Originally Posted by antarius

I assume you have a police scanner and know that he wasn't enroute to a call?

You do realize that 99 times out of 100 when a police officer is responding to a call, even an urgent call, and especially a non-urgent call, he will exceed the speed limit to get to the scene as quickly as safely possible, but will not very often use his lights.

So when you see a cop pass you doing 80 on the freeway, you can't jsut assume he's not busy because he doesn't have lights on.

Originally Posted by Kestrel

The speeding thing I can totally understand, as it is also pretty difficult to patrol a highway when you're moving at normal speed. But when a cop pulls a dangerous stunt like passing on the shoulder or running a red light, they should be required turn on their lights. Also, I've seen cops run red lights and then pull into McDonald's to get lunch....

Originally Posted by antarius

Yeah I'm not saying it doesn't happen; There are definitely cops out there that do things improperly. All I'm trying to say is in general, they're doing something for a perfectly good, and legitimate, reason.