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A cop has to have a reason to pull you over

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"LOL"

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"LOL" all you want, its cute. However, its true. Even if its something as weak as failing to signal or not coming to a complete stop at a red light when you're going to make a right turn. Save the cutesy "zomg cops have too much power" for another thread, please.

I'm not saying it has to be a STRONG reason, but unless they're at a DUI checkpoint where they basically do everybody, they HAVE to have a reason logged for pulling you over. Simple as that. Keep it on the straight and narrow and don't give them one.

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Bull. [censored]. [censored]. Move to where I've lived my whole life and you will know better.

1) I was pulled over after 1AM (bar time) for driving north on Scottsdale Rd. when the cop and I were the only two on the road. He followed me for 2+ miles and said I was "weaving". Yeah right, jackass, it's just you and me on the road do you think I would be driving anything but the straightest line in the world? Weirder yet, I had recently had my car broken into and my wallet stolen and as such had no driver's license, nor for whatever reason proof of insurance nor registration. Yet he let me go without a ticket, why would he do this? Becuase he pulled me over for no reason and realized I wasn't drunk, that's why.

2) A year or two later I was driving with two friends and again it was just me and a cop on the road at bar time. He was ahead of me as I approached a four-way stop. He made a left, I made a VERY complete stop, yet he flipped a bitch and pulled me over. Reason? I "didn't make a complete stop". You know, [censored] that. I goddamned well made a complete stop BECAUSE I KNEW HE WAS WATCHING. But again, I wasn't drunk, he figured this out pretty quickly and let me go.

3) about a year after that I was pulled over in late afternoon going to play street pickup basketball with a friend of mine. Our crime? Being two guys wearing t-shirts and driving together, i.e. profiling. Again, I wasn't doing anything wrong so I was let go.

If you honestly think you can't be pulled over for any reason you are kidding yourself, and could be in for a rude awakening.

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So, what you're telling me is that the cops in your area suck and may make up a reason or exaggerate their suspicions. I'm sorry that happens. And you know what, since you're so up in arms about this, maybe you're right. Maybe I'm lucky enough to live in areas where the cops don't suck. However, you didn't exactly disprove my statement. They had a reason, and I wasn't there. I never even said they had to be perfectly, beyond a shadow of a doubt right about their reason. I've been pulled over twice for kinda weak reasons (1 for not coming to a complete stop, and 1 for not signaling a lane change) but I wasn't drunk either.

I guess it always goes to the quality of police where you live. And as I said, there's one REALLY easy way to not get DUI's even if you choose to live in a place with cops who will stop you for weak reasons.