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Sort of. They can pull you over for reasonable suspicion, but they don't have to tell you what it is. The problem with this is that they can easily make up the reasonable suspicion afterwards if they find anything. And even if they can't... they don't really suffer any consequences.
Not entirely bullshit. In my experience small town cops tend to be the biggest exercisers of making up bullshit to pull you over.
Whereas big city cops tend to be way more professional and don't try to pull you over for made up reasons.
Can confirm on my end, local cops tended to pull me over over because I figure my car didn't match the wealth profile of the area, (it was an old beater and it's an upper middle class town).
They always gave a bullshit reason, "taillight was out" (when I know it wasn't) blah blah etc etc. But they let me go after asking a question or two, once they realized I was just a local they never even asked to actually see my license just whether or not I had one and then they told me to drive home safely. Questions they asked usually started with "where are you from" followed by something a local would definitely know like the name of our creek, high school, popular areas.
Happened over a dozen times in the one year I had the car, figure it only stopped because I ended up getting pulled over by everyone on the force in my town so they started to recognize my car.
Feel sorry for any guy with an old car like mine that just happened to be passing through our town. Probably quite a bit actually since we're right along a major thoroughfare for travelers and tourists.
My personal experiences have been the same with the exception of Chicago (I hear Maryland is pretty bad for personal rights too). Barney Fife with his six shooter made me infinitely more nervous than the state trooper pulling me over for speeding. I knew I'd get a ticket from the trooper but I'd be going home when it was over.
I think it has something to do with there being more real crimes to catch in big cities versus small towns. I grew up in a town that had maybe one murder every couple years and moved to the city (literally 10 miles away) where there's murders daily. Yea, the cops bullshit way less in the city. They've seen some shit.
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[–] RedLeader 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
I'm calling bullshit.
[–] Broc_Lia 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
Sort of. They can pull you over for reasonable suspicion, but they don't have to tell you what it is. The problem with this is that they can easily make up the reasonable suspicion afterwards if they find anything. And even if they can't... they don't really suffer any consequences.
[–] RedLeader 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
That's fucked up.
[–] macleod2486 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Not entirely bullshit. In my experience small town cops tend to be the biggest exercisers of making up bullshit to pull you over. Whereas big city cops tend to be way more professional and don't try to pull you over for made up reasons.
[–] LagunaBeachCA 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Can confirm on my end, local cops tended to pull me over over because I figure my car didn't match the wealth profile of the area, (it was an old beater and it's an upper middle class town).
They always gave a bullshit reason, "taillight was out" (when I know it wasn't) blah blah etc etc. But they let me go after asking a question or two, once they realized I was just a local they never even asked to actually see my license just whether or not I had one and then they told me to drive home safely. Questions they asked usually started with "where are you from" followed by something a local would definitely know like the name of our creek, high school, popular areas.
Happened over a dozen times in the one year I had the car, figure it only stopped because I ended up getting pulled over by everyone on the force in my town so they started to recognize my car.
Feel sorry for any guy with an old car like mine that just happened to be passing through our town. Probably quite a bit actually since we're right along a major thoroughfare for travelers and tourists.
[–] Mister_b 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
My personal experiences have been the same with the exception of Chicago (I hear Maryland is pretty bad for personal rights too). Barney Fife with his six shooter made me infinitely more nervous than the state trooper pulling me over for speeding. I knew I'd get a ticket from the trooper but I'd be going home when it was over.
[–] 4907508? ago
I think it has something to do with there being more real crimes to catch in big cities versus small towns. I grew up in a town that had maybe one murder every couple years and moved to the city (literally 10 miles away) where there's murders daily. Yea, the cops bullshit way less in the city. They've seen some shit.