96 in a 30. In some places that would be criminal and not just a traffic ticket. Arrest, vehicle, no matter who owns it, towed. But not with the good ole boys.
15 years ago, a Florida State Trooper stopped n arrested a cop for big time speeding...... She got trashed by the other cops. I don't think she lasted long after that. Don't think she is a cop anymore. nsfw mature
My uncle was a cop. Worked with the FBI because he was an actual good cop so he was recruited to IA. No cop ever talked to him or trusted him his entire career. He hated it. He was completely alone and ostracized by the supposed brothers in blue because he was honest and regrets even being on the force. Makes furniture now. Unrelated he was favored to win an international velodrome bicycle race when he was 15 and was targeted, opponents crashed into him and he didn't race velodrome ever again.
The Blue Botherhood protects their own....regardless of how nasty n illegal they are. Shameful. Good Decent cops get trashed and isolated.....like Serpico. nsfw mature
At least they didn't kill him. I've heard of cops doing that to good cops, either intentionally send them to danger and not provide backup. Or oops missed the target
This is... kind of what should happen, no? Guy clearly over the speed limit. Officer pulls him over. Officer is polite. Guy who got pulled over accepts his ticket. Have a nice day.
Well he was going 3 times the speed limit almost so should be taken to jail, any of us would. And that ticket is likely going to get thrown out anyway. So yeah the offender was nice.
96 on a freeway is superspeeder territory, that's $200 fine plus another $200 for superspeeding, and a nice hit to his insurance. In a 35 that's probably worse.
What I also see here, with my low expectations, is both officers respecting each other and accepting responsibility. The sheriff knows he's wrong and didn't go full Karen mode or anything.
Please identify for me a jurisdiction where the average person can go 95 in a 35mph speed limit zone and not end up getting arrested. I'll save you some trouble. You fucking can't. That'd get anyone else arrested.
Yeah, yeah, it's cool the cop got a ticket, but I noticed he wasn't pulled out of the car at gunpoint and made to lay on the ground cuffed. The cop also didn't ask if there were any illegal drugs in the vehicle and asked if he had a problem with it being searched. No drug sniffing fog was brought out to go around the car. Nowhere was the car towed and the driver taken into custody after doing 60+mph over the speed limit.
This is one reason for my unpopular opinion. Speed cameras and red light cameras would reduce interaction between police and speeders, and reduce profiling. People just don’t like them, because they like speeding.
In the full video, he actually asks his boss if it's ok to ticket him, his boss says that it's up to him. I'm glad he did the right thing, but there shouldn't have even been a check in with the boss and the boss certainly shouldn't have said it was up to him 🤦♀️
Well, but, it actually IS up to him. Cops have broad discretion over who to ticket, and the particulars of this situation didn't change that I expect downvotes, but that is still how the law works
Sure, that’s a rule to allow for extenuating circumstances where the law was not prepared to be applied (racing your dying baby to the hospital is a good reason to speed) but the cop uses their discretion to determine this. So in this video, we can agree the cop didn’t use his discretion in the spirit that the law was meant to protect. You’re technically correct but only in the worst way. That’s why you’d get downvoted.
yes but also in the full video, the cop who pulls over the chief queef is kinda tired of pulling over the same dude over and over. Go ahead and double up on that abuse of power. Disgusting we let this go on so long.
Doesn't matter because you don't get arrested for reckless driving either; just a bigger fine. Stop letting you hateboner for cops delude you into thinking things that aren't true.
Huh, you're right. Georgia doesn't have anything posted other than super speeder laws which tacks additional fines on and additional points on your license. In other states I've lived in this level of speeding becomes reckless endangerment and you get arrested. Regardless, my point still stands. The cop writing the citation did not act responsibly, break the law, suffer the consequences, nobody else would get asked if the cop should write a ticket for them.
Let's be honest here. This is an example of why the combination of FOIA and cameras are so important. This used to be a "laugh about it and move on" situation, but since the dash cameras automatically record when the lights are on, and people are constantly demanding those videos through FOIA, they don't want to get caught doing something so obvious. Slight difference between being a good cop and just being good at not getting caught.
The black dude is in uniform - may be off work (idk) - but if the black dude in uniform was on 'company time', then he should be in a bit of trouble too (?for not putting a stop to the speeding?).
Not how traffic stops work. The passenger is only liable in DUI situations. There is no reasonable way for an adult who by own recognizance chose to operate a motor vehicle to shift blame to the passenger. They were kicking tires on the souped up charger and the sheriff clearly wanted to show the underling how easy the vehicle reached 88 mph. The ONLY thing the sheriff should have done before doing so, was to call in a code two no assistance needed. Legal speeding cheat code activated.
There is a local law academy where the cadets were graduating. So there was a lot of bastards around. A deputy, city cop, and state trooper gathered around a man who had a pig for a pet. Someone asked the deputy if he was here with family and he said yes, but the pig was not family.
“its first use was a general derogatory term for anyone who is disagreeable, overweight or taking more than their share.
