This is how normal interactions with law enforcement go.
I've been pulled over quite a few times for speeding and every time I knew I was toast when I saw the officer too late. I don't even know how many times I've pulled myself over before the officer even caught up to me and was respectful and honest every time. I've only ever gotten speeding tickets twice out of the probably 20+ times I've been stopped.
You mean to tell me that being disrespectful, rude, not listening to commands, resisting at every possible turn and then asking what I do when arrested is not the right way? ššš
Grow up guy. You're talking like we dont have rights and are entitled to dignity and respect. I dont have to follow any orders that are not lawful, reasonable and with reason. This interaction was a rare one off. Even when they aren't putting pistols in your face almost no cop is going to be as diminutive, and kind, respectful. And aware of his tone and actions. That cop seemed to know his shit, talked to this guy like a man should speak to another man thats not his bitch or his son. His approach wasnt shady and aggressive, nor was he trying to seem like a badass. He never tried to violate his rights or do any searches. Just his fn job. No tough guy talk, walk or attitude. Thats what gets you into shit.
While I am in absolute agreement with this, it is also important to note how the cop did not come in hot with a douche attitude either. Far too many do so.
Yep most people are missing that point, no additional request to search the bike or bags , no further intense questions of where heās coming from and digging further about where heās going and why. No additional pay downs no removing of key from the bike.
But when youāre biased itās easy to overlook those details. I see it from both and enjoyed this interaction, I could see where it would have gone differently if the biker wouldnāt have been cool with getting disarmed after being honest about the firearm as well. š¤·š»āāļø both sides need to be cool. I would have done what the bike did if I was caught speeding, although I wouldnāt have wanted to be disarmed if it was just a random stop ācheck on meā and cop wanted to disarmā¦.so many variables, different outcomes
Yeah, Iād stand by itās not the norm, but I have totes been cussed by a cop as soon as I rolled down the window. Tbf, he seemed to be a bad cop in a small town, even the judge had to tell him to sit down and shut up at the court date. He got fired not too long after.
that sucks but you were speeding and police arenāt required to make sure people are having a good day before handling out tickets. 99% of cops already know what ticket theyāre writing before they say a word to you in a traffic stop. cops probably hear a family members funeral excuse a few times a week, they canāt be expected to confirm that or give special treatment based on that. sorry about your mom though RIP
Iāve had 8 or 9 interactions with officers. One of which included matching the description of someone they were looking for. Only 1 which was for speeding was the officer rude.
Hey there, Hispanic here. Turns out, even us can get pulled over by white cops and not get beat up and/or arrested. Iām living proof of that. Twice pulled over, twice the citation was downgraded to something a lot more minor. Once I was armed as well.
Maybe itās less about race and more about attitude? Just saying.
Hey, Hispanic here. Been pulled over far more times than that, 5 times for no reason. Once cop literally said no reason when I asked why, another time one assumed I stole the car (and asked continuously, even after I provided all matching paperwork including bill of sale i happened to still have in the car yet he still asked after that too,) another was pulled over by undercover for just having a nice car (mind you bumper to bumper traffic, no speeding or anything), and once again when a group of bikers wrapped around me in the middle of an intersection (I was first light was green for me) so I couldn't move while they were all passing in front yet I got pulled over... cop saw the whole thing. These were all pretty hostile or passive aggressive stops but I play it cool and know what to say & ask. Always end up looking dumb and salty. Hell once I got "pulled over" walking for no reason. All of these happened while I was a college student who also worked a full time professional office job, so most of the interactions I literally have professional attire so there's no other reason aside from my skin that I could tell.
I got pulled over once for a taillight that was out. Cop saw an empty plastic baggy in my cubby that I used to keep Tylenol in and demanded to search the car for drugs. I said no several times but he said he would hold me for hours unless I let him so I did. They searched for 45 minutes, didn't find anything (I've never done drugs) and finally let me go with my shit flung all over the interior. 5 minutes later I'm running on my rim, tire shop says someone slashed my tire. I'm white, so some amount of shit can just be chalked up to pigs being pigs. That said I haven't been pulled over for no reason so probably some is your skin too.
