what crimes police focus their resources on.

[floop]

it would be awesome to see an undercover skatepark cop make an effort to get into character and actually try to skate, pushing mongo and whatnot

[Fairy Boy]

i see people get busted by undercover cops for drinking beers at the skatepark all the time, luckily it hasn't happened to me yet...it's ridiculous what crimes police focus their resources on.

This happens? Fuck, grabbing a man can after work and heading to the park is my favorite activity these days

[clamy]

i got tackled by an undercover cop when i was riding a bike drunk.

[Random Matt]

dude, NEVER hook people up with ANY illegal substances if you don't know them. You have everything to lose and very little to gain. Whether it be an undercover or some asshole looking to rob you, (even if its a small amount, some turds just get off on fucking with people and provoking fights), the odds are stacked against you. I've seen scum bags at my park rob people for a gram just to feel big and then pull a gun when other skaters tried to back the kid up. Clearly assholes just looking to start shit. Better just avoid the whole thing.

Ironic statement coming from a guy named "Holden".

[RCB3]

About 10 years ago at the double kink gap out rail that Heath gap bs lipped, noseblunted, and blunted I had a funny run in with an undercover cop. We were just holding our boards looking at the rail, and a "skater" got out of an obvious undercover car and he was decked out in stereotypical skate gear and a sweet backwards hat. He had a fresh blank setup that had never been skated and he looked way too old to be wearing the kind of stuff he was. He kind of just lingered and gave us glances and waited until we stepped on our boards cause they can only ticket you if you are skating on it, and not holding it. It was worth a good laugh.

[GarglesCmen]

I was skating by this one restaurant and I was asked "do you know where I can get weed or anything harder real quick?", I told them "no" since I had no idea who he was and after that, he went into this car and drove off. I seen him at that spot every couple of days I drove by.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

^ I always thought it would be fun if an undercover asked me that to say "Buy it? I know somewhere where it grows for free!" Then take him on a 2 hour drive to a field full of weeds. I wouldn't actually do that though



Undercover cops do exist, and do go after shit like that. If what happened is as you described it, yes, they were.

When I was in college the Santa Cruz harbor police broke up a party I was at by going in undercover. They busted it as the people who lived there were kicking them out because nobody knew them. I mouthed off to them, got tackled into a bush by like 3 of them, and was hauled off to the drunk tank for the night as they claimed the tackling was necessary as I was drunk in public (after being forced into public from my friend's house while celebrating her birthday). A bunch of people were at minimum tackled and brought in that night, one girl got the shit kicked out of her and arrested for assaulting an officer after she kicked one of them in the nuts when he tackled her in her own bedroom, out of uniform with only a badge around his neck after charging into her room. The charges were dropped all together. The original call they were responding to was a noise complaint, and they didn't pursue those charges after all of the insanity.
Everybody else was all lawyering up, and I called my friend about it, he said to just let it go so I didn't get harassed by cops for the rest of the time I lived there. I was growing weed in the attic at the time*, so I dropped it.

*Just kidding! I would never do that!

[Baron Samedi]

^^ Sounds like Santa Cruz.  SCPD doesn't know what the fuck to do with themselves most of the time.

A few years ago, I was leaning on my car outside of my house smoking a cigarette and trying to decide whether or not to drive up to campus to go to class or to bail and go skate.  This completely normal-looking middle-aged guy walked up to me and asked me if I could 'help him out.'  Unsure as to what exactly he meant, I asked what he was talking about.  "Crack," he said simply.  I replied, "No.  Definitely not."  And on he went.  To this day, I'm not sure whether or not the guy was an undercover cop or a full-on crackhead who just kept it together really well.

[Joe Pesci]

tons of undercover cops always lurk around the skatepark here in tinted windows, bland colored impalas. the best part is theres almost always someone smoking weed at the park in the back yet no one ever gets caught

[ice nine]

everyone just smokes all over our park, its weird sometimes when a bunch of men smoke weed, with 6-10 year old kids sitting beside them. our park's next to a youth centre, and a few days ago a youth worker came up and told us while some of us 'hit the chron'.he was just talking to an off duty cop a few feet away from us a moment before, who didn't care at all.

but you guys wouldnt hook people up with a dealer's number even if they were actually skating and just not from around there?

