How many times have you been pulled over by cops while driving this year?

I got lots of speeding tickets in my younger years when I was driving over-powered sports cars.

Last ticket I got was for running a stop sign in 1992.

Haven't gotten pulled over even once since then.

Newsela wrote:

Fantasylib wrote:

I'll make it simple. Go put the uniform on you little monkeys. Then you can talk about grammar and sentence structure. For now, go put the uniform on.

Excuse me? You can't take my critique about your statement so you had to resort to calling me a "little monkey"? This is what's wrong with our current police state. That kind of mentality has zero respect for civilians, especially these who are in the minorities. As long as you think your way is the only way, it's going to be a sad affair for everyone who's living in that kind of authoritarian police state.

Thanks for your amazing and insightful perspective.

Maybe if you weren't such a little punk about it and addressed his statement he wouldn't have done that. Guess what? It's a running(non) related message board. There are no points for grammar. I could tell what he meant, likely so could you. It's a pretty safe assumption that if you give a stupid, punk reply...you'll get the same one back.

Even if I was being a punk about his grammar, does that still condone the racist comment?

never pulled over wrote:

I have never heard of anyone getting pulled over for speeding by 5 mph.

You have obviously never driven in the state of Delaware.

blapper wrote:

How many times have you been pulled over by cops while driving this year?

The better question is how many people have been pulled over by cops while not driving? That'd be quite an accomplishment.

exthrower wrote:

African Americans suffer from mass paranoia....Black culture has taught them a boatload of false, negative, unproductive values that fill them with resentment and anger...Most Black children should be taken away from their Mothers and raised by Whites until the cycle is broken....

Actually, racist white culture has taught them to be on the lookout for stuff that many others have the luxury of not thinking about. White people should be taught not to engage in such discriminatory behavior as much as they do. I got pulled over by a cop from behind at about 11pm at night. he then proceeds to tell me that the reason he pulled me over was because I was not supposed to have a couple of flags hanging from my rearview mirror - I'm talking 3 inches by 2 inches or so. Like he really spotted those from behind me at night. White people have the luxury of calling people paranoid for getting fed up of dealing with crap like that regularly.

I deal wit cracker cops all the time. Best advice is tell the cop you're sorry, take the flags down and move on. Kiss my ass never works.

I didn't tell him to kiss my ass. I merely told him I was unaware that it was against the law to have those there. Of course, I don't think for a minute that that is why he pulled me over at 11pm from behind. I'm merely stating tha tit is easy for people who don't get pulled over for dumb stuff or stopped while entering their own building or be told the apartment you set up an appointment to view is no longer vacant when you show up at the door (only to have someone else call later that day and be told the apartment is still available), or have a cop give you a hard time when you're trying to evict a delinquent white tenant from your own rental property (tenant called the cops on me, and the cop came and told me to stop being uppity when I explained I was the owner of the building), etc. It's easy for people who don't experience that crap regularly to talk about people who deal with that to stop being so sensitive. Or they'll tell me some story about how race has nothing to do with any of these things and that I was probably in the wrong in each case. How many white people get told to stop being "uppity" by a cop? Lol.

I've been pulled over about 6 times in the last 14 months. One time was running a red light and another time I passed a cop car going 60 in a 35.

I've gotten off everytime, my uncle was a state cop and he gave me a few tips on proper etiquette.

The other times I was driving a town car for my limousine buisness.

I have been "pulled over" while running.

I had passed an elementary school on a very hot day (running shorts no shirt). The fenced in area the kids play in comes within ~10 feet of the road and a overzealous teacher hellbent on protecting her students from a college pervert called the cops.

Officer was a royal douche but he couldn't do anything except issue idle threats about running by schools.

Do you mean since January 1? zero.

I do get pulled over fairly regularly, and it's obviously bs reasons. It's usually late at night when they're looking for alcohol. Somehow their "crossing the line" or whatever reasons always end up as warnings.

blapper wrote:

Chris Rock has been pulled over 3 times in the last 2 months.

http://gawker.com/chris-rock-is-posting-a-picture-each-time-he-gets-stopp-1695118672

I haven't been pulled over since summer of 2007.

weak - and untrue. I was there, but I WAS exaggerating - it was over a 2 year period

in2015? wrote:

Do you mean since January 1? zero.

I do get pulled over fairly regularly, and it's obviously bs reasons. It's usually late at night when they're looking for alcohol. Somehow their "crossing the line" or whatever reasons always end up as warnings.

