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Originally Posted by DerbyCat
Another time I stopped a black guy who was driving through a hispanic neighborhood known for drug sales. I never saw him stop or talk with anyone, he was just driving through in the middle of the day. My PC for the stop? Faded month tab on his license plate. I walked up to his car, explained my reason for the stop, explained that the neighborhood was known for drug activity and asked if I could search his car. He said he appreciated my polite request but he'd had enough cops search his car and they always tore it up and never found anything, so he was saying "no" to my request. I told him that without his approval (and without seeing anything illegal in plain sight in his car) I couldn't search his vehicle. I was back at my patrol writing a fix-it-ticket when a senior officer at the scene decided he didn't need permission so he walked up to the guy and told him, "I'm searching your car, move out of my way" and proceeded to trash the car - Result: no drugs found. Black guy drives away with a ticket and a messed up car, but he never complained to HQ, must have just figured it was a price for being "black in America".
These are just a few of the reasons why I'm no longer a cop.
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I've been pulled over (twice) because my name ends in a vowel
yes, they asked to search
it was 3 am
and I didn't have a gun so I said yes to the search
man... he looked twice at everything and said things like, "that's a funny place for a gas tank"
WTF
I kept waiting for him to reach in his pocket and pull out a packet of powder and claim to find it.
That actually happened and the cop got busted. the kid was the son of some cop in another town
ooops