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Dec 5, 2007 | 04:07 PM

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Re youtube video.

I agree 100% with you. I have always been supporter of Tasers, but when I saw this man getting a tased.... I felt that it could have been avoided. After all, he didn't looked like the one that will cause some harm, moreover, he had his pregnant wife (which the officer may have overlooked at that time, but he also had an eighteen months old baby in the car seat. Someone with a family, will not do something stupid like taking off or attacking an officer. Unless, he is a crackhead. After reading your post, I agree that the officer was all right in his act, though, he could have been more lenient. I tell everyone who opposes the tasers, that people should be thankful to govt. for using tasers, at least, the cops don't have to use guns to control some body's erratic behavior. May be, some people were better of dead, at least they don't live to sue the police dept. for using the taser, or call them names. I however wish, that every officer on the street has sane thinking like you. Thanks for your inputs, always.

You are 100 percent right that it could have been avoided. You can't make assumptions about people just by their looks or them having a family, so I will have to disagree with that part of the reasoning. I was a bit dissappointed by this officer's actions, should have gone much differently. What surprised me the most is when the guy refused to sign he immediately asked him to get out of the car. Might be different in Ohio, but here in MD if you dont sign I ask them to read the bottom out loud where it says failure to sign MAY result in your arrest. You can also issue a second ticket for refusing to sign the first.

In this case I think both parties made numerous mistakes. It was clearly a case of one not wanting to listen to the other.

Dec 5, 2007 | 04:13 PM

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I know a cop near Germantown, who lets his wife drive his cruiser (charger) for running errands and taking it to Safeway/Walmart, and such. I have seen her at least a dozen times.It just pisses me off to see someone misusing the authority and the facilities provided by the govt. I guess, no one is perfect, and some are definitely not. I will love to see her getting busted doing that.

Do you know for a fact that his wife isn't an officer as well? There are more than a few officers in Germantown who's wives are also on the department. If that really is the case, that's pretty bad.

Dec 5, 2007 | 04:17 PM

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I seem like I'm always ranting in this thread. I actually had a question though.

Have you ever, or know of anyone that has, pulled someone over for going to slow?

The reason I'm asking is that I was coming around a bend yesterday and there was someone going 15 in a 30 and I had to slam my brakes and swerve off the road to avoid hitting this person. I'm lucky I didn't damage my car in the process.

Is there any truth to a "civilian arrest?"

I've given out a ticket for driving too slow. They were doing 30 in a 40 holding up traffic. Turned out neither had a license, big surprise.

Civilians "can" make arrests for certain things, but trust me when I say you shouldn't. Call us. People are inherently dangerous. We have training, weapons, and protection; you have a cell phone.

Dec 5, 2007 | 04:20 PM

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RE: Ask a Police Officer Thread Ver. 2

This one is a bit off the wall, but here goes.

Suppose someone wanted to walk around town with a sword strapped to their hip. Is there a permit that would allow such a thing?

Dec 5, 2007 | 04:26 PM

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Just curious, if an officer asked to search your car, can you demand that a lawyer be present? Or a high ranking police person to be present, like a sheriff..?

I found it extremely odd that he was just grabbing doors, opening them, and looking through stuff.

I thought that if a police officer demanded to search your car, and you could request the logic behind the search and if he provides a bogus reason, like to see if you have drugs, you can say no, and then the officer decides to search your car anyways and finds nothing, then can you sue?

I donâ€™t carry anything illegal, but the point is, my car is my privacy, and if a cop wants to search it then I want to be able to sue or retaliate via financial reimbursement for the aggravation and wasting of my time. Just like I canâ€™t go to your house and demand that you open it up and let me look around.

Absolutely not, you can NOT demand a lawyer be present for a vehicle search. You can't demand anything on a traffic stop. A car can only be searched with consent, probable cause, or incident to arrest. You have every right to say no when we ask if we can search the car. Don't assume that we are asking because we can't legally search the car, it makes things easier in court when you agree. When you agree it is actually the most beneficial to YOU because you are COOPERATING. Most of the time once we ask you that question, we've already made up our mind that we are searching the car and we have witnessed certain things that gave us the right to do so. A vehicle is much different from your home, driving is a priviledge not a right. We can't go searching any car we want for no reason, but again much different level than your home.

The search in this case was incident to arrest and was fully legal.

I will not get into exactly what we need to search vehicles. Sorry!

Dec 5, 2007 | 04:28 PM

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RE: Ask a Police Officer Thread Ver. 2

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This one is a bit off the wall, but here goes.

Suppose someone wanted to walk around town with a sword strapped to their hip. Is there a permit that would allow such a thing?

In this state you can not have a FIXED blade on your person regardless of size unless you are hunting or it's a tool of your profession. So unless the guy is an on duty urban ninja or sword hunting deer. That's gonna be a negative.

Dec 5, 2007 | 04:29 PM

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RE: Ask a Police Officer Thread Ver. 2

Odd. Is this because the concerned grandmothers that make laws actually believe that a sword is more dangerous than a gun? I know I can get a permit to carry those.

Dec 5, 2007 | 04:33 PM

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RE: Ask a Police Officer Thread Ver. 2

In MD getting a carry permit for a hand gun is VERY hard. It's different with guns that are carried legally. They are registered, controlled, etc, kinda hard to register a sword that has no ballisitcs to match etc.

Dec 5, 2007 | 04:39 PM

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RE: Ask a Police Officer Thread Ver. 2

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In MD getting a carry permit for a hand gun is VERY hard. It's different with guns that are carried legally. They are registered, controlled, etc, kinda hard to register a sword that has no ballisitcs to match etc.

I suppose that makes a bit of sense. It just seems like an elegant bit of society that was lost along the way to our wonderful nanny of a government.