Now, I know we have some members who also happen to be LEO, and I mean no offense personally, just generally, but when, exactly, did being a complete asswipe go from preferred pre-requisite to job requirement to become a cop?

In traffic court today dealing with my own issue of driving on a suspended license (that WASN'T suspended anymore, just a DMV issue that still isn't resolved with the DMV for whatever reason), but anyway, listening to some of the things others had happen (All of these were from Gilbert, Arizona, BTW.......I have to point that out because the Judge today was actually personable compared to the jackass that's normally there) I hadda laugh out loud in court......

Further proof that many Law Enforcement departments are simply revenue generators and collect "taxation without representation".

Guy 1. Ticket for no seatbelt. He was stopped at 2:15 AM (go figure) for changing lanes without signaling. Cop asked for his insurance card and he removed his seatbelt to retreive it from the glovebox. Judge says, "well the fine is only $85, and no points so why fight it?". Guy says, and I quote, "Because it's just not right. I want a trial, I'll get a lawyer, get the video from the cruiser of the stop, and I don't care if it costs me ten times that".  "Case Dismissed" was the next thing said.

Gal 2. Ticket for failure to stop for LEO and attempting to elude Police. Girl was stopped, again late, reason why I didn't catch. But cop comes to the window, askes for license/registration/insurance, she reaches over for her purse not realizing she had not put the car in park when she stopped, so car rolled forward, up onto a curb about 15 feet from where she had originally stopped before she realized her mistake and stopped the car. Judge was actually trying hard not to laugh, but managed "case dismissed" before actually laughing.

Guy3. Ticket for expired plates. This was actually a second ticket, the first he got dismissed the prior week because he brought in that he had, in fact renewed his registration. THIS ticket he got 1/2 block away from his house while driving a couple days later TO the DMV to renew the tags. He produced his DMV receipts and the original ticket, as well as the secondary ticket showing the dates and times. "case dismissed".

I mean, really. First off, we're wasting time, payroll of tax-paid employees, resources such as PAPER, not to mention the waste of time the officers are doing to themselves, and causing grief and loss of income of the general public to even deal with stupid crap like this. Just one of those Facepalm moments, but then I realized "I just wonder HOW many people actually simply pay the damn fine and be done with it rather than deal with wasting an entire day or two standing up for what is right? And HOW much revenue do they actually generate because of this?

Fortunately, mine was over and done early, and unfortunately, I didn't have to sit and listen to more of these.

I'm sure there's a ton more stories out there, POST'EM UP! 

Ray   

And lake perris couple years ago in jan got the boat done went for a test run coming out of there two mile no wake zone headers were gettin hot at idle so i burped it twice to get water thru them i was the only boat on the water and the park ranger gets in his boat chases me down and gives me a ticket for 30 in a no wake zone

Ya i respect them too just not the crooked ones or the ones that act like there better than me cuz they have a badge

Fought a ticket for rolling through a stop sign...took a pic of me measuring of said sign and it was one inch short of legal height...Dismissed. Most tickets are worth the effort to fight.

Agreed, I've never have to pay anything but a parking ticket at school. Gotten pulled over a few times for different reasons, but none were legit. I know tons of people that just pay the fine to not have to deal with it though.


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About a week ago my daughter leaves the house and gets 2 stop signs away....cop pulls her over and says "do you know why i pulled you over"? she says no...he says "you were on your cell phone" she says no i was not and reaches in the back seat and grabs her purse where her cell phone was . so now he feels like a douch and says "young lady shouldnt you be in school"? she says no sir i graduated 2 years ago and i am on my way to work ! He was from a diffrent city AND he never asked her for I.D , INS, OR REG. He never said another word ...got back in his car and pulled away.... 

i must say   they have a hard job  i see people pulled over  and giving no respect  not even looking at the cop  ....   and so on ..   but  as first posted   this is what it is coming to   the cops  are trying to  rake in some cash  any way they can     all those tickets  pays  for  a half day of there overtime ..    with less than half of calif  working and puttin into the pot   the extra cash has to come from some place,,  this is why  i make sure  all my crap is in order  and all my brake lights work ..   