In 1874, a slang dictionary published in London listed the definition of pig as ‘a policeman, an informer. The word is now almost exclusively applied by London thieves to a plain-clothes man, or a “nose.”’ … 1/
“in the late 1960s … used by protestors and event organizers during the 1968 Democratic National Convention and popularized in the media. A group calling themselves the ‘Yippies’ protested outside the Chicago convention opposing the Vietnam War. The activists carried an actual pig named Pigasus as their presidential candidate, and later called officers ‘pigs’ when told to disband the demonstration. Immediately after, press headlines blared, ‘Police Called Pigs.’” 2/
“The Black Panther Party referenced police officers as pigs in the 60s as well. In 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale officially developed the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) in Oakland, Calif. Their goal was to serve the needs of oppressed communities and ‘defend them against their oppressors,’ said Newton explaining the creation of the BPP. The group was involved in violent showdowns and dramatic trials that defined the BPP in the national news - “ 3/
“often overshadowing the ‘urban survival programs’ they ran to uplift their communities. Seale delivered a memorial speech for the death of 18-year old Bobby Hutton, the first recruit of the Black Panther Party, at the Kaleidoscope Theater in Los Angeles in 1968. According to American Public Media’s Say It Plain, Say It Loud, around 600 people, many white, crammed into the theater to listen to Seale’s speech and to grieve.” 5/
Lol they dont arrest their own haha thats why cops have the balls to be assholes, because it'll only be a slap on the wrist for shooting people in the back after they claim self defense
In my state speeding is explicitly not reckless without additional reckless conduct. Even if it was reckless it's still a citation offense not an arrest
The ticket had a mandatory court date so an arrest is probably optional since the driver is required to go before a judge no matter what. They are basically skipping straight past the arrest and going straight to being released on their own recognizance (no bail required). This is often an option, even if cops don't choose to use it.
No, speeding/reckless driving is a misdemeanor in GA. Unless you're drunk or ran someone over, you get a ticket and a court date, and the judge decides whether you get jail time or not.
I've had several speeding tickets that should've been license yoinkers knocked down to 20-over/must appear citations. Probably because I wasn't a dick about it.
it's up to the officer in most places.. when I was in college, I was speeding like a fool since I was trying to make it back to my town for work after dropping my brother off in his college about 6 hrs away. I almost ran into him. I should have been arrested that day, but he let me go because I was a dumb ass kid. I stopped driving like a maniac afterward.
I find most traffic cops aren’t trying to ruin lives, just make things safer. And most of the laws are written in such a way as to give leniency when needed, and throw the book when necessary.
Empty road, no other people, houses, obstacles, etc… small fine to discourage repeated behavior.
Middle of a school zone when kids are out? Go straight to jail.
Stopping traffic to race? Believe it or not, straight to jail (IMO)
Most jurisdictions leave it at officer discretion to actually book you into jail for a criminal traffic citation. The ticket still has a mandated court date and you have to sign it saying that you're accepting the ticket in place of an arrest. If you don't sign it, you go to jail. If you don't show up to court, you get a warrant.
Depends. School zone? Fuck yes. Road that hasn’t had a recent survey done in 20 years… meh.
In SoCal most freeways are 65 and the average speed of traffic is 80. Technically reckless endangerment for going more than 15 over the limit. But going the limit is dangerous too if everyone else is going 80+. Most cops out here give you “disobeying a highway sign” or something similar unless you’re being reckless or swerving/weaving/racing/messaging, etc.
I have been informed by news and the Internet, that it seems also to be okay to shoot the people in the car. But I guess that might be at the cop's discretion
I’m going off of my state. If he went over 100 yep. But under the ticket would be like excessive speeding, aggressive driving or whatever it’s called, and so on. But if they can see you out someone else’s life in danger it pushes for the arrest even under 100.
I had an officer mistype my speed as 265mph in a 65. I went to court and said "your honor it's a Kia Sorrento (2011), it couldn't do that speed downhill on ice." And the officer didn't show up, so the judge threw it out.
95 in a 35 is criminal speeding and depending on the manner of conduct could be felony reckless endangerment which would result in a suspended license. A manslaughter charge would most definitely be an arrest, probably with bond.
In my country they instated this "crazy driving" law which basicly boils down to if you're driving like either 200 km/h or double whatever is allowed on the road you're caught on, the court will simply TAKE AWAY THE CAR you were driving in. Not like, you have to pick it up at the impound. They take it and sell it off at a private auction. If you leased it, borrowed it from a friend or something, you deal with that. It now belongs to the state. Oh and they take your license too obviously.
Different states have different laws regarding speeding. No amount of speeding is an arrestable offense in the state I live in, but just across the state line you can be arrested for going 30 over
You and your facts and logic that the law might be different in different places. The people round here have their pitch forks sharpened and their torches freshly coated in tar so that they're ready when they need to jump to the conclusion that the one cop did the other cop a favour.
I would hope for an ass chewing from his boss as well, though a suspension of his license would hurt him most. He'd be relegated to desk duty at that point since he couldn't legally operate a vehicle, and he looks like the type that desk duty would really chap his ass
I got clocked at 120 at 2 am on an empty Iowa highway. It was a straightaway at the end of a 20 hr road trip on my way to an admissions interview. I apologized and admitted I was just seeing how fast my '95 Hyundai Accent could go. They ticketed me but didn't arrest me.
Somewhere else, lol. UI asked me if I was in favor of robo-docs, and I answered yes, that I thought they could be better than human docs in limited situations, and that was apparently the wrong answer. 14 years later, here we are with computers already arguably doing a better job of interpreting some radiological images than humans. Ah well. I probably woulda been miserable there anyway.
No. No they should not. I might be inclined to be slightly less upset in this situation, but generally speaking let's stop shooting black people or at least reduce it to the same level as shooting white women. And like the number of white women shot now, not after the police start shooting them to justify the amount of black people they shoot.
Depends what he wrote on the ticket. I was clocked going 99 on the freeway but the officer said since I had a clean record he wrote it up as >66. That allowed traffic school. That dude was the most polite understanding highway patrol officer.
Yeah, but cops shouldn't get leniency. They know the law. They're enforcing the law. They're entrusted with the monopoly on violence. They should be held to a higher standard than everybody else.
