PO'd at police

[MossRoad]

I know that we all fail to know and/or understand the details and workings of professions other than our own, but you'd be hard pressed to find more misinformation and mistaken beliefs about law enforcement anywhere in the world than in this thread. Unbelievable!

Are you saying most cops are not ticket quota collection machines? :laughing:

Around here you are hard pressed to find a cop that has time to pull anyone over for minor infractions.

The only times I have been pulled over by cops, I deserved it! :thumbsup:
Speeding. No ticket.
Speeding. 5 over. $20.00 ticket. I rolled my eyes at that one and payed it.
Speeding. No ticket.
Unkown speed (that was a good one). I was shutting down from a sub 120mph blast and the cops radar went wacky! He kept asking me if I knew how fast I was going and I kept saying no. He said he got me at 60 in a 40 and I smiled and said O.K. :laughing:
Headlight out. No ticket.
Improper display of license plate (back window of pickup truck). No ticket.
Speeding. No ticket.
No turn on red. No ticket.
Weaving. No ticket.
Running a red light (it was a close one. Wife was extremely pregnant and slamming brakes would have hurt her). No ticket.
No turn on red. No ticket. (that cop WAS a jerk, but I DID make the illegal turn).
Brake light out. No ticket.
Probably a couple more.

Point is.... I deserved to get the tickets I got and probably should have gotten more. I didn't whine about them, even the trivial one for 5 over because I deserved it.
Man up folks! :confused3:

 

[two_bit_score]

That's pretty much what the cop did... he could take his proof of insurance in with the ticket and it would have been nullified.

No, not really. The OP has to go to a lot of extra trouble waiting until the court gets the tcket and then setting up a time to go there and going through the 'process'. It's a big hassel for the OP and could have been handled as a warning ticket or as I said by the cop holding the ticket until a certian time to allow the OP to get his current card and provide it.

The cop took the routine way to handle it and make it as difficult on the OP as he could without going out of his way. Impounding the car and telling the OP to get a ride, if allowed in that state, would have ben too time consuming on the cop's part, probably.

Again, all could have been avoided if the OP had the card like he should have.

The cop could have cut him some slack and it would have been perfectly permissable. Why he didn't we can just guess.

 

[two_bit_score]

Are you saying most cops are not ticket quota collection machines? :laughing:

Around here you are hard pressed to find a cop that has time to pull anyone over for minor infractions.

The only times I have been pulled over by cops, I deserved it! :thumbsup:
Speeding. No ticket.
Speeding. 5 over. $20.00 ticket. I rolled my eyes at that one and payed it.
Speeding. No ticket.
Unkown speed (that was a good one). I was shutting down from a sub 120mph blast and the cops radar went wacky! He kept asking me if I knew how fast I was going and I kept saying no. He said he got me at 60 in a 40 and I smiled and said O.K. :laughing:
Headlight out. No ticket.
Improper display of license plate (back window of pickup truck). No ticket.
Speeding. No ticket.
No turn on red. No ticket.
Weaving. No ticket.
Running a red light (it was a close one. Wife was extremely pregnant and slamming brakes would have hurt her). No ticket.
No turn on red. No ticket. (that cop WAS a jerk, but I DID make the illegal turn).
Brake light out. No ticket.
Probably a couple more.

Point is.... I deserved to get the tickets I got and probably should have gotten more. I didn't whine about them, even the trivial one for 5 over because I deserved it.
Man up folks! :confused3:

Kinda sounds like what some people say when talking about children being 'corrected'..........I got 'whippings' when I was a kid but deserved them all............and they never hurt anyway..........and they never found out about ALL the stuff I did.

 

[Taylortractornut]

I drive a company truck and The seat belt is the same color of my coverall's I ve been pulled over a few times for no belt more or less they dont check y insurance. I got checked the other day by Barney Fife. He was new and had never seen a Fleet Vehicle Insurance Card. He was asking about the reason it didnt have any expiration date. I tried to explain I had to take a day off and go to the court house to take care of it. What made me hot was when I asked the officer to call the 24hour number for the card. he said they were probably closed. It really irked me to have to sit there for 45 minutes after a long day out in the sun.

