Posted on 10/18/2014 5:13:33 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
If the video deleted at the OP link is the same, there’s much more to the story
““Hey the reason I stopped you is I saw this car was unmarked,” Seim asks the officer. “Is this a registered unmarked vehicle for undercover work?”
When the officer said it was a patrol car, Seim whipped out his legal knowledge.
“OK, you’re not allowed to have patrol cars that are unmarked, are you aware of that?” he said, before citing the relevant law.
Washington state law allows police to use unmarked vehicles for special undercover work, but not for regular patrols.
Seim went through all the normal steps of a traffic stop, taking the officer’s name, license and, eventually, deciding to let him off with a warning, urging him to speak with his bosses about their illegal patrol cars.
As Seim explained to the officer, using unmarked vehicles for regular patrols puts citizens in danger, because people can never be sure if they’re really being pulled over by cops or not.”
I had something similar happen. I was working uniform security doing parking lot patrol for a “big box” type store located in a iffy part of town. I sometimes zoomed back to check out the back of the store and the loading docks as part of my perimeter check. While doing this I noticed a beat up old truck with a long haired, scruffy guy in it. I took note, and kept going. Next time around he was still there, so i spotlighted and pulled up to him. Before I could say a thing he pulled out a sheriffs star and said “I’m working, please get the hell away from me!”. I turned off the spotlight, said “you got it!” and immediately drove away. About an hour later, he comes around from the back in his truck, pulls up next to me and apologizes for yelling at me. He told me he was trying to set up a controlled buy and I was kinda in the way with my marked vehicle. I said no problem, shook his hand and wished him luck.
CC
I’d point out that you were not only lucky with the detective in question, but you ticked all the boxes a GOOD LEO looks for.
- courteous
- aware of what was happening in your area
- street surveillance (honest cops love people with that!)
- non-confrontational
Basically you were/are doing the things that makes their job easier. They do like that.
In this day and age he was lucky he wasn’t shot or beat up and his dog executed in either case.
I am not making this up. In the early 60s my friend, a big burley man, went in pursuit of a police car speeding thru his residental district and caught him at a stop sign and ticketed him. He took the ticket to the DA’s office. My friend had a small child and wanted the speeding to stop. The cop did it many times.
Six weeks later the DA’s office called him a 0600 on a Sunday morning and told him the disposition of the ticket.
Why would a citizen want to screw around with a cop? Think of all the undesirables they MUST become involved with. A little empathy, please!
Don’t leave us hanging. Did the Citizen ticket stick?
A right unexercised is a right that’s lost!
Same thing happened when we were kids in the 70’s....local unmarked in our culdesac for days....moms calls to police were ignord until she insisted theY check it out....theY ended up camping in our kitchen for a week and surveilled from there
“90% give the other 10% a bad name.”
yep
I’m not saying that things don’t need to be dealt with given our corrupt judicial system. I just don’t believe that it’s appropriate to use law enforcement to do it. Unlawful police are the foundation for tyranny.
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