heard about it from a buddy earlier(warning me) lol.. but yeah after some research its not mandatory, just let em know you cant and your 4th amendment rights!

 

What the hell is declining a request?

I find it hard to believe an officer can force you to pull you over and detain you while checking out your vehicle whenever he feels like. Point being my question is does he have the authority to make people pull over and stop them for no reason? Can I simply just keep driving?

 

The check point was set up with cones funneling the cars into a single lane though past the officer. There would be a big problem if you tried to just drive past.

 

Just say no straight up. It's just courtesy

 

Well I was always taught, if you ask an officer if you are being detained and for what reason you have to stay. They need probable cause to detain you, but the simple question of "Am I being detained?" is the way out. If they say no OR, go into aforementioned jedi mind tricks (which they will) you can say at that point "thanks for your time" and leave.

 

So they are allowed to obstruct traffic and make me late for work?



**** this ****hole state so tired of it. **** the cops doing this, what scumbag bull****.

 

Do you mind if I search your vehicle?

YES!

Would you please step out of your house and talk to me on the side walk, I can't hear you over the loud party you have in your home.

NO!

Please incriminate yourself by talking to me with out your lawyer present.

NO!

Do you mind if I come in your home, just to make sure everything is OK?

YES!

 

Someone needs to video tape this crap for us

 

Camden ave between union and 85! Just a heads up that theres a smog check set up.

 

Don't ever talk to cops! Don't ever submit to voluntary roadside smog surveys. Don't ever stop, just keep going like you never seen them. Or go around them if you are lucky enough to be around a business park with other commercial parking lots.

 

+1 just keep your mouth shut and only answer direct answers. believe it or not, cops feed off what you say and what you say can actually F you over. someone once told me LEO's undergo some communication class, to as one said "use their jedi mind tricks" and its true. if you dont know youre given rights, you might as well tell the cop you are running catless.

been there done that. not in car regards, but in screwing myself over because i thought i was saying the right thing. Just say "no, can i please leave" you know its voluntary, so just keep it simple.

as far as stopping when a LEO requests you to.......why wouldnt you? if you know youre in the right and have no reason for being paranoid, pull over, see what the Dbag wants, and (with knowing your rights) tell him you need to go. once cops know that YOU know your rights, its game over for them. not to mention, im sure there is some gine print law stating when an officer is WAVING you to pull over. Lights and siren, you run, youre an idiot.

my.02

 

If I stop for a sec, all that catless emissions fumigates the air around me. LOL

 

Yeah, not even fine print. In the vc. and DMV book there is a law requiring you to follow signals given by officers (stop, yield, pull-over etc.). So regular traffic direction and control probably come under that.

 

+1.

 

2800(a) VC - It is unlawful to willfully fail or refuse to comply with a lawful order, signal, or direction of a peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830) of Title 3 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, when that peace officer is in uniform and is performing duties pursuant to any of the provisions of this code, or to refuse to submit to a lawful inspection pursuant to this code.

2804 VC - A member of the California Highway Patrol upon reasonable belief that any vehicle is being operated in violation of any provisions of this code or is in such unsafe condition as to endanger any person, may require the driver of the vehicle to stop and submit to an inspection of the vehicle, and its equipment, license plates, and registration card.

Just sayin'... Don't believe everything your read on the interwebs.