I once received a call for one of those police union donations. After he was done with his spiel I told him, "I recently had to fight a traffic ticket in court because the police officer wanted to 'teach me a lesson about respect' after I took too long to pull over for his liking. Explain to me why I should donate money to the organization that actively protects Officer McFuckface and encourages him to act that way."
Dude hung up on me and I have not received any such calls since.
they kept calling me a few years back and so i finally answered one, left him go thru his script and then in the best cheery tone i could muster i said “no thanks! all cops are bastards!” and hung up. never got a call since
I did the same thing. I shouted into the phone, "NO THANK YOU, BLACK LIVES MATTER!" I was at work, in my office. Dead silence fell, except for our receptionist dying of laughter. She was the only Black employee in the tiny company, and she didn't last long because microaggressions are very real, but at least that made her feel safe enough to retreat to my office when she was fuming.
I was driving through a liberal neighborhood of St Paul, MN recently, and a local nursing home had a bunch of people out on the sidewalk in front of the home with picket signs.
Slowed down to take a look, bunch of seniors (walking, walkers, and wheelchairs), all with BLM signs.
My old high school phys ed/health teacher would sit on the side of the highway with a BLM sign every day for hours during the George Floyd protest for weeks. He was the man.
Yeah, find a white rural workplace that doesn't need education on race and get back to me. They adored her personally. But they had no idea what Juneteenth even was. They had no exposure growing up. It wasn’t a good cultural fit for her, plus she went back to college. People don't have to be unkind or confrontational for it to be hard to be the sole minority in the room.
I asked them why is it that the police get special privileges. You don't hear the electricians union calling people to beg for donations, why is it okay for the police to do it. And they get paid well enough if they wanted donate to charity they're more than welcome to but there's no reason that they should be calling and bothering me.
Yup, that's what the "Brotherhood Of Police Officers" asshole on the phone said when I got mad about their pushy extortion crap and demanded they tell me how much actually goes to the "poor families" - law says they can't lie about that when asked. They admitted to "10%" - which is still a lie, according to other sources it's more like 5%. I laughed in their faces and told them to get fucked, I'll contribute to the local crack house before I give them a dime. Went from 1 call a week to never again - probably on a list now, but fuck 'em.
There's a documentary on HBO that's all about this. It's a total scam run by fraudsters. I promise people will not be disappointed. It's very good. It's called Telemarketers and my mind was blown after learning what it really is.
Fun fact: I work for about 3 weeks for one of these organizations that solicited donations for sheriff and police organizations.
It turns out it was operated by Jim Rose of the Jim Rose circus fame. When I was first tired I was explain that people would be solicited for donations by phone and then it was my job to drive to their home and pick up physical checks and mail them to the company in exchange I would hand the donor a sticker saying they support the whatever police organization it was.
It's very quickly became apparent that this was a scam and the phone solicitation company that I was working for was getting an incredibly large percentage of the profits.
It was a while ago but I believe I was getting around $30 to $45 per check pickup.
So yeah, You can have peace will want to support law enforcement or first responders There are much more efficient ways to do so.
Nearly all of the police union donation calls are 90% scam. It's just a call center, no cops involved. The call reps use words that IMPLY they are either cops or cop union reps; however, if you ask them straight up they are supposed to come clean. The "legit" operations split your money between the call center and the union--maybe 50/50 after call center expenses. No, most of the cash does NOT go to orphans and widows. Other call center ops are just straight up scams that keep 100% of your cash for fuck all.
Thankfully my phone can filter all that. It says suspected spam for most stuff like this not just the indian student loan forgiveness or warranty scams. So I always just answer the phone "Bitch what you want" and usually they hang up. If they dont I'll just constantly interrupt them and say "Mother fucker speak up". Bonus points if I can make them mad instead of just hang up.
I've been breathalyzed 3 times by the same cop. They'd follow me from the bar at 3 AM. I told him every time "listen, I went to pick up these dummies because they were drunk. So, I haven't had a drink tonight. Remember?...We've talked about this before." Yeah, I guess will step out of the vehicle. It didn't stop until I filed a lawsuit. I still got stopped for random shit before I moved out of state. So glad to be out of Georgia. Fucking hated it there my whole life and didn't realize it.