I was driving mid afternoon on a super empty freeway coming home on my 2 hr commute doing like 93. I looked over and saw highway patrol and his brake lights come on, I moved all the way over and pulled off like 100 yards ahead of him. He didn't even have to enter the road way. I also rolled all the windows down, tossed my keys on the dash and kept my hands on the steering wheel. Probably most relaxed stop he ever done lol. Did the same for me so I could get traffic school.
I guess Karma was looking out for me. I was polite. He asked (basically) if I had an excuse (emergency, late, etc) and I said no. I have a pretty fast smooth riding car and I said it just got away from me (very hilly area) and I just didn’t realize I was going that fast. I thought for sure I was going to jail and my car impounded.
For me, it was >55 in a 25 school zone, 8AM on a Saturday morning. A tiny little town in the middle of nowhere, with nothing more visible than a schoolyard fence and a speed limit sign that I sailed right past… I was scared out of my mind rolling down the window, and the cop knew it.
He wrote me up for 5 over, no mention of the school. A simple fine and that should be it.
I still ended up with a warrant for my arrest, but that insanity wasn’t the cop’s fault…
Every year at college it happened, got a chain of …4(?) speeding tickets reduced from reckless for being cooperative when the lights came on. Making an arrest & waiting for the tow is a huge pain in the ass for everyone.
Partially confirm - college degree is recommended but not required. https://www.michigan.gov/mspjobs/become-a-trooper My job lets me talk with MSP frequently, and they're generally all patient and polite. Local PD otoh can be uppity and frustrating to talk with.
To be pedantic, anyone who drives a motor vehicle greatly increases their potential for killing someone. But yeah, their chances were higher than the average person's at the time.
Depends on. When and where you do it. Open stretches of highway in Texas with no one around, ok, reduced ticket. In a school zone at 3pm on a Tuesday? Straight to jail.
Not to apologize for someone breaking the law, but as a german it amazes me that people think 100mph is inherently dangerous. Even though many go 80mph for fuel economy reasons, 100 mph or even 120 is a very regular speed to travel at here. Our Highways aren‘t more dangerous, even compared to other european countries.
100mph is inherently dangerous in the US because of a number of reasons - chiefly, people here fucking refuse, aggressively, to follow any sort of ruleset designed to assist with traffic flow. People on this fucking site are proud of how they refuse to move right for faster traffic. So, 100mph in the US means you’re navigating a bunch of fucking pricks with ill-maintained vehicles who would rather show you how much “freedom” they have to be fucking pricks, versus allowing for better traffic.
The above is US though? I've driven extensively in america and in Germany and by the speed limit of the universe, those are different experiences. america is made for cars and only cars but they sure as shit don't take care of them.
Are those numbers correct? 80 mph is 128 km/h. Fuel economy usually tops at around 80 km/h (50 mph), after that the air resistance tops friction etc. and air resistance effect grows exponentially. 120 mph is 193 km/h. That is not regular in germany. I mean, daily for some, but i think they are a minority (many get to see them) On my experience (granted, rather limited and mostly driving up north), people drive around 130 km/h (~80mph). I think you have some insurance rules around that speed?
Yeah those numbers are correct, with a rounding error of course. I usually just go with 5mph~8kph. I vould have worded that better though, I agree. They‘re not going 80mph because that‘s the best fuel economy, but because it‘s the compromise most people see between speed and fuel economy. Fuel economy is also based heavily on gearing, my old Mazda would use more fuel at 80 than at 100 since I could then use the sixth (extra long, „fuel saving“) gear. Also you‘re correct about not MOST people
I must never be allowed to drive a car in the USA. 159 km/h (99 mph) is a speed you get lynched for if you dare to block the left lane on a German Autobahn driving that slow. Freeway is sort of an express highway in the US, right? So the fastest you are allowed to go, right?
I had such a hard time readjusting to American Autobahns when I moved back after living in Germany. Accidentally caught myself going 95 in a 55mph zone several times, one time as I was passing a cop. Thankfully that particular highway people kinda all go fast when there isn’t traffic so I didn’t get pulled over. We have speed limits pretty much everywhere here and people don’t actually follow the “use the left lane only for passing” rule that makes autobahns so efficient.
Monkeyfighter
#fucktheblue
littlecoatfatguy
My condolences to the officer issuing the ticket, on his upcoming and totally unsuspicious suicide.
Syko73
In GA thats an automatic super speeder addition of $250. Ask me how I know....
todayok
96 in a 30. In some places that would be criminal and not just a traffic ticket. Arrest, vehicle, no matter who owns it, towed. But not with the good ole boys.
Beachlover442
15 years ago, a Florida State Trooper stopped n arrested a cop for big time speeding...... She got trashed by the other cops. I don't think she lasted long after that. Don't think she is a cop anymore. nsfw mature
JohnnyricoMC
156 kph in a 56 kph zone, probably in an unmarked car and without lights&sirens... Wow, should have had his license revoked on the spot.
relsky
Did you see the goddamn shit-eating little smirk? Mother fuckers like this need to be.... well I won't say what needs to be. Use your imagination.
Idontneedrealfacts
Oh, you know how those boys get when they get all hopped up on that syrup
laner7112000
Twinklepot
Apparently he's now working in McDonald's (the person talking)
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
bekindtoanimals
Poor if :(
DukePhelan
If you hold a position of public trust, you should face harsher penalties than a layman, not more lenient ones.
