I work at a tobacco shop. And after they said I blown through a stop sign. When asked when drinking I said no. Then he said I smelled, and I quote, “of something suspicious”. I get cops get their paycheck for tickets and such but seriously has it really gotten this bad that for a ticket they try to make it something bigger? and ignoring my rights?
Not necessarily a lie, but (allegedly) mistaken would produce the same result.
Not everyone who is wrong is lying.
Nah. Cops writing tickets don’t that leeway. If they aren’t 100% certain of an infraction like this, they shouldn’t be stopping the driver. His doubling down after being shown proof establishes that he is willing to lie.
People can be “100% certain” of things that never happened; it happens all the time.
Yes, but in court, cops are given the assumption of higher accuracy. So they logically should be held to a higher standard.
No matter how much we expect/hope/demand cops to be superhuman, they will never be.
That’s not superhuman. It’s training. Before radar guns were so easy to get and such, they trained cops on estimating speed. And then they tested them to ensure their accuracy before letting them write speeding tickets. But now… they get the bare min training.
https://youtu.be/nsysxhgu0fs
This is the incident that modern_medicine is referring to.
If it’s the one-handed woman texting-while-driving viral video, I’m aware of it