You did good. But if it was me, I would have taken this idiots name and badge number and went to his boss. This cop is not doing his job properly and unless his boss knows this, he will continue doing the same stupid pull overs. Just my .02

 

As a retired cop, I can safely say "you got that right!"https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/images/smilies/patriot.gif

 

Agree, but if it is a '****' job for the cop, then quite and do something else. No need to take his/her frustration out on the public. That is what I did (not a cop) and I enjoyed my other life better.

 

My grandpa told me some great advice when I was a young boy I never forgot . " the most valuable skill you will ever learn in life will the ability to bite your tongue "
I never understood what he meant till I enetered the workforce !

 

Just a suggestion so you can always retain your integrity. Next time you have a crash, someone keys your car or it gets stolen, don't call the police. Since you have issues with them, it would be hypocritical for you to utilize their services. I'm sure you are fully capable of handling all problems yourself with bravery and skill.

 

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So amazingly wrong.
Manie Traffic code:
§2066. Following too closely
1. Prohibition. An operator of a vehicle may not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard for the speed of the vehicles, the traffic and the condition of the way.

 

I stand corrected. And am fine with that... but that's a pretty open ended law... who defines the parameters of "reasonable and prudent" I'm quite sure I could find any lawyer in a minute that would be able to argue that. Either way? The police are just as guilty of that "law" as I am.

 

Try learning their job before assuming things. There are 5 levels of priority to calls. A priority one means lights and sirens all the way. A priority 2 means as fast as you can safely get there without lights and sirens. When the officer pulls up to the light and activates his lights to go through then shuts them off, its a priority 2 call. Its 100% legal and proper procedure. Sometimes the lights and sirens alert the bad guy that police are coming and thats not what they want to do because the bad guy gets away. Hatred for cops makes many people assume completely erroneous crap. Learn their job first then you can make an educated opinion.

 

Or cops can do their jobs without abusing their authority, that works too.

 

It is not having an issue with them as police, it is making sure they do their job in accordance with the law. I have had good encounters with police and not so good. Just like I have good service with other professions and not so good. I have ALWAYS brought to management poor service. Police do not get a pass on poor performance.

 

West Bloomfield Michigan
Southbound Telegraph Road

Fire truck pulls out onto the right lane of a 50 MPH six lane divided highway (3 lanes north, 3 lanes south) and proceeds at 20 MPH. I step on the brakes and slow down just as we pass the police cruiser parked on the side of the road. As we go by, he falls in behind the Vette and lights me up.

As soon as the police lights come on and traffic clears, the fire truck pulls to the inside left lane, into a turn-around and heads back to the station. His emergency lights never came on.....

Charge on the ticket:
"Following an emergency vehicle within 500 feet".

Fine:
$278 including court costs.

Since it was a moving violation, AAA cancelled my insurance.....

So if you happen to be traveling through West Bloomfield on Telegraph and see a police cruiser on the side of the road just down from the fire station, pull in behind him, get out and raise the hood, then check the oil or something.....

HH

 

 

I didn't realize getting back to the police station constitutes a priority 2 call. In a city where the past 60 years had only one murder, has no gangs, and the cops literally have nothing to do except give traffic tickets and deal with petty theft.

 

Sorry, if anyone did not deserve the warning take it to the next level and complain. Nothing happens if people just suck it in and do nothing.

 

My wife and I both worked for the same corporation. The company had a bonus system that included making corporate goals, department goals, team goals, and personal goals for the year. It was payday and we had both received a large bonus that Friday.

It was the first really nice day of spring, so I put the top down on the way home. My wife was explaining to me how stupid I was for speeding and how it was coming out of my bonus check and not hers. Her Ancestry DNA test shows about 45% Viking and 45% Irish ancestry. Her temper matches her red hair. It saved me a very expensive ticket.

 

This is how I see it... If the cop was an ***, he would have ticketed you... he didn't.. in his jurisdiction, the judge who knows him well will believe him over you. Too fast for conditions, driving aggressively, are judgment calls and always unless mitigating circumstances can be proven.. eg going to the hospital or some sort of other emergency, will lean to the professionals judgment..

Its a tough job for a cop in this day to choose to put his life on the line in a traffic stop. Also he is witness to the aftermath of accidents by people whos habit it is to push a slower moving car in front. Aggressive driving is not safe or legal. If he felt that you were indeed too close, he was doing you a favor pointing it out.. And again if he wanted to show his power, or be an ***, he would have ticketed you... the presumption here was to stop you, risk his life, and hope that a slight close encounter might adjust your driving habits, after all everyone THINKS they are a great driver.
Be thankful he just warned you, it may have saved your life or that of someone else down the road.. IN any event it made enough impact on you to come here.

Someone here said how did he know you were there if he didn't see your front end.. ??? Easy , he saw the windshield which should have been back 40 feet, not the 25 or 30 feet he saw. Cops don't want to stop people for nothing, that wears very thin very fast. Cops want to prevent the time and paperwork and the street fatalities cause by poor driving habits. Viewing the death of a family with little children etc. because of someone's bad driving habits, makes cop want to insure that people with poor driving habits are put on notice. again he could have cited you but didn't.. good for him.

Just my opinion.. are their assh.l.e. cops? of course there are.. But I don't think so in this case...

Bill aka ET

 

Most of them do. They don't want to create problems for themselves anymore than the rest of us do.

 

FWIW...my opinion and $0.50 will get you possibly a phone call. Backstory...I got pulled over on the interstate after I'd passed legally I might add, a highway patrol and a semi truck. When I pulled back into the right lane, the hp pulls me over. Stated I didn't use my turning signal when I pulled back in front of the semi. Warning ticket. WTF?!? Talked to a friend that was a former hp. He said that the probable reason I got pulled over is that failure to signal is a common reason to pull people over for suspicion of DUI and they need a number of generic stops for that offense to support that they aren't just picking on bar patrons leaving the pub. Probably not a much different reason than why you got pulled over. Wise to keep your tongue. Of course you could have said that it was such a nice rear end, you just wanted to get a closer look !!

 

These threads never end well. I did 30 years on the job. Served as Chief the last several. 99 percent of the guys on the job do the right things and would risk their life to save a stranger. All you hear are the bad cop stories.
Motor vehicle stops are a very small part of the job. Domestic violence, bar calls, fights, fatal motor vehicle accidents, burglaries occupy a lot of our time. Sad that some want to paint with a wide brush and be so negative.

 

My issue isn't so much with the bad cops as it is that there is no real system to weed out and discipline/fire the bad cops. Make a complaint and it usually ends up nowhere. Only when it blows up to national media attention is there the possibility of corrective action taken. There also seems to be the mentality that cops have to have each other's backs regardless of how in the wrong they are.