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My brother got pulled over the other night by a State Trooper. His plates were expired by 6 months. Trooper let him off with a warning.
That was a pretty nice cop.

When I used to watch LivePD, many times they’d pull some Groid over and he’d refuse to the roll the window down or if he did, he was yakkin on a cell phone and still had the coon tunes up on volume 27.
Get them out of the car they need to have a cig while being questioned.

Then half the time they even let the person off.

Almost seemed scripted, super tolerant, both.

Yep, knew all that before the mistaken identity felony stop.

Having relatives that were investigators for the DA and Gold Shield NYPD growing up, one gets a few hints on how to act properly.

Seeing what happened to friends that didn't act properly doesn't hurt either. Assuming one can learn from other's mistakes of course.

Guilty.

Yo Dre, I got something to say.......

Oh man, whataburger is on my hit list. We don't have them. Mn retards and such.

lol it's all good. Nobody gonna arrest flave.

Most I have encountered have been good folks.

Nobody likes getting a ticket.

Thank God for good policemen.

It'd be even a scarier place without them.

Assaulting an officer? Fing really? I served on a grand jury a few years ago... we had over a half dozen "assulting an officer" cases... I think like 4 out of the 6 or so were "no-billed". Cops were complaining that a scratch on their cruiser's consituted "assault"

Gimme an effing break.

Doing that to an officer is a douch bag maneuver. Felony assault it isn't.


Sorry to you "law and order" types, but when you spend most of your adult life in a desert environment with skinny brown people trying to kill you, your appreciation for "assault" tends to have a more centered meaning.

My last 2 pull overs have been interesting.
430 am, a truck wayyy in front of me, no other car.
Hells Bells comes on and im already in a rush.
The bypass was under construction 45mph, and ehen I saw
the lights come on I was well over 70mph.

Add a gun in the glove box with my papers.


Got a $100 fine for failure to heed the highway signs.
Saved my CDL, and my job.

Damn nice cop.


430pm Friday pulling away from the curb in town, a cop going the other
way sees the expired inspection sticker, on my 20+year old Lesbaru wagon.
Our two girls see him
hit the lights and try a three point turn in traffic on that skinny street.

A couple quick turns in the alleys and back on another street don't
quite work due to traffic and lights favoring him, and he was getting
close, so I stopped.

He asks about the inspection, I tell him I just didn't do it.
"Why" "Was going to put new tires on, and havent."


He explained that I was a couple weeks shy of a year overdue.
He hated to write a ticket, because they were expensive. And
if it was only a couple months he would give a warning. But
He would get in trouble.

I laughed, and told him to write it.

Girls were laughing at me , "mom is gonna be maaaddddd, she has
been telling you to get this inspected."


He comes back with the ticket, apologizes again.
I tell him not to sweat it, again.

He talks a minute, then asks if his captain can call me about
the stop. That the boss likes to check up on them.

Weeks later my wife gets that call, says he will call back.
She told him she probably could answer any questions.
Our daughters gave her a detailed report.

She told him how they came home laughing, and how nice we
all said the cop was. And how I was kinda glad for the whole thing,
it gave me a chance to show them how to handle that situation.

He was speechless. Then he started laughing.
He doesn't get to deal with many people glad to be puled over.


But,
There is a big difference between a traffic stop and a fishing
expedition. Stop me at a check point to play little games.
Ask me questions about a crime committed, and we are in
A whole other world.

The stakes are higher,
And I'm being looked at as a rack to hang something on.
License, registration, insurance, and nuttin to say.

Law Enforcement are good people.

Can’t recall exactly when my last pullover by Cop was, five or six years maybe? I understand the Cop’s viewpoint and turn off the ignition, light up the inside, hands on the wheel etc etc...

That last one was by a twenty-something SAPD Cop, one Officer Martinez IIRC.

Upon seeing my CHL he asked me if I was carrying, when I told him no he asked me why I wasn’t and gave me a lecture on how it was my responsibility to protect myself and those around me.

I thought that was pretty cool, I did get the ticket, but hey, I was speeding.

I hate those damn transition zones.

That’s hilarious

I was headed to Santa Fe one morning, not paying attention to my speed. Limit at that time was 65.
A state cop tops the hill going the opposite way, and I realize I'm going WAY too fast, and getting a ticket.
I pull over, look in the truck mirror, and see the cop cross the median (somewhat of a rough ride as he was in a hurry).
He romps on the car, and my thought was "He's gonna pass me!"
He sees me, slams on the brakes, and manages to stop before hitting me.
He comes up to the window, and I already have DL, insurance, everything out.
After checking me out on the radio, he comes up to the window and says "Do you know how fast you were going?"
"I don't, when I looked, the needle was going south from 75, or so."
He said "I clocked you at 78." then looked at his ticket book.
I asked, "Just for reference, I thought you were gonna pass me - was I supposed to chase you down for my ticket, or wait for you to come back?
I earned it, fair and square!"
He laughed, said "You saw that, huh? I guess just wait - that's never happened before." Then gave me a written warning.
He later moved to Raton, and was a neighbor to my folks. We laughed about that incident a couple of times, many years later.

One thing, if you get off with a warning, go easy for a while. Ask my son-in-law.

I was returning from a deer hunt in Colorado.
Exhausted and driving a muddy truck, we failed to see the reduction of speed as we entered Ely Nevada.
All of a sudden the red and blue lights came on and pulled us over....
Saw that we were hunters and told us to go back about a quarter mile and try it again.
We did and he waved us by...👍

Another time I was hunting in Eastern Oregon.
I shot a big buck and it's rack was sticking up in the back of the truck.
I'm cooking down the highway and pass a state cop parked on the side of the road.
As I pass he peels out and lights me up.
I pull over and he immediately apologizes if he scared me but politely asked to see the big buck, as he was an avid hunter himself.
He shook my hand, congratulated me and didn't even ask to look at the tag on the antlers.