Jimmytheeel
Acab
applesforjuice
My uncle was a cop. Worked with the FBI because he was an actual good cop so he was recruited to IA. No cop ever talked to him or trusted him his entire career. He hated it. He was completely alone and ostracized by the supposed brothers in blue because he was honest and regrets even being on the force. Makes furniture now. Unrelated he was favored to win an international velodrome bicycle race when he was 15 and was targeted, opponents crashed into him and he didn't race velodrome ever again.
Drix1942
I hope the ones who crashed into him are now all paraplegic.
Beachlover442
The Blue Botherhood protects their own....regardless of how nasty n illegal they are. Shameful. Good Decent cops get trashed and isolated.....like Serpico. nsfw mature
bamblebimble
At least they didn't kill him. I've heard of cops doing that to good cops, either intentionally send them to danger and not provide backup. Or oops missed the target
Affray
1)A podcast I heard a while ago did a bit about an officer who ticketed a fellow officer like this. Suddenly their street is being visited
Affray
2)regularly by patrol cars, some park in front of the house off and on. Slow staring at the station, verbal harassment, hyper criticism of
Affray
3)all actions, then ultimately fired because they no longer uphold the standards of the police. Which seems to mean being a human person.
invisibulman
This is... kind of what should happen, no? Guy clearly over the speed limit. Officer pulls him over. Officer is polite. Guy who got pulled over accepts his ticket. Have a nice day.
Gayforbae
Well he was going 3 times the speed limit almost so should be taken to jail, any of us would. And that ticket is likely going to get thrown out anyway. So yeah the offender was nice.
ilovebigmutts
Copaganda. They're not people.
backrideup9
Can I do that "license is in the back, go take a picture" thing? Or am I immediately getting ripped thru the open window and beaten unconscious?
M4rv3
96 on a freeway is superspeeder territory, that's $200 fine plus another $200 for superspeeding, and a nice hit to his insurance. In a 35 that's probably worse.
hwatL4bloopy
What I also see here, with my low expectations, is both officers respecting each other and accepting responsibility. The sheriff knows he's wrong and didn't go full Karen mode or anything.
idiotsonfire
ANYONE ELSE would have been fucking booked for that. Arrested, car fucking towed. Two fucking pigs were in that car, though.
idiotsonfire
Joyriding through a fucking neighborhood. There's two fucking justice systems. They get a ticket. Everyone else gets arrested.
serenity1313
It's incredibly dependent on jurisdiction, plently of places where just speeding isn't something you can be arrested for
idiotsonfire
Please identify for me a jurisdiction where the average person can go 95 in a 35mph speed limit zone and not end up getting arrested. I'll save you some trouble. You fucking can't. That'd get anyone else arrested.
serenity1313
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/g4289/50-states-speeding-laws-flipbook/ here's a another, bunch of states where speeding does no constitute reckless driving so no prison time
serenity1313
https://www.findlaw.com/traffic/traffic-tickets/speeding-state-laws.html here ya go, research yourself. A bunch do not list jail time as a penalty
kathlTvVillain
I'd watch my back if I were you .
Shaodyn
Member of law enforcement completely indifferent to the law, surprising nobody.
PrinceMaxx7
Yeah, yeah, it's cool the cop got a ticket, but I noticed he wasn't pulled out of the car at gunpoint and made to lay on the ground cuffed.
The cop also didn't ask if there were any illegal drugs in the vehicle and asked if he had a problem with it being searched. No drug sniffing fog was brought out to go around the car.
Nowhere was the car towed and the driver taken into custody after doing 60+mph over the speed limit.
Durl
This is one reason for my unpopular opinion. Speed cameras and red light cameras would reduce interaction between police and speeders, and reduce profiling. People just don’t like them, because they like speeding.
undercoverles
This would work if they were evenly applied, but they were deemed illegal in ca after it was found they only put them in low income areas
Durl
I agree with you. They should be installed evenly, and only policing one group over another is bad.
undercoverles
So guys like this cop wouldn’t even be caught on the cameras. But the black mom going 1mph over trying to get to work would
Totallycasual
In the full video, he actually asks his boss if it's ok to ticket him, his boss says that it's up to him. I'm glad he did the right thing, but there shouldn't have even been a check in with the boss and the boss certainly shouldn't have said it was up to him 🤦♀️
SpiderTrike2000
Well there is no choice...honesty and integrity, both would've been sacked
famousfornow
Dude that much over they would normally arrest the driver.
SanguinePendragon
Officers always have discretion with infractions. Him on scene means it is his decision. So his boss was 100% right, him asking was not.
notyoubizness
Well, but, it actually IS up to him. Cops have broad discretion over who to ticket, and the particulars of this situation didn't change that I expect downvotes, but that is still how the law works
supercerealsteph
Sure, that’s a rule to allow for extenuating circumstances where the law was not prepared to be applied (racing your dying baby to the hospital is a good reason to speed) but the cop uses their discretion to determine this. So in this video, we can agree the cop didn’t use his discretion in the spirit that the law was meant to protect. You’re technically correct but only in the worst way. That’s why you’d get downvoted.
SlasherQuan
In many literal and figurative ways they are judge jury and executioner.
kwent86
yes but also in the full video, the cop who pulls over the chief queef is kinda tired of pulling over the same dude over and over. Go ahead and double up on that abuse of power. Disgusting we let this go on so long.
backrideup9
Which means it doesn't matter if he writes the ticket or not, it's getting dismissed. But it looks great when body cam is released to the public.
SayHelloToTheDoggo
It was reduced to a "warning" and the Chief was suspended (probably with pay) for 5 days. https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/henry-county-mcdonough-speeding-deputy
hydrocarbon82
Jeez I wish all jobs were that lax when you break the law, particularly one that puts the public at risk.
