i'll tell ya a lil cop story and dreads when bush stole the 1st election (i dont belkieve he eally won either time) the rnc convention was in town we were feedig folks (progtestors as well as homeless and addicts) neear my neighbourhiood in the center of a crack hood around the corner puppetistas wre building puppets for the protest and the puppet factory was raided so we had cops hanging around us constantly
one night were out there with a bonfire (and an adobe oven we built too) (remember this is an inner city gheto fires were illegal) and we are drun=mming around the fire smoking weed signing having fun and the ops were giving us a lightshow and jamming with us (using the patrol car hood as a drum)
the 1 cops talkimg to me aboput how he wants to quit and move to the mountains and live off the land and how hes starting to grow his dreds (black guy had lil itty bitty freeform dreadies) the next day we are out there coking ganja cookies in the bus and u could smell it 3 blocks away the whole hood smelled yummy
so the same cops come over odviosly smelling the cookies but not saying a word the 1 (dreadyy cop) walks onto the bus and comes back out grinnin g ear to ear calling over his partner saying duide u gotta check this out so now both cops are on the bus (standing over a box with hundreds of ganja cookies cooling consealed just by a towel tossed over it at the l;ast second)
tgey come back out and ask hey we love to cook can we come back and cook with you guys they were so impressed with the resteraunt quality industrial kitchen on a schoolbus they didnt care bout the ganja only wanted to help cook..
fast forward a week those cops disapear and never come back (assume he headed for the hills) now the liutenant is there everyday and im having deep convos with him getting him to admit the raid on puppets was probly more of a harasment then a legal police action and 1 day the adobe oveb door vanished.. the luetenant goes home and rips the door off the oven in his kitchen to give it to us for opur oven made of mud..(along with a bag of veggies from hids garden)
fast forwrd a few years theserws now a massive garden in the gheto making it the safest block in the city every cop around knows me by name they drop by asking "hey have you seen john today" (the liutenant)
another night we are out there drumming loudly and 1 feinds jumping over the fire back and forth this was during this huge operation to shut down the over 300 open air drug markets around town we were sitting in the heart of 1 of them well an island of serenity surrounded by tit the drugs voluntarily moves a block away in all directions out of respect for us
so as were jamming an small army of bike cops come streamming by..like 60 or so of them..all smiling and wavcing
for 8 years the cops there treatted us like their best freinds and with total respect
there are cops that are evil assholes ..but there are many that are decent ppl tiooo
and your more likely to find the decent ones if u treat them decently and with respect too..and i dont mean the scared sir yes sir type i mean joking around trewating them like just anybody else type
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My new book Ban The Taboo Vol 1