[Dontfearthereefer]

Thank god for Canada, the land of hassle free skate parks

[able]

I was leaving a night club a few years back and these two 'alternatively' dressed dudes asked me if I could get them some Ecstasy pills and I asked "are you guys cops?" and they said "no." About 10 minutes later I saw them handcuffing someone.

That's when I learned that whole "If you ask a cop if their a cop, they have to admit it" rumor is B.S

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080923211526AArYVyL

[bentmode]

When I was sixteen I got caught drinking outside of a pool hall by the Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC). They were undercover, "staking us out," a friend of mine, "Q," was with me drinking our one beer, and his homie, "Stogey," a local combodian youth, was getting spun in the bathroom of said pool hall while everything went down. They had rolled up initially and asked us for directions to the glasshouse,the music venue two blocks away. We kindly obliged and pointed them in the direction they where heading. When Stogey got out of the bathroom, which had probably been a cool 15 minutes after the the dudes had passed, we decided to head towards the glasshouse. Before we got up I decided to kill my brew and trash it, because I'm a gentleman. Q still has his beer and Stogey hadn't even started drinking, his beer was still in pocket, he was going fast off the pookie. We make it all of 47 feet before out of nowhere the guys that were just asking is for directions are now flashing badges and running full speed asking us to stop walking. Straight out the gate Q's beer had killed us; that was all the evidence they needed, but just to be sure they dug my beer out the trash can. Stogey had been let go on account of he hadn't been seen with us and there was no way that there was a beer visibly creating a fat bulge in his right pocket. No way. We got tickets and were told to go home, except for Stogey who is our hero in the story. For his moral is the most true: You won't get caught drinking in public if you're smoking meth in the public restroom.

[lampshade]

My junior year of college I lived in a huge house (10 bedrooms/dudes) across the street from campus.  The first weekend of fall semester we decided to have a party.  Two of the guys were on a sports team and told their freshman to spread the word to freshman girls.  Turns out they spreaded the word to ALL freshman, like flyers up in dorms.  Hundreds of people showed up.  There was no way to monitor who was coming in.  Around 11:00 I was sitting on the front porch.  Two cop cars and a bunch of bike cops roll up. They claimed they had undercover cops in our house being served beer (from kegs).  Me and one of my roomates took the fall and got cited for "serving minors."  At least half the people at any college are minors.  They asked, "Who else lives here?"  We replied, "They're not home.  This party is all us."  No snitching.  We went to court, got a fine and split it ten ways.         

[Grubby Mits]

My junior year of college I lived in a huge house (10 bedrooms/dudes) across the street from campus.  The first weekend of fall semester we decided to have a party.  Two of the guys were on a sports team and told their freshman to spread the word to freshman girls.  Turns out they spreaded the word to ALL freshman, like flyers up in dorms.  Hundreds of people showed up.  There was no way to monitor who was coming in.  Around 11:00 I was sitting on the front porch.  Two cop cars and a bunch of bike cops roll up. They claimed they had undercover cops in our house being served beer (from kegs).  Me and one of my roomates took the fall and got cited for "serving minors."  At least half the people at any college are minors.  They asked, "Who else lives here?"  We replied, "They're not home.  This party is all us."  No snitching.  We went to court, got a fine and split it ten ways.         

Are you not allowed to drink on a premise in America? Damn that's fucking harsh and a stupid law

[grimcity]

but you guys wouldnt hook people up with a dealer's number even if they were actually skating and just not from around there?

I wouldn't give out any numbers for sure... only because the people I know only deal with friends & probably wouldn't pick up for an unknown number anyway.
Having said that, if they were visiting skaters and it was pretty obvious that they were cool, I'd make sure they got hooked up before they continued their travels, but we'd have to spark one up first.

