• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    Reminds me of the guide book we had in the army, for the company duty officer. (Which is only a title, it’s never done by actual officers but by privates and perhaps corporals, just busy work essentially journaling who comes and goes.)

    The was a part on “how to recognise drug users” then the vaguest shit imaginable like eating lots of candy and being pleasant to people, something along those lines.

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      In a past life I had to deal with cops on a regular basis, and now and then they’ll describe themselves as someone who can recognize criminals by just looking at them.

      One said: “If I see someone who is avoiding looking at me, I know that he doesn’t want my attention, so he probably has something to hide.”

      On a different day, a different cop said: “When I see someone that’s looking at me, that’s because they are worried I’m gonna find out something, so probably they have something to hide.”

      I learned that cops have two main traits: They are overconfident and under-prepared.

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        That was actually in a training guide for traffic stops from one of those Killology-type courses thousands of cops take every year. John Oliver talks about it on his Traffic Stops episode.

        But yeah, they teach cops that making eye contact or not is a sign of guilt, as well as driving under/over the speed limit being an indicator of guilt, but also, believe it or not, driving the speed limit… Also an indicator of guilt.

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        Yeah, good cop is “When I see someone — probably they have something to hide.” Also, it’s not a good kind of good, that’s why I don’t want to deal with cops even when I’ve nothing to worry about, they can always come up with a reason for me to worry

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      As a former addict with tons of addict friends, the candy part is spot on. Not sure why but addicts consume a lot of candy

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        Well, as someone who pretty much always returned to the army drunk and high, I can’t say it’s wrong.

        However, do you know who else consumes a lot of candy? 20-year old kids stuck in the army doing physically demanding shit all the time.

        Quite a lot of my life I’ve hung around weed smokers and other addicts as well. The amount of candy consumed in the army was significantly higher in my opinion.