“Ask if he can search my car. When I say no, that is the basis he uses to have a reasonable suspiscion that I have something illegal in my car and have it searched.”
That’s not correct.
“That’s not correct’’< Yeah? Try telling that to a cop. The 4th. Amendment protections don’t extend to your car. The state gives you the ‘’privilege’’( a privilege is not a right) of a drivers license, the state can poke it’s nose into your car anytime it wants. I found this out the hard way.
See my Post 16.
If you think an officer asks to search your car and you are going to get back in and drive away after saying No, I believe you will find out different.