"The Danger of Bored Cops with a Quota to Meet"

[Majic Walrus]

Should have gotten their name and badge numbers and reported them.

Do you live in the suburbs? Suburb cops are jokes. Their "duties" are nothing more than setting up speed traps in the afternoon. They rarely do anything productive.

Yeah... Protecting suburbanites from reckless drivers totally pointless.

 

[mrvlknight21]

Should have gotten their name and badge numbers and reported them.
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Im sure their supervisor would have thanked you for letting him know that they were doing their job.

 

[RockSP]

Im sure their supervisor would have thanked you for letting him know that they were doing their job.

If they were doing their job my homeboy would've gotten a ticket for the taillight and I would've been left the hell alone.

 

[mrvlknight21]

If they were doing their job my homeboy would've gotten a ticket for the taillight and I would've been left the hell alone.

I was responding to what Spidey bat suggested. You can think what you want, but if you had gotten their badge numbers and reported it to their supervisor, Im pretty sure you would have gotten the response that I stated. Im not saying it is right or wrong, just stating my opinion on that aspect of the issue.

Also, on a lot of minor traffic issues, the police have the option just to warn the person rather than writing a ticket.

 

[Majic Walrus]

If they were doing their job my homeboy would've gotten a ticket for the taillight and I would've been left the hell alone.

You still don't see any other circumstances that led up to the traffic stop. Like I said earlier it's important to realize that these cops might have had additional information that led them to believe that you should be questioned. They may not have had any of that information and simply suspected that you were hiding something by your actions. Either way cops are tasked with legally removing and inhbiting citizen's rights on a regular basis and the majority of them do their jobs well.

 

[The Guard]

I'm surprised they didn't ask about the TV, etc. Anyway, sounds like normal procedure. These "random stops" net a lot of offenders.

 

[mrvlknight21]

The good news is, RockSP had done nothing wrong and the cops realized this as well.

 

[BlackLantern]

I was in the car with my cousin once who got pulled over for speeding....we were doing 95 in a 55 because he has a lead foot....gave the cop attitude which resulted in a 15 minute traffic stop and ended up with a huge ticket....and then went to court over it...I wanted to slap him

 

[RockSP]

You still don't see any other circumstances that led up to the traffic stop. Like I said earlier it's important to realize that these cops might have had additional information that led them to believe that you should be questioned.

Heh heh. There was no "additional information" for them to have. They pulled him over because of his taillight.

They may not have had any of that information and simply suspected that you were hiding something by your actions.

Yep, sitting on the passenger's side. Very suspicious.

 

[RockSP]

I'm surprised they didn't ask about the TV, etc. Anyway, sounds like normal procedure. These "random stops" net a lot of offenders.

Nah, we'd already moved the tv by then. He was taking me home...we were literally seconds from my neighborhood. Best believe if that tv was back there my post title probably would've read "Nightstick Up Ass Over Idiot Box"

The good news is, RockSP had done nothing wrong and the cops realized this as well.

Eventually. They gave it the old college try, though. Heh.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Everything before you got pulled over would seem shady as hell. Moving around a TV past 11 at night and making a cash exchange in a parking lot.

 

[mrvlknight21]

Eventually. They gave it the old college try, though. Heh.

Maybe. But you really had nothing to worry about.

I have been "harassed" by cops 2 times before. They pissed me off and there wasnt much I could do. However, in both cases, I had done nothing wrong and wasnt really worried, just mad (like you might be over this).

Well, actually, during one incident, I ran a stop sign, but the guy tried to make a DUI case out of it in every way possible.He asked me a bunch of questions about where I was coming from, what I was doing, where I lived, and on and on and on.

I still remember one of his little comments that I hadnt had "enough" to drink. This was when I was 17 and I didnt drink then and I dont drink now. For 34 years I would blow a 0% on a breathalyzer, but this guy didnt believe me!
So, despite him not believing me, trying to get me to fail a few field sobriety tests and making little smart ass comments, I wasnt worried (except for a possible ticket for the stop sign violation).

At the end of it all, he only gave me a verbal warning. It sounds a little bit like your case.
Basic traffic stop-cop tries to make it into something more-asked a lot of questions-didnt believe me-makes me do field sobriety test-lets me go without a ticket.

 

[Majic Walrus]

Heh heh. There was no "additional information" for them to have. They pulled him over because of his taillight.

Yep, sitting on the passenger's side. Very suspicious.

Maybe there was a bulletin to look out for someone who robbed a gas station matching your description?

Everything before you got pulled over would seem shady as hell. Moving around a TV past 11 at night and making a cash exchange in a parking lot.

I can agree with this too.

 

[The Spawn]

I doubt the cops were there for that exchange.

However, the fat of the matter is...we don't know what the cops were doing before you got pulled over...and what they sent to look for.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

Heh heh. There was no "additional information" for them to have. They pulled him over because of his taillight.

No additional information that they told YOU.