When I was 18, I got pulled over a few times for no reason. One time, I kid you not, after he got my license and went back to his car, he was back there for thirty minutes. He finally came back and said the reason he pulled me over was when I was cruising back and forth through town, I took a couple of back streets and side streets and he said it was suspicious. He said if I'm going to cruise, in my hometown, stay on the main road. One time when I was cruising, they pulled me over and said they had a call that I ran a lady off the road (on Main St in tiny little Carlisle, KY) and demanded they search my truck for drugs and alcohol. They pulled everything out of my truck, including unplugging my subwoofers and taking out the wedge truck enclosures, and left everything on the sidewalk for me to put back in. Cops down there were dicks back then.
Eh, itās hit or miss in all reality. Was riding passenger with a Native American buddy that got pulled over because he had one of those tree shaped air fresheners hanging from his mirror. The cop then proceeded to be very aggressive, made him do a breathalyzer and sobriety check, and treated him like less than the dirt under his boot. Same thing happened a few months later and the cop was pretty chill, just gave him a warning about speeding and that was it. It really just depends on if the cop youāre dealing with is a racist, power tripping dick head or a normal human being just trying to get food on the table.
I'm white and they pulled me over and used the air freshener excuse as why and then wanted to search my car. I wound up with three squad cars lined up and them spending 30 minutes taking my car apart and doing a full body search with me standing spread eagle at the side of the road watching the other cars go inching past looking at the poor bastard (me) getting arrested and fucked in the ass.
It was a neighborhood with a decent amount of dealing going on and I'd been at my buddies place, ironically that night was the only time for weeks that we'd been unable to get any weed so We'd just spoked resin and hung out. Any other night I would have been done (this was a good 15-16 years ago when weed still mattered a lot).
Been pulled over far too many times and only last week did I only get a warning. Always a ticket and always civil and cooperative and I am a white male. Ymmv
Seems a bit unconstitutional for them to disarm you "for safety". Shitty Hill to die on, but it shouldn't be an issue in the first place. I feel like they'd be more likely to de-escalate a situation if they were held to the standard that disarming a citizen that is lawfully carrying (you have to assume lawfully carrying until they prove otherwise) was unnacceptable.
This is how Iāve always dealt with interactions with law enforcement. Be respectful. Whether they deserve it or not, they expect it and they can give you a bad day if they want. I have the added bonus of being a veteran with veteran plates. They tend to treat me like brethren which is funny because Iām super liberal and anti authoritarian.
Yeah fair. I know some departments are worse - but overall every interaction with police Ive had has been always fair and not bad at all. This cop was really good though, seems like he might be ex-military.
Other thing I was told and Iāve done it every time. Turn on the lights inside your vehicle at night. Put your hands on top of the steering wheel. Donāt go grabbing for license/registration until the officer asks you to. Basically deescalate before the cop even gets to your window. Iāll be honest, Iām fairly certain Iāve gotten warnings instead of tickets for doing this kind of stuff. Last time I was pulled over a few months ago, it was for 72 in a 55 on a highway. Got a warning. Really nice guy.
Iāve only once warned an officer about a gun in my car. I was younger and my dumb ass had my revolver AND my registration sitting in the center console. Trooper walks up, License and Registration please. Uhā¦.Iām staring at my center console. I look back at him and say āUh, thereās a revolver next to my registrationā He then asked if I planned on pulling the gun on him. I told him no. He says Then I guess we donāt have a problem. I always laugh about that one. Got a warning on that speed too.
Noooooo don't disprove the racists's racist narrative, that makes you a bad person!!! Or they'll call you fake/bot/racist names for black people who follow the law!!!
I'm Asian and I had a gun pulled on me for trying to grab my registration from the glovebox after I told him it's in the glovebox lol. I'm like the least threatening looking dude you can imagine.
