Originally Posted by
RGNY
was it a crime/drug area? what time of day?
the "stop sign" thing is an easy way to make a contact to look for: people buying drugs from their cars, coming from happy hour (esp. on Friday), or just lights/inspection/tires/seatbelt.......
standard w/ the locals here is to let you roll on for about four blocks so you might question your memory. who thinks about what they did four stop signs ago?
i'm sure you -did- stop, but it really doesn't matter. he can write the ticket and even if you decide to show up to traffic court he won't and you have to hope the judge will see it your way.
another situation that occurred near me was that the mayor told the police: "city's broke. if you want a retirement fund, write some tickets." guess what happened...
[i'm a LEO in NY, every state is a little different, so...]
About 9:15pm, downtown L.A. My wife works at a mortuary as a closing secretary, and it's right across the street, literally, from a police personnel building. That's why I'm stupid careful around that area, because I see plenty of cops cruising around so I don't play with stop signs there. Hell, I don't play with stop signs anywhere since I see so many people get pulled over.
I buy what you are saying, because he WAS behind me and I DID stop completely. Who wouldn't if you saw a cop behind you? What bothered me was how the guy straight up lied to my face that he wasn't behind me and that I didn't stop completely.
I hear you on that last part too. That's why some people get tickets for going 75 on the freeway at times, when the norm in SoCal is like 80.