Question about getting pulled over by the police

[mikec]

Add Wylie and Sachse to that list of money hungry departments.

Fwiw, I know of one case in which Sachse filed a DWI on a guy for a point zero three. That's .03, less than half the legal requirement. What is that, one beer? One and a half?


Cocksuckers!

[racrguy]

Everyone hates a cop until they need one, and yes the cops in my town are dicks.

A gun in hand is better than a cop on phone. My distrust of cops came from when a man broke into my garage, I almost hit him with my truck, and he still got away, then when I pointed him out to the police they said there was nothing they could do, then tried to arrest me when I said I'd take care of it. Fuck the police.

[564826]

Everyone hates a cop until they need one, and yes the cops in my town are dicks.

[kingjason]

How come your dept doesn't allow you to make a stop for a no insurance hit then?

Who knows. I just know that a lot do. Maybe they just do not want to handle the complaints.

[prostock1]

He's trying to see if he can get out of the ticket

Renew the lic. would be a good start

[GE]

Why do we run tags?

There was something recent on this but you have no reasonable expectation of privacy for the information contained on your license plate, and thus, no probable cause is required to run a computer check.

How come your dept doesn't allow you to make a stop for a no insurance hit then?

[kingjason]

I dont understand, why is there a 2 page thread about why this dude got pulled over again?

If the plate comes back invalid, hot, no ins, whatever on the computer, he's getting stopped. Period. Why bitch? I used to get pulled over when I bought my truck because the plates came back invalid when ran by the police. Somehow the state's system didnt report it. I never got a ticket, and I didnt like it. I went and requested new plates for $5 and solved the problem.

We were building to that. Sometimes it takes a while.

[Baron Von Crowder]

I dont understand, why is there a 2 page thread about why this dude got pulled over again?

If the plate comes back invalid, hot, no ins, whatever on the computer, he's getting stopped. Period. Why bitch? I used to get pulled over when I bought my truck because the plates came back invalid when ran by the police. Somehow the state's system didnt report it. I never got a ticket, and I didnt like getting stopped. I went and requested new plates for $5 and solved the problem.

[kingjason]

If you have a "reasonable suspicion" a crime has been committed. What "reasonable suspicion" did the cop have here to run the tag in the first place? Other than Driving While Mexican.

Why do we run tags?

There was something recent on this but you have no reasonable expectation of privacy for the information contained on your license plate, and thus, no probable cause is required to run a computer check.

[GE]

So I run a vehicle and I get a hit for stolen or expired MVR? No good PC for a stop you say?.

If you have a "reasonable suspicion" a crime has been committed. What "reasonable suspicion" did the cop have here to run the tag in the first place? Other than Driving While Mexican.

[kingjason]

It's not really the cops job to know what insurance policies would come into play, etc. Which is the A#1 reason I never EVER let anyone else drive my car.

Solid gold there.

[kingjason]

I forgot to address this part. While you can run tags all you want, you need to get the stop on a traffic related offense. You can't just initiate a stop based off a tag hit or no insurance hit from your MDT. What it will come down to is, what was the reasonable suspicion or PC that the officer had to initially run the data? Bottom line is that considering this is a small town, the cop is going to lie about the initial reason for the stop. Would be great if there's audio/visual of the stop.

So I run a vehicle and I get a hit for stolen or expired MVR? No good PC for a stop you say?.

[lowthreeohz]

Would be great if there's audio/visual of the stop.

everywhere i've been aside from OKC has their witness system turn on with the party lights.. so there's a good chance it's there.

[kingjason]

This is exactly what I'm talking about. In this small town who's to say that it "really" came up as having no insurance and wasn't just an excuse to pull him over. And I guess that's really my issue here (because I've personally had problems with this small town), who's to say the officer had a valid reason to pull him over? Did it really show up in some "system" as not having insurance?

You have a valid point! Tell him to go up to the PD and see if they will run his car, bike, whatever and show him the print out. Now there is also the chance by now that it could have been updated. I doubt they will but you never know.

[GE]

He still had good PC to make the stop if his department allows that. If he ran the plate, and it came back not confirmed, he still had good PC.

I forgot to address this part. While you can run tags all you want, you need to get the stop on a traffic related offense. You can't just initiate a stop based off a tag hit or no insurance hit from your MDT. What it will come down to is, what was the reasonable suspicion or PC that the officer had to initially run the data? Bottom line is that considering this is a small town, the cop is going to lie about the initial reason for the stop. Would be great if there's audio/visual of the stop.