Originally Posted by dE.fUsEd
nothing against you, but that is ****ing bullshit. isn't that like entrapment? cops do that shit all the time. pull you over for something stupid just so they can fuc'king hassle you. it's the reason cops get such a bad rep from people.
now i can see if maybe you're driving a old beatup piece of shit down hollywood blvd with half the muffler hanging off, but pulling over a honda civic because you
think his exhaust is too loud, that's bullshit. specially when the real reason is just to fuc'k with him.
not cool.
You say it's not cool, but then you expect the Police to *PREVENT* crime and stop drug sales and crime rates from rising in the area.
How do you (the public) expect that to happen without doing police work? And how do you expect to do police work without stopping people?
You know, the majority of violent felons and kidnappers that are arrested are stopped for minor traffic violations just because the officer wanted to investigate it further?
If you're not doing anything illegal, or don't have anything illegal on your car, you wont get pulled over; it's that simple. And yes, reasonable suspicion is enough to pull you over. We're not there to prove your guilty or innocent, we're there to ticket/arrest those whom we think have a high possibility (reasonable suspicion, or probable cause) that they MIGHT be guilty; and then we let the court figure it out afterwords.
I just disagree with you that it's 1) entrapment (look up the definition of entrapment, it doesnt even remotely fit) and that 2) pretextual stops are wrong. Pretextual stops are how you PREVENT crime and investigate "hunches." Nothing wrong with them.