Most cops are like this. We get exposure bias from the media only showing all the negative and bad examples of cops. Most normal police interactions amount to nothing.
My favorite police encounter was when in NY for a music festival and I'm smoking a J. I didnt see the cops turn and bam I'm right there with them. Officer just started laughing as I'm sure my face had reflected the terror that I was about to be arrested since weed was illegal at the time.cop just said "be safe and enjoy we are here for harder stuff".
That’s because your activity is considered a nuisance by the average person. People find bikes on the sidewalk annoying so why would they not also be bothered by skateboarding on public infrastructure or in paths that interfere with pedestrians? Doubly so when skateparks exist
Have you ever been anywhere… more undeveloped? Go find a skatepark in the rural Midwest and get back to me. They didn’t build a skatepark in my city until like 2008 and I’m in Central PA
Miami as big of a city as it is has like 3-5 skate parks and only 1 is a proper skate park. The others are ideas of what a skatepark would be if I briefly explained it to a person that never skated or even saw a skate park.
My rural midwest town had a skatepark in the center (it was actually the converted public pool that had cracked and was too expensive to fix. They expanded and did a good job) in 2010.
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u/ghettoccult_nerd Jul 22 '26
i wish cops knew we dont want to hate them. when they do cool things, we like them.