AngryRaven
He didn't do the right thing; any normal civilian would have been arrested, not asked whether or not it was okay for the cop to write them a ticket...
scrumby
No, they wouldn't. People don't get arrested for speeding in GA. You get a ticket and a court date, and that's it.
EmeRgencyDrD
Its no longer speeding itd be considered reckless driving for normal humans. Pigs are above the law though.
scrumby
Doesn't matter because you don't get arrested for reckless driving either; just a bigger fine. Stop letting you hateboner for cops delude you into thinking things that aren't true.
AngryRaven
You get arrested for speeding if you are going THAT FAR over the speed limit, if you aren't a cop that is.
scrumby
Please cite the part of Georgia law that says this, because otherwise it's just you making shit up that you want to be true.
AngryRaven
Huh, you're right. Georgia doesn't have anything posted other than super speeder laws which tacks additional fines on and additional points on your license. In other states I've lived in this level of speeding becomes reckless endangerment and you get arrested. Regardless, my point still stands. The cop writing the citation did not act responsibly, break the law, suffer the consequences, nobody else would get asked if the cop should write a ticket for them.
cryborg
He didn't beat the shit out of him or anything.
bekindtoanimals
Right?
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
Same reason sharks don't attack lawyers, professional courtesy.
tesseract4d2
The first time I ever heard that joke was in Many Waters by Madeleine L'lengle, and this is the first time I've ever seen someone else make it.
tesseract4d2
Except in the book, it was snakes, not sharks.
BIC777
I'm surprised he even gave him a ticket
AnimusRex
He handed in him something. Does that mean he actually wrote it up and entered it into the system, or is this copaganda? I have doubts.
Corrodias
Yeah, given what cops do to "good apples", this took some serious fucking resolve.
theshinobi23
Let's be honest here. This is an example of why the combination of FOIA and cameras are so important. This used to be a "laugh about it and move on" situation, but since the dash cameras automatically record when the lights are on, and people are constantly demanding those videos through FOIA, they don't want to get caught doing something so obvious. Slight difference between being a good cop and just being good at not getting caught.
LordCrisp
To be fair though...
The offender was also smirking... seemed like a good sport about it, and like he thought it was ironic and kinda funny.
As much have as they get, cops are people who do stupid shit too... they should just only do it on their own time (which he did)
BuiltonSin
You said watching a video about a dodge charger and two cops in uniform...
stuart1965
The black dude is in uniform - may be off work (idk) - but if the black dude in uniform was on 'company time', then he should be in a bit of trouble too (?for not putting a stop to the speeding?).
Eidodk
Not how traffic stops work. The passenger is only liable in DUI situations. There is no reasonable way for an adult who by own recognizance chose to operate a motor vehicle to shift blame to the passenger. They were kicking tires on the souped up charger and the sheriff clearly wanted to show the underling how easy the vehicle reached 88 mph. The ONLY thing the sheriff should have done before doing so, was to call in a code two no assistance needed. Legal speeding cheat code activated.
Eidodk
By the way, you can clearly see the uniform shirt of´the driver with the name tag "Chief Yarborough" on it, so they are both on "company time"
backrideup9
Stopping it how? Grabbing the wheel and causing a crash? Sticking his left leg into the driver area and pushing the brake?
camn333
johnvictor
There is a local law academy where the cadets were graduating. So there was a lot of bastards around. A deputy, city cop, and state trooper gathered around a man who had a pig for a pet. Someone asked the deputy if he was here with family and he said yes, but the pig was not family.
MagnumRadhard
Every monster noise from every bit of media in the 90s!?
TakuanSoho
Nice tackle !
wienerdogsftw
battery of a coworker? dang
bladderinfection
NickRivieraMD
took me a second, but nice one
BellsTheorem
same
Cutwail
"Sir, why are you arresting another officer ???"
animatronicChristmasChickens
Pig v Pig
spontaneous9
FaceDeMarde
Whos that guy married to again?
FaceDeMarde
Nvm, found it. Scarlet johanson 🙂
spontaneous9
* Scarlett Johansson
Sticklebrickk
The two of them writing jokes for one another is pure comedic gold.
SoberAndBored
"You're gonna get me KILLED!"
whattheheckismyline
Jost making Che call out Kendrick Lamar was beautiful
spontaneous9
Yep. They're both so fucking ruthless it's hilarious.
Warune
Now that I think of it. Why are cops called pigs?
ThoughtYouSaidSithLord
“its first use was a general derogatory term for anyone who is disagreeable, overweight or taking more than their share.
In 1874, a slang dictionary published in London listed the definition of pig as ‘a policeman, an informer. The word is now almost exclusively applied by London thieves to a plain-clothes man, or a “nose.”’
… 1/
https://www.noiseomaha.com/resources/2021/7/1/a-brief-history-of-the-word-pig-as-slang-for-police
ThoughtYouSaidSithLord
“in the late 1960s … used by protestors and event organizers during the 1968 Democratic National Convention and popularized in the media. A group calling themselves the ‘Yippies’ protested outside the Chicago convention opposing the Vietnam War. The activists carried an actual pig named Pigasus as their presidential candidate, and later called officers ‘pigs’ when told to disband the demonstration. Immediately after, press headlines blared, ‘Police Called Pigs.’” 2/
ThoughtYouSaidSithLord
“The Black Panther Party referenced police officers as pigs in the 60s as well. In 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale officially developed the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) in Oakland, Calif. Their goal was to serve the needs of oppressed communities and ‘defend them against their oppressors,’ said Newton explaining the creation of the BPP. The group was involved in violent showdowns and dramatic trials that defined the BPP in the national news - “ 3/
ThoughtYouSaidSithLord
“often overshadowing the ‘urban survival programs’ they ran to uplift their communities. Seale delivered a memorial speech for the death of 18-year old Bobby Hutton, the first recruit of the Black Panther Party, at the Kaleidoscope Theater in Los Angeles in 1968. According to American Public Media’s Say It Plain, Say It Loud, around 600 people, many white, crammed into the theater to listen to Seale’s speech and to grieve.” 5/
Spanky44
That's actually impressive he caught it at all lol
SnakesInBowties
Shouldn't he have been arrested?
