BajaNomad - Extortion, Armed Robbery by Rosarito Police

One more reason to avoid rosarito!

gosh we're sure gonna miss you

chippy - 8-21-2020 at 01:04 PM

Except for the price tag not much has changed in 48 years. Business as usual.

SFandH - 8-21-2020 at 01:22 PM

Quote: Originally posted by chippy

Except for the price tag not much has changed in 48 years. Business as usual.

Not sure about that. As the article says, the cops are pulling out their guns, stealing victims' cell phones, and telling folks to go the ATM to get the money, up to $500.

Armed robbery.

[Edited on 8-21-2020 by SFandH]

chippy - 8-21-2020 at 01:33 PM

Quote: Originally posted by SFandH

Quote: Originally posted by chippy

Except for the price tag not much has changed in 48 years. Business as usual.

48 years ago there were no cell phones or atms. They just hauled your azz down to the station and took everything of value from your rig and pockets. Same same only different. These cops are probably their grand kids :lol:

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[Edited on 8-21-2020 by chippy]

AKgringo - 8-21-2020 at 02:50 PM

They probably want the phones to make sure there is no picture or recording of the shakedown!

[Edited on 8-21-2020 by AKgringo]

pacificobob - 8-21-2020 at 05:12 PM

it doesn't seem like a sustainable policy...on that scale.

Skipjack Joe - 8-21-2020 at 05:30 PM

Quote: Originally posted by del mar

One more reason to avoid rosarito!

gosh we're sure gonna miss you

bajatrailrider - 8-21-2020 at 08:21 PM

One more reason to avoid rosarito!

. I will give them your plate number next time ☺️

mtgoat666 - 8-21-2020 at 09:30 PM

One more reason to avoid rosarito!

. I will give them your plate number next time ☺️

You may find it funny. Of course, you are an a$$hat who doesn’t give a chit.
Most people think that when the police start robbing the citizens or tourists, then your community, state, country is truly a chithole. It is very sad to think that parts of Baja are overrun by state-authorized criminal gangs that wear uniforms and call themselves police.
If citizens allow their own state to be overrun by state-authorized criminal gangs, then Rosarito is flocked, and Baja is flocked.
Mexico really has a problem when tourists leave Mexico with a bad taste in their mouth because the cops are robbing the tourists at gun point.

paranewbi - 8-22-2020 at 05:06 AM

One more reason to avoid rosarito!

. I will give them your plate number next time ☺️

Isn't it grand how goats make light of what is going on in our major cities like Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, New York, Minnesota, when 'orange man' calls them out as quizzically similar in one way ...

Yet when one town in Baja has a (actually historical) problem then it is 'all be damned' ..."Most people think that when the police start robbing the citizens or tourists, then your community, state, country is truly a chithole"

And to those who think my remarks turn a thread political... I'm just pointing out that it is actually goats that turn things political 'community, state, country' when it fits their agenda.

paranewbi - 8-22-2020 at 05:10 AM

Historically, if you surfed/camped K38 or 55 in the 70's... you probably lost a board, wetsuit, or car stereo to the cops. And if you were holding a little of the demon weed, you lost your girlfriend for an hour or so in your tent.

Nothing really changes, just your awareness.

John Harper - 8-22-2020 at 05:37 AM

Historically, if you surfed/camped K38 or 55 in the 70's... you probably lost a board, wetsuit, or car stereo to the cops. And if you were holding a little of the demon weed, you lost your girlfriend for an hour or so in your tent.

Nothing really changes, just your awareness.

We got rousted by cops when camping on the bluffs above K55 back in 1976. No women in our group, but one of my friends was brought to tears. Lost some money, weed, and they threatened to take my VW van. After a few tense minutes, they took off, and shortly after, we bee lined it for the border.

John

mtgoat666 - 8-22-2020 at 05:53 AM

One more reason to avoid rosarito!

. I will give them your plate number next time ☺️

Not sure what your point is.

I support the protests against out-of-control racist USA cops. Institutionalized racism needs to be stamped out.
Mexico and USA need same thing: fire all the cops, hire all new.

[Edited on 8-22-2020 by mtgoat666]

paranewbi - 8-22-2020 at 02:51 PM

One more reason to avoid rosarito!

. I will give them your plate number next time ☺️

Exactly

Barry A. - 8-22-2020 at 03:28 PM

Since the comments have shifted to the USA as distinct from Mexico I will make a comment.

Cops in the USA are trained to follow the stats, evidence, and personal observations and gut-instinct when pursuing law breakers. If all that points to certain groups of people then it is those groups that the Police concentrate on. It is called "good policing", not "institutional racism"..

To ask for sweeping changes in how Cops traditionally work in the USA is narrow-minded, over-reacting, and counter-productive. To remove rouge-Cops is very appropriate, and the way is has been done for decades, in my experience (as a career City Cop/Fed. Cop, now retired).

Mexico is another Country-------when in Mexico think & act like a Mexican and avoid getting in trouble. Worked for me in travels in Baja and Sonora for some 60+ years.

Don Pisto - 8-22-2020 at 03:34 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Barry A.

Mexico is another Country-------when in Mexico think & act like a Mexican and avoid getting in trouble. Worked for me in travels in Baja and Sonora for some 60+ years.

this might just be your lucky year

Lee - 8-22-2020 at 05:05 PM

One more reason to avoid rosarito!

. I will give them your plate number next time ☺️

Exactly

paranewbi - 8-23-2020 at 05:50 AM

After being robbed in the area of Culiacan and stabbed through the hand while defending my wife from being raped... the truck load of police that we finally located in the middle of the night took us to a prison in the middle of a corn field for the night.

The prison was heavily guarded at the main entrance with men equipped with heavy fire power.

As I bled all over their office floor (the only dimly lighted area in the prison) I urged them to let me take them back to where the 'bad guys' had accosted us.

They turned down my request saying it was too dangerous to go out at night. Today I'm glad they didn't risk their lives for what was possibly more than just 3 dirtbags with pistols and knives.

I wouldn't exactly say that wearing a police uniform in Mexico is a path to wealth. And corruption is to easy of an accounting for walking in those clothes.

travisch - 8-25-2020 at 05:14 AM