My car is 7 years old and last winter it seemed like every time I had a light go out (both headlights, license plate lights) and I was driving right around midnight, I would get pulled over. Obviously, when they pull you over for something minor like that, or failing to signal, or whatever, it's to get into your car for one reason or another. In fact, I was once talking to a county sheriff's deputy who said he wouldn't pull over a soccer mom in a minivan who was missing her front license plate, but he would some old crappy car to see if they had drugs. So if you want to traffic large amounts of cocaine, it's best to find a soccer mom who drives a minivan.

This ^

Nobody gets pulled over for being less than 11 MPH over the speed limit. And EVERYBODY lies about how fast they were going when they got pulled over.

I once went to traffic school and the "teacher" polled the 30 people in the room about (a) how fast they were going when they got their speeding ticket and (b) why they were in such a hurry that day. To a person, they all swore (1) they were going at most 10 MPH over the speed limit and (2) that was a very unusual day for them because they NEVER speed but on this particular day...

It was hilarious. Here we were, 30 people selected not at random but specifically because we got speeding tickets and not a single one ever sped (except for that one time)! This, when cruising down any highway everyone knows that the standard speed is 10 - 15 MPH over the speed limit. But remarkably a roomful of folks ticketed for speeding ALL never drove over the speed limit. What are the odds?

I am a demographer and I can say that the research is very clear--police pull over black motorists at a much greater rate than white drivers. This is without doubt a major problem with our law enforcement system, on several levels.

Regarding the issue of safe and considerate driving--setting aside the important issue of racism--traffic research shows that over two thirds of all drivers disobey basic laws that would make the roads safer, with the the biggest problems being impairment due to electronic devices, speeding in residential neighborhoods, and failure to stop for red lights.

I have been driving since 1963, mostly in Massachusetts. I am black, but I have never ever been pulled over. Good luck for sure, but I also think that this is due to the fact that I am part of the 1/3 or drivers who do not text, talk, or speed. Sometimes following the rules pays off. It is also satisfying to not be a bully, like so many other drivers.

I have been pulled over twice in 2015 - both times within a few hours of each other. I was on a long trip from Phoenix, AZ to Kansas City, MO. The first time was at 1am on the Interstate in New Mexico, and I had the cruise on 10 over, and I got a ticket for going 10 over. On one hand, going strictly by the speed limit (I think it was 75), yes I deserved the ticket...on the other hand, it was freaking 1am, I wasn't driving dangerously (unless you consider going 85 mph driving dangerously, which I guess you could say that's dangerous but oh well), no one was out, I think it was dumb that I got a ticket. I can't really be mad at the cop, because he was just doing his job, but he was not very pleasant with me about it.

The one about 12 hours later, I was going seven over on a US highway in Kansas (72 on a 65). He didn't give me a ticket, and he was very pleasant with me.

I complain about getting pulled over in these instances, but really, barring crazy/extraordinary circumstances, no one ever has a good excuse to excessively speed, so if we get pulled over for speeding without an actually good reason, we should suck it up and deal with it.

On the other hand...cops should always be pleasant with anyone they pull over, unless the driver is obviously not respecting him, and unless the cop has a valid reason to suspect anything, and if the driver was not going more than 10 mph over, the driver probably shouldn't be ticketed. I say save the attitude for drivers who have an attitude themselves, and who were actually excessively speeding and/or driving dangerously.

blapper wrote:

Chris Rock has been pulled over 3 times in the last 2 months.

http://gawker.com/chris-rock-is-posting-a-picture-each-time-he-gets-stopp-1695118672

I've been pulled over twice this year, and I'm white and living in Los Angeles. Didn't get tickets either time, but both times it was after 2 am.

Blacks need to stop whining about this. To be blunt, they commit crimes at levels that are far, far above other racial groups in America. Period. This can't be denied, and it can't be blamed on poverty either, as other groups who are as poor or have even less do not commit crimes at the levels of blacks. Let the whiners scream out the lies they've learned from their soc professors, their self-hating knee-jerk responses are well known. They never ask themselves who has made themselves self-haters, lol. These libphags should ask themselves if it were 3 am and my car broke down in a major urban area that is black, am I in no more danger than if I were in a white, Hispanic or Asian neighborhood? lol Yeah, lie and rationalize.

Why am I not surprised you are citing the show "Cops"? And I guess you think watching Duck Dynasty will help people from other countries learn what white Americans are like.