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Doesn't matter. In Kansas outside Salina, highway patrol pulled me over because my new car had a temporary tag, which they claimed was in the wrong location. It
by jasonwatkinspdx 8y ago
Doesn't matter. In Kansas outside Salina, highway patrol pulled me over because my new car had a temporary tag, which they claimed was in the wrong location. It wasn't: KS and OR differ in where they want you to put it. I declined consent for a search, at which point they put hands on guns and ordered me out of the car. They spent about an hour tossing everything they could remove into the ditch.
There are some real top to bottom jerks around with badges, and with those folks, knowing your rights is effectively meaningless.
- tptacek 8y agoDid you follow up on this with the department?
- jasonwatkinspdx 8y agoI called their precinct, got told to go pound sand in not so many words.
- anigbrowl 8y agoPeople who have had their rights infringed shouldn't be asked to invest more of their time and/or money in procedural wrangling with diminishing probabilities of restitution for their original injury. there are strong correlations between biased enforcement and biased litigation outcomes, and that doctrine of qualified immunity virtually guarantees litigation will be highly asymmetrical from the outset.
- tptacek 8y agoI asked him "if", not "to".