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Originally Posted by Gillis

What is your view/opinion/personal experience with the "Who's car is this?" "Where are you going?" type of questions? Would you ask these kind of questions or have you ever experienced your fellow officers asking people these kind of questions?

It's called small-talk. If the conversation was strictly "License, registration and insurance, here's your ticket", you'd be complaining saying the officer wasn't nice enough (yes people have complained about this). You'd be amazed what some say, and just dig themselves deeper holes. Do you have to answer those questions? No.

Originally Posted by lbheat

I got pulled over because cop that i was drunk. When I told him "Did I swerve into another lane? Am I driving erratic? Am I exceeding speed limit?" he didn't answer me and just started giving me a field sobriety test. Of course I passed and he said nothing other than "your good" and then I was on my way.

If I remember correctly, there is a list of 26 different driving behaviors that when combined can allow you to articulate that you had reasonable suspicion that the driver is impaired.

Originally Posted by Jims Mongoose

Okay, not sure if you are a police officer or just trying to be a little smart.

Yes the offense was on their and he said he was giving me a break for the "swerving". So he just gave me a speeding ticket.

If I fight it in Arizona and lose because the Judge believes the cop it goes on my record. If I don't and take an online driving course. "Hah". And I pass it then I pay a smaller fine and no points. That's what I did.

I am also not understanding why you don't think it's possible that he was just out for me and my car. Do you think that profiling of 'high performance cars' doesn't exist?

Jim

In Arizona, officers can be certified to visually estimate a vehicle traveling at a speed and are legally able to write a ticket for it, even without confirmation from radar or lidar. Actually, the law REQUIRES the officer to first visually estimate within a certain deviation a vehicle speeding before using equipment to confirm their estimate.

An officer isn't going to jeopardize his livelihood over handing out a ticket.

Like any other profession, there are bad apples. But the profession also has a very large spotlight on it, so it's very very idiotic for officers especially in this day and age to have misconduct.