I just got pulled over once again by the airport police in my town (I live about 1 mile from the airport where I work). I've been pulled over by them about 7 times in the last 2 years but no tickets.
Lets see:

1 time for no rear illuminated license plate during dusk. Fixed

2 times for no mud flaps. Haven't fixed that, don't plan on it.

1 time on the east ramp (where all the small airplanes park) for looking "suspicious".. Officer asked me what I was doing out here, told him I was going flying. He asked what in? I said "an airplane" with a bit of attitude. He then had to know everything about the plane and what color my socks were.

1 time for no front license plate. Officer asked where it was. I told him somewhere between Fairbanks and Anchorage. He then said "so it fell off?" I said "I never thought of that".

1 time for not wearing a seatbelt. I like to run mine under my armpit. Officer walked up and told me why he pulled me over. I showed him the belt.

And the biggest BS time was when I came along this blazer in the ditch. I stopped to winch him out and this lady officer came along and closed off the right hand lane so I could get a better angle to winch on the blazer. Along came a brand new officer and said he was going to write me a ticket for some traffic blockage violation. He didn't even talk to the guy in the blazer I just pulled out! The lady officer told him to back off. I try to be a nice guy and I almost get a ticket from it. And they act shocked when the police call for donations and I tell them where to stick it.

I can give them 100% proof as to who robbed my house but they have no time to take care of it but can pull me over for little BS things.

Just had to rant.

 

The local cops harrass my little bro when he drives my van. I moved to ohio and haven;t change the plates yet. My dad and I are both on the title and he still live in indiana. So I have no front plate. They hate that over here mainly because they can't say anything about it..

 

...I got pulled over once cuz the cop wanted to read my my T-shirt...
Seems that he just got transfered to a new district and he wanted to update his "outlaw biker" files...
...I told him that if he showed my his I'd show him mine...
...So he wrote me a illegal helmut ticket...
...I should've charged him for the picture he took...

 

I got pulled over many moons ago when I was 16, I am 26 now, and I was doing 88 in a 65, stupid me but I got to take a drivers course for one night for like 2 hours and all I had to pay was 25 bucks so I wouldn't have to pay the ticket...

 

I just don't get it, all I hear is how underfunded they are, how about taking all the cops that sit around and pull me over when I'm doin 5 over the speed limit and have them bust murders and people who are actually doing something that deserves police attention. Maybe they'd have enough officers then.

 

I just got pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt...and received a ticket.
They used to not pull you over for just a seatbelt issue but a law just passed stateing they can now. Why do they have to give me a ticket? Why not just a warning? Yea, with all of the other serious issues out there and there ticketing me????
One of these days a cop is going to need some help from me......see if I help.

 

Why do they give you a ticket instead of a warning? How much money do they get for a warning?

 

I have found that if you are not breaking the law then you will not get pulled over. Belive it or not, traffic stops are one of the most effective ways to catch criminals. They got the Oaklahoma City bomber because he didn't have any tags on his car.

A lot of DUI/DWI/OWI arrests are made because a driver had a light out, was missing the front plate, or going just over the speed limit. Just because you are driving strait dosent mean that your reaction time will be as good as a sober driver. I dont want a drunk on the roads with me, do you?

Not to mention all the drug arrests and people that they catch that have a warrent out.

I will grant that some cops will be a bit over zelous. That is to be expected in any diverse group of people. For the most part though they are just like you and me, they have a job to do and it is a dangerous one.

Try to treat them with respect. The guy you see having the cup of coffee at the gas station may have just come from a accident where a whole familey was killed.

I am not a cop but as a First Responder I work with them a lot. After seeing what they go through it is no wonder that they have a bad day some times.

Above all if you feel the ticket is BS, dont argue with the cop, that wont get you anything but more tickets, argue it in court. Being polite will also get you out of a lot of tickets or get them reduced to lesser fines.