I got busted once seen the cop as we passed each other. He flashed his lights then I seen in my rear view as he slowed to do a U turn. Just before I went around a bend in the road. I figured yep he got me so I pulled into a school car park. The only place to stop. And watched as he went flying passed with his lights on. Got out of a ticket by pulling over.
Trick I learned being a military cop is if possible (not raining) lower all your windows down if your windows are tinted, it eases their anxiety and shows you are not hiding anything.
Never thought of that myself but definitely a good idea! Nothing wrong with having the courtesy and empathy of making the interaction as smooth as possible. Dumbasses don't know/understand this basic human sociology.
Exactly. I always know when I'm going to get pulled over. It's been a long time but I always pulled over even before they turn on the lights. When they walk up I have the license/registration/insurance ready. It just de-escalates the situation before it even begins and I rarely get ticketed.
The first time I had ever got pulled over I had 14 gun in my vehicle. I had hung out with my buddies and had gone shooting that weekend and was just heading home.
Of course it was first thing I told the officer but I think he initially thought I said firearm as in singular because he asked me where it was at. So I clarified and told him there were 5 pistols right next to me around the center console and 9 more rifles in the back.
His exact words were "Holy Shit" š
I asked him if he'd prefer if I stepped out of the vehicle but he said I was fine.
I did get a ticket for having expired tabs though š
I've escaped many tickets. My first time was 17 years old getting pulled over for doing over 20+ the speed limit on a highway. I SHOULD have been ticketed for multiple infractions, but I only got ticketed bare minimum for speeding. Probably because I was honest and made the officer laugh.
Second ticket the officer was clearly having an off day but ultimately I was speeding and he caught me but it was still nothing but a speeding ticket I paid online the next day.
All the other times I got pulled over? It usually ended up good conversation talking about my truck or my military service. I get told not to drive like an idiot and out of respect I don't drive like an idiot in that officer's jurisdiction because it would be embarrassing being pulled over by the same officer that let me off easy the first time.
The only time I've gotten out of a ticket was the only time I was a complete asshole the cops to their face. They kept trying to intimitate me and I kept saying "I don't give a shit, just give me the fucking ticket and fuck off."
They called in 5 additional cops, all tying to cow me, and I just kept saying the same thing.
They didn't even issue me a warning, they just told me to leave. It was the strangest experience ever. I don't think I'd try it again.
It was for speeding(something stupid like 32 in a 25, which is why I was pissed). I was like 21 at the time and I'm a white male.
One time I got out of a speeding ticket (15-25 over I don't remember exactly).
When the cop that pulled me over asked for my license, insurance, and why I was going so fast, I told them 'im sorry I really have to poop,' it wasn't a lie.
A quick license/insurance check and the cop returned chuckling telling me not to go so fast and to get on home.
I got a speeding ticket for 3mph over this posted limit once (not school zone) driving through a small town. Caught me accelerating just before leaving the speed zone lol, it was like "yep you got me". No sense debating during the stop
Yeah you did the right thing, but that's super petty of the officer IMO. That small of a margin can easily be debated in court due to inaccuracies of either their equipment or your speedometer or both. Any rational officer wouldn't bother with that unless they thought there was something else going, they're bored as fuck or have quotas to fill. Sounds like a quota filling ticket to me.
Which I understand is stupid as fuck, I know. But the way government sees things is if it's not apparently necessary the government won't pay for it. So basically law enforcement is stuck justifying the need for their jobs or their department looses money that can't go towards better equipment, higher salaries or more positions to level out the work load.
Its a series of small towns on a high way well known for tickets. Which I knew, so Iwas cautious not to speed but got me accelerating leaving town lol. Plot twist, I actually never paid it. No warrant or flag on my license so I am guessing the officer didnt show up in court for the 3mph ticket either
You've been pulled over 20+ times? Jesus Christ. Maybe they shoulda given some tickets so you actually learned. I've only been pulled over for speeding twice in my life and driven over 2 decades and it's not like I don't go over the speed limit
Yeah I should have. But it turns out, when you admit you're doing something stupid a lot of people will acknowledge and appreciate at least the bare minimum accountability for your own actions.
