re: Watching these cop shows.. something I don't like

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I went through west texas last week on the way back from Big Bend Nat'l Park, and the fricking feds stopped me (for clarification, they stop everyone. they're border patrol guys with pull-over stop stations) and peered inside my jeep, and asked me and my comrades about our citizenship

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I did the same thing last year except my coworker thought he would be funny when they asked nationality. He said, I'm a Cajun, I'm from Louisiana."
The BP guys weren't amused. This douche isn't cajun either.

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went through west texas last week on the way back from Big Bend Nat'l Park, and the fricking feds stopped me (for clarification, they stop everyone. they're border patrol guys with pull-over stop stations) and peered inside my jeep, and asked me and my comrades about our citizenship

I was thinking about giving them a hard time, but I had a couple doobs in the back, so I thought better of it.

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They asked if I was a citizen. I said "Si".

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Cops running a drug dog around the outside of your car should be considered an illegal search.

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Which is why the supreme court banned this activity as a part of regular traffic stops. Just sucks if you're pulled over and there's a dog within 5 minutes or whatever timeframe they'll use stall tactics to draw out the interaction for.

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the dog is essentially searching the inside of the car.

It's cheating.

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So, it's "cheating" if an officer looks through a car's window and sees a dead body in the back seat? Nope, nope, nope.....

If there's a dead body in the trunk and the dog pegs it, then illegal search..


Cops try to find any way possible for a reason to search cars. Watching this show on youtube back to back to back really displays their tactics and them illegally fricking with people.

Yeah, most of the situations on the show leads to finding meth and guns and other crap, but it should be illegal.

You could be driving down the road, get pulled for not signaling a lane change 200ft before the lane change (yes, a cop pulled somebody for this on an episode). Then used every tactic in the book to do a search.

If you're libertarian or something and tell the cop you'd rather not have him search the car, red flag... he wants in that car bad now.

I think the cops do a lot of car profiling. Beat up white trash cars and gangsta cars. I've yet to see them pull over a nice car for these same stupid reasons. Always trashy people cars.

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Cops running a drug dog around the outside of your car

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The only thing I don't like about it is that the dogs always climb all over the outside of the car and scratch the hell out of the paint. If they end up finding drugs, fine. But if the dog scratches the frick out of someone's vehicle and doesn't find anything, police dept should be on the hook for cost to repair/repaint all the damage their dogs caused. A few times of a local PD getting an invoice from a body shop for a few grand worth of paint/body work would cut down on the number of times they deploy the drug dogs without knowing for sure a suspect is hiding something.

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And they know how to make the dog react even when they don't smell something.

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That really doesn't take a lot of skill, the dog isn't going to testify he didn't react or was tricked into reacting.

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If you're libertarian or something and tell the cop you'd rather not have him search the car, red flag... he wants in that car bad now.

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I saw one episode where they guy they were harassing was mostly polite and told them no when they asked if they could look around in the car and the sheriff was like "ok" and left.

I was kind of shocked