Crooked cops...

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Cops get theirs in the end....via being murdered at the hands of real criminals.
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ROTFLMAO!!! Quote of the year, thus far!

 

you're a sick f*ck.

at least surfguy apologized and admitted it was an assholish statement.

 

There are posts about cops assaulting students, vandalizing property, and lying for personal gain... Oh yeah, I'm the sick ****.

 

Surf, I have to agree with everyone that you should fight it. Cops don't like going to court to make the tickets stick. They rely on people just lumping it and paying the fine. Even if you don't win, you can make his day a drag.

I haven't had nearly the problems described here, but I'll share my cop stories anyway. When I was a teenager, I drove a Porsche 914. It was red and flashy. I was pulled over one day when my friend and I were looking particularly gangsterish. He kept me about 40 minutes, asking where I got the car, and checking my license plate number and whatnot. In the end, he justified the stop by giving me a ticket for not having a front license plate (which had rusted off). I went to court to fight the ticket and won because the guy didn't show up. Which was cool since the ticket was actually legit, though the stop was not.

Speaking of seat belts, I was also pulled over once for speeding. When the cop asked me for my insurance, I unbuckled my seatbelt (right in front of him) to get to the glovebox (it was the old seatbelts that would catch if you didn't move slowly). He gave me a warning in the end. When I got home, I discovered that he added not wearing a seat belt to the speeding warning.

 

Next time I see one of them post, I'll call him/her a sick f*ck, too.

 

I had been meaning to start a thread about cops lately.

Anyways here are my bad cop stories (not half as bad compared to some of you people )

Once I was going to mosque on friday evening. I was going maybe 53-54 on a 50mph speed zone. Well I see the cop lights in my rear view mirror and pull over. He tells me I was going over 65mph. I was like "no i wasnt". My mom and my brother were with me and they knew I was not going over 55mph. Anyways the cop is like "you were also not driving in one lane". I knew right there that this dumb ass cop just wanted to fill his freakin quota. He said he would just give me a ticket for not driving in one lane. I get home and look at the ticket. He had given me a ticket for not driving in one lane and going 65mph. What a biyatch!

A couple of years ago me and about 10 other guys were playing baseball in a park at at around 9:00pm. We have finished playing around 10:30. The park closed at 11:00. Well anyways the park is not closed yet and all of us are just sitting there resting for a few minutes. There were a couple of ducks roaming around and me and my friend try to get close to see if we could pet em (I would never hurt an animal, I dont even eat ducks cause they are so cute). Well this cop shows up and asks "what the **** are we doing"? I told em we were trying to pet the ducks. Well he tells us to "get the **** home, before I put your asses in jail". I was like "sir we were just going to pet the ducks". He basically told me to shut the **** up. I dont know why cops have to be so rude. We werent breaking any laws or anything.

Here is one good story.

My family is Muslim as most of you probably know. Well anyways this incident happened just a few days after 9/11. There were a couple of reports from different mosques around Houston saying that cops were pulling over Muslims and giving em tickets for no reason. Basically harassing anyone brown. I know for a fact a couple of these incidents were true. Well my parents told my young brother to drive carefully where ever he goes. My parents were convinced cops were bad people. Well my brother does get pulled over. There is "Abdul" in his middle name, which also made my parent worry. Well the cop was really nice to my brother and just let him go with a warning. Well this is not a big story, but the point is I was able to convince my parents that not all cops are bad people.

I've also known a few other good cops. Overall I would say that maybe only 20-25% of cops are a-holes. That is really not that bad of a ratio.

 

One more: I was in Chicago, driving a van for work. In Chicago, I almost never drove, didn't have a car and just walked/took the bus everywhere. So I didn't know the roads that well. I took a right on a residential street to turn into a parking lot on its left. This parking lot is at the corner, so it was about 10 feet I drove on this road before turning into the lot.

A cop comes up while I'm getting out and he informs me (to my surprise) that I drove the wrong way down a one-way street. The neighborhood has a lot of one-ways but I never pay attention because I'm usually walking. I apologize and say I didn't know. The cop says, "You knew, didn't you? You just figured it was only a couple feet so it was ok." And I told him, "no really, I didn't know it was one-way." He keeps pressuring me to say I knew, but I wouldn't because it was a lie. Finally, he tells me he's going to give me a ticket if I don't 'admit it.' So, I told him I knew and he let me go about my day.

 

Just noticed this thread...interesting topic and stories.

I have been pulled over 19 times in my life, mainly for speeding and incredibly I have only received 3 tickets.

However, I live in a town where everybody knows everybody, so I know almost all of the cops because I went to school with them or they had my parents (both were teachers) in school. The one time that I got pulled over by a Tennessee State Trooper, I didn't get out of that ticket.

