Rant

[BanginJimmy]

Well as my post on FB stated. I was driving home from a friends house in Portsmouth, OH (where u see my car pictured). Up route 23 during the time change. It was 3am, a Ohio Highway Patriolman ended up behind me at a light. He drove behind me for 1.4miles, speed limit is 35, I was going 35 as I knew he was behind me. Over the bridge through 3 more lights... then turns his flashers on and pulls me over in a Pizza Hut parking lot. I have the white Accord u see in my sig.

He comes up and before he even speaks I say "you have absolutely no reason to pull me over, you're either hoping I'm drunk, carrying drugs, or 'could be drinking, so I'll give you a min for you to think of a reason you pulled me over'". He stutters saying "ah.. ah.." so I interrupt and say "yea, just because Scioto county was on A&E and National Geographic for meth and pills, you feel that u can just stop 'me' (as I was upset) all the time". Then I finished and said "I'm sick of being profiled here, it happens everytime I'm in town..."

So he doesnt even look in my car, takes my license and registration to his car, 2mins later comes back and explains he pulled me over because of my vanity plate, the lightly tinted plate cover. (not because I'm missing my front plate, which would of been a reasonable excuse to stop me IMO). He finishes with a "is this your car?? I say "what does the registration say?" He hands my things back and I leave. 3mins total time for the stop, just to check, when nothing was wrong.

Overly obsessive about following traffic laws is a piece of a profile, especially at 3am. The people that pay that close of attention to speed limits at that time of night are those with something to hide. You said you were in a meth county, there is strike 1. You could have easily been drunk, strike 2. Unusual driving habits, yes, I know how stupid that sounds, is strike 3. 1 more thing to consider, if you were paying that much attention to your mirrors and gauages that you knew exactly were the cop was, how far you went, and exactly how fast you were going, there is a good chance you were also drifting side to side in your lane, causing even more suspicion.

I got arrested by a dirty cop in douglasville a couple years back. I had my old 240sx towed on a dolly to the emmission shop at the end of my road which is in a privately owend gas station and i happen to be good friends with the owner of the gas station and emmission shop. I went thru the hassle of loading it so i wouldnt get in trouble as my tags were expired even though its less than a mile from home. I unload park the car and park the truck and dolly beside it. As i waited for the guy to get the dyno up and running i went in the store and was talking to tye owner for 10 min when he noticed a cop going thru my car.i walked out nice and didnt walk up behind him i approched him from the front and asked what the deal was he asked for license and insurance. I gave it to him... I went to jail. Ue said i had a warrent in gwinnett... Never even called in my license just lookd at it and blam in handcuffed... So 6hours later i walked out of the jail as gwinnett had no warrent... Walked 9 miles to my car at the station still to see the cop arrest someone else... Court day comes around and what ya know the report says he pulled me over but there was no tape.... Charges dropped but lost the bail money and cop was sternly talked too... That same day 9 cases were thrown out because of the cop and hes still on the force.... Everytime i drive thru that town now if he recognizes me i get stopped 29min later as they can only hold u for 30 min i get released yet i do written comolaints and nothing.... Some cops just really are durty

I'm just going to call BS on this one. A cop isnt just going to make up a story about a warrant because it is a slam dunk lawsuit for false imprisonment, and one that you can go after the officer personally for. When you got to the jail, the officer would also need the warrant number in order to book you. Without that info, the jail would likely refuse to take you.