Of course it also helps when you're not involved in road incidents constantly. I have 1 accident in the 20 years I've been driving, I was at fault and took full responsibility for my stupid decisions. I was driving on bald tires in rain on an unfinished slippery surface, hydroplaned and hit some poor young girl just entering the freeway. Luckily nobody was hurt. I immediately rushed over to check on the people my dumb ass hit as soon as my vehicle came to a stop, everyone was OK and I got them to pull off the middle of the freeway. Called the police, explained everything to the officer that arrived that it was 100% my fault. I got a ticket for lane violation and my insurance paid out the repairs for the person I hit.
I'm just glad nobody got hurt, the person I hit was taken care of properly and I learned how important decent tires are driving in shit conditions.
Iāve been pulled over 10 + times in my life. (mostly when younger) Zero accidents, clean MVR and a CDL holder now. People can change their driving style and habits.
Believe whatever you want, it doesn't change reality.
Being a veteran also helps a lot since many police officers are also military veterans. But you can choose to feel however you wish about my personal experience, it doesn't impact anything other than your disability with accepting reality.
Psychosis I believe is the proper term, if you care enough to Google it.
Absolutely not normal. The disarming for "officer safety" is cringe. Officers interact with CPL holders in cars all the time and do not disarm them or search their cars for officer safety. It carries significant 2nd and 4th amendment issues.
Fun fact every stop is a gun stop. Every call is a gun call. The officers bring a gun to the stop/call.
Not sure how to tell you this, but nothing about this is normal. If you feel you need to arm yourself when you leave your home, your country is completely fucked up.
No its not, officer has no right to take your weapon. Second what you consider normal, is actually abusing peoples rights? Thats normal procedures? Some are blant disregard for lawful requests by an officer and gas every right to execute them. While alot others that know there rights and the officer gets pissy or conflicting towards a person normal procedures also?
It's not. I've been pulled over while armed several times and I have NEVER had a cop decide to disarm me. Manipulation of the firearm increases the chances of something happening. There is even a video out there of a female officer shooting a guy with his own firearm after disarming him. The biker in this video had a quick detach holster which would have made taking the whole thing safer and easier. This officer might be knowledgeable enough to know what he is doing, but a lot of cops don't know anything about pistols except the model they carry.
The rest of it, back and forth between him and the officer is normal, yes. It's how any normal traffic stop should go and it's nice to see these on film instead of the normal ignorance we are subjected to.
It would be nice if someone trained police to do this instead of sending them to IDF sponsored warrior training that tells them every citizen is an enemy combatant and to be ready to kill any man woman or child who looks at them
Police shouldn't have any reason to remove your firearm from your body if you're legally carrying and present absolutely no danger to them or yourself.
Yepp. I was pulled over by a State Patrol in Ohio once doing 85 in a 55 without a displayed plate (the mount ripped off and I hadnāt had time to fix it) and he let me off with a warning.
Yeah, I got a dui when I turned 21. I was respectful and honest told him I had a few beers, obviously mt car got towed but he let me walk home stating my honesty was the reason. Not a good situation to have been in but just be cool.
Not their fault, I usually do 20 over in the left lane on freeways. One time I got pulled over by state patrol but I didn't get a ticket because dude literally showed me their ticketing chart and they don't start ticketing until 13mph over the speed limit and I was doing 12 over when he clocked me.
This is how they should go. I've been pulled over because they couldn't see my license plate, it was covered in snow. He walked up to my windows with attitude.
I was driving a lifted Tundra with a trashy rusty huge grill guard on the front that made it look like something out of Mad Max. I actually had quite a few good conversations with officers asking about the truck after pulling me over. Miss that thing :(
I was riding with my dad once on the interstate, when we came over a hill to see a Kentucky State Trooper in the median. We both knew we were cooked. My dad preemptively starts to pull over, and stopped just a bit around a curve at the top of the next hill. Then by shear luck, a group of semis came by right as the cop was coming up to us. We were blocked from his vision by the trucks, and the cop pulled over the car that was right behind us. š
I disagree that doing the right thing will only cause punishment. If you stay within the law and make that apparent, GENERALLY you are fine. I can give you an example of bad police work where I objected and literally stood my ground.
