can someone tell me how the heck cops are doing this in houston

Can't help you. Don't think I've ever exited on Crosstimbers.

 

I've seen them do this for seat belts at lights

 

They are checking for expired tags and expired inspection.

 

Registration/inspection stickers?

 

Why would you consent to them searching your car?

 

yes, this is it. i got stopped one time during lunch time and my passengers at the backseat were not buckled up. but the cop let us go. maybe becuase of my windshield sticker. not gonna tell u what it is.. .

 

Yeah, the cops like to pull this **** sometimes. Just wave like you're going to pull over... then don't.

 

I've been pulled over before in the u-turn lane for expired inspection sticker.

I'm white, by the way...

They pull you over when they see your sticker is expired, not because they suspect it might be. It's right there on your windshield for them to see.

 

They do this at the intersection of I-10 merging to I-45 S near downtown every morning and make money in droves.

I doubt it's racial profiling - more like - no seatbelt/expired stickers profiling

They've started to do this as you exit the Pierce elevated to with the added fun of a speed gun

 

I think Mayor Parker tried to reduce their pay for court time, the cops b****ed and moaned, stopped writing tickets or threatened to, it didn't work out. So the cops have this union thing going designed (well not designed, but it's an instrument for this) to pay them money by writing you suckers tickets then sitting in court. That's not how they're allowed to do it, but it's "why" they do it. "Enabled" over "allowed" how about that?

Seat belt law for non-minors is one of my least favorite laws. If you die because you failed to wear a seatbelt I don't care.

 

The inspection sticker is on your windshield. You either have a current or expired one showing. Its real easy to see if you have an expired one. There is no 'suspicion' of a failed inspection, only a current or an expired one.

 

No what they're doing there is pulling people over for impeding traffic while trying to cut in line onto 45 instead of waiting in the long line on I-10 going to 45. My wife received two tickets for doing this and she deserved it since these dip****s hold up traffic.

I see what the OP is talking about happen a lot by my work. They're looking for expired inspection stickers, plate stickers and seat belts. I asked one of the cops at the Chevron about it and he hated it, but said he was doing what the SGT. asked him to do.

 

I think that's what they're really doing because I've been pulled over for having an expired registration sticker in that very same manner. I was given a ticket..which sucked, but it was on me. I had bought the sticker...it arrived...and I forgot to put it on my windshield within a week of receiving it.

 

I don't understand what the OP is asking or requesting...

astros123, are you saying that you have something to fear, that you think they shouldn't stop you, or that no one should ever get a ticket at all for something they're supposed to have (valid sticker, seat belt on, etc.)?

 

That's interesting that you say this. Because the State of Texas believes that DUI Checkpoints are unconstitutional.

 

So you could tell why each vehicle was pulled over, by the fact you saw nothing else. Got it.