Your worst experience with police?

Had a car with expired tags. Was parked at a high school lot and running on the track. Finished my run and started driving home. Got pulled over. Officer gave me a ticket for the tags. Fair enough. Was a broke ass college student. Drove home and borrowed money and paid for the registration. Next day the same cop is in my driveway and taking off my license plates. Did not confront him. A few days later I get a notice in the mail stating I have been fined for no registration and no insurance. What? He saw my insurance papers. Went to court. Judge asks me about the registration and I said I took care of it. Asks me about the insurance and I produced my papers. He looks at the cop and says: This man had insurance. Why did you ticket him for that? Cop gets all nervous and said the DMV said he had no insurance. Judge shook his head and said wrong. Cop looks at me with disdain for whatever reason. I leave court and get in my car and the cop follows me for several miles. I had to make several lefts and rights to get back to my residence so I know this cop isn't just happening to be on the same route to get to his destination. I make the final turn to my neighborhood and he goes in another direction.

I have the utmost respect for police and work closely with them inre my profession. Certainly not the worst thing ever but what has happened to you?

My 2 only run ins with the law:
Got my first speeding ticket in my Roush 36 hours after I got it; doing 20 over, in a targeted enforcement area, in a bright blue and white mustang. Keep in mind I was 19, dumbass teenager, and the car had temporary tags on it. Cop wasn’t a dick or anything. I got the ticket and went back to work, which I was already running late from. That’s the reason why I was speeding. That was on a Monday. The following Thursday I got pulled over for driving a two tone maroon and gold Silverado. Apparently some kid in my town was driving one with no license. And yes I thought it was me for a second, do to the earlier ticket. Thank God it wasn’t. I already got an ear chewing from my mother earlier that week, and I thought she was going to kill me. Needless to say I became very paranoid when I when I got in a car after that.


Pick your poison.

Pardon my ignorance, but why in the hell was he snatching your plates, especially if the vehicle was parked on private property?

I've actually never had a bad experience with the police, true story. Unless you count my brother. He's a retired Phoenix cop and I've had plenty of run ins with him.

Blade Runner said:

Pardon my ignorance, but why in the hell was he snatching your plates, especially if the vehicle was parked on private property?

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My guess is because he "thought" the car was not insured. When you have no insurance you are supposed to send your plates in. Never got the full story on that.

Recon said:

My 2 only run ins with the law:
Got my first speeding ticket in my Roush 36 hours after I got it; doing 20 over, in a targeted enforcement area, in a bright blue and white mustang. Keep in mind I was 19, dumbass teenager, and the car had temporary tags on it. Cop wasn’t a dick or anything. I got the ticket and went back to work, which I was already running late from. That’s the reason why I was speeding. That was on a Monday. The following Thursday I got pulled over for driving a two tone maroon and gold Silverado. Apparently some kid in my town was driving one with no license. And yes I thought it was me for a second, do to the earlier ticket. Thank God it wasn’t. I already got an ear chewing from my mother earlier that week, and I thought she was going to kill me. Needless to say I became very paranoid when I when I got in a car after that.


Pick your poison.

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I got my first speeding ticket from the state police in Nevada after I got my Shelby. Was doing 85. Cop was very professional and cool and asked why I was speeding. I told him the truth. I had just bolted on some new lower control arms and was testing how they reacted at different speeds. He said if you tell that to the judge he might take that into consideration. Thank God he hadn't caught me a mile earlier when I was in triple digits.

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Thank God I never had to go through that!

I've had several less than pleasant experiences, but the one that stands out was when I was written a ticket for causing an accident that wasn't my fault.

I was 16 years old driving my first mustang, a black, 88 GT. Double left turn lane, I was in the inside lane. I'm coming up to the light, it's red, and there's a mini van at the light already in the outside lane. Light turns green while I'm still moving at a decent clip. I make my turn on the inside lane like any other time, not blazing fast or anything. The mini van came over into my lane, and hit me in the right rear quarter panel, broke the tail light housing, and sent some shards of glass into the outside lane. The pieces were in that lane because the tangential velocity would've carried the pieces out there when they broke off. That's basic physics, and in most cases, accident reconstruction 101. Nevermind the fact that the traffic that passed by while we were waiting could've easily moved the pieces. Anyhow, cop said that since they found pieces of my car in the other lane, that proved it was my fault. Uhhh....what?! I about lost my shit, but didn't say anything. What was I going to say, as a 16 year old driving a muscle car, that would change their mind?