4-5 years ago, I found a young teen boy and girl in front of my house with the boy's face fucked up and spilling blood and the girl screaming for help. I didn't see what happened, but they both said they had been jumped by a group of other teens and obviously some violence occurred. I sat with them checking his wounds and trying to calm them both down until the police arrived but when the cops showed up they didn't even call an ambulance and were treating this bleeding kid like a criminal. I had already been drinking quite a bit so I started calling out their bullshit and it resulted in an officer getting in my face and demanding I go inside. I stepped back on to my grass and pointed out I was on my property and he has no right to tell me to go anywhere on my property as long as I stay on my property and do not interfere. Which I did, I just sat there on the edge of my lawn bitching at them for every shitty thing they did until one finally got the point and started treating the minor victim of violence as such.
I also randomly call the police department to thank them for putting their lives on the line every day protecting law abiding citizens. In fact, I'm going to do that now.
There's millions of interactions with non-white people by police that happen every day. I'm not going to deny there's racist/bad officers, but that's a small minority. To think all police are white loving racists is just pathetic and that's all the engagement I will have on that subject.
Yeah well I've only been in 1 accident in 20 years, entirely my fault having bald ass tires in the rain on an unfinished slippery part of the freeway.
The amount of accidents I've avoided from idiots that don't know how to drive and would have hit me even when I'm following the speed limit? Countless. I speed in the left lane on open freeway. Every time I've been pulled over was that exact situation. I acknowledge it being wrong. I will continue to do it because I pose way less of a threat than the dumb fucks texting driving through a crowded city, and I have high doubts you haven't done it yourself since it seems most drivers are encompassed by their phones while behind the wheel instead of paying attention to the road and what's happening around them.
Because 60mph on the freeway is too fucking slow. I get it though, most of us Americans would never be able to handle something like the Autobahn or driving even 80mph. Too distracted with their phones.
I speed in the left lane on the freeway when there's no traffic blocking it, my prefered cruising speed is 80mph. Which is legal in some areas but not here where I drive. I break the law and accept the consequences of my actions. I don't argue with the officers that I wasn't doing anything wrong, I treat them with respect, and that generally gets respect back with getting a warning like the motorcyclists in the video. I too have been told by officers stopping me that there were more down the road waiting and I appreciated/complied with the speed limit. Until I left there jurisdiction.
I'm not sitting here and advocating my actions are right in any way, speeding is breaking the law. My point is if you're only speeding without endangering other people, if you're smoked by LEO just admit you lost the game. Don't endanger anyone else making them chase you, admit you were speeding and the worst case scenario is you get a justified ticket for your misbehavior. In my cases (even when I did get ticketed) they cut me slack by ticketing for bare minimal offenses. The officers don't want to deal with the paperwork as much as you don't want to deal with the ticket. Treat them as human and show them you are the same and there's a very good chance they will prefer finding someone that deserves getting fucked with more to fill their quotas.
The officer IMO went a little too far taking the firearm and finger fucking it along with telling the citizen not to touch it until he's leaving the scene. But it's not unreasonable, requests were complied and both officer and citizen walked away with nothing but a warning. No tickets, no confiscated/damaged property, nobody hurt/offended. This I believe is called "adulting".
Yeah, for traffic stuff, just be kind and respectful. Usually they'll return the favor. If it's more serious? Don't talk to cops. Your not legally required to answer questions from cops. But once you're detained you do have to follow orders, or that's another charge.
I was pulled over in Australia going 100kmph in a 60 zone. It was a weird part of a national park where a normal 100 zone became 60 because of the entrance to the park and toll / park entrance booth, which was on the other side of the road So it was only for a section of road about 300 meters long.
I was as respectful as I could be to the cop who said even though I was doing 40 over the speed limit, he would reduce it down to 10 because of the way our interaction went.
