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Posted on 3/16/22 at 3:28 pm to kywildcatfanone
When they're not busy doing that, they like to treat their towns like their own sandbox playing toy soldiers with military-grade equipment.
Posted on 3/16/22 at 3:31 pm to STLDawg
Thank You for sharing and yes same story here arkansas... local Police force is a joke. All ever do is pull people over going 5 mph over limit... terrible response times & investigative work for serious crimes like theft rape assault Homicide etc.
policing most places is a joke, some what convinced cops cause more trouble than good in lot places
policing most places is a joke, some what convinced cops cause more trouble than good in lot places
Posted on 3/16/22 at 3:36 pm to hometownhero89
Wait, timeout. How did you go from
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Did you let them search the car after being pulled over for following too closely?
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They pulled me over for following too closely...
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His partner flashed me a baggie he "found" in my rental car
Did you let them search the car after being pulled over for following too closely?
Posted on 3/16/22 at 3:36 pm to STLDawg
When I was a patrol deputy I hated doing traffic. But when I would pull someone over I would get the "There are robbers and drug dealers out there! Why are you stopping me?" complaint all the time. But, when I'm eating dinner during shift, you know what the biggest complaint is when people approach me? Traffic related gripes, and it's not close. What people really mean is, "Pull all those other crazy drivers, just leave me alone."
Posted on 3/16/22 at 3:37 pm to leftyloosey
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Did you let them search the car after being pulled over for following too closely?
Yep, I was on the way to the airport and they wouldn't let me leave until my vehicle was searched. The dog allegedly hit something, they found nothing.
The mutt was after my cheese souveniers.
This post was edited on 3/16/22 at 3:38 pm
Posted on 3/16/22 at 3:45 pm to STLDawg
Really? Most cops I have ever seen was going across and then up Missouri last year. Virginia sucks too.
Posted on 3/16/22 at 3:47 pm to hometownhero89
quote:The last time I out run cops was in Kansas.
The last time I was pulled over on the border of Wisconsin and Illinois by Illinois sheriffs was
Posted on 3/16/22 at 3:51 pm to STLDawg
State troopers only write speeding tickets and write highway and interstate wrecks.
So, that’s pretty much half of their job
So, that’s pretty much half of their job
Posted on 3/16/22 at 3:58 pm to bruce hog
I got a speeding ticket in my work truck from the Chief of Police in Gilbert, LA coming down 425 to 61 from Rayville back to BR. His last name was on the gas station. I'm sure I spoke to his wife or sister or sister-wife when I called the "court house" to pay my "ticket". Really I got shook down for driving through Chief Ezell's little shite hole of a town.
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Posted on 3/16/22 at 4:06 pm to STLDawg
Don't know if it is a true story, but an acquaintance of mine told me he was pulled over by a small town Texas cop & his K9 partner couple of years ago. Cop asked for consent to search friend's car, which he refused. The cop then threw the K9's chew toy in the truck (thru the open window) and K9 jumped into the truck & sniffed around inside. Totally illegal search (no probable cause). Dog didn't find anything, so friend got off with a warning.
Posted on 3/16/22 at 4:09 pm to adamau
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If it don't make dollas it don't make sense
Posted on 3/16/22 at 4:20 pm to STLDawg
I have plenty of cop stories but the one itty bitty small town cop story is from Denmark, South Carolina. A one-light town south of Columbia, in the 90's.
We were a car full of hippies on the way back from the 95 North Charleston Phish Show. We didn't have GPS or Mapquest back then, so you just used your road atlas, and the most direct way home took us through this po-dunk piece of shite town.
We were riding dirty, so I obeyed every single traffic rule the whole time. As we get into Denmark, the speed limit does like most little "towns" and drops down to 30 or such. So I did. In front of me was a cop car, but he drops down to like 20. It's still a four-lane going through town, so I signal to get over and pass him. I do so below the speed limit.
Lights come on.
Oh shite.
All my papers legit (Jay-Z line) and I followed every traffic rule like a boy scout, so I know immediately it's a shakedown.
I pull over, have my license etc all ready to go, and I ask why I was pulled over. "Well you passed me!". I said "Yeah, but I never broke the speed limit, you were driving really slow, and my pass was legal, I didn't want you to think I was creeping on you and we've got a long drive [back to GA]. He says "Yeah, but you know better than to pass a cop!" He was a black fella, we are all white kids, just for some back ground.
He ran my papers, all good, thankfully didn't search us, and didn't write a ticket or a warning, for what I don't know he would have, and let us go.
It was a lesson for me. Don't pass a cop. Two- avoid small towns, stay on the interstate even if it takes longer.
