Finally my town gets a reddit post and it's about the cops. They're one of my favorite topics. I have lived in Woodland Park my whole life and I have a huge problem with the cops here. All they care about is "keeping Paterson out" as they put it.

When I was 17 I was an asshole, on Halloween me and my friends took all the candy someone left out in a bowl. So the drunk guy whose house it was jumped in his car and searched the neighborhood for me. When he found me he jumped out of his car and started screaming he was a cop but wouldn't show any ID so when he tries to grab my bag I tell him no. He doesn't like that so he starts beating me. He then pulls me into a small deli where he knew the owner and slammed me to the floor and held me there until the cops arrived after the deli owner called them. So when the cops show up they don't even take a statement from me or my 4 friends who were witnesses. They just believe everything he says even though I kept telling them he was lying. Apparently he's a prison guard and all the cops know him so his word on the matter was final. Afterwards we took it to the police to try and get him charged with assault. That went no where. They wouldn't even interview my friends.

They did nothing because he's a law enforcement officer and they only care about keeping Paterson out. I got stuck with fairly serious PTSD from the incident and he basically got a pat on the back by the cops for assaulting me.