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I am sure they did! I have never have the opportunity to refuse a search, because they have never asked me. I have certainly watched enough episodes of COPS to know that they don't expect to be told "no".

I am supportive of law enforcement by default, which is why I get genuinely angry when I see bad police attitudes.

Fortunately for me, and contributing to my attitude is that I have always been treated very well by all the police that have ever approached me, or assisted me when I have called them. I am a fairly hobbity looking chick though, and that makes a lot of difference. Even when I have declared my concealed weapon to them in contacts, they have not removed it from me... one even asked me what make and model it was out of curiosity.

But having said all that... I would have refused your search, and any request I can think of where they would ask me for a look inside my truck.

I was thinking about it the other day driving home from my Dad's. My dad's lady friend had bought a bunch of dog food that her dog ended up being allergic to. She was giving it to me, but had already emptied it into a bin she uses and thrown away the original bags. She poured it into about three big garbage bags, not too full so they wouldn't tear, and we put them in my truck.

To make a long story short, on the way home a cop came up behind me real fast and hung there. I assume he called me in (I had been driving too fast). Any minute, I expected to see the lights come on. I looked over at those bags sitting next to me and decided they looked pretty dang suspicious. I was imagining the cop calling and going to the trouble to get a warrant, and discovering 40 pounds of dog food.

This long story doesn't have a punch line, because he never did pull me over. I don't know why not!

I have never have the opportunity to refuse a search

This was my first opportunity since it became standard practice on traffic stops. I wouldn't have been much better off if I gave him the okay to "have a look" because that gives consent to a full search. I have seen too many of the COPS stories where the "have a look" ends up with the car taken apart on the shoulder of the road.

If I would have had 3 trash bags of dog food they probably would have pulled out the drug test kits.