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Post by Deinonychus on Oct 12, 2018 20:23:23 GMT -5
For the past year or so my Friday and Saturday night ritual has become watching Live PD on A&E. It’s essentially Cops, but live and for three hours. They follow 7 to 9 police departments each night, and for the past couple of months one of the departments they have been following is in Warwick, Rhode Island. My impression of the town is...not good. Seems to be full of motorbike riding punks, drunk dudebros, terrible loud white women, and just general awfulness. Granted, my own hometown is a veritable horrorshow of useless humanity, but this is a different flavor of dregs and I’m just wondering if the TV only features the worst bits, or if it really is an unpleasent place to live next to. One recurring theme also seems to be the aforementioned bike punks running from the cops into the no-doubt totally pleasent town next door and then reentering Warwick a few blocks over to lead the cops on a merry chade to the border once again and repeatedly. Is this what passes for fun round those parts?
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Post by Gojitron on Oct 13, 2018 8:17:29 GMT -5
I haven't seen the show, but it sounds like another case of "reality" television constructing a sensational narrative to represent the "truth". Don't get me wrong, RI has plenty of assholes, douchebags and hillbillies to go around, but as far as crime, Providence is the place to be. That's where all the gangs, drugs and hookers can be found. Cranston (my town) borders Warwick and I don't see any rampant criminality spilling over. Of course, you can drive across the whole damn state in an hour, so we might as well be one big city with a couple of bad neighborhoods.
I would say yes. There's not much to do here outside movie theaters and beaches, and there's only so many times that kids can hang around Warwick Mall before they get bored.
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Post by iacon45 on Oct 13, 2018 14:08:50 GMT -5
I don't know about Rhode Island, but I have learned of a certain hotel to stay away from if I ever end up in Richland County in South Carolina.
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Post by Deinonychus on Oct 13, 2018 19:59:24 GMT -5
I haven't seen the show, but it sounds like another case of "reality" television constructing a sensational narrative to represent the "truth". Don't get me wrong, RI has plenty of assholes, douchebags and hillbillies to go around, but as far as crime, Providence is the place to be. That's where all the gangs, drugs and hookers can be found. Cranston (my town) borders Warwick and I don't see any rampant criminality spilling over. Of course, you can drive across the whole damn state in an hour, so we might as well be one big city with a couple of bad neighborhoods. I see your point there, and I do realize that when cops get called out somewhere that its not to the super-happy fun zone. Still, I think that if all you saw of Jacksonville were check cashing places, bail bonds offices, adult “arcades”, and Dollar Generals inhabited by drunks, hobos, gangstas, and meth-heads it’d be pretty spot-on, so my perspective might be skewed And now I can’t help but imagining Iacon sitting in a car with his female “friend” who’s name he doesn’t know being questioned by Officers Addy Perez and Garo Brown (or as we call him, Officer Swole)
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Post by iacon45 on Oct 13, 2018 20:48:53 GMT -5
I haven't seen the show, but it sounds like another case of "reality" television constructing a sensational narrative to represent the "truth". Don't get me wrong, RI has plenty of assholes, douchebags and hillbillies to go around, but as far as crime, Providence is the place to be. That's where all the gangs, drugs and hookers can be found. Cranston (my town) borders Warwick and I don't see any rampant criminality spilling over. Of course, you can drive across the whole damn state in an hour, so we might as well be one big city with a couple of bad neighborhoods. I see your point there, and I do realize that when cops get called out somewhere that its not to the super-happy fun zone. Still, I think that if all you saw of Jacksonville were check cashing places, bail bonds offices, adult “arcades”, and Dollar Generals inhabited by drunks, hobos, gangstas, and meth-heads it’d be pretty spot-on, so my perspective might be skewed And now I can’t help but imagining Iacon sitting in a car with his female “friend” who’s name he doesn’t know being questioned by Officers Addy Perez and Garo Brown (or as we call him, Officer Swole) No, I don't have my ID with me.
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