OFrog
Active Member
I deal with cops almost daily...I own two trucking companies and we get stopped a ton...if you play the game the right way with them 99% of the time you will be fine.
I'm a huge gun rights, freedom rights, whatever rights guy as there is...but pulling out the "rights" card with cops when your innocent is a waste of time and will lead to tons of [ deposit from a bull that looks like Art Briles ].
But whatever...those who wanna deny the search...go ahead. Just be prepared for the consequences.
This way of thinking shows how dysfunctional the relationship between police and the community has become. There shouldn't be any need to "play the game," there shouldn't be any need to display your friendly status through bumper stickers, and there shouldn't be "consequences" for exercising your rights.
Police exist to protect and serve the community, and to uphold the laws of their jurisdiction. When a person gets pulled over, the person is part of the community that the police are serving, and the police should respect that individual's rights.
Absent probable cause, police can request consent to search and they are in the right. An individual can consent or decline, and they are in the right. When police then delay, get a dog to signal when it doesn't smell anything, or whatever the hell else to create probable cause or pressure the individual to consent... Those "games" and "consequences" are [ deposit from a bull that looks like Art Briles ] and the police are in the wrong. If people choose not to relent to this crap, more power to them.