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Why don’t the police wear bright colored traffic vests when they make traffic stops?
Posted on 11/27/25 at 9:24 am
Posted on 11/27/25 at 9:24 am
Laws on the books that you must move over to the other lane when an officers makes a stop. Meanwhile the state troopers in my state are wearing road camouflage asphalt grey uniforms that make them even harder to see.
If they are that concerned about strikes, why no high viz traffic vests when making traffic stops? Or is the move over law more a precaution against people steering in the direction they are looking?
If they are that concerned about strikes, why no high viz traffic vests when making traffic stops? Or is the move over law more a precaution against people steering in the direction they are looking?
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Posted on 11/27/25 at 9:25 am to weagle1999
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Laws on the books that you must move over to the other lane when an officers makes a stop. Meanwhile the state troopers in my state are wearing road camouflage asphalt grey uniforms that make them even harder to see.
The car behind them with flashing lights doesn't tip you off?
Posted on 11/27/25 at 9:26 am to weagle1999
Do you do not see the bright flashing blue lights?
Posted on 11/27/25 at 9:26 am to weagle1999
Hopefully they wear bullet proof vests!
Posted on 11/27/25 at 9:29 am to weagle1999
I wouldn't wear those sissy safety vests
This post was edited on 11/27/25 at 10:02 am
Posted on 11/27/25 at 9:54 am to IT_Dawg
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The car behind them with flashing lights doesn't tip you off?
Ask lawmakers who passed the move over laws.
Posted on 11/27/25 at 10:15 am to weagle1999
When I was a training corporal, I would teach my trainees to approach on the passenger side. Your biggest officer safety concern isn't that driver pulling a gun and zipping you. Your biggest threat is the 98lb blue hair in the 4000# Cadillac waffling you as you stand on the driver's side writing a ticket.
Posted on 11/27/25 at 10:21 am to forkedintheroad
Collect and serve.
Posted on 11/27/25 at 10:34 am to weagle1999
I've seen some LSP troopers wearing them.
Posted on 11/27/25 at 10:42 am to SoFla Tideroller
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When I was a training corporal
LOL, we had “drill corporals” when I was in boot camp in the ‘80’s. Really intimidating…
Posted on 11/27/25 at 10:48 am to weagle1999
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Laws on the books that you must move over to the other lane when an officers makes a stop.
In Florida you also have the option to slow down to 20 mph under the posted speed limit.
Posted on 11/27/25 at 11:00 am to weagle1999
quote:Yeah .. and put a big white X in the back and front ... or maybe a + with a O around it?
Why don’t the police wear bright colored traffic vests when they make traffic stops?
If you can't see the flashing lights on the car you sure as hell aren't going to notice an orange vest.
Better idea: start putting flashing lights on roadside works instead of those dingy dinky vests.
Posted on 11/27/25 at 11:03 am to SoFla Tideroller
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When I was a training corporal, I would teach my trainees to approach on the passenger side
I got pulled over for speeding on a Texas interstate approximately 15 years ago. I stopped just after an overpass so there was no road overhead but still a dirt hill where the ground was sloping back down to the normal ground level. The officer approached from the passenger side but the road noise reflected off the embankment made it really hard to hear him. It really seemed to make him mad.
The next time I got stopped more recently was in a residential neighborhood. I made sure to line up my passenger window with a mailbox so the officer wouldn’t have room to stand there. That interaction was a lot more straightforward and I ended up with just a warning.
If I ever get pulled over on an interstate again, I’m going to pull way over to the right, preferably with my passenger side tires on the grass. Seems safer for everyone.
Posted on 11/27/25 at 11:14 am to weagle1999
Because it clashes with their tacticool clothing.
Posted on 11/27/25 at 11:56 am to forkedintheroad
They do use unmarked cars in Europe for traffic enforcement....
Posted on 11/27/25 at 12:40 pm to weagle1999
It's astonishing the amount of sheit they wear on them
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