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Posted by NC Wayne on September 29, 2005 at 19:54:42 from (205.188.117.6):
In Reply to: OT can you believe the l.o.c. urban legend somebod posted by buickanddeere on September 29, 2005 at 10:19:08:
True this may be an urban ledgend but you do have the right to travel to a "safe place" before pulling over for an officer, wether their in an unmarked car or BUT you do need to acknowledge in some way that you know their behind you and that you do intend to eventually comply with their demands for you to pull over. The chances of them forcing you to stop if you do acknowledge them are pretty slim mainly for safety reasons, yours, theirs, and that of bystanders. They show those high speed police chaces, etc on TV and it all looks great, but around here they really frown on anything even remotely resembles a chase. When some innocent bystander gets killed in any kind of "chase" the department ultimately gets the blame and the lawsuit, and in my opinion rightfully so in many cases. For example it's stupid to chase somebody for something "minor" like a speeding violation, etc. Why not take the tag number and get their address and be waiting for them when they get home or simply hang back, without the blue light, and follow them wherever their going. If a picture of your car breaking a traffic law is enough to get you a ticket in the mail (wether your the one actually driving or not) then surely their in car cameras are good enough proff. Any way you look at it though, it just doesn't make sense to do something stupid like getting behind a drunk driver that's already driving eratically but at or below the posted speed and then invoking a chase that has him now driving at twice the posted speed, still drunk. Which is more hazardous, driving 55 drunk or driving 100 drunk? In a case like that if the guy runs call the helo and back the cars off. The guy is gonna slow back down and in the meantime you can call in backup and set up a road block with the other 10 cars that, on TV, you typically see behind the guy chasing him. I know that's a bit off the origional topic of a female driving alone and being pulled but still relevant, I think, in the sense of the rest of the post. So, back to the topic at hand. Several years ago we had a woman killed around here because she made the mistake of stopping for a "blue light bandit", driving alone, on a back country road, in the middle of the night. I'm sure if she had simply driven a few miles to the next lighted place where their were people around (ie-a convience store) this wouldn't have happened. So, for those women out there driving alone, they do have the right to travel to a "safe place" before stopping. If the officer should happen to have a problem with them doing it and deems it necessary to arrest them, I'm sure they can find a civil rights attorney just dying to take their case and make a nationwide event of police abusing their power. I know if it was my Mom, wife, sister, girlfriend, or whoever in that position I'd sure like to be on the jury that had the cop fired if for no other reason than for being a complete a--hole.....Just my .02
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