[o_zarkman44]

Even traffic stops involve intimidation. have you been drinking? Do you have any drugs or weapons?
May I search your vehicle?

Answer no and then they raise the intimidation. Step out of the vehicle sir.

Everyone is assumed guilty of something by the cops and they will do anything to get a person to hang themselves.
Cops are helpless to stop criminals. But they are in complete control in making new criminals.

[bill1952]

>Cops are helpless to stop criminals. But they are in complete control in making new criminals

Had me until that. The statement is patently false on every level.

[Ouderkirk]

Cops are helpless to stop criminals. But they are in complete control in making new criminals

A gold star for you !!!

They can create a new criminal out of thin air.

See how this works in a domestic dispute.... Out of thin air a man can be charged with crimes that were never comitted, on hearsay evidence alone. I've seen it happen twice.

[MaxMax]

I've been let off from tickets so many times I can't remember.
And the usual response from an officer when I inform them that I am armed, is
"Ok, don't shoot me with it".