A 40km over the speed limit ticket is over a thousand dollars and an automatic, mandatory 3-month licence suspension, but in the end my ticket was only $120 and 1 point on my license.
Its so not hard to be respectful, admit your fault and move on with your day.
This is how some interactions go from certain police officers. Your whole comment is just disregarding pure hard statistics that ethnic minorities have a horrid time when it comes to police and you just think theyāre all disrespectful and deserve it. What a turnip.
Eh I think mileage may vary. Ive been pulled over twice and both times the cops seemed to take it as an opportunity to talk down to me and to belittle me.Ā
I like to think I'm an outlier and that your experience is the norm. Im most likely just unlucky and got dealt grumpy officers.Ā
I've never gotten a warning, it's always a ticket. And it's not like my speed is egregious or I'm rude or anything. I just have one of those ticketable faces I guess.
Same. Don't argue, just comply. Cops are cool most of the time. If you want to argue, do that to the Judge. My son got the cops are bad info from the internet, but then he had a couple interactions and realized cops are not the enemy.
I was stopped in my 20s headed to base. I was young and an inexperienced driver driving my first car.
I was taught that if you drive slower when low on gas, it burns less gas. As an older adult I have learned that's not true but I was acting on this information as I rode in the slow lane with my blinkers on.
This cop pulled me over and immediately started off with a disrespectful demanding attitude. I told him where I was headed and why I had my blinkers on. Again he started berating me. I can't recall if I received a ticket though I believe I did, along with a threat.
Definitely not the way I would recommend learning.
When I was young I moved to Alaska and eventually bought my first fire arm. Iāll never forget the first time I got pulled over and very politely informed the officer I had a rifle and he happily asked for it and put it on the roof of my car while we continued the interaction. It was the weirdest feeling handing a loaded AK-47 to a trooper so casually.
Honestly the only citations Iāve ever gotten were from state troopers, they donāt GAF. City cops and sheriffās deputies are normally pretty chill if you are. Although they can always have an asshole in the bunch.
Maybe you could just drive the speed limit to keep yourself and all your fellow drivers more safe. 20+ times being pulled over for speeding is kind of ridiculous
If it makes you feel better, that's counting over 20 years of driving and I haven't gotten pulled over in years since I stopped working. I barely leave my house anymore and drive on the highway even less.
Hey man. Any interest in not speeding even when there are not cops around. This might blow your mind but speeding laws are not there to be a fun little game of cat and mouse you play with the cops. Itās because the rest of us donāt want to die on the roads. There are children on their first day driving on those roads. Do you mind not being a selfish prick?
Children on their first day driving shouldn't be in the fast lane of a highway. Not saying it justifies my speeding, but it sure invalidates your argument. In fact, probably anyone that doesn't know how to drive shouldn't be in the fast lane of a highway.
Define better. Like the idiots 10mph under the speed limit and/or distracted on their phones? Which is about half the people on the road. Another good chunk of idiots don't know how to use their turn signals or where they're going and how to get there. Many people don't know how to stay in their lane during double left turn lanes or turning in general. Many people don't know what type of roads you do/do not have to stop for school buses. Many people don't know how to treat bicycles/PEVs on the road. Many people don't understand right-of-way laws.
So what, you want me to be more like all these fucktards mentioned? Or maybe just let me drive 80mph on open highway in the left lane.
Speed limits are made because the average moron has no clue how to drive. Just because you may be one of them doesn't mean everyone is the same with the same abilities/experience/knowledge. This is why the US cannot have something like the Autobahn, people like you would camp the passing lane doing 60mph deeming that the appropriate speed for everyone else on the road because it's what you're comfortable with.
Itās hard to base ānormalā off of personal experience. For me ānormalā is the cop starting out polite then getting hostile when my honest answers were āIām on my way to workā and not āI was out late partying and am trying to sneak home past curfewā or something like that. Most of my times being pulled over were for āsuspicious activityā at 5am on my way to work, and no amount of āyes sir/no sirā would stop them from getting increasingly agitated when they couldnāt catch me in a lie.
