What can a ticked off cop do to me?
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Hypothetically, he may run your plates and harass you, pull you over, do vehicle checks, breath tests or even have a chat to you on your doorstep about the incident.  But more than likely he will do nothing because of a few reasons.\nA- No cop mates to act as "convenient" witnesses to whatever you did\nB- Police are professionals, and unless you assaulted him or someone else etc etc, he is "off duty".\nC- No offence, because I understand your hypothetical position, and it was a great question ( i do mean that) but police get given daily jobs/assignments, and probably have bigger fish to fry.\n\nGood Luck " )
88020
*Chuckling* I actually dun get speeding tickets, tis one of the handy things bout wolf instinct. I can usually tell if there is a patrol car (or camera speed monitor) nearby by the way others drive and I let what I call a "lame duck" (someone in more of a hurry than me) go ahead of me while I follow at a reasonable distance. They tend to get the ticket instead. Heh, evil I know, but not my fault they they were speeding and got caught...\nGood advice on how to avoid the ticket when pulled over is here http://www.askmen.com/fashion/how_to_100/147_how_to.html\n\nNow first off if you are busted by camera, give it up, you won't win. Courts tend to put great stock in the automated speeding monitors.\nIf you are pulled over and do get a ticket, this means you gotta go to court to fight it, but police officers do not have the time to go for every ticket they write. So they cannot refute you in court and if you prove reasonable doubt, you can get out of it.\nBut if the officer is there, well you got a problem and it becomes more difficult to win.\n\nIf you decide to fight it in court, a good site with a lot of free (not all, but a lot) information is http://tipmra.com/sample/tipmra_sample.htm\nI can tell you the last time a friend got one was by the radar gun, which is easy to refute as loose tools in the trunk is well known to foul up the readings.\n\nAnd finally I leave you with this lil tidbit...\nHow To Get Out Of A Traffic Ticket!\n\nA police officer pulls a guy over for speeding and has the following exchange...\n\nOfficer: May I see your driver's license?\n\nDriver: I don't have one. I had it suspended when I got my 5th DUI.\n\nOfficer: May I see the owner's card for this vehicle?\n\nDriver: It's not my car. I stole it.\n\nOfficer: The car is stolen?\n\nDriver: That's right. But come to think of it, I think I saw the owner's card in the glove box when I was putting my gun in there.\n\nOfficer: There's a gun in the glove box?\n\nDriver: Yes sir. That's where I put it after I shot and killed the woman who owns this car and stuffed her in the trunk.\n\nOfficer: There's a BODY in the TRUNK?!?!?\n\nDriver: Yes, sir.\n\nHearing this, the officer immediately called his captain. The car was quickly surrounded by police, and the captain approached the driver to handle the tense situation.\n\nCaptain: Sir, can I see your license?\n\nDriver: Sure. Here it is.\n\nIt was valid.\n\nCaptain: Who's car is this?\n\nDriver: It's mine, officer. Here's the owner's card.\n\nThe driver owned the car.\n\nCaptain: Could you slowly open your glove box so I can see if there's a gun in it?\n\nDriver: Yes, sir, but there's no gun in it.\n\nSure enough, there was nothing in the glove box.\n\nCaptain: Would you mind opening your trunk? I was told you said there's a body in it.\n\nDriver: No problem.\n\nTrunk is opened; no body.\n\nCaptain: I don't understand it. The officer who stopped you said you told him you didn't have a license, stole the car, had a gun in the glovebox, and that there was a dead body in the trunk.\n\nDriver: Yeah, I'll bet the lying s.o.b. told you I was speeding, too!
1023965
If you want a serious answer, this is it.  I have worked in Law Enforcement for 15 years and this is one of the more mundane types of contact the police have.  DON'T LIE!!!!!.  If you know you were speeding say so IF ASKED.  Be polite and don't make excuses, the officers have heard them all and know when you are lying.  Don't give the officer grief, after all this is his job and depending on how fast you were going you may have be a hazard to yourself and others.  A ticket is not the end of the world and in most places if you do not receive multiple tickets you can get it dismissed by taking a safe driving course.  Remember the roadways are for everyone so be safe and allow others to be safe also.  Good Luck!
