Hard To Believe This Happens Here

[Bonnewagon]

Wowsers I guess I have it pretty easy here in NYC. I never get pulled over anymore. Of course now I am an old man in a station wagon instead of a young punk in a loud Firebird. But my point is that in a place like NYC you have to be pretty outrageous to attract attention. Blow a stop sign, red light, do 100mph on a side street, have no lights on at night, drive down the opposite side of a divided highway, the cops eat that stuff up as well they should. But they have better things to do than hassle us for dumb stuff. I worry more in small towns where the tickets pay the cop's salary. Too much incentive to over-reach.

 

[Dayzedandkonfuzed]

I once was pulled over in my cutlass for "suspicion of a stolen car." Just an outrageous excuse, why not a noise violation? That would be my go-to for any car with loud exhaust.


But in regard to the original post, this happened...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.th...a-to-beat-drunk-driving-charge/article535569/

 

[DRIVEN]

When I was younger I used to get pulled over ALL the time. Probably more due to what I was driving than how I was driving because I really didn't make it a habit of driving like an idiot. Sure, I got a couple speeding tickets I technically deserved but for like 5-10 over. Chicken sh*t citations in my opinion.
I can't ever remember being pulled over, ticket or not, where I wasn't asked if I'd been drinking. I actually had a cop tell me once that sober people don't wreck cars. Really?
I have a real problem with check points and breathalyzers on a constitutional basis. Having to proving yourself innocent isn't how we do it here. DUI laws that say you must submit to interrogation and testing or be convicted by default are wrong. People who say, "Oh, it's fine because I've got nothing to hide." are part of the problem. I'm certainly not advocating drinking and driving but I think this is one of those areas where the general public gives up too much liberty -- because "safety".
Now, who wants to hear what I think about 2A stuff?

 

[fleming442]

sober people don't wreck cars.

Come to the DMV area during rush hour!

 

[Dayzedandkonfuzed]

Just read this, again in regard to the original post:

https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story-246931-21-.htm#246931

 

[fleming442]

The foot in the door.... ever hear how to boil a frog?

 

[Clone TIE Pilot]

Wowsers I guess I have it pretty easy here in NYC. I never get pulled over anymore. Of course now I am an old man in a station wagon instead of a young punk in a loud Firebird. But my point is that in a place like NYC you have to be pretty outrageous to attract attention. Blow a stop sign, redgue light, do 100mph on a side street, have no lights on at night, drive down the opposite side of a divided highway, the cops eat that stuff up as well they should. But they have better things to do than hassle us for dumb stuff. I worry more in small towns where the tickets pay the cop's salary. Too much incentive to over-reach.

That is because big city police departments often engage in much higher forms of corruption, abuse, and overreach than penny aunty like false traffic tickets. Back in the 20's, the Chicago PD was so corrupt and in bed with the mob, that the national guard was just barely not sent in to mop the police up. Even in NYC, the bans against owning handguns without a permit was pushed by a mobbed up politician named Sullivan so that only the cops and the Irish mop they were in league with would be the only ones armed. That way the peons and rival mobsters would be disarmed. Not to mention the ban was useful when the corrupt cops would plant guns on his political rivals. In the NYC airports, the police often illegallly arrest gun owners who stop there for connecting flights. The NY police know they are breaking Federal law but don't care.

 

[DRIVEN]

Just read this, again in regard to the original post:

https://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story-246931-21-.htm#246931

"Bill C-46 came into effect late last year, allowing police to administer tests for impaired driving without any evidence that the vehicle operator is drunk or high — a change Penticton RCMP Supt. Ted De Jager called significant. "

Without any evidence.

 

[Dayzedandkonfuzed]

This is the part I don't particularly like...

"It's not to say that we can't do that, but if we did do it, it's part of an investigation. I just won't randomly be going to a person's house and asking them to blow into an instrument."

 

[Turbolq4]

Bullshit.