RadiomanATL
Senior Member
What if you run from an unlawful stop?
What if monkeys flew out your butt.
Stupid question btw.
You do know that police make unlawful stops on occasion? I am pretty sure that I have the right not to be subjected to unreasonable search, and that the police do not have the right to stop anyone and everyone they feel like.
What if the person driving the car is your daughter or wife, and she is in an area where someone who has been posing as a police officer has been raping woman after stopping them on deserted roads? Would you want her to pull over just because there were flashing lights behind her, or would you prefer that she keep driving, and pull into a well lighted, and populated' location before doing so?
Something like this actually happened in California, and the police all went to the legislature after the fact and lobbied against a law that would have allowed anyone to do this. The result was a law that actually makes it a criminal act not to stop whenever you see flashing lights behind you, no matter where you are, or what is happening.
Call me an idiot if you want, but that just proves that we give police to much power, and way too much benefit of the doubt.
We actually had a few instances of people impersonating police officers pulling people over here in the last few years. One of them wasn't a rape thing, but still a sexual harassment thing, IIRC. Guy was bugging women for "dates".
The other instance, the dude was just a whackjob, wannabe cop. IIRC, he even had "tickets" printed on pads of paper that he would hand out. Weirdo.
And I'm pretty sure that the law here is, as long as you do not try and pull away, maintain a reasonable speed and acknowledge the officer behind you, you can go a couple of miles until you feel safe to pull over. It's a pretty grey and vague area though....this how long you can go before pulling over. Luckily, most people down here have common sense.