1080626
I don't think the cop could enter or interfere.  Maybe the best he could do is radio it in and wait for an answer.
85167
Call the police! Handling it yourself can just lead to someone else calling the police on you and then you are the bad guy. Take the high road and you will get justice.
800651
wen u prevent a cop from doin its job
839800
If he was using radar you need to state that other cars were within 100 ft of your car.\n\nAsk for calibration records for the radar gun. Ask for repair records as well as trainimng documentation for this officer.\n\nI'd also look into complaints against the officer.\n\nScrew them- if they're gonna be asses then fight it.
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I don't understand the people who say the cop will be mad at you.  Believe it or not he/she will not take your traffic issues personally and you will not be shot at for crying out loud.  (*By the way, if you are ever at gunpoint, that is not the time to use your cell phone to call your lawyer*)\n\nIf you are really interested in your safety, have numbers to your local city, county and state police offices in your vehicle or in your cell phone.  These are good to have anyway.  Also, many people don't know their own license plate numbers, have that written down as well, for the dispatcher. Verify the cop is real with the dispatcher.\n\nIt would also help if you got to know who the cops are.  Schedule a ride-along so you can see the cop's side of things or just stop by and meet some of them. That might help reduce your fear of them a little.  They're just people after all and they probably have kids just like you that they want to keep out of harm's way.\n\nAlso, best way to deal with cops is to be honest.  Most of them understand being pulled over makes people nervous.  If the officer is in plain clothes and you still don't feel comfortable, you can request a uniformed officer, within reason (manpower).  Most officers will probably even let you use their phone.  \n\nI hope this helped, keep up your good driving and don't believe everything you see on tv.
748336
You go to the station and ask for a grievance form. They may try to talk you out of it.\n\n\nAnd nobody can send you back to jail because you filed a complaint while on probation.
1185946
hey Sk8, im an oldschool biker and cops used to bother us all the time about doin tricks on public stuff, benches and bike racks, curbs etc.. My skater buddies would have the same issues but as long as we werent being destructive they would usually just tell us go somewhere else. \nthis was back in the 80's so today the cops probably are a little harder on the folks.
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- Plant drugs on people\n\n- Convince you that you have to get out of the car or allow a search on a routine traffic stop. (You don't have to. However, if you refuse, they'll make you wish you had complied.)\n\n- Use unmarked cars for routine traffic stops. This is against the law. I have seen the code, and it prohibits this.\n\n- Arrest someone for a buddy. This happened in a small town: I know someone who was involved in road rage and police corruption all in one day. He accidentally pulled in front of someone. There was NO COLLISION. They chased him and ran him off the road. They yelled at him and said, "You probably don't even have insurance!" He DOES have insurance, but he was feeling feisty so he said, "Maybe I don't." The road rage guy then went to his small town buddies at the police station and lied, saying that my friend had done a "hit and run" on him and had no insurance. This was a lie, and ovbiously NEITHER vehicle was damaged! His small town police buddies ARRESTED my friend for a so called hit and run which never occurred!!!\n\n- I know someone who got a ticket for trying not to run into a police car. The cop was on the shoulder with his lights still on from having just finished making a traffic stop. The dude drove partially on the opposite side of the two way, two lane road, so as to give the cop room. The cop chased him and wrote him a ticket for driving on the wrong side of the road!\n\n- Drive on the wrong side of the road or violate other laws for reasons which are NOT emergencies. I saw a cop drive on the wrong side of the road just to talk to his buddy for a long, casual conversation.\n\n- Ride motorcycles side-by-side. The are supposed to ride straddled with the 2nd guy in behind and to the side so as not to run into one another. Many policemen run into each other this way and have been reprimanded for this by their superiors but continue to do as they please.\n\n-An old trick: When arresting someone on a traffic stop, they search them and take their wallet which they promptly toss into their car as it is about to be towed away. This means that the person doesn't have access to their ID or money while trying to post bail, check into jail, or retrieve their car from the pound!\n\n- They seduce someone into commiting a crime: There is someone drunk standing on private property. The police officer says, "Come here for a second..." and motion to them. The drunk person complies, walking OFF of the private property onto the sidewalk. They are now violating the public drunkeness law. They are promptly arrested, after being duped.\n\n- They detain a teenager for no apparent reason and make them stand next to their car for an hour or so, until it is curfew. Then they arrest them for violating curfew. Nice, huh?\n\nI am sure there are some really good cops out there, but unfortunately, MOST of them are at least moderately corrupt, if not totally. They know how to exploit the loopholes in the law, and don't always do so for the right reasons.