MmmmmSoup
Don't be silly they would arrest his passenger
NSFWfrontpage2
It would be too weird to be the person pulling someone over and then that someone arresting you.
EchoDelta141
Lol they dont arrest their own haha thats why cops have the balls to be assholes, because it'll only be a slap on the wrist for shooting people in the back after they claim self defense
jzastrow
In my state speeding is explicitly not reckless without additional reckless conduct. Even if it was reckless it's still a citation offense not an arrest
eeps
The ticket had a mandatory court date so an arrest is probably optional since the driver is required to go before a judge no matter what. They are basically skipping straight past the arrest and going straight to being released on their own recognizance (no bail required). This is often an option, even if cops don't choose to use it.
EveryBodyLovesMe
Not necessarily. As a dumb kid I was clocked doing 85 in a 30. It’s just a mandatory court date unless you were doing something else ridiculous.
WenTheEternallySurprised
In my state, absolutely. Car impounded as well.
certainlynotaserialkiller
The white guy was driving so eveythings good.
Damnedoldlady
I'm amazed he was even cited.
smashfaceawesome
Death to a pedestrian increases above 50% at 30mph. Those low speed zones are important.
benjibiggum
Yeah, probably falls into “reckless endangerment.”
scrumby
No, speeding/reckless driving is a misdemeanor in GA. Unless you're drunk or ran someone over, you get a ticket and a court date, and the judge decides whether you get jail time or not.
JusticePhrall
I've had several speeding tickets that should've been license yoinkers knocked down to 20-over/must appear citations. Probably because I wasn't a dick about it.
69thStPepper
Officer mentions there's a mandatory court date, so he technically was
Warune
Any other person woulda been hauled out if the car, placed in handcuffs and had the car towed
iDrinkIsleLays
it's up to the officer in most places.. when I was in college, I was speeding like a fool since I was trying to make it back to my town for work after dropping my brother off in his college about 6 hrs away. I almost ran into him. I should have been arrested that day, but he let me go because I was a dumb ass kid. I stopped driving like a maniac afterward.
dleted
I find most traffic cops aren’t trying to ruin lives, just make things safer. And most of the laws are written in such a way as to give leniency when needed, and throw the book when necessary.
Empty road, no other people, houses, obstacles, etc… small fine to discourage repeated behavior.
Middle of a school zone when kids are out? Go straight to jail.
Stopping traffic to race? Believe it or not, straight to jail (IMO)
SaltyInternetPirate
Depends on the state.
ThisismyconfessionTherearemanylikeitButthisoneismine
In my state, driving twice as fast as posted limit is an automatic suspension.
WoeToHice
SamuthNBS
A mandatory court appearance is essentially an arrest with an instant bail.
stronomer
They know where to find him.
FurtiveGlancer
He white
SpiderTrike2000
If there's no need to arrest then they wont arrest...
nezo
Some of those that work forces
WilliamHuskerAdama
The guy in the passenger seat is black, so I'm pretty surprised they didn't just unload their guns into the car
Isorikk
Most jurisdictions leave it at officer discretion to actually book you into jail for a criminal traffic citation. The ticket still has a mandated court date and you have to sign it saying that you're accepting the ticket in place of an arrest. If you don't sign it, you go to jail. If you don't show up to court, you get a warrant.
dleted
Depends. School zone? Fuck yes. Road that hasn’t had a recent survey done in 20 years… meh.
In SoCal most freeways are 65 and the average speed of traffic is 80. Technically reckless endangerment for going more than 15 over the limit. But going the limit is dangerous too if everyone else is going 80+. Most cops out here give you “disobeying a highway sign” or something similar unless you’re being reckless or swerving/weaving/racing/messaging, etc.
Same In the DC area, specifically the 95
dleted
There are actually signs on the 95 that says anything over 80 will get you reckless endangerment and an impound.
pxlphile
I have been informed by news and the Internet, that it seems also to be okay to shoot the people in the car. But I guess that might be at the cop's discretion
DasBeaker
I’m going off of my state. If he went over 100 yep. But under the ticket would be like excessive speeding, aggressive driving or whatever it’s called, and so on. But if they can see you out someone else’s life in danger it pushes for the arrest even under 100.
applesforjuice
Reckless driving is i believe the term you're looking for.
DasBeaker
Yes that’s it lol I was tired as can be when I typed that out.
applesforjuice
Lol yeah I've been there
Herperchick
I had an officer mistype my speed as 265mph in a 65. I went to court and said "your honor it's a Kia Sorrento (2011), it couldn't do that speed downhill on ice." And the officer didn't show up, so the judge threw it out.
TheAnswerWasAlwaysMoreLube
It might not even reach that speed in freefall. That would be close to terminal velocity.
mattbl
How fast were you actually going?
16bitStarbuck
264.
nojustsayitdont
For a speeding ticket? Maybe if he wrecked and caused great bodily harm or death, but even then he'd be OR until court probably.
Isorikk
95 in a 35 is criminal speeding and depending on the manner of conduct could be felony reckless endangerment which would result in a suspended license. A manslaughter charge would most definitely be an arrest, probably with bond.
