I go to a small college in Ohio. The local cops are fucking assholes. Get caught with an unopened can of beer under the age of 21? That will cost you $500, 20 hours of free labor, and 8 hours of substance abuse classes. Fucking shit, eh? But I am a college student and I have come to realize that here in America, if one is smart and driven enough, you can work the system get shit done. Well okay, I want to hurt the local police -- not physically, but fiscally and legally. Here are my current ideas:

Informing prospective students about the local police and encouraging them to ask the admissions people questions about them
Possibly organizing a campus wide boycott of local establishments (this would be fucking hard)
Canvassing the campus prior to important alumni events/events where lots of prospective students are in attendance


But Im not really sure what else I can do. I am not a resident of the town, but obviously there must be some route to my goal via local politics. Attacking the police budget is what would work best, but how can I do that? It's currently HUGE because of recent drug problems and urbanization. What do you think Totse?

Cause some kind of problem for the town so they will have to divert money to whatever the problem is.

Hey I'm from and go to school in Ohio...what college? There's a shitload of small colleges in Ohio.

I'm going through some underage drinking/open container shit myself right now. Those penalties you described sound about right...I know it sucks, man, but it's the law, not the cops. And it's not just small town cops that have nothing better to do. I'm in Columbus, and they still send cops out on weekends for the specific purpose of busting underage drinkers. Such a fucking waste of resources...but complain to the lawmakers.

Well you could do crime on pets of the very rich or people who have a ready made public forum that they can use (like reporters TV Radio station employees or owners). This would then put pressure on cops in your town to find the perp. People hate it when their pets are hurt, injured or maimed. And most serial killers start by abusing animals. So I am sure that some reporter will print that angle of the story about what is suddenly happening in their community. And you could also fuel the dialogue on about the crimes you commit. (this is an despicable idea)

Or if you can get your hands on a great deal of fireworks, you could set up a delayed fuse igniter (cigarette in folding matchbook with fuse glued to matches) and place the fireworks around town to explode at times that would be very annoying. Early in the mourning or during events like football games or whatever. And the police would have to spend their time searching for the fireworks.

Or you could open up fire hydrants and flood the streets or underpasses so that traffic would be disrupted. Or turn on the city spigots at the city hall or whatever. This would cause higher bills and less funding for the cops.

Fake anthrax letters. Enough said.

Oh and when the cops are set up doing radar patrol, Get a big hook connected to a long cable that is connected to a rigid pole or post. Then place the hook onto the patrol car's rear axle. Then when they go after the speeder the cable will snatch the rear end out of the car.

Or get a pellet gun and shoot out the windshield of the cop cars, but only when you can find them at eateries or rich businesses.

911 hangup calls. If you have the 911 service that show where the calls are placed from. Do this from pay phones or make a field phone and call from the phone box on peoples houses. These calls usually have to be checked by a unit dispatched. (weekend)

Burning tires in the middle of an intersection. (weekend)

Vandalize the rich neighborhoods so that more pressure will be put on the cops to get those dang criminals for flat tires and spray painting vehicles.

Buy those spray cans that spew urethane foam and foam the drains in the public sinks and floor drains in public buildings. (weekend)

Make a fake pipe bomb filled with candy and mail it to the police chief and the mayor and council members. In Texas there was an incident where a piece of PVC pipe, capped on the ends, fell off a truck. It was seen in the street and the cops were called. They took it as a pipe bomb and called in a bomb expert from a nearby military base. Turns out it was some type of construction instrument that fell off a truck. So make those capped pipe thingies and just place them in the street. It would be better if you placed dirt in them for weight.

Find out the schedule for trains passing thru your town and make calls around that time to the RR saying that your car is stuck on the tracks and you can hear the train coming. Then hang up. (weekend)

Leave massages on mirrors ( written with lipstick) in restaurants and gas station rest rooms saying that you are in danger and need police help. Put down some random persons car description and license number. (weekend)

Make a fake dead body and place it in a body of water in a conspicuous place so that divers and body bag people will have to be called. (weekend)

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It's called taxation by cop

http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/32681569.html

Lots of people admit to doing it.

"Yeah a lot," said Texas A&M Student Danielle Wang. "The light here is just really slow so like if you're in a rush, everyone jaywalks."

Add to the mix nighttime revelry at Northgate and officers say jaywalking becomes more common. College Station Police gave out 96 jaywalking tickets over three nights last week.

Each ticket comes with a $180 fine.

"Especially just for Jay walking? That's more than a red light ticket," said Wang.

She's right, a ticket from a red light camera will cost drivers $75.

Police say drivers and walkers won't have to pay fines for either, as long as they obey traffic laws.

"I think people have become a little comfortable with large moving objects," said Edward Hahn.
"we expect them to stop for us, and there's no guarantee that they will."

$130 of that $180 fine goes back to the city's general fund.

Those 96 tickets netted the city $12,480.

College Station Police say they'll be out looking for jaywalkers every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evening.

When they're not specifically targeting jaywalkers, patrol officers in the area will still be watching for violators.

See the problem with all of those solutions is that they only serve as an ad hoc to the situation. The idea of diverting the supply of the cities money to false issues is a great idea but these issues are too small. You need to come up with a problem that will take a while to solve, or even better a problem that is next to impossible to solve such as government propaganda on the war on terrorism or drugs. Because they decided to fight against something that has always been a facet in life, the ability to defeat it would never occur. This in turn allows the supply of the money to continuously move in that direction. Furthermore the ideas your devising are merely diverting the attention of the police but as whocares 123 said its the legislation not the police. They are simply the lapdogs. What you need to do is use a minor issue and blow it way out of proportion, but with logic. However, the issue shouldn't involve the police but rather the money. By incorporating the police into the problem your basically giving the law enforcement agency more money. Use environmental issues, educational issues, social issues or something like that. More money will be diverted to that which would lower police funds to carry out those dumb underage drinking laws. Also committing these random acts are pretty illegal and unless you have the means of covering your tracks you could totally get busted. But diverting the money supply, is an indirect approach to solving the problem and wouldn't come back to you. Just say you were wrong about the problem.

Unfortunately, only people high up could carry out such a thing so if your going to do this at the bottom level you gotta be a fucking genious to come up with a problem. therefore, its better to get more people involved but don't be outward about it. If you hand out awareness flyers about how lame the cops are, you may draw a bigger crowed but the people your fighting against will know your fighting against them and that could make the "false problem" plan that much more difficult. Find some of the smartest people you know who also share your opinion on the matter and work with them. Form an underground committee involving a colorful assortment of majors. Specifically economy majors, political science majors, buisness majors, Social science/ pyschology majors, and so on. Once you actually come up with a "false problem" which could easily escalate to the point where it could actually make a difference....thats when you begin to share this false problem with the public. Hand out flyers, talk to your local government and school, set up rallies, etc. Draw a big enough crowed to actually believe this is a huge problem and you got your wish. But its important to keep in mind, that by doing this your not really changing the legislation so don't think its going to turn into some utopian society, where no kid will ever get busted for booze. This would just reduce the amount of people to get in trouble. Anyway there's probably a lot of flaws in this idea and it seems a little too unrealistic to actually implement but hey, our own government managed to do it....why can't a single person do it?

make a coalition and change the laws