This is why you should NEVER NEVER Talk To police....

Moreover, there is not requirment for probable cause to run someone's plate. A cop can run your plate for no reason whatsoever and its perfectly legal.

 

I assume that is why the officer called it a "courtesy" stop. One light was out, the assumption would be if the second goes out, then there would be a clear violation. Stopping the driver to tell her the light was out was preventing a potential violation down the road.

My guess is that all officers are instructed to run any occupant's information whenever they stop someone.

Whether or not he was simply harassing her, is only know to the officer.

How do you think she would have reacted a couple of weeks later if the entire light was out and she was stopped and ticketed? Would the 10 or so minutes spent during the "courtesy" stop have been worth it?

 

He didn't run the plate, he ran the license of my sister.

 

I am sure you know about all of the drug and DWI arrest made because of that light being out.

 

Also legal - he can get that info from the license plate anyway (assuming the car is registered to her)...actualy taking of your sister's license to run it just makes it easier for them. Now I'm not saying he can stop you just to run the license, but he can do it while following you and if he stops you for any reason, "courtesy" or otherwise, he can run your DL.

 

All jobs have their perks right?

Guy that drives the BlueBell truck gets to bring ice cream home to his kids.
My mom works for an insurance company I got the 3.0 student discount on insurance for my truck even after I graduated college.
My friend gets free haircuts because his mom cuts hair.
My co-worker gets 10% off of gas because his wife works as an engineer for the company.
I let an HPD officer slide the other day on traffic.
It happens. It is wrong? Is it unethical?
Cops take care of cops.
Now if you're beating the piss out of your wife, there might be a problem. If you're speeding, you're likely to get a "have a good day."
It isn't like it used to be. If anothr officer is DWI, you can't give him a ride home anymore. You call your supervisor and he calls the DWI officer's supervisor. He gets fired more than likely. It isn't as bad as some of you think.
Some of you act like we can go around selling the drugs we confiscate and kill people and get away with it.

 

The few times I have been involved with police on good terms it was something of this nature. Once, my mother's car's headlight was out. I was pulled over and told about it and I honestly didn't know. The police officer asked for all my information and it was taking me a while to locate my mother's insurance information. He stated he would give me time to look for it and he started writing the ticket. I eventually found it. He tore up the ticket and then told me just to get the light fixed and if I get stopped again tell the officer that he already stopped me and give them his name. Very professional and understanding. I would expect that from any police officer, unfortunately I rarely receive it.

 

Actually spiffy, I remember something from the traffic code that you can be stopped with the only PC being that you wanted to check for a DL.

Let me see if I can find it.

 

The officer said the light wasn't illegal, right? There was no traffic violation, in the eyes of this officer, right? Then what was the entire point of being pulled over? None. Nothing illegal was going on, like I said.

 

Sounds to me that you are happy with the cop mentioned above because he let you off...

 

Funny story, but I was talking to my best bud, who is a federal agent down on the border. He pretty much abides by speed limits, but on the occasions he doesn't and gets pulled over, he is usually let go w/ a warning, EXCEPT if it is DPS. I found it funny, because the last two times I got pulled over, both were DPS and both let me go w/ a warning. I found it funny because from what my bud says, if DPS pulls you over, you are getting a ticket.

 

I know several officers that have been stopped by DPS and didn't get a ticket, but I had a state trooper in the police academy teach us the traffic code and we heard some interesting stories.

But they have to get a copy of paper for each stop they make for statistics (racial profiling) so even other cops gets a warning on paper.

 

Yeah except none of those perks you mentioned is breaking the law, or endangering other citizens by driving too fast.

DD

 

Not because he let me off because he understood the situation. He gave me time to find the insurance card without just writing me a ticket even though it took a while to rumble through all the junk in her car, understood I was telling the truth about the light being out and didn't assume I was lying.

 

Oh yeah, stealing ice cream is legal.

 

Blue Bell employees can have as much ice cream as they want.

 

You did not say....STEALING....you said it was a perk.

Why did you assume that it meant stealing?

Sometimes companies give their employees things like ice cream because they can.

A cop does not have the right to let another cop go, that in itself is breaking the law he is sworn to uphold.

DD

 

You think officers should just believe whatever they are told when they pull someone over?

I'm not going to say you've never had a bad experience, but I think a lot of it is tainted by the fact that you are in a situation you don't like to begin with.

 

bingo

 

I actually didn't mind this situation because I had no idea of what was wrong. I was curious when pulled over because I really had no idea what I had done.

In my previous example, we were basically let go too but I had a problem with it so your logic fails.