Tell his nephew "good job"...

passing on the right is against the law here, so id pass him on the right, but keep going in the middle lane then switch over .25 miles down, so its not a "pass" just flowing with traffic.

ive passed cops in my work van (company lettered) going 80, passing the cop on the right just as this scenario.  havent gotten pulled over yet.

Your rant has nothing to do with this situation.  

You are being this guy. We all know this guy.

Either way you and I are not going to agree on anything. So we can just agree, to disagree.

I have passed them in the right lane when traffic was clear and they still didn't move over.  Never pulled over.

I was riding with my cousin who came up behind a cop creeping in the left lane and flashed his high beams at him.  Cop moved over and let him by without stopping him.  He said he flashed him out of instinct and didn't even realize it was a trooper.

No shit, damned if we do, damned if we don't.

J-

So what happens when the other person says "fuck speeders"?

Cop, I'll live with it.  Big rig doing 65.1 taking 50 miles to pass another rig doing 65 and I'm on the phone:
*GSP
*FHP
*HP (Alabama)

So he's passing traffic....techically he is passing slower traffic so he's got that going for him.

I'm probably in the right lane doing the speed limit, unless I see an exit coming up

If not a trooper, I'll pass at 72mph, and continue on my way.

Holy crap.  They are using the police cars from Demolition Man.

In GA, and I'm sure the same in other states, LEOs can text and drive.
The lowly serfs get to pay a tithe to the govt coffers though.

Just showing no one is above the law.

Mehhhh....pick a fight with another motorist ....shouldn't be that hard just look around....preferably one that can't take you to jail

Depending on where you live passing them even if you're doing the speed limit can be content of cop and will get you pulled over while he fishes and harasses you.  

Why would a police vehicle going the speed limit make you mad?  
The left lane isn't the designated "I want to speed lane"; it's for people wanting to pass people going under the designated speed limit.
It's not designed for people who break the law because they feel like they can speed there and they have the right to be a dickbag because
somebody in that lane is going the speed limit.

Happens all the time in Nashville, as Metro's finest have all the crimes solved. I hear they're working in shifts.

This is why cops in marked units should use the HOV lanes.

THIS is what GD worries about...???

These left lane threads are the best. Is the speed limit the same for all lanes? Does the speed limit increase for the left lane and the left lane only in areas marked "keep right except when passing" ? Ive never seen any signage suggesting the speed limit increases the farther to the left you go. What about "slower traffic keep right"? What do they mean by that? And that doesn't mean me, does it? How slow can you go and not keep right? If I feel like doing the hypothetical speed limit, I won't even get on the freeway. It just seems too dicey. Is that fast enough? If I want to do around ten over I'll venture on but only in the far right lane. Ten to twenty over and I might kinda ease over to the center lane if no one's really watching or seems to mind. The left lane? I don't even know why they have it. I'm pretty much told to just stay out of it one way or another. If want to go fast, say 97, someone will see me and want to go faster. Yet they get behind me to do so? I just call it "the 'tard lane" and stay out of it.

I go around. So long as I'm not burning it around him, I'm fine. I don't know cops that pull people over for doing 5ish over.

I have a 7 mile an hour rule that has never failed me. Would pass.

This is such a common phenomenon that I have seen Police take an exit ramp where convenient and get right back on the Highway lol.

I pass cops all the time at over the speed limit.

I don't think they really care.

Meh, no.

Not particularly happy because it makes me slow down from my standard 10 over, but sometimes that's just the way it goes.

