[ScottinVA]

Cops are required to REQUEST to search the vehicle... so what happens if the driver had said “no?” They just tase him and start rifling through his stuff anyway?

Sounds to me like a the cops have quite the racket going.

[hal ogen]

Cops can be bums.

[Salgak]

Simple. They bring a dog over, trained to react to small signals by the handler, indicating a “hit” for drugs, they then impound the car and get a warrant, based on the dog’s “evidence”. . .

[jiggyboy]

Cops are required to REQUEST to search the vehicle... so what happens if the driver had said “no?”

"Then we'll have to get a warrant. That will take some number of hours, because [plausible, impossible-to-disprove reason goes here], and you'll have to stay here the whole time..."