You can imagine what that did to my insurance rates for the next several years, as if they weren't high enough already.

@03Sssnake you have yet to have your worst experience with police, but once I pull up next to that Camaro, you will. Lol

TK1299 said:

@03Sssnake you have yet to have your worst experience with police, but once I pull up next to that Camaro, you will. Lol

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lol
And by the way @TK1299 Metro in Vegas did away with the DARE program in the elementary schools due to them needing more cops on the street. I get it. Don't like it though. Does your Metro have a DARE program for the schools?

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And by the way @TK1299 Metro in Vegas did away with the DARE program in the elementary schools due to them needing more cops on the street. I get it. Don't like it though. Does your Metro have a DARE program for the schools?

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No, that program has pretty much faded around where I live. We have school resource officers who are assigned to a specific school or multiple schools. But for the most part, school districts in and around Houston have thier own police departments. For example:Houston ISD (Independent School District) police, Cy Fair ISD police, etc... They only deal with school related incidents and are completely separate agencies.

TK1299 said:

@03Sssnake you have yet to have your worst experience with police, but once I pull up next to that Camaro, you will. Lol

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You must be high on that Dutch ditch weed

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Lmao!! ^^

Good stuff


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TK1299 said:

No, that program has pretty much faded around where I live. We have school resource officers who are assigned to a specific school or multiple schools. But for the most part, school districts in and around Houston have thier own police departments. For example:Houston ISD (Independent SchoolmDustrict) police, Cy Fair ISD police, etc... They only deal with school related incidents and are completely separate agencies.

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Our school police are woefully understaffed. We have roughly 140 school cops serving a population of 322,000 students. Most of the time when we call them they can't come because they are understaffed. Scary, sad, but understood. I miss the DARE program, though. The cops loved coming to the schools and the kids loved the instruction.

VegasMichael said:

Our school police are woefully understaffed. We have roughly 140 school cops serving a population of 322,000 students. Most of the time when we call them they can't come because they are understaffed. Scary, sad, but understood. I miss the DARE program, though. The cops loved coming to the schools and the kids loved the instruction.

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It's sad how the role of police in school has changed. Instead of mentoring and building a mutual trust, they have to deal with smart mouthed, defiant booger eaters who have zero respect. On the flip side, police don't try and bridge the gap that's been created between the student and officer either.
Not nearly enough attention and resources are put toward our school system, in any capacity, except football stadiums.

I was pulled over for driving thr wrong way on a one way.

Fair.

Then the officer smelled alcohol (not me, my passenger / artist / client had been bar hopping, and I was the DD). My truck smelled like a bourbon barrel.

I was asked 20 questions, then told to drive my truck. I had to turn around and drive several blocks to an empty parking lot. Then the fun began.

This 16 week rookie asked me to do a field sobriety test (in cowboy boots) that was fun. Then he decided that I needed a breathalyzer. Not a problem, except that this was not an officer certified to do a DUI sobriety test.

I got the opportunity to ride in the back of a Charger.

In GA there are multiple forms of DUI. One of those just happens to be DUI Less Safe. Basically, the officer assumes you are intoxicated.

There is a lot to this story. The moral though; I do not give anyone that has been drinking a ride for any reason now. I will call you a cab.

It took me five years of arguing, and the DA continuing the case for everything to be resolved.

Due to the long waste of the angry judge's time, I had the opportunity to get a ticket for reckless driving / wrong way on a one way.

...and the judge thought it would be nice for me to attend driving classes.

Did I mention that the judge was irritated?

The you man that pulled me over that night is now a friend of mine. I didn't hold a grudge. He did get lucky in pulling me over though. I had to show him where my weapons were concealed on my body. One of which was a full frame G22 Glock. There was a knife on me, a shotgun and AR under the back seat of the truck (had been shooting with my brothers). He could have been in a bad situation if someone different had been pulled over.

I will never forget that 2am traffic stop.

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