House Party with Pigs

So the title says it all. A good friend of mine Eddie Baker throws AMAZEBALL parties. They are usually the talk of the town a few days after the events. Just good people getting together and drinking until their faces fall off. Keep in mind, I'm in the northeast, house parties are the norm. Anyways, it wasn't even midnight yet and low and behold who shows up? The cops. This party took place in the Mission Hill area - a place swarming with college kids who throw parties every weekend. REWIND - as we walked through the neighborhood after getting of the green line (subway), the noise of rap music and top 40s blarring from the single family homes. Or is it multi-family. I don't know but they were all these huge houses crammed next to one another. People out on the streets talking and clowning around.

The party was great! Almost like back in college where you didn't know if the hall was crowded because that was the only place to stand, or it was the line for the bathroom. Anyhoo, as I"m sitting on the steps outside with a few peeps one cop shows up. The music was not THAT loud and keep in mind, even if someone called about noise this is the first time cops showed up. So he shows up and in true cop form, 4 more cars show up. So now they are shooing us off the steps and telling us to move on. Really? there were three of us on the steps, clearly not disorderly. They break up the party, start ID'ing people (REALLY?) half of the people there were OLDER then the cops, and then they fine my friend Eddie $300.

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO A WARNING???. Eddie even attempted to negotiate and say "look, we didn't think it was that loud but we'll turn the music down or off completely if it's disturbing the neighbors". The cops were complete a**holes. Slapped him with a citation and made EVERYONE LEAVE. We couldn't even stand on the sidewalk outside.

It's things like this that make me lose respect for cops. It's like doctors have the "God complex". I think it does something to their heads and way of thinking when they put the uniform on and get behind the wheel of a cop car. Word on the street, they were just riding around the neighborhood breaking up parties on purpose. Which I wouldn't be surprised. Every cop I've met has ALWAYS been a total douche bag. Including cops who were acquaintances of mine. I don't think I could respect even my own brother or father if they were cops. Then again, I could always pull that card out at times like this I guess.

Keep in mind I know there are incredible, respectable law enforcement people out there. It's just unfortunate there are so few - and a**holes like these guys give them a bad wrap!