And how many fucks do you give when that happens?

12/31/2012 6:31:45 PM

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"Is this considered a concealed weapon? (assuming I'm in the drivers' seat)"

In Texas (where you have to have your weapon concealed if it is in your car) this would not be considered concealed. I had my gun in the map holder on my drivers side door and when I was pulled over I got a lecture because the cop said if he was looking in the passenger window he might be able to see part of the handle sticking out. Now in NC, if you are trying to keep it in the open I would not consider that in the open at all.

12/31/2012 6:43:33 PM

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"If X is the normal amount of cops working on a given night, how much is the number of cops on New Years Eve?"

Depends on the City; for example, NYC would need officers to man times square but also have regular rank and file taking calls for service. In the city I use to work in, it was just another night.

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"How often are you corrected on a law by a citizen when you try to enforce something you've been misinformed about?"

Not sure it has ever happened; I also try to make it a point to know what I'm talking about.

12/31/2012 9:22:00 PM

bump

1/14/2013 7:51:28 PM

^wish I had one

1/14/2013 7:54:18 PM

So get this. Saturday night...or really Sunday morning...around 1:30 am...I'm driving home from my friends house. Sober. I am in a 35 mph speed limit zone. So that I don't give a cop a reason to pull me over I set my cruise control.
I am driving down the road and see a cop going in the other direction...and just like habit I check my speedometer. I am going around 35 or 36. As soon as I look up from my speedometer and check my rear view mirror there are blue lights behind me...

I pull over the cop says. "Do you know how fast you were going?"
Me: "35"
Her: "I clocked you at 45"
Me: "Do what? I had my cruise control on 35?"
Her: "Oh...can I see your license please?"

She then calls it in, doesn't go back to her car or anything...just calls it in right beside me and then sends me on my way.

She just though she was going to get a drunk driver...didn't she?

1/14/2013 8:27:26 PM

She saw what you did during that hurricane that one time.


She knew.

1/14/2013 8:56:09 PM

^^ and here's a follow up to that scenario...

say she had been drinking that evening, and ended up blowing over .08, would the whole thing get thrown out due to the lousy pretext for the stop in the first place?

but i guess if she did get arrested for DUI, then the reason for the stop would have been "suspicion of DUI" and not speeding

1/14/2013 9:03:54 PM

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" She just though she was going to get a drunk driver...didn't she?"

While I strive to be, I'm not clairvoyant.

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"say she had been drinking that evening, and ended up blowing over .08, would the whole thing get thrown out due to the lousy pretext for the stop in the first place?"

See above.

1/14/2013 9:14:40 PM

If you're going downhill you could be doing 45 in a 35

1/14/2013 9:17:37 PM

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"So that I don't give a cop a reason to pull me over I set my cruise control"

?_?

[Edited on January 14, 2013 at 9:22 PM. Reason : use your foot]

1/14/2013 9:22:19 PM

if i force myself on a prostitute, would i be charged with rape or shoplifting?

1/15/2013 1:41:37 PM

Was there carnal knowledge?

1/16/2013 6:00:17 PM

(of a lady this time)

1/16/2013 10:01:05 PM

so what if I was in line at the gas station and the guy in front pulls a gun on the cashier

if I pulled my carry and yelled "PLEASE! DROP YOUR WEAPON NOW!" would I get in trouble for impersonating?

[Edited on January 16, 2013 at 10:54 PM. Reason : serious question]

1/16/2013 10:49:28 PM

What is the most seemingly harmless interaction you have ever been in, that turned in to something potentially dangerous?

1/16/2013 11:52:16 PM

I've got some obvious drug dealers across the street. What is the best way to notify authorities to get them busted and out of my fucking neighborhood...while also not getting myself implicated?

[A neighbor has already notified the "regular cops" once...and all they did was come by and knock on the door to "check on things"]

1/17/2013 7:57:16 AM

get it on video and take it to the narc squad?

/law&order

1/17/2013 8:27:19 AM

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"if I pulled my carry and yelled "PLEASE! DROP YOUR WEAPON NOW!" would I get in trouble for impersonating?"

Why waste your breath?

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"What is the most seemingly harmless interaction you have ever been in, that turned in to something potentially dangerous?"

Stopped to help a disable motorist and got sliced in the hand with a razor. During one of my last days on patrol, I stopped to talk to man walking down the street early in the morning; he ended up having a sawed-off shotgun in his jacket.

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"I've got some obvious drug dealers across the street. What is the best way to notify authorities to get them busted and out of my fucking neighborhood...while also not getting myself implicated?"

Crimestoppers or get the number for the supervisor of the narc unit.

1/17/2013 6:24:30 PM

Bump

1/20/2013 4:43:24 PM

Tell us about that time you had to frisk a pre-op tranny

1/20/2013 4:44:54 PM

Does it annoy when you're driving behind someone and they drop down to the exact speed limit (or 5 under)

1/20/2013 4:52:32 PM

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"Yes. It also makes me look like I'm going real fast because people slow down to @ or under the speed limit and I'm going to go at least 6-7 over regardless"

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"15 is pretty much the norm cops will start pulling you for. I rarely making a speeding stop."

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"Don't really remember but being pulled over for 1+ is retarded (unless its pretextual) but yeah if you hold paper on that - thats crap."

1/20/2013 4:55:40 PM

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"Tell us about that time you had to frisk a pre-op tranny"

Was that the one that Hodge was with at the IHOP on Hillsborough?

1/20/2013 5:08:06 PM

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"I've got some obvious drug dealers across the street. What is the best way to notify authorities to get them busted and out of my fucking neighborhood...while also not getting myself implicated?"

