Why I Cannot Support CCW Permits

Market Ticker ^ | 01/16/2014 | Karl Denniger

[Rusty0604]

According to Filippidis and his wife, Kally, they noticed an unmarked patrol car tailing them while traveling for Christmas and a family wedding in Woodridge, N.J. He claims the police car stayed with them for ten minutes.

“We weren’t speeding. In fact, lots of other cars were whizzing past,” Filippidis told the Tampa Tribune.

Eventually, the car’s emergency lights came on and he pulled the car over. The officer was reportedly with the Transportation Authority Police, “Maryland’s version of the New York-New Jersey Port Authority,” according to the report.

It appears he was pulled over because of either an automated or manual random license-plate look-up by the cops, and when they did so his license was coded, as they all are, to show that he had a CCW permit.

There's nothing unlawful about having a CCW permit nor does it generate probable cause for a traffic stop. That doesn't matter in this case, because it did generate a traffic stop. And then the cop ultimately, when the driver says he doesn't have it with him and his wife (asked separately) doesn't know where it is, turns that stop into a full and complete search of the vehicle and everything in it.

The end result? No arrest or citation, but 90 minutes of being detained and searched.

[cva66snipe]

Sounds like you went through the Ye Olde Speed Trap at about the 112 mile marker on I-75 just north of Knoxville. Six - Eight cars city and state usually unmarked operating on a 4 mile stretch. If they don't get you on that they get you on the Move Over Law. Never mind the fact the Schmucks are pulling over drivers in an area where two major interstates I-75 & I-40 meet and persons are jockeying for their proper lane. I've been forced to change lanes up to six times in that speed trap. Very dangerous more so than the speeders.