[sleepypancakes]

My junior year of college I lived in a huge house (10 bedrooms/dudes) across the street from campus.  The first weekend of fall semester we decided to have a party.  Two of the guys were on a sports team and told their freshman to spread the word to freshman girls.  Turns out they spreaded the word to ALL freshman, like flyers up in dorms.  Hundreds of people showed up.  There was no way to monitor who was coming in.  Around 11:00 I was sitting on the front porch.  Two cop cars and a bunch of bike cops roll up. They claimed they had undercover cops in our house being served beer (from kegs).  Me and one of my roomates took the fall and got cited for "serving minors."  At least half the people at any college are minors.  They asked, "Who else lives here?"  We replied, "They're not home.  This party is all us."  No snitching.  We went to court, got a fine and split it ten ways.         

Are you not allowed to drink on a premise in America? Damn that's fucking harsh and a stupid law

No you are. Get caught "serving" anyone under 21 and you'll get busted though.

[skateboardnorth]

When I was about 16 some of my friends and I were walking to my house at lunch to smoke a joint when out of nowhere we got surrounded by unmarked cars.  The cops got out and separated us then questioned us about dealing weed.  They tried scaring us with; "tell us where the weed is and who you got it from, or else we will take you to the station and strip search you".  My buddy had one gram of weed on him and when the cop wasn't looking he kicked it under the car.  So they searched us and were really mad cause they didn't find anything.  They let us go and we waited about 10 minutes then went back grabbed the weed, that was still on the ground, and got high. 

[Gnarwhal]

once at the local park, my homie got busted for indecent exposure for skating shirtless

[KoRnholio8]

I've got dreadlocks and cops (or random) people pick up on the stereotype of me having weed on me all the time (even though I've never even smoked a cig in my life).

I've also got a full backpack of video/photo equipment at every session, even when skating alone. So I was trying to film a trick with a tripod (I was alone), which I didn't get. Then cops slowly drive-by me and see all of my equipment. Then 5 mins later when I'm all packed up to go home, this other unmarked cop car comes to harass me. It took them 40 min of laughing in my face and calling me stupid for buying used (stolen as they would say) shit and searching my every pocket in the middle of my town (for everyone to see). Another 20 min at the station where they checked my equipment serial numbers, they didn't get any dirt on me and had to let me go. And not one sorry from the lot of them.

[Tufty]

 I got busted and almost interrogated by an undercover cop because someone had destroyed some marble skatestopper-poles at the local spot.

 They put them there along with chains to prevent us from skating a ledge and a three stair and after a week someone busted few of them during the night... The next day we would skate there and some guy started asking what the fuck happened. I told him why the fuck do you care are you a cop??? Then he showed his id and told us to follow him and then he started busting our balls and that he knows we did it and we should admit it.

 Later some old bmxer guy told me that he did it drunk because they ruined the spot... Since then we have cut the chains many times but never got caught...

[Truancy]

I've got dreadlocks and cops (or random) people pick up on the stereotype of me having weed on me all the time (even though I've never even smoked a cig in my life).

[The Donger]

I've got dreadlocks and cops (or random) people pick up on the stereotype of me having weed on me all the time (even though I've never even smoked a cig in my life).

I've also got a full backpack of video/photo equipment at every session, even when skating alone. So I was trying to film a trick with a tripod (I was alone), which I didn't get. Then cops slowly drive-by me and see all of my equipment. Then 5 mins later when I'm all packed up to go home, this other unmarked cop car comes to harass me. It took them 40 min of laughing in my face and calling me stupid for buying used (stolen as they would say) shit and searching my every pocket in the middle of my town (for everyone to see). Another 20 min at the station where they checked my equipment serial numbers, they didn't get any dirt on me and had to let me go. And not one sorry from the lot of them.

Dude, get a haircut. If i got hassled that hard for having dreads, i would cut those shits with the quickness.skaters already have 1 strike against them, why make it 2?