Stopped in motor home for going too slow on I-80
This just goes to show how things can escalate to a huge problem when you are just driving along minding your own business. Kinda hard to believe this goes on. Motor home stopped for going too slow
Forum Discussion
There are many questions about this whole affair and perhaps we may never know the reason why the first police officer called ahead to initiate another stop of this driver.
I don't think that any of us are so naive that we believe that police officers will never make a stop unless it is for a valid reason. Even some of the officers on this forum have said that they can always come up with a reason to stop someone.
We had two cities here in Florida that were famous for stopping people with out of state plates and issuing them a traffic ticket or two, or three. Most were for speeding but the facts were that the revenue from these tickets amounted to the majority of those towns income. Those cities have since lost their police forces which is being taken care of now by the county sheriff.
Police have been known to profile drivers going north on I95 looking for vehicles that fit the pattern of those vehicles used to transport drugs. Fine and dandy but if you are an innocent person, driving a vehicle that meets the officers profile, you may get stopped. It is not always the bad guys that get stopped and most officers that I know freely admit to profiling people, even tho it is frowned on from a legal standpoint.
I don't think that any of us are so naive that we believe that police officers will never make a stop unless it is for a valid reason. Even some of the officers on this forum have said that they can always come up with a reason to stop someone.
We had two cities here in Florida that were famous for stopping people with out of state plates and issuing them a traffic ticket or two, or three. Most were for speeding but the facts were that the revenue from these tickets amounted to the majority of those towns income. Those cities have since lost their police forces which is being taken care of now by the county sheriff.
Police have been known to profile drivers going north on I95 looking for vehicles that fit the pattern of those vehicles used to transport drugs. Fine and dandy but if you are an innocent person, driving a vehicle that meets the officers profile, you may get stopped. It is not always the bad guys that get stopped and most officers that I know freely admit to profiling people, even tho it is frowned on from a legal standpoint.
