Anonymous
6/17/2025, 11:44:44 PM No.2794772
>Are you sassing me son?
How do you respond when out of state and you say the wrong thing to a cop?
How do you respond when out of state and you say the wrong thing to a cop?
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 2:31:51 AM No.2794803
>>2794772 (OP)
If a cop has an attitude, the less you say the better. These days with body cameras recording every interaction, police are more careful to come off as professional.
I was pulled over for speeding 58 in a 45 in Utah back in 2021. There was marijuana in the locked glove box. I told the cop I usually follow the speed limit, but with several impatient drivers on my ass, I was trying not to obstruct traffic. He asked where I was going and I told him I wanted to check out the national forest down the road, because it looked interesting on the map. He told me that it was very pleasant, then ran my license and decided not to give me a ticket.
If a cop has an attitude, the less you say the better. These days with body cameras recording every interaction, police are more careful to come off as professional.
I was pulled over for speeding 58 in a 45 in Utah back in 2021. There was marijuana in the locked glove box. I told the cop I usually follow the speed limit, but with several impatient drivers on my ass, I was trying not to obstruct traffic. He asked where I was going and I told him I wanted to check out the national forest down the road, because it looked interesting on the map. He told me that it was very pleasant, then ran my license and decided not to give me a ticket.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 4:45:11 AM No.2794834
>>2794803
>These days with body cameras recording every interaction, police are more careful to come off as professional.
For realsies? I thought the concerns were
>bodycams being turned off on purpose
>footage being unavailable due to the bodycam getting "broken" during the line of duty
>footage being "lost" after being sent away
>These days with body cameras recording every interaction, police are more careful to come off as professional.
For realsies? I thought the concerns were
>bodycams being turned off on purpose
>footage being unavailable due to the bodycam getting "broken" during the line of duty
>footage being "lost" after being sent away
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 4:49:35 AM No.2794835
I got pulled over in vegas once for driving with my headlights off (the fuse had blown). I opened the glove box with the cop standing at my window and a pair of illegal brass knuckles fell out. He says "what is that?" I say, "its my belt buckle" He took them but only wrote me a work order instead of a ticket and let me go for the knuckles. I was super polite.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 5:02:54 AM No.2794839
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 7:04:10 AM No.2794873
>>2794834
I've noticed big changes compared to police interactions before bodycams. These days they're much less likely to harass people who are minding their own business and not acting like criminals. Still, some cops are on a hair trigger from past encounters, and you must behave very cautiously around them. Avoiding eye contact, mumbling and unpredictable movements all put them on edge and get them mentally ready to shoot you. Any "keep your hands" warning is a bad sign.
I've noticed big changes compared to police interactions before bodycams. These days they're much less likely to harass people who are minding their own business and not acting like criminals. Still, some cops are on a hair trigger from past encounters, and you must behave very cautiously around them. Avoiding eye contact, mumbling and unpredictable movements all put them on edge and get them mentally ready to shoot you. Any "keep your hands" warning is a bad sign.
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Anonymous
6/18/2025, 7:48:25 AM No.2794879
>>2794873
post Floyd most departments are understaffed
zoomers do not want to be cops and boomers all retired
Americans act unhinged because they're largely free to do so
post Floyd most departments are understaffed
zoomers do not want to be cops and boomers all retired
Americans act unhinged because they're largely free to do so
Anonymous
6/18/2025, 8:10:25 AM No.2794884
>>2794835
>"its my belt buckle"
Serious question: Can they actually be used as a belt buckle? I always see brass knuckles advertised as "belt buckles" as a legal loophole of sorts, so people can have them in states/countries where brass knuckles normally wouldn't be allowed. That left me wondering if they actually function as belt buckles, because I find it hard to believe that loopholes really can be that simple.
>"its my belt buckle"
Serious question: Can they actually be used as a belt buckle? I always see brass knuckles advertised as "belt buckles" as a legal loophole of sorts, so people can have them in states/countries where brass knuckles normally wouldn't be allowed. That left me wondering if they actually function as belt buckles, because I find it hard to believe that loopholes really can be that simple.
