Posted: 8/11/2007 6:58:43 PM EDT
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So, This seems to be the right forum, To all of you LEO, How strict would you say you are with giving tickets for someone's sound system being too loud? If you can hear it do you go for the ticket? What about if you hear it for like a second or two and then it cuts out, so obviously the guy hits mute, Are you going to look around to see who it was and give them a ticket? Just wondering how careful I have to be  Thanks |
I remember a rig called a "baton stop" or some such, which was basically two 16 or 24p nails welded into a cross shape, and fitted with a spring a clip assembly that would put them about 10" from the end of the pipe. The idea was based on patrol officers verifying whether a bike had baffle (muffler) by inserting a baton into the end of the pipe. If the baton went all the way in, then "obviously" it had no baffles. The "stop" prevented this, but did absolutely nothing to inhibit flow. |
He is referring to a pretext stop. Pull them over for the initial (e.g. noise) violation. Then you "get into the car" and see they had weed...... If some pothead wants to keep weed in his car, fine (by me), but that "reasonable expectation of privacy" is already a "diminished expectation of privacy" in a vehicle (with windows) on a public thoroughfare, so giving an officer a legitimate reason to pull him over is his own fault. |
Amen. An analogous situation would be a house of ill repute advertising "Hookers 'n' Blow"** on a flashing neon sign, 20' x 20'. You [generally] still can't just go in based on the sign (e.g. appearances). So you find other ways..... It's called police work.  ** Neither of which I am opposed to, but are nonetheless against the law, which y'all generally must enforce. |
