Over here, a bigger problem is officers who are terrified of getting in trouble with their superiors, so tell you to 'phone the press office' for every minor, innocent inquiry... Count me as another who has never had a run-in with police, for the simple reason I'm always polite to them...
Well I guess my area is in the greater dickhead to decent cop ratio than normal. My brother in law is counting the days until he can retire because he is tired of dealing with an administration that doesn't care, and other cops who grew up watching COPS and think they are god because they have a badge and a gun. When I'm stopped I'm polite, but the majority of the time it doesn't matter. The two tickets I have gotten have both been from assholes who were strutting around like they were beyond reproach. And when you are from a town where speedtraps are common, including doing sleazy stuff like parking in the median at night with their lights off, outside of the city limits. Well that doesn't inspire confidence. And don't tell me to complain to the chief of police, he's in the mayor's pocket and the mayor is as corrupt as can be.
My family and I have had about a dozen or so encounters with cops since we moved here (at our home, school, traffic, etc) and every one has been positive. Matter of fact since I've lived here I haven't heard of one single case of legitimate police harrassment. One time a cop driving a car ran into a pedestrian while chasing a suspect, but there really was no way to prevent it.
Really? You think so? My observation is these hick-ass, cunt, piece-of-shit jackets around here are the dumbest cops I've ever seen in my life. And I came here from Atlanta. BTW, cops get called on shit when it's too big to kick under the rug, you know, little things like shooting up schools, killing 6 people, running drug rings. Their freedom to scuff people up when you don't respect their fucking authoritaa is something they ALL protect collectively. In closing... Fuck the police.
Many moons ago, other half was on his way to collect daughter from school. He was running late. He thought he was in a 40 mph area, and was driving at 44 mph. As he discovered when he was stopped, it was actually a 30 mph zone... He could have sounded off about his need to get daughter, he could have been an arse... no, he was polite, astonished at the 30 mph bit (there weren't any houses around, which is usually the giveaway here), he repeated how sorry he was, agreed with the police officer when he pointed out that it wouldn't be safe for daughter to be driven at that speed... He didn't even get a ticket. No cost, no points on his licence... It is never worth being a smartarse with the law.
I would have disagreed because everyone knows that they speed test roads far higher than the speed limit is set at...
Depends on the state. In Tennessee, setting quotas is illegal, and since it only takes one call from a disgruntled officer to TBI to get an investigation going....
The last time I was stopped it was for speeding but I got over. I just bought this nice Acura Legend, white with chrome 20's, tinted windows and nice sound system. So I'm speeding down the rode and this cop stops me. Well I will bet money that he expected some young dude. So I roll down the window and I say right off..."Yep, I was speeding. Ya see, I just bought this baby from my step-son and this is the first time I was on a little piece of rode to test her out." I acted like a flustered old man. The car was still in the kids name but I had all the papers. I fumbled all over the car for the papers and the cop was like..'sheesh, whats up with this guy?' So finally he says "Excuse me but do you have a licsense?" I say..'Sure and take forever to pull it out. So now he has the title, the insurance from my other car and this car. The registration. the letter from my insurance company stating my intent to insure this new car.And my licsense. He hands it all back and says..'I know you don't want a ticket on Memorial Day. Just take it easy. OK?" I say thanks and keep on talking all kind of nonsense. He just walks back to the car shaking his head. I got over.
Twenty inch wheels only belong inside tires that are at least 35 inches. That retarded bullshit with huge rims and .0000001" of tire sidewall is just an expensive monument to stupidity waiting to happen.
Now see, here we disagree. I tend to believe cops fall perfectly within a Bell Curve. Odds are you'll get a decent one, you could however get a very bad or very good one, but the odds are the same either way.
