It's the BS lies when they really don't have a reason to give a ticket that bug me (following too close on off ramp, failure to signal at a 3 way stop)

They know it's for a revenue and there is a score card on who brings in revenue at the police station.

You'll lawyer up. Loose the points and we will get 2-3 times the ticket amount from you to drop it to a parking ticket.

Go catch a real criminal.

hehe cops rule... I've only ran into a few real dickheads... I've been pulled over 23 times and have been issued 4 tickets. some cops have let me slide on situations that I wouldn't have let me slide on.

The first time I got pulled over I was 14 years old, had stolen(for all intents and purposes) my dad's camaro and was doing 65 in a 30mph construction zone at 4AM on a learners permit driving alone. Cop scared the shit out of me by making me think he was going to fry me... put me in the back of his squad car and everything, then he just let me out and told me to go the hell home.

I'm from a small town and had the same cop, good old officer Maxin pull me over 17 times. He never once gave me a ticket, no matter how stupid I was being. Then one cop asshole gave me a ticket for going 77MPH in a 75MPH zone, I was so pissed. of course I was going about 100mph when I saw him, slammed the brakes and he only actually clocked me at 77... but still.

my best oh shit moment was a Rapid City(which is meade county) sherrif pull up beside me while I was going about 120mph on I-90 (75mph) at about 3AM he flipped on the dome light and motioned with his hand for me to slow down while he mouthed "slow the fuck down" I slammed the breaks and hit the next exit, I think the only reason he didn't nail me was that I wasn't in meade county where he served.

Also had a total asshole cop get pissed at me because he thought I was trying to evade him by taking an exit right when he flipped on his cherries and going through this wooded area. He didn't believe me that my girlfriend actually lived about 1 mile down that road and I simply didn't see him behind me. he kept threatening me that he was going to go check out my story. Of course, he was half right I did see him and just hoped he would drive on by, but I did need to take that exit anyways.

Even after all that though I still respect cops. People who hate on cops en masse are pretty ignorant IMO

Most of the officers I know don't even want to be bothered with traffic or the BS paperwork that goes with it. Of course there are a few that love it. Also most cops could give a damn about revenue. It has never reflected on my paychecks. But I'm sure you know tons of police officers that told you that is how it works.

Hey genious(cp sp) I have been driving for 15 years I was speaking of being pulled over in general not just speeding tickets. I've probably been pulled over more than that in my driving lifetime. If I was doing 80 in a 55 I couldn't hardly justify making excuses for getting a ticket.

There was a period in my life between about 19 to 20 years old when I was pulled over on a regular basis and I never was doing a damn thing wrong, tell me again why I was pulled over when abiding by the traffic laws? They just wanted to pull over a young kid and harass him which is a regular thing.

I'm only speaking of police in the Arizona\Las Vegas area. The Las Vegas police are the biggest pricks of the bunch. They are known for pulling people over and beating them up if they get flipped any sh*t. I have a couple of friends that this has happened to. I don't know how many times I've been pulled over for driving 5-10 MPH over the speed limit and they act like you just robbed a convienient store.

Look this is no offense to "ALL POLICE OFFICERS" but the police officers that are pricks(you know who you are). What is it with most American police officers when they pull someone over or when they frisk someone they overreact to the situation? I've watched cops in the states and they are almost always yelling and roughing up guys that aren't even resisting them, I just don't get it? Then I've seen Cops in London or in Europe somewhere(can't quite remember the location) where they are calm as can be when arresting someone. One guy was trying to outrun the police and when the finally got him pulled over you didn't hear them screaming at him they calmly arrested him.
Anyway what's with the over reacting?

Look any of you guys that are police officers on this board don't take it to heart when most of us think cops are pricks it doesn't mean we are talking about you unless you're known as an a**hole around your town. And to the quote above. I don't drive around like a damn fool with my foot stomping the accelerator so don't act like you know the things that have happened in my life.

Clearly, there's a difference between a traffic cop and the rest of the squad. Traffic cops aren't even really policemen, they're hall monitors. Hall monitors with "I'm the Principal" attitudes.

Don't take that shit personally, Kraut. Some people just don't understand that we, as law abiding citizens, deal mostly with the hall monitors.

Nah, I hate them all. You pin that badge on....you're a prick.

Had a problem with the pocket protector, horned rim glasses wearing tough geek hall monitor in school didn't ya ?

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