We were a car full of hippies on the way back from the 95 North Charleston Phish Show. We didn't have GPS or Mapquest back then, so you just used your road atlas, and the most direct way home took us through this po-dunk piece of shite town.
We were riding dirty, so I obeyed every single traffic rule the whole time. As we get into Denmark, the speed limit does like most little "towns" and drops down to 30 or such. So I did. In front of me was a cop car, but he drops down to like 20. It's still a four-lane going through town, so I signal to get over and pass him. I do so below the speed limit.
Lights come on.
Oh shite.
All my papers legit (Jay-Z line) and I followed every traffic rule like a boy scout, so I know immediately it's a shakedown.
I pull over, have my license etc all ready to go, and I ask why I was pulled over. "Well you passed me!". I said "Yeah, but I never broke the speed limit, you were driving really slow, and my pass was legal, I didn't want you to think I was creeping on you and we've got a long drive [back to GA]. He says "Yeah, but you know better than to pass a cop!" He was a black fella, we are all white kids, just for some back ground.
He ran my papers, all good, thankfully didn't search us, and didn't write a ticket or a warning, for what I don't know he would have, and let us go.
It was a lesson for me. Don't pass a cop. Two- avoid small towns, stay on the interstate even if it takes longer.
Posted on 3/16/22 at 4:35 pm to texn
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Don't know if it is a true story, but an acquaintance of mine told me he was pulled over by a small-town Texas cop & his K9 partner a couple of years ago. Cop asked for consent to search friend's car, which he refused. The cop then threw the K9's chew toy in the truck (thru the open window) and K9 jumped into the truck & sniffed around inside. Totally illegal search (no probable cause). Dog didn't find anything, so friend got off with a warning.
I can't stand the damn dogs, because the test they are asked to perform is rigged.
From a psychological standpoint, the service animal has a reward system for doing what it's told or what is desired. All the dog has to do is sit to prove a hit. The dog doesn't know the stipulations, all he knows is that if he sits he gets a treat. The dog doesn't have a logical process for this, sit=treat not smell of drugs equals treat.
Pavlov proved you could condition a dog to react whichever way you wanted in his psych studies. Pavlov's dogs could sway the right judge who wanted to make a difference.
Would love to see independent testing data on this but I doubt police departments would ever allow it without a judge demanding it.
Posted on 3/16/22 at 4:48 pm to deeprig9
quote:You deserved to get pulled over.
We were a car full of hippies on the way back from the 95 North Charleston Phish Show
Posted on 3/16/22 at 5:01 pm to IvarsRegular
IvarsRegular - you're right; Gilbert is a shite hole. You know the police dept isn't much when it is housed in the equivalent of a Morgan Building. Over the years I've paid 4 - 5 tickets to Wisner, Baskin, and a few other dumps along Highway 15 on trips to visit family in Monroe. It must have been after the last ticket in Baskin that I finally learned to stop tempting fate and to drive their damn slow speed limits. There's absolutely no reason for them to be that low, except for generating speeding tickets.
It's been 10 years or more since my last Podunk town ticket, and I'm not looking to get any more.
It's been 10 years or more since my last Podunk town ticket, and I'm not looking to get any more.
Posted on 3/16/22 at 5:15 pm to STLDawg
Years ago, an Auburn cop got fired for not writing enough tickets. Made a big stink about it, at the time. Said they had a "quota". Of course, the chief came out and denounced that. Parsed words, but basically left everyone thinking they did have a quota on traffic tickets.
Fast forward to today. The little town of Brookside, AL is making national news for it's traffic tickets. I've lost count of all of the lawsuits currently filed against them. Chief and Asst. Chief have resigned. Mayor and city judge are still holding firm, but their days are numbered. I fully expect a federal investigation may come out of it.
Fast forward to today. The little town of Brookside, AL is making national news for it's traffic tickets. I've lost count of all of the lawsuits currently filed against them. Chief and Asst. Chief have resigned. Mayor and city judge are still holding firm, but their days are numbered. I fully expect a federal investigation may come out of it.
Posted on 3/16/22 at 5:16 pm to STLDawg
Lots more black people down here to harass
Posted on 3/16/22 at 5:18 pm to STLDawg
Wisconsin has a STRONG state patrol presence along I-90/94. Nothing to see three troopers within 15 minutes of one another. I’m told the driving force is all the drugs flowing north out of Chicago. They won’t bother you for speeding unless you have Illinois plates or are driving like a complete arsehole.
Posted on 3/16/22 at 5:18 pm to DaleGribble
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Hitting Nebraska and 80 mph speed limits was quite a contrast.
Even folk in Nebraska know that nobody wants to stick around there long
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