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[Mainerunr]

Originally Posted by Onikage954RR

The driver's behavior made him suspicious? Man that's a crock.

The cops can screw with you any way they see fit and make it look ok on the reports. I went on a ride-a-long to see if I wanted be a cop. The office got a call from an informant that her live-in boyfriend just got some crack he was going to distribute. He knew the dealer, and had busted him before. We went to the apartment, he wasn't there, but on the way out he saw the dealer's vehicle at an intersection. He intercepted the vehicle, arrested the driver and passenger (they had 3 crack rocks on them) and ran them in. On his report, he wrote that he pulled over the vehicle for failure to use it's blinker at the intersection and searched the suspects because they were acting suspiciously. Never mentioned being tipped off or hunting down that specific dealer.

In this situation the cop got the dealer. But he lied about how he did it. Now if he can and will lie about doing his job legally (and with a positive result) what's to stop him from doing it illegally? What's to stop him from searching your vehicle just because he feels like it? If you have nothing illegal you should be ok sure, but it's still abuse of power/position. US citizens have the right not to be treated as criminals until they are proven to be criminals.

and I'm sure anyone who was doing nothing wrong would have filed a complaint however, that does not appear to have happened. I'm sure there was more to this story than made the paper, there typically is. newspapers, etc tend to leave out important details, sometimes on purpose depending on what axe they have to grind that particular day.