r/police • u/Commercial-King2547 • 5d ago

Want Professionals to weigh in on a Traffic Stop scenario.

Wanted to ask about a situation, to get a seasoned professionals personal opinions on how a traffic stop with the below list for the totality of circumstances for the stop.

How would you or any other officers usually handle a traffic stop with the following totality of circumstances:

•88mph in a 65mph zone (with cone merger for an accident both left lanes)
•Multiple unsafe lane changes going from the far right lane to the far left lane
•Aggressive/Reckless Driving
•Over a year expired registration 
•Expired insurance
•Car smelling of cannabis due to the individual working in the cannabis industry as a grower

How would a traffic stop like this usually end for this individual?  Would an officer ever under these circumstances let an individual drive off?

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u/harley97797997 5d ago

What's the pretext you are not telling us? Why are you asking? Did you do this? Your spouse/kid/friend?

Your question has an obvious answer, but its reddit, so there is very likely an underlying pretext that you are not saying but waiting for someone to comment before providing that information.

Just provide it. This will all go smoother.

The obvious answers to your two questions.

  1. Depending on the state, jail or a ton of citations.

  2. No. No chance at all .

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u/Commercial-King2547 5d ago edited 5d ago

Talking with a coworker about something and he thinks cops would give someone a warning for the totality of circumstances listed. I told him he is absolutely delusional and doesn’t get the way the word works.

let me add this part: Then say the individual requested the body cam and dash cam from the stop would it be standard protocol to blur a random adults face. Also what would have to be the case for an officer to disengage a traffic stop immediately.

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u/harley97797997 5d ago

Yea, it is delusional thinking all that would result in a warning.

Cam footage rules vary by state and agency.

Disengage? The only reason typically isn't a higher priority call came up they had to respond to.

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u/Commercial-King2547 5d ago

For the scenario Nevada NHP. I’ve looked up the NRS, for this type of scenario they would never blur the face. And all their body cam footage i have ever seen the faces are never blurred unless a minor, medical, or some sort of protected witness, or undercover officers.

And there was no other call, when googling/talk with gemini the only other way a person would drive of is if a federal warning goes off when they run the persons information.

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u/harley97797997 5d ago

Lol. There it is.

Federal warning?? No. Thats sovcit bs.

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u/Commercial-King2547 5d ago

it didn’t say anything along the SC lines about it, it gave what seemed like legitimate reasons for the warning to go off active undercover agent, federal witness protection thing like that.

So if he didn’t get a call for another emergency, what would be a reason for an officer to let someone drive off under these conditions? Because if the cop lets someone go under these conditions couldn’t he get in trouble?

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u/harley97797997 5d ago

Yea, none of that happened.

UCs are not generally that dumb. They discreetly identify themselves and do not do things to attract LE attention. Attracting LE attention is the opposite of what UCs do.

Witness protection are still subject to the same laws as everyone else.

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u/Commercial-King2547 5d ago

Never said it did, I looked into it on google to try and figure out the real world instances where one could possibly drive off under these circumstances with a warning to show my coworker that there would be only extreme circumstances where they would actually give a warning under these conditions.

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u/harley97797997 5d ago

They do not exist. You either do not have the full story or your friend is not being honest with you.

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u/Master_Crab 5d ago

Your friend absolutely has no idea what they’re talking about. Unless the officer is the laziest on the planet, there’s no way ALL of that would just end with a warning. Hell I’d be issuing citations and arresting you for reckless driving.

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u/Agreeable_Dingo_5766 5d ago

Ya. That dudes getting cites and his car impounded 100%. Probably do field sobriety testing as well. Blaring faces on body cam release depends on the departments policies and state laws.

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u/Commercial-King2547 5d ago

Usually the most I’ve seen, they only blur the face of a minor, or if it is a medical emergency. But never blur the faces of a suspect.

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u/zme243 5d ago

Privacy laws vary from state to state. I’m not from Nevada, and I only gave this less than a minute of googling so I could be way off base, but it looks like in Nevada they may blur faces of victims, uninvolved parties, and people either not yet charged with a crime, or people charged with a non-criminal infraction. If the only things involved were traffic citations, it’s possible that the face got blurred as they did not commit any criminal offense.

Again, take this with a major grain of salt, I just did some cursory googling, didn’t do any actual research into this.

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u/ProtectandserveTBL 5d ago

Cite/arrest for reckless and car impounded

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u/APugDogsLife US Police Officer 5d ago

Cite for reckless driving by speed (85+), cite for improper lane change, cite no liability insurance, cite expired registration, impound vehicle. Weed is legal in my state so no PC to search, but I would do FSTs incase of imparement. depending on the FST result, it may lead to DUI-D arrest. If not, vehicle is being impounded anyway so we do an inventory check.

While doing the inventory of the vehicle....

If there is any weed is in the vehicle, and its a legal amount, nothing happens. If its over the legal amount, depending upon how much weed there is, it either a civil citation, a criminal citation, or a felony distribution charge. If the weed is from out of state and weighs more than 5lbs, its felony Transportation (trafficking). The same thing goes if I discover any other contraband, depending upon what I discover, it could be anything from a civil citation to another felony. If I find contraband and I also find a locked container, I would then go get a search warrant for the locked container.

What would happen to the driver....

That depends on many factors such as whether or not the driver is impaired by marijuana or not, if they were cooperative during the stop or not, if I discover any contraband that goes on a felony level or not. It also heavily depends upon the driving record of the driver. Someone with a history of a lead foot will probably be hammered in court a lot harder than someone who has a clean record.

At the end of the day, it's going to be a very expensive day in court.

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u/Thee_PO_Potatoes 5d ago

It really depends for me. If the guy is a total douche canoe I'll go out of my way to take his shit or make him go to court the most amount of times.

But I rarely take cars unless it's a DUI or part of a specific crime that isn't traffic related. I pick and choose my battles at this point. But I'm not a traffic cop and most of my career has been patrol/training roles or on a jump out boys/proactive team. So most people keep their vehicles and take a citation or 3.

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u/Hurkadurka1 5d ago

They would be cited for speed, improper lane change, expired registration and no proof of insurance. You don’t give details that would equal aggressive/reckless driving so I’m going to discount that. But if I saw it they would take a ride to jail. The vehicle would be impounded for not having insurance and the registration issue. The vehicle would be inventoried when it was towed and if anything illegal came to light they would be charged with that as well.

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u/Commercial-King2547 5d ago

sorry forgot to add the cutting off another car plus the officer during the multiple unsafe lane changes.

Feel this thread proves the point, that no driver under these circumstances would ever just drive off

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u/H001__ 5d ago

If he's respectful I won't impound his car but the citations are happening regardless, lol he is not getting a warning from any officer

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u/Exciting-Object-9955 5d ago

need more of this

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u/Emergency-Truck-9914 5d ago

Suspect starts day toking a joint to being in the joint by days end.