kisimons writes:
I have had a couple of bad experiences with the police, but mostly they've behaved well. To call all cops liars and criminals and the like is just juvenial. Many police cars are equiped with video cameras and the officers conduct can be reviewed to see if it was proper. If neither of you filed a complaint against the officer who pulled you over then how do you expect to correct his behavior?
I think this ruling may make it harder to conduct some car searches and may impede law enforcement, but it's not unreasonable to require the police to have to reasonable cause or a search warrant to search a car.
I would not file a complaint as I was the passenger, and in no way of being charged with anything.
Since they can pull us over and literally make things up in front of us I don’t see the benefit in filing a complaint, as they could simply target the complainer every time they saw him/her on the road and simply make up infractions.
Juvenial (I think you meant juvenile)!?! What would you call someone who broke the law everyday of the week while at work, and lied to people at the same time about it?
onifire writes:
Yes, your badass D&D self has really proven his point, here, quietly in this forum... But how did you answer the cops during the "supposed" investigation of your vehicle?
Did you go Ice - T on them and tell them to go fuck themselves? - Fuck Da Police!
Or did you retreate to your D&D world and promise to "get them one day"...?
- Oni
I wasn’t driving, hence the reason I specifically mentioned riding. I did not speak to the officer, I refuse to talk to them, ever. Their job seems to be to get citizens to incriminate themselves with sly questions and horrible assumptions, not unlike your assumption of the situation I described, or your assumptions about people who play role playing games.
PS: I would never say that to a cop, even if I was Duke Nukem and had
balls of steel. It has been my best experience to not even talk to police officers, and carry a passport so when they demand ID you can give them a US ID (which they have to accept but has no specific information on it except your name). They only get to see my drivers license if they pull me over while I am driving my truck.