Shoumpue
If you're going over 2x the limit, that's mad Reckless endangerment. That's crazy fast for that street
SeeJenJen
So that depends on the state, in some states if you’re going 15 over you can be arrested for reckless endangerment.
Ejegod
In my country they instated this "crazy driving" law which basicly boils down to if you're driving like either 200 km/h or double whatever is allowed on the road you're caught on, the court will simply TAKE AWAY THE CAR you were driving in. Not like, you have to pick it up at the impound. They take it and sell it off at a private auction. If you leased it, borrowed it from a friend or something, you deal with that. It now belongs to the state. Oh and they take your license too obviously.
Angrierthanthatguy
Different states have different laws regarding speeding. No amount of speeding is an arrestable offense in the state I live in, but just across the state line you can be arrested for going 30 over
littleblueengine
You and your facts and logic that the law might be different in different places. The people round here have their pitch forks sharpened and their torches freshly coated in tar so that they're ready when they need to jump to the conclusion that the one cop did the other cop a favour.
BloodBlight
Yup...
SquirrelHaven
In TN you have to be going 3x the speed limit to get a reckless charge.
PrfctDrk
acab
wyrmbear
Sadly no, Georgia does not have a mandatory arrest for excessive or "super" speeding.
At most he's going to get a $700 fine, suspension of license, and mandated driving course.
Most likely they'll just fine him, IF anything.
UnidentifiedPrisoner
Ah another law that only applies to the poor
2015Chefj
If he contests and the ticketing officer does not show up it gets tossed....guess what's going to happen?
holyfool521
I would hope for an ass chewing from his boss as well, though a suspension of his license would hurt him most. He'd be relegated to desk duty at that point since he couldn't legally operate a vehicle, and he looks like the type that desk duty would really chap his ass
wyrmbear
Oh I'm sure he's getting the ass chewing and will probably NEVER live the incident down, but they'll be laughing about it in a week.
Dude's gonna have a dodge charger retirement cake come out while his buddies are making "vroom vroom" sounds at the end of his career.
JimmyWalkerTexasRanger
Ka-Chow!
NickRivieraMD
I got clocked at 120 at 2 am on an empty Iowa highway. It was a straightaway at the end of a 20 hr road trip on my way to an admissions interview. I apologized and admitted I was just seeing how fast my '95 Hyundai Accent could go. They ticketed me but didn't arrest me.
SeeJenJen
Did you get admitted?
NickRivieraMD
Somewhere else, lol. UI asked me if I was in favor of robo-docs, and I answered yes, that I thought they could be better than human docs in limited situations, and that was apparently the wrong answer. 14 years later, here we are with computers already arguably doing a better job of interpreting some radiological images than humans. Ah well. I probably woulda been miserable there anyway.
AimingForAdorkable
But doing that on an abandoned highway in the middle of the night isn’t (usually) dangerous to other people.
Going 95 in a RESIDENTIAL AREA?!?
There’s fucking kids and families walking around. And slower moving cars all around nearby.
Very Asshole move.
NickRivieraMD
Absolutely
TheobromineAddict
Shouldn't the black passenger be shot?
LordElups
remindmetostopprocrastinating
Was just thinking that. The internet has ruined me. Or maybe it’s ACAB, idk
SteveTheEgg
No. No they should not. I might be inclined to be slightly less upset in this situation, but generally speaking let's stop shooting black people or at least reduce it to the same level as shooting white women. And like the number of white women shot now, not after the police start shooting them to justify the amount of black people they shoot.
Chilichunks
It was sarcasm borne from frustration.
MrOne2
MrOne2
I guess the on call officer was a rookie. I mean, he issued a ticket to the sheriff...
TheobromineAddict
I'll bet that's the end of his career. The rookie, I mean.
Retronyx
certainlynotaserialkiller
Cop dropped the ball on that one yes. No worried, he will make up by shooting someone else twice.
lamoinejeff
Most likely his wife will feel the burden of his mistake...
hiyo365
Well thank god I ventured down this far too see them things will all be taken care of. I'll go back to my kitchen now. ;)
StarscreamAndHutch
Maybe add a dog too
firlefranz
Imtoolazytothinkofaname
Was that cocaine ?
firlefranz
looks like it - he's probably not going to swallow his ID card, but what do i know?
evilgriff
How many bags did they find, he’s eaten ten so far!
Echo18
Luckily they didn't stop under an oak tree.
YourBiologicalStepDadUncleRob
Snooj
I'm amazed he didn't pull a "Do you know who I am?" Just sat there and took the ticket.
TheFishFace
Along every population there is variation
jasondeslin
He knows he'll be about to call his union rep and get it tossed out. And probably get the officer that ticketed him talked to.
DukeDarkwood
I mean, the officer opened with "Really?" It's evident he knew exactly who he was ticketing.
kruug
He gave "the look". He knew the officer knew, no words needed to be said.
TsubakiTragic
impound the vehicle, thro the cop in jail. Oh wait, it's America.
Taiji93
bro in France the outlaw cop would have smiled and said "I'm from the house" and straight away he left without a fine...
Taiji93
sorry i'm french..."fine"--->ticket ;)
TsubakiTragic
I'm an Aussie so same same.
NLOVNI
Depends what he wrote on the ticket. I was clocked going 99 on the freeway but the officer said since I had a clean record he wrote it up as >66. That allowed traffic school. That dude was the most polite understanding highway patrol officer.