Couple years back I was headed west on 70 in Missouri, think I was on the other side of Columbia.  Running 10 over with the rest of traffic.  Came up on a state trooper just as the car he had pulled over was getting back on the highway.  Everyone pulled over into the left lane and cut their speed back to the limit.  Just my luck trooper gets back on even with me.  No big deal, set the cruise, move back over to the right lane behind him.  My trip is gonna take a little longer now but maybe he'll get off at the next exit.  He proceeds to drive like some asshole talking on their phone, speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down.  I wouldn't care except he would slow down 5-7mph below the limit and I'd end up turning off the cruise and slowing down, then he'd speed up again.  Finally I just said fuck it and the next time he slowed down I left the cruise on, signalled, pulled into the left lane, and motored on.  Of course he pulled me over.  Between watching the speedometer and the GPS, I didn't go a hair over the limit.  I pulled as far to the right as I could.  He came up on the passenger side and I lowered the window a couple inches, about nose level on him.  He was not very tall & his hat looked comically large on him.  He asked for my license/insurance and then proceeded to go into a couple minute long tirade about people speeding on his highway and thinking they could pass cops.  I didn't know what to think so I just sat there staring at him spittle all over my window.  When he got done I handed him my license/insurance and he went back to his car.  10 minutes or so he brought my stuff back and told me to slow it down and drive safe.  No ticket.  I pulled back on the highway and set the cruise back to the speed limit.  Watched him get off at the next exit and kicked up the cruise to 15 over to make up for lost time.  Guess I just caught him on a bad day.  Or possibly he was just fishing for a reaction, who knows?

I found out, the hard way, many years ago that arguing with a cop on the side of the road will end in one of 2 ways.  Either I get to take a ride with him or I get more tickets than I was gonna get.  Neither are acceptable endings in my mind.  That mindset has gotten me out of all kinds of stuff.

If he's passing cars, I'm fine with it. That's not really camping. 

I hate when I can't break the law because the cops are around.  Fucking pigs, always stepping on our rights.

OP- try a pit maneuver. Get back to us when you can.

Reading comprehension fail. He was going .5 MPH over the speed limit. OP should have executed a citizen's arrest.

Some animals are more equal than others...

On the other end of the spectrum, this cop is a hero:

I once saw three State Police cruisers, on a busy three lane highway at rush hour, rolling along exactly lined up side by side, doing exactly the speed limit.

Huge bottleneck of cars backed up behind them.

I guess they were trying to prove a point, I don't know.

Stridently following the law actually fucks up traffic, which doesn't bode well for the actual law. 

If the point they were trying to prove was that blindly following a really dumb law like a bunch of lemmings results in fucked up traffic, I'd say they did a fine job. 

Let them. As long as they get out the way. 

"Hogging" the left lane?

Pit maneuver.

Your whole post makes my point

BuBut non cop does it people get all crazy

I have seen that too. Have watched people go from 55 to 100+ as quick as they could after the cop exits and watched the same cop jump back on the freeway, blow by me like I am standing still and haul that person over.

That is why I try to be the second fastest driver on the freeway. No matter how fast I am going there is usually some guy (typically in an Audi, BMW or Mercedes) that wants to go 5mph faster then me. I happily give them the hammer lane and let them slowly pull away from me.

99.9999999% of the time this works, sometimes it is just your turn to get stopped and pay your share of the go fast tax. Last ticket I got (about 6 years ago) I was mid pack in a group of fast movers and I got singled out. Eh, shit happens.

Rolling roadblock. Usually to slow traffic for a reason like coming up to a big accident etc.

J-

APD did that all. the. time.

So you pop in behind and follow them.

Why do you think I posted this?

It hall Ned to me the other day.

He's not camping. He's driving. He doesn't have to move out of your way so you can speed.

I hear so much about some animals being more equal than others. Now, you're mad because he's abiding by the law?

I'm glad you quoted the law in Washington. OP is in New Mexico.

I can't remember how many times I followed a cop to work. Usually at 75+.

I be all like this around Louisiana:

the dude may just be trying to stay awake and get home after a 12 hour shift.  I have caught myself doing 55 in a 65 before doing that...

Well said.  Give me parameters like that & we're good.  But I'll damn sure pass at 3-4mph and just assume you're on the phone or checking the latest score.  But pull me over for it...

You seem like one of the good guys.  Thank you.

Is it unlawful to impede unlawful traffic?  

Best to be in the far left lane to run radar at oncoming traffic. Being in the left lane also makes it easier to U-turn. Also, if suddenly needing to activate lights and siren, getting around traffic goes much smoother if starting in the left lane.