15 yrs old with a learner's permit, throwing my paper route on a Kawasaki 90, street legal and licensed.  I go up a driveway, down the sidewalk one house length, and back out the next driveway for a special customer who pays me extra to put it on his porch cuz he is old and can't walk well.  Cop writes me for riding on the sidewalk.
2 months later I am leaving a friends house two blocks from home.  This time I am on a different motorcycle (2 stroke enduro) that has no mirrors and no muffler.  It is midnight and I am late.  I am definitely breaking the 25 mph limit but hey it is my 'hood.  When I pull into my driveway and take off my helmet, only then do I notice there is a cop behind me.  The same cop.  He writes me up for everything INCLUDING running a stop sign and evading arrest.  I try to convince him there is no stop sign on the cross street.  There should be, but there never has been in 15 yrs.  Anyway we go to court, I bring pictures, he looks stoopid, and I get off with a warning to have the equipment problems addressed.
That day there was also a guy in court who had received a speeding ticket for 35 in a 25.  He was riding a bicycle at the time.   

Is it me or is it that most cops were aholes in school...  cops got it hard but seems like here in Northern CA they would rather deal with legit people for dumb shit than try to catch actual crime.  Anyway my experience has been a friend called me running from two brothers in a 5.0 that pulled a gun on the freeway.  I hooked a ride downtown with a buddy that has a few weapons and when my friend getting chased called the cops and drove around the police station they wouldn't foldout and told him to take it to another city.  I met up with him in a parking lot and I held a SKS when they drove in I happened to know the guys chasing and it got squashed cops from the next city came detective from the next city drove by never got out or stopped and the localPD we never saw them.  This was about 10 years ago but I lost a lot of respect for them they were too scared to help with real shit.

Every time I let get passed the "sign here" stage, I'm screwed...so I try and be proactive.

Running around in my '71 Nova (BBC, 4 spd, loud, etc...). Pulled out of a parking lot one night and got into it till the top of second, then owed and took a turn in my neighborhood....at which point I noticed half the city's police force behind me lights a blazing.  My chick in the passenger seat was laughing so hard she was about to hurl....for whatever reason, I had a smile on my face when the officer walked up and asked..."do you know why I pulled you over?"

ME: yup, right tail light out, left brake light out, too loud, too fast one headlight dim, mighta chirped the tires, big monster tach obstructing my vision.....  At which point he said " slow down, I can't write that fast"....he told me to take it easy and let me go after we laughed about it for a minute.

I had a similar thing back in HS, lol! I had a '73 Nova SS, in primer and vinyl top, was never a pretty car when I owned it,  with a tunnel rammed 427 I got from a truck, 4 speed, extended spring shackles and air shocks to clear the M50 tires, etc. Coming out of the movie theatre at the new Mall in town (farm country, middle of nowhere Pennsylvania folks) at about 11:30 or so after the movies let out I was following a bud of mine who had a '70 Torino GT (351C, Auto, BAD ASS CAR!) He did a "stomp and squirt" around a corner. I decided it was a good time to show him what real HP was (back then).

So I land on it, and hold it, smoke everywhere, and pull up behind him at a stop sign. It was just THEN I noticed the red and blue lights reflecting off the wall at the Sears end of the mall. I couldn't even see out the back of the car it was lifted so, let alone the tire smoke.

Girlfriend in the passenger seat, Statie comes up and asks "what was that display of HP all about?". "Just Showing off I guess sir, sorry". "You know that's a $35 fine right there" as he pointed at the fuzzy dice said girlfriend hung on the rear view mirror earlier the same evening. Took them off quickly and tossed them into the back seat. He said "Obstruction of vision with all that sticking out of the hood isn't it?". I was at a loss, and all I could come up with was "Probably no more so than the radar equipment on the dash of yours".

He actually laughed and let me go.

But kinda my point. Cops today would NEVER let you go for stuff like that. Too much money on the table they could collect.........

PS, My Nova had as loud a stereo as an 8-track could be back then Pat.........Blasting "Lynrd Skynrd"........ Also, If I remember right, The date I took was to see the movie "Porkies" when it came out..........

I had a CHP pull me over once when I was doing 65 IM usually doing 70-75.  I was driving my Gmc Sierra.  He pulled me over and asked do I know why I pulled u over I said no clue his response was " you didn't notice you past that little Toyota going up the grade back there"    REALLY OFFICER RICHARD... Really....

  exactly and that's f!!! Up