Metalsmith21
Yes I too have experienced privileged treatment from police officers. I'm just glad I was driving while white.
robofuck
Yeah, but cops shouldn't get leniency. They know the law. They're enforcing the law. They're entrusted with the monopoly on violence. They should be held to a higher standard than everybody else.
theoriginalgiga
I was driving mid afternoon on a super empty freeway coming home on my 2 hr commute doing like 93. I looked over and saw highway patrol and his brake lights come on, I moved all the way over and pulled off like 100 yards ahead of him. He didn't even have to enter the road way. I also rolled all the windows down, tossed my keys on the dash and kept my hands on the steering wheel. Probably most relaxed stop he ever done lol. Did the same for me so I could get traffic school.
Findrek
This was 96 in a 35 is a hell of a lot different from 99 on a freeway. There should've been a arrest.
NLOVNI
Valid point
Theory89
In the UK, you lose your license if you're caught doing double the speed limit in any area.
AlienDragonWizard
They'll often bump it down from criminal depending on the circumstances and whether or not you piss them off.
NLOVNI
I guess Karma was looking out for me. I was polite. He asked (basically) if I had an excuse (emergency, late, etc) and I said no. I have a pretty fast smooth riding car and I said it just got away from me (very hilly area) and I just didn’t realize I was going that fast. I thought for sure I was going to jail and my car impounded.
Tarmaccian
For me, it was >55 in a 25 school zone, 8AM on a Saturday morning. A tiny little town in the middle of nowhere, with nothing more visible than a schoolyard fence and a speed limit sign that I sailed right past… I was scared out of my mind rolling down the window, and the cop knew it.
He wrote me up for 5 over, no mention of the school. A simple fine and that should be it.
I still ended up with a warrant for my arrest, but that insanity wasn’t the cop’s fault…
Imademyselfsquirtle
You could have killed someone.
HelloDarknessMyOld
Story time... haha
Frelance
Every year at college it happened, got a chain of …4(?) speeding tickets reduced from reckless for being cooperative when the lights came on. Making an arrest & waiting for the tow is a huge pain in the ass for everyone.
DukePhelan
Highway patrol tends to be pretty professional. Iirc in Michigan, at least they required a degree and police academy training. Most PDs don't.
PerrinAybara564
Partially confirm - college degree is recommended but not required. https://www.michigan.gov/mspjobs/become-a-trooper
My job lets me talk with MSP frequently, and they're generally all patient and polite. Local PD otoh can be uppity and frustrating to talk with.
Imademyselfsquirtle
You could have a killed someone.
Frostycopper
To be pedantic, anyone who drives a motor vehicle greatly increases their potential for killing someone. But yeah, their chances were higher than the average person's at the time.
Idontneedrealfacts
Depends on. When and where you do it. Open stretches of highway in Texas with no one around, ok, reduced ticket. In a school zone at 3pm on a Tuesday? Straight to jail.
ARoseByAnotherUsernameWouldSmellAsSweet
Not to apologize for someone breaking the law, but as a german it amazes me that people think 100mph is inherently dangerous. Even though many go 80mph for fuel economy reasons, 100 mph or even 120 is a very regular speed to travel at here. Our Highways aren‘t more dangerous, even compared to other european countries.
Hammertulski
100mph is inherently dangerous in the US because of a number of reasons - chiefly, people here fucking refuse, aggressively, to follow any sort of ruleset designed to assist with traffic flow. People on this fucking site are proud of how they refuse to move right for faster traffic. So, 100mph in the US means you’re navigating a bunch of fucking pricks with ill-maintained vehicles who would rather show you how much “freedom” they have to be fucking pricks, versus allowing for better traffic.
Goldensands
The above is US though? I've driven extensively in america and in Germany and by the speed limit of the universe, those are different experiences. america is made for cars and only cars but they sure as shit don't take care of them.
WilliamHuskerAdama
Yes, but Germans also have to pass a far stricter driving test to get a license
HerrHat
Are those numbers correct?
80 mph is 128 km/h.
Fuel economy usually tops at around 80 km/h (50 mph), after that the air resistance tops friction etc. and air resistance effect grows exponentially.
120 mph is 193 km/h. That is not regular in germany. I mean, daily for some, but i think they are a minority (many get to see them)
On my experience (granted, rather limited and mostly driving up north), people drive around 130 km/h (~80mph). I think you have some insurance rules around that speed?
ARoseByAnotherUsernameWouldSmellAsSweet
Yeah those numbers are correct, with a rounding error of course. I usually just go with 5mph~8kph. I vould have worded that better though, I agree. They‘re not going 80mph because that‘s the best fuel economy, but because it‘s the compromise most people see between speed and fuel economy. Fuel economy is also based heavily on gearing, my old Mazda would use more fuel at 80 than at 100 since I could then use the sixth (extra long, „fuel saving“) gear.
Also you‘re correct about not MOST people
DerpMeister
I must never be allowed to drive a car in the USA. 159 km/h (99 mph) is a speed you get lynched for if you dare to block the left lane on a German Autobahn driving that slow. Freeway is sort of an express highway in the US, right? So the fastest you are allowed to go, right?
mattbl
No, there are speed limits on all but a few roads in America.
alisa2089
I had such a hard time readjusting to American Autobahns when I moved back after living in Germany. Accidentally caught myself going 95 in a 55mph zone several times, one time as I was passing a cop. Thankfully that particular highway people kinda all go fast when there isn’t traffic so I didn’t get pulled over. We have speed limits pretty much everywhere here and people don’t actually follow the “use the left lane only for passing” rule that makes autobahns so efficient.
DerpMeister
Yeah, following lane rules is vitally important in Germany. Blocking the left lane? That's a paddlin'.