Well I've only had one experience with a bad cop in all my life, and that was down by the Detroit airport. I was driving my ex down to the airport and on the way noticed that my car was acting funny, but I didn't stop to look at it because we had to get there on time. So on the way back I was nervous about the car and was driving a little over the speed limit because I wanted to get to a gas station and figure out what was wrong. So as I'm waiting to turn into the gas station, I notice there is a cop behind me. She then turns on her flashers and I park in the station. She tells me she was following me and I was doing 57 in a 45 (which I still don't believe for a second, at most I was doing 50), to which I explain my car was acting up and I was just trying to get to the station before something bad happened. She asks for my license and registration, and goes back to her car, and comes back with a ticket. She says she didn't check my record at all and asked me if I was a good driver, to which I said yes, and she said she wrote me for doing 5 over. Now, there were two weird things about this, one, that she didn't run my record, I could have been a serial murderer, and she also didn't check for proof of insurance, which is a required thing in this state. So then I have no option of just paying the ticket, I have to show up for court. So I go to court, and it turns out I'm just meeting with an administrator, who tells me, "you have a perfect record, I'm sure you'd like to keep it that way, we're going to knock it down to a double parking ticket, and it won't go on your record." So I don't bother fighting it and just pay them the $125, but feel like I got fucked in the ass by the justice system with no lube.
The low profiles are for the summer and the stock rims and tires that I also have are for the winter. But tell me what is this thing that is waiting to happen with my 20s?
You coulda fought it and won. Did she use radar? If not, you got a chance there. If radar was used, you can request that proof is presented that the radar was in good working order. If the cop wasn't there, you can request that they be present for the case. If they don't show up the second time, its dismissed. Dude, you just grabbed ya ankles with ease.
I don't really know what to make of that story Nick. One of the biggest dick cops I've dealt with was in Lubbock when I walked into some random party. This cop was all of 21 years old. I have no problem with the cops breaking up a wild out of control party or anything, but this wasn't one of those. The house was out of town on it's own land and there may have been 200-250 people there tops. Anyway, I'm in the garage and the garage door starts opening and I see 2 cops standing there. They ask to see everyone's ID, I'm 24 at the time and everyone else there in the garage must have been of age too because they didn't start writing MIP's. I used my military ID because usually it gets the cops to leave me alone, but this douche bag decides he's going to keep my ID. He grabbed it and said I could have it back when I found him the owner of the house. I told him I have no idea who owns the house, that I haven't had anything to drink, and I need my ID back because I'm leaving. He said "find me the owner of the house" and I said "that military ID isn't my property and it definitely isn't yours, read the back, it belongs to the US Government, not only can't you keep it but I'll have to call it in to xxxxx xxxxx(name of high ranking Lubbock cop that is also a ranking officer in my army unit) if you won't return it." At that point his partner walked over and talked to him for a second and he walked back over and gave me my ID back. It may not read out the way it really played out, the cop was just being a dick for the sake of being a dick and I remained polite. But the fact is he was trying to make some random guy do his work for him by confiscating government property. If someone takes that military ID or I lose it I have to report that right away. It can get you on and off any military post in the country and this guy just wants to run around with it like it's his face on the front.
During my time in Seattle, I abused every cop I met as a travel guide. The guys were not amused, but always friendly, although the guy I was travelling with looked like a hippie However, we were treated like shit when we crossed the borders coming from British Columbia. Ok, it was the time after 9/11... Hey, I am a fan of CHIPS, this old American TV series about cool American cops on motorbikes. Don't destroy my fantasies, you cop haters out there! Here in Switzerland, I have met friendly cops only, although they caught me with weed several times. They always treated me with respect. There may be assholish cops, but I still prefer them to criminals, Jeff Cooper Disciple. I am sorry for your bad experience, but you are simplifiying horribly. The best way to deal with cops is to stay calm, and they'll stay calm, too. In my experience, they are as happy as yourself when things go well. They are humans after all, they HATE extra work!
I agree with this but... the problem is that cops don't always start off "calm." They can easily cause a situation by picking on good people that are just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Good advice! Cops don't want to chase people around like on COPS. They are on edge waiting for God knows what to happen at any "routine" traffic stop. And you know how things are especially in America. They use I-95 and I-20 as express lanes for running drugs. Some guy with a trunkful of weed or coke might feel he has nothing to lose and go apeshit crazy. Take things nice and slow and easy.
I live in a town with 45,000 college students. The cops here view the students as revenue. Abuses are frequent and carried out with impunity since students are too scared and ignorant to know their rights, and too poor to hire a lawyer anyway. I avoid cops like the plague.
I am glad that I never met such a cop. Perhaps there are cops out there who are just bored and are happy to catch a "victim". The clichée of a cop somewhere in the outback of Texas comes to mind. Just like in a David Lynch movie