Odds are, there was a crime committed and your friend's car, your friend himself, or perhaps even you, matched the description of those involved. The taillight was the excuse they used to pull you over, to investigate your potential involvement in a reported crime.

It's happened to me before too, where they had virtually the entire SJPD out for a routine traffic stop over my "headlight". Yea, it doesn't take the entire SJPD to tell me that I have a headlight out.

Odds are, I matched a description. As did you, or the car you were in.

Get over it and stop playing the race card.

 

[Wiseman]

Get over it and stop playing the race card.

I like the race card, I'm collecting the whole set of them

 

[RockSP]

Everything before you got pulled over would seem shady as hell. Moving around a TV past 11 at night and making a cash exchange in a parking lot.

Funny thing is we were actually joking about this as we were waiting for the Craig's List dude. Cops thinking we were burglars who just decided to hang. We were in the parking lot of an HH Gregg ( a Circuit City type store for anyone who doesn't know) with a big old tv in the back of a truck.

(Even though they probably only sell flatscreen tvs and the parking lot and store are lit up like the 4th of July and there's a huge metal gate or whatever pulled down on the front entrance and I'm sure all kinds of alarms...)

 

[Majic Walrus]

:facepalm

You carried a TV set away from an electronics store in the middle of the night while joking about being stopped by cops and then actually got stopped by cops?

 

[RockSP]

No additional information that they told YOU.

Odds are, there was a crime committed and your friend's car, your friend himself, or perhaps even you, matched the description of those involved. The taillight was the excuse they used to pull you over, to investigate your potential involvement in a reported crime.

It's happened to me before too, where they had virtually the entire SJPD out for a routine traffic stop over my "headlight". Yea, it doesn't take the entire SJPD to tell me that I have a headlight out.

Odds are, I matched a description. As did you, or the car you were in.

Get over it and stop playing the race card.

*Snicker* "race card" Whatever.

The odds are your imagined justification for what happened is just that...some bs you imagined.

 

[mrvlknight21]

*Snicker* "race card" Whatever.

The odds are your imagined justification for what happened is just that...some bs you imagined.

All he was saying is there could have been other factors that you are not aware of that caused the extra checking, questions, etc.

I personally disagree with your thread title. I doubt they were trying to meet any quota by pulling your friend over. After all, they didnt give him a ticket.

I dont know if you read my experience that I posted above or not, but it sounds a lot like yours.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Yeah... Protecting suburbanites from reckless drivers totally pointless.

Where I live, there are 2 long roads off a highway. No one ever crosses this road. During the day, it's completely empty except the cars that travel. These 2 roads have cops parked on them often. In fact, they park on some people's driveways. They did this on my friend's car. His dad asked the cop to move. The cop told him he was interrupting police business and would be arrested if he persisted.

There are side streets near me that cars zoom through. There's a small incline near my house that cars always barrel through and it is a danger because people walk along this road (I myself walk my dog this way) and you can't see when you are going down it. Yet, no cops are ever there. The cars speeding in that area are a much greater risk for injuring someone than those 2 long, busy roads.

 

[RockSP]

:facepalm

You carried a TV set away from an electronics store in the middle of the night while joking about being stopped by cops and then actually got stopped by cops?

As I've stated multiple times, the tv was long gone by the time we got stopped. We drove it to his crib, set it up and he was taking me home. This was an old tube tv that I'm sure HH Gregg doesn't carry. HH Gregg probably didn't exist when this tv was made...

 

[Dark Helmet]

The more important question is was the female cop hot ?

 

[Majic Walrus]

As I've stated multiple times, the tv was long gone by the time we got stopped. We drove it to his crib, set it up and he was taking me home. This was an old tube tv that I'm sure HH Gregg doesn't carry. HH Gregg probably didn't exist when this tv was made...

Ah... Well. I suppose is POSSIBLE that they'd seen you earlier but I highly doubt it. Most likely they were checking you out for an undisclosed reason or they're secret racists.

Where I live, there are 2 long roads off a highway. No one ever crosses this road. During the day, it's completely empty except the cars that travel. These 2 roads have cops parked on them often. In fact, they park on some people's driveways. They did this on my friend's car. His dad asked the cop to move. The cop told him he was interrupting police business and would be arrested if he persisted.

There are side streets near me that cars zoom through. There's a small incline near my house that cars always barrel through and it is a danger because people walk along this road (I myself walk my dog this way) and you can't see when you are going down it. Yet, no cops are ever there. The cars speeding in that area are a much greater risk for injuring someone than those 2 long, busy roads.

So you're upset because there aren't MORE cops? I would agree. Unfortunately funding for your area may be pretty slim. States are cutting lots of jobs including those of police officers.

I would guess that the roads that are not travelled by many speeders are that way because of police presence.

 

[The Spawn]

"Ah... Well. I suppose is POSSIBLE that they'd seen you earlier but I highly doubt it. Most likely they were checking you out for an undisclosed reason or they're secret racists. "

End of story.