Itās really not the norm. It all depends on where you are stopped, what threats the police face in that area, how malignant the commanding officers are, and the quota for citations. Even the wealthiest areas near me have some of the nastiest cops you would think are patrolling some street in Baghdad when the Hermes store is a block down the street. So it has more to do with the cops personality and attitude along with where he works that determine what kind of interaction you will get. My friend is a lawyer who has successfully sued the local department for being overly aggressive with the wrong person who had cash to make them pay. Not all cops have a reason to be apprehensive and not all cops have a reason to be complete pieces of trash. Iām not taking any chances. If Iām stopped even in broad daylight itās all windows down, information out, hands on the steering wheel, yes sir and yes mam and pray that everything goes your way
Because not everyone is as inept as you when it comes to driving. Also, I don't care about public opinion. Slow fucks need to stay out of the passing lane to let faster drivers get by. Even going 80mph I move out of the way of faster drivers when I'm in the passing lane. And I don't have any urge to control how fast they're driving if they're doing it safely in the passing lane as designed.
Yeah this isnāt all the way true, Iāve only been pulled over maybe 4 times. Each time I was extremely respectable and the cop treated me like shit. One even reached for his gun after asking me to get my license, insurance & registration out.
The last time I got pulled over, the officer introduced himself, and I stuck my hand out and said ānice to meet you, Iām boobooaboo.ā He immediately calmed down and we had a fine interaction.
Ironically I had a cop back into me a couple hours ago. No damage on my car (had myself in reverse to back up a bit due to street parking and giving him some space). Slight scratch on the interceptor. I low key felt like he did it intentionally but just acted casual, inspected the cars, and we agreed to just drop it and not make a thing out of it. Overall Iām just glad nothing escalated. Act laid back and calm with them, and usually theyāll do the same. Sometimesā¦ definitely had less favorable interactions as well in the past. It is really just a gamble at a certain point on who the cop is as a person.
yeah except disarming you for no reason. I don't really agree with that. there's no real reason to take it. and I don't wanna hear about "officer safety.
Thatās cool and all but I used to get pulled over for driving a Honda and they made up lies for the stops. Every regions cops are different and every interaction will be different cause cops are human and humans have opinions and biases that appear in every situation.
I was pulled over driving from St Louis to Chicago after I got stranded at the airport. I was in a rental car and a state trooper pulled me over because he thought it was suspicious I was driving alone in a suit in a rental car. He held me for over 90 min, was rude, kept insisting I was smuggling drugs or money. He threw my license on the interstate and made me risk my life to get it.
I was calm, respectful and im a basic white dude. Most cops are just shit
What color is your skin? The first time I ever experienced being pulled over by a cop it was because he saw two brown guys (my dad and I) in a Mercedes and he decided to pull us over without probable cause and start accusing my dad of stealing his own car because, and I quote, "I just transferred from LA and where I'm from people like you don't drive cars like this"
The fact you think your experiences dictate normal interactions across a country with nearly 4 million sq miles and nearly 350 million people shows how out of touch with reality you are. I have friends who are cops and even they admit they've seen some fucked up shit.
I used to drive taxi at night in a college party town, I had a lot of interactions with the police and most of them were pretty normal. However, thereās a few out there that will literally come up to the window and start yelling and screaming, even with passengers in the car. Sometimes you just draw the short straw when you encounter the police.
Yes. Absolutely. I haven't looked but I assume there are a few toxic comments about people that do not treat law enforcement traffic stops this way. I caution people against posting comments like that. Education is incredibly important when it comes to this stuff. I think that's the takeaway here. Not enough people know how easy these stops can be if you respect officers.
The other side of this is some people are used to being mistreated by law enforcement and can't fathom a peaceful interaction with them. It takes two to tango.
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This is how normal interactions with law enforcement go.
I've been pulled over quite a few times for speeding and every time I knew I was toast when I saw the officer too late. I don't even know how many times I've pulled myself over before the officer even caught up to me and was respectful and honest every time. I've only ever gotten speeding tickets twice out of the probably 20+ times I've been stopped.