clubsoda22
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i've never had any real problems with LEOs. But, the one time I got pulled over, the officer (campus cop) gave me crap for having a radar detector before spending almost half an hour writing the warning that he gave me because he didn't really know how fast I was going.
I'm glad that the campus safety officers at my college have no police powers because those guys hate me. I think they're just bitter that the volunteer firefighters get to have lights on their cars too as it tends to be the bulk of their complaints about me...also the attitude i gave them when they decided to search my dorm room for guns at 2:30am after i was overheared by one rent-a-cop making a pro-concealed carry statement after a string of violent muggings on campus. They drive around in their Chevy Impalas (those new V6 ones that put shame to the name) with amber lightbars and try to look as badass as humanly possible
They do, on occasion, pull people over when they have city cops riding along with them (sometimes city cops are around campus due to the high crime rate). It goes without question what i'd do if I saw their amber lights flashing in my rearview mirrior. Stop, put on the flashers, wait for them to put it in park and leave them watching my tail lights dissapear into the distance as I sped off. They would have a very hard time catching my car. No laws were violated as you do not have to yeild to utility vehicles (amber lights representing utilities). Even if there was a cop with him, as he did not identify himself, i'm golden. If they want to give me trouble about it when I get back, sorry officer, thought you were a tow truck.
Unfortunately these guys have a good working relationship with the city cops so i am pulled over and harassed by them often enough. They basically just pull me over for something inane then give me a verbal warning.
At one point i was confronted by a plain clothes detective as i was getting out of my car at half past midnight. He failed to identify himself and started giving me crap. He was one wrong move from getting a healthy dose of mace when he decided he had enough of my attitude and stormed off. I was being a real prick to this guy as i had no idea who he was and was being confronted in a dark parking lot in a bad neighborhood in the middle of the night and he was giving me crap. Basically, i was unappreciative. Later found out he was an undercover detective assigned to the campus. Got pulled over 3 times that week.
As you can guess, my attitude about cops is pretty poor. I'm friends with a lot of cops, but from my experiances, cops generally have to proove to me their not jerks through their actions. From my experiances, i've been dicked around more often than not at traffic stops and assume when i am pulled over that i'm about to get dicked around. This doesn't mean, however, that i don't put on me best "hello can i help you officer?" and play the game. I'm always polite at a traffic stop, but am also fairly hardcore about my rights and know them fully. I do not allow searches of my car and I make sure the officer keeps with the issue at hand. If an officer pulls me over because he says i was speeding, i'll flat out tell most officers that where i am coming from, where i'm going and what's in my trunk is not the issue if they ask. This is especially true if the officer is confrontational. I also will intentionally avoid sobriety checkpoints by turning onto a side street if i see one ahead. This usually results in getting pulled over, but as I see it, avoiding a dragnet is a piss poor reason to be stopped and i'll make sure it is known that i feel that way when stopped. I will not consent to feild sobriety checks if there is no probably cause, and avoiding a checkpoint is not probable cause. The way i look at it, the cop has as much right to make you walk the line if you weren't doing anything wrong as he does to make you get out of your car and do a dance.