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Anonymous
6/20/2025, 10:36:19 AM No.2795510
>>2794884
Brass knuckles being illegal is a silly law. In the 80's, I guess it was a gang thing. It's the same for switchblades. which are also illegal. From a self-defense standpoint, handguns are legal in all 50 states. A handgun is obviously way more dangerous than a pair of brass knuckles.
Technically, brass knuckles are illegal even if they're a belt buckle in California and Nevada. I'm sure it's the same everywhere. I just said it was a belt buckle so the cop would have a reason not to arrest me. I had to say something. I've never bought another pair. I also tossed out my samurai swords because they were disguised to look like walking sticks which is also illegal in California.
Brass knuckles being illegal is a silly law. In the 80's, I guess it was a gang thing. It's the same for switchblades. which are also illegal. From a self-defense standpoint, handguns are legal in all 50 states. A handgun is obviously way more dangerous than a pair of brass knuckles.
Technically, brass knuckles are illegal even if they're a belt buckle in California and Nevada. I'm sure it's the same everywhere. I just said it was a belt buckle so the cop would have a reason not to arrest me. I had to say something. I've never bought another pair. I also tossed out my samurai swords because they were disguised to look like walking sticks which is also illegal in California.
Anonymous
6/21/2025, 9:38:50 AM No.2795811
>>2794803
>If a cop has an attitude, the less you say the better.
This is a good rule of thumb even with ostensibly nice cops. No need to be rude or combative, no need to go psychotic libertarian tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist who refuses to respond to questions and just starts shouting AM I BEING DETAINED (and I don’t know if I actually believe that people do this in real life, but I often see internet dweebs pretending that this is their MO online), but it’s always in your best interest to shut the fuck up and offer only the minimum information requested when a law enforcement officer is asking questions. Quietly, calmly, and politely. It’s really easy for a talkative or nervous person to invite a cop to be suspicious, or even to give a cop an attitude, and before you know it, you’ve accidentally consented to being searched, detained, or worse.
A friend of mine was driving in a national park (I think also in Utah, coincidentally, or somewhere else out West) with his girlfriend; they’re hippies, and happened to have a pinecone on their dashboard that had been with them for their whole cross-country road trip. The officer asked if the pinecone had been picked up in the park, they started stammering something about how they’d brought it from home, and they eventually ended up giving the officer permission to search the car without meaning to. There was a tiny quantity of marijuana in the glove compartment, a single joint or maybe even just a roach, and because they were on federal land, they ended up with federal possession charges. They didn’t go to jail or anything, but they had something like a year in which they were subjected to a bunch of random court-ordered drug tests. My friend would be called at six in the morning to go pee in a cup on his way to work.
>If a cop has an attitude, the less you say the better.
This is a good rule of thumb even with ostensibly nice cops. No need to be rude or combative, no need to go psychotic libertarian tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist who refuses to respond to questions and just starts shouting AM I BEING DETAINED (and I don’t know if I actually believe that people do this in real life, but I often see internet dweebs pretending that this is their MO online), but it’s always in your best interest to shut the fuck up and offer only the minimum information requested when a law enforcement officer is asking questions. Quietly, calmly, and politely. It’s really easy for a talkative or nervous person to invite a cop to be suspicious, or even to give a cop an attitude, and before you know it, you’ve accidentally consented to being searched, detained, or worse.
A friend of mine was driving in a national park (I think also in Utah, coincidentally, or somewhere else out West) with his girlfriend; they’re hippies, and happened to have a pinecone on their dashboard that had been with them for their whole cross-country road trip. The officer asked if the pinecone had been picked up in the park, they started stammering something about how they’d brought it from home, and they eventually ended up giving the officer permission to search the car without meaning to. There was a tiny quantity of marijuana in the glove compartment, a single joint or maybe even just a roach, and because they were on federal land, they ended up with federal possession charges. They didn’t go to jail or anything, but they had something like a year in which they were subjected to a bunch of random court-ordered drug tests. My friend would be called at six in the morning to go pee in a cup on his way to work.