 

[CinderSchnauzer]

At 144 posts and climbing, a good portion of this thread has turned into a window on what is wrong with much of society today.

Few people, it seems, are willing to take responsibility for their own actions!

Many are always be looking for someone else to blame for something over which they alone had complete control?

The cop shoulda, the cop coulda, why didn't he? Poor me!!

PO'd - you were the one driving with no seat belt and no proof of insurance - not the cop. There are lots of laws we may not agree with - doesn't mean we can ignore them with no consequence. Pay your fine - take the time off work that's necessary - learn a lesson - quit whining!!!!!!!!!

 

[dave1949]

I know that we all fail to know and/or understand the details and workings of professions other than our own, but you'd be hard pressed to find more misinformation and mistaken beliefs about law enforcement anywhere in the world than in this thread. Unbelievable!

Why would that be true Bird? I am not questioning your experience, but if misinformation is so common, how does that come to be?

With the probable exception of MossRoad, who seems to have regular contact with the traffic police , most of us don't. The few times we have contact with the traffic police, it is hard not to feel like we are at a distinct disadvantage. I don't think that bothers policemen in general. I think most people can sense that and they do resent it.

I once received a bogus speeding ticket. Nothing I could say made a whit of difference to the LEO. In Maine, that is as good as judged guilty, there is no recourse other than trying show the radar gun wasn't calibrated or some such thing. I was stopped once for a burnt out headlight, the LEO asked why I wasn't wearing my seatbelt. I told him it had been a very long day and I just didn't have on. I could have lied and said I just took it off to get my registration when out when I pulled over. He could not have proved otherwise. In actuality, I think he was just getting me to admit it wasn't on. So I incriminate myself and pay the ticket for the seatbelt. Honesty was no part of that from the LEO. I must have had 'sucker' stamped on my forehead that evening.

These things are not the end of the world, but they do accumulate into an attitude of mistrust and possibly dislike. It's easy for me to conclude the LEO is there to pass out tickets, not make driving safer.
Dave.

 

[two_bit_score]

I know that we all fail to know and/or understand the details and workings of professions other than our own, but you'd be hard pressed to find more misinformation and mistaken beliefs about law enforcement anywhere in the world than in this thread. Unbelievable!

That's a broad brush you use there, Bird. Are you sure it's not seen through 'rose colored glasses'?

 

[CCWKen]

I may not be the sharpest barb on the wire but I do know this; if you don't break the law, you won't have a problem with police. Most state laws say you have to carry current proof of insurance. My company sends me three copies--One for the wallet, one for the vehicle and a spare. They're also readily available online. And they come about a month or two in advance of renewal! If you (the OP) don't have time to update your paper work, why should it be the fault of the officer? His task is to finish the contact as soon as possible and get back to work. It's not his job to verify your insurance. It's YOUR job.

As a side note: Texas just started linking insurance to vehicle tags. They can tell in a second if the vehicle is covered. All they have to do is key-in the tag number. Which they do quite frequenly just sitting in traffic not just at contact stops.

 

[MossRoad]

With the probable exception of MossRoad, who seems to have regular contact with the traffic police , most of us don't.

That fine resume' took 32 years to accumulate. :thumbsup:

 

[MossRoad]

As a side note: Texas just started linking insurance to vehicle tags. They can tell in a second if the vehicle is covered. All they have to do is key-in the tag number. Which they do quite frequenly just sitting in traffic not just at contact stops.

Speaking of license plates... have you seen these cameras that are mounted to a vehicle, and the vehicle drives up and down the rows in the mall parking lots and it reads the plates and passes it through a database to find cars that haven't been plated, insured, safety inspected, or reported stolen, etc....? I can't remember where I read about them, but man, you better have your i's dotted and t's crossed!