Are they hurting anyone? Bring unsavory type characters around? Any property damage/theft thus far? What drug do you think they're selling?

1/20/2013 5:26:33 PM

Keep in mind in court a police officer has to be able to testify that you were exceeding the speed limit by using his or her judgment, not the gun. The radar is merely a corroborating tool. If you are going almost exactly the limit, an officer is not going to be able to testify in court that they can discern speeding that closely.

I won't go into all the particulars, but if you actually have received a ticket for going only slightly over the limit, you can research the NC case law yourself or your lawyer will be able to do it.

1/20/2013 8:11:19 PM

That case law - if its the recent decision - attacked the training of the officer; he basically couldn't recall how many feet were in a yard, and basic units of measure so the court ruled there was not way he could estimate speed if he was such a dolt. About the same time, another case came out about estimated speed and the officer(s) were good to go.

I'll try to find it later.

1/20/2013 10:15:22 PM

Bored.

1/25/2013 11:16:18 PM

have you ever arested anyone at their house for public intoxication?

1/25/2013 11:28:22 PM

I'm not going to ask you any questions because you are not judges

1/25/2013 11:28:44 PM

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"have you ever arested anyone at their house for public intoxication?"

No; it would be unlawful.

1/25/2013 11:42:20 PM

What's up with "Drunk and disorderly conduct," then?

I'm thinking of a particular instance in which I was riding in the car, and we got in a yelling match with some women in another car, and I very loudly (i.e. screamingly) called them a bunch of "Stupid fucking cunts." We pulled into McDonald's right after that, and while we were in the parking lot this cop walks up to our car, shines a flashlight in my face and says "Give me one reason I shouldn't take you to jail for drunk and disorderly conduct."

Could he have done this?

[Edited on January 25, 2013 at 11:49 PM. Reason : I'm assuming so, but it would be interesting to hear the particulars.]

1/25/2013 11:48:15 PM

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"§ 14-444. Intoxicated and disruptive in public. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person in a public place to be intoxicated and disruptive in any of the following ways: (1) Blocking or otherwise interfering with traffic on a highway or public vehicular area, or (2) Blocking or lying across or otherwise preventing or interfering with access to or passage across a sidewalk or entrance to a building, or (3) Grabbing, shoving, pushing or fighting others or challenging others to fight, or (4) Cursing or shouting at or otherwise rudely insulting others, or (5) Begging for money or other property."

1/26/2013 1:20:16 PM

What if I was stone sober and very loudly (i.e. screamingly) called them a bunch of "Stupid fucking cunts?" I mean, what if they were actually being stupid fucking cunts and I decided to clue them in on it? If that's not an arrestable offense, would the difference be only that I happened to have some liq'r in me at the time?

1/26/2013 1:38:33 PM

^this

1/26/2013 1:51:41 PM

"intoxicated and..."

1/26/2013 1:52:04 PM

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"§ 14-288.4. Disorderly conduct. (a) Disorderly conduct is a public disturbance intentionally caused by any person who does any of the following: (1) Engages in fighting or other violent conduct or in conduct creating the threat of imminent fighting or other violence. (2) Makes or uses any utterance, gesture, display or abusive language which is intended and plainly likely to provoke violent retaliation and thereby cause a breach of the peace."

1/26/2013 5:45:27 PM

What if they started it with their cuntiness? Why is it illegal to call a woman a bitch in public, yet they are allowed to be a bitch in public? Beating them in the head for being a bitch would be preventative and generally appreciated by the public.

1/26/2013 6:10:39 PM

I convicted a guy in court a few months ago of basically cussing at a woman loudly outside the entrance to Wal-Mart. He had some sort of argument with his girlfriend, the cops showed up, and when they took him into custody he was still yelling and cussing. People were going in and out of the store, and the only thing I could get him for was disorderly conduct.

So, yeah, cussing in public can get you.

1/26/2013 6:19:04 PM

Bump

2/13/2013 6:51:06 PM

Hows the new job?

2/13/2013 7:28:01 PM

What life saving procedures, accreditations do you possess?

2/13/2013 7:34:46 PM

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"Hows the new job?"

Excellent; its a complete 180 from what I was doing. But this comes with more stable work hours and complex cases. However, I do ship up for 12 weeks of training on Sunday .

Quote :

"What life saving procedures, accreditations do you possess?"

CPR is the only life saving certification I currently possess.

2/14/2013 6:47:40 AM

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"more stable work hours"

NEWS TO ME

2/14/2013 8:43:06 AM

what are your opinions on the LAPD cop stuff

2/14/2013 8:55:00 AM

what are you doing now ?

I kinda wish i was a detective sometimes... this engineering junk is for the birds.
lol


i watch too much tv.

2/14/2013 9:28:58 AM

do you get assigned when / where to set up speed traps or do you just drive around and say "well, that looks like a good place to hide and catch speeders"?

[Edited on February 14, 2013 at 4:03 PM. Reason : ]

2/14/2013 4:02:54 PM

Is Dorner still dead?

2/14/2013 4:14:15 PM

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"NEWS TO ME"

I miss you boo

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"what are your opinions on the LAPD cop stuff"

Couldn't begin to comprehend it all from the LAPD perspective.

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"what are you doing now ?"

Investigations for the State

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"do you get assigned when / where to set up speed traps or do you just drive around and say "well, that looks like a good place to hide and catch speeders"?"

I'm out of that racket but still stop cars when I'm feeling it. When I was beat cop, I just would go wherever.

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"Is Dorner still dead?"

I think so.

2/14/2013 6:10:53 PM

Why do they do this? (Legit question, or excuse to post photo? You decide.)

2/14/2013 7:19:02 PM