The last time that I got pulled over was like in October of this past year. I was coming back home from this "road rally" event that was dreamed up by a guy who works upstairs. It was fun but tiring, so I was well ready to get home. Well, I'm doing like 62 to 65 in a 55 and this guy in this old Grand Am (looks like a 1989 or 1990) just blazes by me doing at least 70 maybe more than that. So, I figured what the hell?? I'll let this character blaze a trail for me. So, I got behind him and naturally he continued to speed up to stay ahead of me. So, now I'm doing 70 and I can see coming in the opposite direction a Tullahoma city cop, so I put on my brakes (I can't remember if the Grand Am put on his brakes or not). Well, naturally, that cop does a U-turn and starts going towards Manchester (my direction). Then I did something stupid...I turned off on a little side road. Well, guess what?? He turned off on that road too and turned on his blue lights. I stopped and he asked to see my license. He asked me if I lived on that road or if I was trying to get away from him. I was honest and told him that I was trying to get away from him (several of my friends couldn't believe that I told the truth). He then started giving me a hard time about how fast I was going. I immediately responded, but politely, "Did you not see that guy driving the blue Grand Am?? He was driving just as fast as I was...I was just following him." He got a little pissed that I brought that up and used this bullsh!t line that it's "officer's discretion" for him to pull me over and not the other guy. However, he knew that he was f*cked because he knew if he gave me a ticket, it would get thrown out of court. He admitted for one thing that there was another vehicle that was speeding plus the f*cker didn't even know what my exact speed was...he guessed around 70. So, he begrudgingly let me go.

I have found that if you are calm and polite, but at the same time can think on your feet like I did with the example in the above paragraph, you stand a better chance of getting off. However, when a cop lies like he did to Surf, then you are pretty f*cked which isn't right.

Here are my tips:

1) Learn to know what type of vehicles the cops drive, i.e. do they all drive Ford Crown Victorias or do they drive Chevy Caprice Classics or another model. When you see one coming in the opposite direction even if you can tell there are no lights on the top, immediately slow down! You don't know how many times that has saved me. It is not foolproof by any means, but it is a useful tip, IMO.

2) Learn where they like to hide or better yet learn to find the places that would look like good hiding places. Make sure that you slow down when you come up to those places. An alternative, of course, is to buy a radar detector. I used to have one, and I didn't come close to getting pulled over. Unfortunately, I had a devil of a time of keeping it to stick, so I finally just scrapped it. I've been too lazy and cheap to buy a new one. So, I'm driving without one. I may get one later but not now.

3) Despite what Rockets Pimp says, I would always try to be polite to the cops...however, if they get rude or obnoxious with you then I would either ignore it or try to laugh it off with a comment like "Why are you getting so hostile with me? I'm sorry for what I did....I will try to do better next time." If you can swallow your pride and ego and let the cop feel good about himself with his little power trip, then you stand a better chance of getting off then if you become defiant with him.

4) This one would only work if you lived in a small town like mine, but try to relate to the cop as if he is not a cop . In other words, relax and just talk to him like this: "Boy, I'm sorry officer, but I had a really tough day at work. Have you ever had days like that?" Some cops will appreciate that you can talk to them like that and that might save you. However, you sorta have to use judgment on that one by reading their body language. You might get a hard ass who won't listen to you, no matter what you say.

5) This one goes without saying but I'll say it anyway....drive with more caution and take less chances when driving at night. It is so much easier to have an accident at night plus not see a cop hiding that it's not worth it to go more than 10 miles over the speed limit on highways (which I have found for the most part is the leeway that cops will allow for speeding offenders).

6) If it looks like there is no way to get out of the ticket, offer to the cop that you would be willing to go to defensive driving or do community service or something else as long as you don't have to go to court because you don't want that ticket on your driving record. I know a guy who has gotten out of at least 2 tickets because he offered to do something like that. He also got out of another ticket because he knew a cop that fixed a ticket for him. Having a buddy that is or was a cop is a definite luxury when it comes to this situation.

I'll leave with another story. This one proves the idea of doing whatever it takes to get out of a ticket.

I was riding with my mother one Sunday night back about 2 years ago from Manchester to Tullahoma. She had to get something for my father but it wasn't in Manchester, so she had to drive the 15 miles to Tullahoma. Well, we are on our way back on the same highway that I had been on in my other story when all of the sudden we see these blue lights. My mother is bad about not knowing how fast she is going, and I realized that he had gotten her doing around 70 in a 55. Well, my mother being a woman was sorta freaking out about it but she kept it together at first. I thought that I recognized the cop as a guy that came frequently into the bank that I was working at the time. My mother explained very nicely to the cop that she knew that she was speeding but that my father was fixing to have a medical test run on him the next day and that she was worried about that. The cop was sympathetic (or at least appeared to be) but was still going to give her a ticket. He walked back to his car, and my mother started to cry. I told her that I could try something, it was drastic but I didn't want to see my mother cry. When he came back to our vehicle. I said to him, "Excuse me. Aren't you John Doe??" He looked at me and said yes. I then said, "You probably don't recognize me because it's dark but I'm Manny Ramirez and I work at the bank that you like to go to all the time." He then immediately knew who I was and said your office is next to this other girl. I said that was correct. He then said you were the one that gave me that advance off my line of credit the other day. He then told my mother that he would let her off. She was so happy and grateful for what I did. I felt bad because I felt like I was abusing the confidentiality factor associated with that job, but I'm closer to my mother than anyone else & I can't stand to see her get upset.

Well, that is all. Sorry for the length of the post. Also, that sucks, Surf, that you have had bad experiences with cops.