Who is UCPD officer D. Roby?

What is funny is to watch the Berkeley police react to the UC Berkeley police. They have a superior attitude to them, and the UCPD hands their prisoners over to them, and the BPD often might push them right out the back door - or this is what someone who had been arrested on UC property for failing to disperse said. He said they had put a mentally ill guy with him in leg irons and that sort of thing and the BPD were really rolling their eyes and giving them a look. The UC pd deal with backpack theft and homeless detection, while the regular PD deal with lots of car related crime and drug war and sometimes violence.

roby has been a thug for at least a decade, but what else is new? it's like you're expecting pigs not to be tweakers during actions. they are and the ones that move up will always be. the ucpd seem to be encouraging this more than bpd, but given the right chance the latter will tweak just as violently a the former.

again, what the fuck do you expect? that the cops will practice gandhian compassion? that they'll kick your ass with kind respect for your *constitutionally protected civil rights*? WAKE THE FUCK UP! their job is maintaining their monopoly on violence in this society, not pleasing a bunch of policy wonks on the *police review commission*. PERIOD.

i once saw roby, during the 1991 gulf war in a near riot situation on sproul plaza stand in formation facing a outnumbering crowd of protestors who nearly surrounded the pigs and who were taunting them mercilessly. roby was very, very nervous because he knew the shoes were on the other foot and he might get his ass kicked, or at least humiliated, for once. his face, behind his riot helmet, was sweating and he chanted, almost like they taught him at the academy, *i am a machine, i am a machine, i am a machine, i am a machine.........*

he never had a chance to tweak at that time. and he wasn't as good at it as others who were older and more seasoned. now, obviously, he's earned his stripes and mercilessly tweaks with the best. that should earn your righteous comtempt, NOT your desire to send him back to the academy to be *retrained* at his job. given the logic of this sick system, he's preforming his vocational duties quite well.

so, stop your liberal, moralistic whining and just save those memories and be ready for payback when historical fortune allows us to revisit the karma on fucking pigs like roby that they deserve a thousand times over.

b-man

This isn't meant to be moralistic whining. Stories like the one you told are what I wanted to flush out. Just trying to gather information on the thugs that the UC is using as mercenaries to go beat people up on other campuses.

he likes horses n stuff.

i don't talk to pigs, but 10 years ago an old friend was hanging out on sproul and roby started talking to him and his friends and trying to justify himself. he told them he had been a kid from the ghetto of d.c. (as in washington, not daly city) and just took the job to *pull himself up*. to me, that could be a big fucking lie, but my friend said it sounded pretty polished and some people took sympathy on him. i thought it was all pretty lame and predictable from a cop. they seem to need to put a human face on their pathetic jobs. since this is second hand, it all could have been bullshit coming out of roby's mouth.