 

My step-sister is a Cincinnati police woman and was pulled over the other day. She wasn't doing anything wrong other than being in a little podunk town outside the city. Onece she showed the officer her badge (and uniform in the back seat) he imediatly let her go. She tried to get him to tell her why she was pulled over but he just went to his car and left. He better be glad he did, because she can be a real you know what

 

The last time i got pulled over was 1976.
I got a DWI but i wasn't drunk.
They falsified some record's an they finally got to the bottom of it. An "officer" got his butt fired an i got a settlement for being put in jail (an other stuff).
I told them where to stick their "police force"

 

About 20 years ago, I asked to be thrown in jail for being my now ex-brother in law. Seems he'd done a pretty good job of outrunning a county deputy in my mom's old 66 F-100 with a 352 in it. He ditched the truck at his mom's and the Sheriff's department called my mom about who was driving her truck. I then got an irate call from my mom about I'd better get her truck back. So me and the then missus hop in my Jeep and go over to her folk's house to get mom's truck before it gets towed.
We got there too late as my mom's truck was gone as were all the local law enforcement. So we headed back home making plans to get the F-100 from the impound lot in the morning. Suddenly we were surrounded by State Police & Sheriff's Dept Cars. The wife was driving and pulled over. As soon as we came to a stop, I was yanked out of the CJ-5, thrown to the ground and cuffed. No questions, just wham on the ground. I was hauled to my feet and leaned up against the Sheriff's car, with bright lights all in my eyes, and the Sheriff, half of his deputies and a couple of State Troopers all around me. The Sheriff starts calling me Danny (the missus's brother), cussing me up one side & down the other and telling me how my butt was his now. After a minute or two he winds down and I manage to tell him that I aint Danny. He's not buying a word of it. I get one of the deputies to pull my wallet out with 4 picture IDs and he still swears I'm Danny. At this point I'm past being PO'ed. There's a couple of deputies standing around that know me and are also trying to tell the sheriff that I'm not Danny. Finally, I just look the sheriff in the eye and invite him to throw me in jail for being Danny, as I'll end up owning half the county before I'm done with unlawful arrest & police abuse lawsuits. I mean I'm begging him to at this point. Just my luck, his head deputy that I've known since I was a kid, showed up and called me by name. That made something finally click in the Sheriff's meager mind and he realized that he had the wrong person.
The deputies uncuffed me while apologizing all over the place and the Sheriff took off. Apparently they thought the missus had went to her folks and picked her brother Danny up from where he was hiding at. He turned himself in the next morning when he realized that no one was going to hide him out. And it still cost me $50 to get my mom's F-100 out of hock with the county.

*****

 

I believe it! The police/state troopers do "license checks" in my county. I've only encountered it 1 time. The trooper asked if I had my birth certificate with me. Guess that took me off guard and I responded with something like "since I'm operating a motor vehicle, don't you mean my drivers license?" He kind of gave me a dirty look, but I showed him my permit and he let me go on my way. I wasn't trying to be a smart (you know what), it's just that is what popped into my head as a response. Found out later that they use that tactic to catch illegal immigrants. Go figure. That was a few years back, and now I know enough about where they set up that I'm able to detour and go around them.

 

Who the hell carries their birth certificate with them anyway?

 

How about when you're just a passenger and they want to see your ID. I love to tell them I don't have it. They look at you like it's impossible that you could be a passenger without a liscense.

 

I nearly got shot in Los Angeles by an LAPD Officer.

I was driving a Honda Accordian, and saw a LAPD Black & WHite behind me with light and siren. Checked speed, was below speed limit (LA Trafic of course) I figured it must have been a burnt out tail light or....

I pull over and this cop runs out with a shotgun drawn on me... Blocks off traffic, and gets me to lie prone on the (very hot) pavement. THen cuffs me and a bunch of other cops show up. Turns out someone in a similar colored accord robbed a convienience store. Now, for those of you who haven't been to LA: You cannot swing a DEAT CAT without hitting a mid-90s accord. They put me in the back, and drove me to the convienience store where the clerk was asked to ID me. I plainly heard the clerk say "No, I told you the guy who robbed me was BLACK!" Just for your information, I'm of Finnish ancestry and am white as a sheet and blonde as all hell...

The Cops were trying to get him to ID me as the robber after all the trouble they went to to "apprehend" me. Yeah, that is a great expenditure of police resources and investigative technique: Pull over the first car you see that vaguely resembles the one that the perpetrator of another race drove off in!

I guess after all their trouble, the LAPD would rather send an innocent guy to jail rather than not catch the real bad guy. It's no wonder, just look at the Rampart scandal and you'll find a police force rotten to the core.

Anyway, the convienience clerk eventaully told them I wasn't the guy who robbed them, and they let me go. I had to pay $150 for the "official police tow" of my car after I was taken into custody. Also, my CDs were removed from the car by the "bonded" driver the police department employs. They no doubt needed my copy of Counting Crows "August and Everything After" as evidence of some sort.

"Los Angeles is the rectum of society. Next time someone wants to burn it down, I'd appreciate it if they'd invite me."
--Quote: I don't remember who it's attributed to though.