Is impersonation a crime? Does undercover cops working with unmarked vichicle breaking the law?
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the uniform does not make him an officer and neither does the vehicle, they all dont have short hair either.
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Yes it's legal.\n\n"anyone they suspect" So much for innocent until proven guilty.\n\nUnfortunately the US is on a slippery slope towards a police state.
350543
Are they impersonating or just took up using your name after you stopped..
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You've written an awful lot of stuff here just to ask if the cops can pull someone over for "no reason."\n\nDoubtful.  \n\nIf the state you're writing about has a law that allows police to stop vehicles to check for current insurance (and for no other reason), then I would have to say the police can do that.  \n\nIf there's no such law in your state that allows that, it's going to be every bit as impossible to give you a good answer as Van Winkle says (and his was generally a very good answer).  You don't have anywhere near all the facts, so there's no way you can present them to anyone to get a decent answer.  \n\nAs for all the other stuff you wrote, did you have a question about it?  I see plenty of answers, but you never asked any questions.\n\nDon't get overly excited when you read people's answers here talking about search and seizure issues because based on what you wrote here, I doubt there are any.  \n\nPost more if you want to know more.\n\nEDIT 6.11.06:\n\nWow!\n\nOkay, let's see what we can do here.\n\nNeed to know what state you're in.  Sorry I didn't mention that before, I should have.  States have different laws, and the very best answer will come to you from someone who knows that State's law on these issues.  However, these are mostly constitutional questions, so I can probably give you some decent answers (because the Constitution applies in all states).\n\n1.  Generally, yes.  If it's stolen, it's contraband, and nobody has the right to possess contraband.  It would be like trying to argue that the police couldn't take your heroin without a warrant or consent...they can, because it's contraband.  NOTE: this is only as to the seizure of the item, not the search.  \n\n2.  Almost impossible to answer.  Really, none of these questions are all that "answerable," without knowing exactly what the facts were.  There are times when the police can enter uninvited and without a warrant, and there are times they cannot.  I wish I could go into this more with you, but you're talking about hours and hours of search and seizure law here, to be able to cover all the possibilities.\n\n3.  Your family can always file a complaint with the officer's employer.  I have no idea what the outcome of that could be, of course.\n\n4.  I don't know how you know "for sure" some of the property wasn't stolen, so it's difficult to address this.  Assuming you really do know the status of the property you're referring to, you should contact the law enforcement agency that seized the property and give them a statement as to the status of the property.  Do not waste your time by telling them things like, "it's my brother's, and my brother would never steal anything" or, "the neighbor gave it to my brother last year and my neighbor wouldn't have stolen it" because you just don't know those things to be 100% factual.  Perfectly innocent people can sometimes trade or give away stolen property without knowing it, but it doesn't mean the property isn't every bit as stolen.\n\nYou've repeatedly said that you stay out of the drama (wise decision, by the way), so I'm guessing that you really don't have all the facts.  If you weren't there at the time all this happened, you really aren't in a good position to know all the intimate details for certain, and it's the details that can really make a difference.  \n\nI don't know for sure that it's working, but if you'd like you're welcome to click on my avatar-thingy up there and contact me for some more discussion on this issue.  It's probably about to be beaten to death here, and I admire the reasonable tone of your questions.
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No, not unless they actually investigate the reports to see which ones are unfounded and which ones are legit. I've been reporting, I think one guy, who's been impersonating at least three or four people. How would Yahoo know anything about it unless someone tells them? With your way, even the person being impersonated would lose points for reporting it. Stuff like that shouldn't happen. If Yahoo investigated these reports, there wouldn't be a problem, so we wouldn't need a plan. The whole reason reporting gets out of hand is because the offenders know Yahoo isn't investigating reports, so they can get away with it.
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profiling is a technique that you would not know he was using unless you saw his planing possess and it is legal.\n\nWhat he is doing (I can only assume due to lack of information) is following you around based on (you assume) your race or the like.\n\nYou can do any of the following\n\nCall up the city mayors office\nCall up the police office \nCall your local Representative\n\nComplaining to any of these people will not do any good but it will cause the officer some hassle because he will have to present his patrolling pattern to someone but then he will be back on duty.
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"Investigators found the man, who told officers he had bought a fake Social Security card at a flea market, according to a police report. He was not arrested." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060616/ap_o...\n\nI guess it is not illegal for illegal immigrants. Americans go to prison for this. They get to walk away.
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its not illegal, by British law but it would be taken as a threat to who ever you were doing it to, again its not an arrestable offense, but not a very clever one, especially if your in the wrong sort of place and why would you want to do that anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It requires the defendant to show that, but for the actions of the authorities, he would not have broken the law.  \n\nFor example, say he is charged with receiving stolen goods.   The police set up a sting operation at a parking garage, and when he came to get his own car, they gave him one that appeared to be the one he had left with them earlier, but was in fact a stolen car.  That would be a definite case of entrapment, because it's a logical conclusion that if they had brought a different color, make, or model, he'd have known and refused delivery. \n\nJust because the police hired the fifteen year old to try to get into a bar with her own ID showing she was fifteen doesn't mean he was entrapped when he lets her in.   It's a logical inference that any other fifteen year old would have been admitted, and the fact that this particular one was already willing to be a witness doesn't alter the defendant's behavior. \n\nThey have to show that the police conduct was actually responsible for the crime.
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This is extremely unlikely unless you are in the bootlegger's house when they are there to arrest him.  Copyright infringement is not high on the list of priorities for police services, despite those dire FBI warnings on movies and such.
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Technically, it's NOT ILLEGAL, but...\n\nWhy tempt fate?  If you were to have it on you and you were detained for any reason, it would make you look awfully suspicious.\n\n\nGood Luck.
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If the Officer was driving around in his vehicle it would be illegal. The officer is subject to the same laws as we are not to mention that this is dangerous for anyone else on the road. However if he is parked offside the road of course he can have his lights off while radaring people. \nIt is not entrapment the Officers lights off is not forcing you to speed. I'm sure if he had is headlights on and was offside the road alot of people would still speed by.
710802
Call the police and press charges for theft and impersonation.
987025
Not against the law...but against morality.\nYou are using someone else's account..
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Yes, it is impersonating someone
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It depends on the state, but it is usually a misdemeanor.  I've included a couple of definition links below.\n\nEDIT: I see the previous poster has taken a fancy to copying my links....
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I wouldnt know... I havent seen anyone with a soldier's face running around here yet... though I dont spend that much time here anymore so if I did have an impostor its probably skuling around here somewhere without my knowledge.\n\nRegardless of who or what they impostor, I dont give them much thought for the simple reason that you can copy a man's (or lady's) face... but you can never copy that person's character.\n\nIf you know yourself... then no impostor can ever bother you.