769692
i mean, it is technically littering but i have seen cops doing the same thing so i can see why you are angry.\n*just watch where you are throwing them*
386014
yes but tell the local watch sargaent or commander  just call the police and ask for the wath sargent then your covered if a nieghbor complains
183291
It can go either way...a chance you take. The judge could lessen the charge or ammend it. Or if found guilty you could pay more including court costs, lawyer etc.... I would talk persoanlly to the officer who issued it first, before the court date and ask if he could help you out, provided you did not curse the officer out or spit on him during the traffic stop, or tell him he should stop eating doughnuts.
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If the cop treated you like crap, he was wrong.  Period.  It happens, but it's still wrong.\n\nSince you have no way to know if your friend was over the legal limit or not (i.e., breaking the law or not), you really are in no position to pass judgement on what the cop did.  You are talking as if you know *for a fact* that your friend was over the limit, and that the only reason he was let go was because the cop knew the guy's dad.  That makes two assumptions that you really can't make.  \n\nBut what you want to know is who to ask questions of.  What questions?  \n\nIf you want to know why he treated you like crap, you can ask me.  Because he's human.  Because if he really did treat you like crap, he was wrong.  Because he might have been having a really crappy day, just like anyone else.  Because of a dozen other reasons, none of which would have justified him taking it out on you, if that's what he did.\n\nIf you want to know why he let your friend go for being under the influence, you have to ask him.  I would like to think it was because your friend wasn't breaking the law (you being "pretty sure" he was over the limit is hardly enough evidence to condemn the cop over).  Might be your friend wasn't drunk enough to be in violation, and the cop figured he'd drop a word to your friend's dad about it and let it go at that.  I've not written tickets to kids before because I knew their parents and knew the kid would pay a much higher price with their parents than with me :)\n\nBut who to ask?  Probably nobody.  I don't think you'd want to talk to the cop, based on the way he treated you (and frankly, if he let your friend go due to the cop's relationship with your friend's dad, he's probably not going to admit that to you anyway).  You could make a formal complaint with his agency, but again...you have no way of knowing your friend was over the limit and if in the cop's professional opinion he was not, end of story.\n\nBottom line: move on.  You might not have been treated fairly or politely, but if there was any wrongdoing you're never going to get anyone to admit it or be able to prove it.  I'm sorry you were left with the experience you were.\n\nEDIT 2/11/06:\n\nIf you really want to talk to someone about it, you can try to talk with the Chief of Police.  If you're just going to walk in there and explain yourself the way you did here, I wouldn't count on too much feedback.  No matter what anyone in your friend's car tells you, it proves nothing as far as anyone's level of intoxication.  There's a legal limit to be guilty of DUI and it might be the cop didn't think your friend was there....maybe had been drinking (which seems obvious enough from your posts), but not necessarily over the limit.  Nobody...not your friend, not the passengers in the vehicle, not you, not me, and without a chemical test not even the cop who made the stop knows for sure if your friend was over the limit.  If the cop thought he was close but not over, it might have been perfectly appropriate to let him go with the comment about knowing his dad. I don't know what state you're in, so I don't know what the laws are there but here in California, the legal limit is .08% for adults.  That means it's legal to drive at an .07%...and there's nothing I can do about an adult driving at .07% because it's not illegal.\n\nThis is getting a little involved and there isn't enough information in your post to be able to comment much more on what might have happened versus what you think happened.  If you want to talk to anyone, you can talk to the Chief or maybe someone at City Hall or whatever the equivalent is in your city or town.  I think you're missing the point here, but I wish you luck if you choose to try and talk to someone about it.
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Yes you can becuase you can do anything you want.  Maybe there will be alot of headaces from the cops hassleling you  but thats all they can do.
1074006
Yes...just give some sort of signal that you know the police are behind you.  Turn on your hazards and slow down.  Keep driving until you are in a lit area or parking lot.  A good officer will know what you are doing.