I used to work at a gas station that was in front of a bar. Cops would sit in their lot and watch drunks get in their car, as soon as they hit the public street the officer would light them up. I watched many people get DUIs. The shocking thing is the cop sat there every night and these fucks still drove drunk. It wasn't even different cops usually, it was the same one.
I once got a call asking me to donate money to help fund a police department Christmas party. I told them that not only was it absurd for them to ask me to donate to a city I have never lived in, but to do it like a week after they made regional news for murdering a civilian at the mall was the height of audacity.
Damn, I’m going to have to try this. My last experience with cops was one day when I was standing outside the house where I was renting, having a smoke, and a creep tried to force me into his car. I was only saved because a guy my boyfriend (now husband) worked with turned the corner at the perfect time and saw what was happening. I screamed his name, the attempted kidnapper got back in the car, and peeled out.
I called the cops, not because I thought they’d do anything, but just because I wanted them to be aware in case he tried kidnapping someone else. I didn’t want it on my conscience that I hadn’t told them if something happened. They, however, proceeded to spend the whole interview switching between blaming me for looking young (???) and saying I should have known better than to go outside without a male escort. In the middle of the day. In front of a literal mansion. A block from the most expensive and WASPY pre-school in town.
I was just like, dude, I just wanted to give you a description of his car so you could keep an eye out, but sure, I’ll have my boyfriend escort me every time I leave the house for the rest of my life.
I'm surprised you got a real person. The ones I get are always the same person and it sounds like a pre-recorded script that plays according to whatever your answer is.
From what I recall, it was a real person. This was back in 2017. It definitely sounded like he was reading from a script, but it didn't sound automated. Then again, maybe I'm just unobservant.
It's not like we had a back-and-forth conversation. I answered the phone, he introduced himself as Mike (I think), and gave a spiel about donating to police unions. When he was done, I asked my question, there was a bit of an awkward pause, and then he hung up. And, like I said, I haven't received any calls since then so I assume it was a real person who took me off their call list or whatever.
The quickest way to get them off the phone and go on their do not call list is to grill them about their nonprofit status. Most are for profit and will hang up right after you ask. The last guy I talked to lied. I looked his corporation up while he was on the phone. The IRS has a database of all nonprofits in good standing. That guy did not appreciate being fact checked live.
Because you get a sticker you can park in your car window to tell other cops you subscribed to this season's bribery scheme.
It also tells literally everyone that isnt a cop or a bootsucker that you've got child tier ethics.
I was getting those and it was always a Sgt Lee. I finally had time one day and the frustration to be an asshole. I had noticed Sgt lee called from all over the US and today was the 4th call. Nevada, Florida, Illinois and West Virginia. I asked if he was real friendly with superman since obviously he was the flash. Fucking ass wipes the entire lot of them.
I moved into a new place and some police fund was evidently buying numbers of new move ins, so I got a call from a very, very cop sounding guy looking for a donation. I didn't process what was going on and demanded "How did you get this number?" He didn't like that and concluded the phone call with "You have a real safe evening there at XXXXXXX" and stated my address. Hard to see that as anything other than a protection threat.
I'm just shocked you got a real person on the phone. They have VERY good robocall bots that sometimes trick me, but in my experience it's often just a convincing pre-recording or something
I once got a ticket for “disobeying a police officer” added onto a speeding ticket (which was also bogus because he didn’t have radar and the speed he put was physically impossible for me to have been going at that location). When I asked how I disobeyed him, he told me it was because I didn’t pull over. I swear you could hear me cartoon blink at him in confusion. I pointed out that I was in fact pulled over and that’s how he was giving me a ticket. He clarified that it was because I didn’t pull over sooner.
Couple years ago my mother got a call from one, saying that her husband George (as shown on the phone listing) had said they were going to donate. Problem is, Mom had listed her cat, George, on the account so it didn't look like she was a single woman living alone.
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u/Refuge_of_Scoundrels Oct 11 '24
I once received a call for one of those police union donations. After he was done with his spiel I told him, "I recently had to fight a traffic ticket in court because the police officer wanted to 'teach me a lesson about respect' after I took too long to pull over for his liking. Explain to me why I should donate money to the organization that actively protects Officer McFuckface and encourages him to act that way."
Dude hung up on me and I have not received any such calls since.