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Is it possible that the officer was bluffing?

artificialLimbs 5y ago
No, he immediately followed up with "... but I'm going to cut you a break on this one." And did. No ticket. He told me as he left "We're not all bad." It was surreal.
- spicybright 5y ago
  Your experience is horrifying. Not long till you can arrested for thought crimes if this trend keeps continuing.
- tpmx 5y ago
  I don't see how that makes a bluff implausible, especially since you were yelling initially.
- adamrezich 5y ago
  really just sounds like a cop telling a small lie based on your reaction in an attempt to spread good PR on behalf of the police all the while establishing a position of authority, unintentionally making you think there's darker forces at play then there really were, when in reality he was just defusing the situation with a lie. obviously one can't know for certain but that seems like the most plausible explanation. I can see this being an informal personal technique a cop might use in situations like this, all the while being completely oblivious to the terrifying implications of what he's saying.
  - ziml77 5y ago
    I doubt there's any way to ever prove what happened here, but this is what I was thinking too. It was a lie to cool things down. Someone who's angry to the point that they're yelling is dangerous, not just to the cops but to other drivers on the road.
- vpilcx 5y ago
  If they weren't bluffing and you're in the same county, it could just be the dispatcher remembered you from last time. I had something analogous to this where the local PD left a voicemail saying my brother had gone missing and left a name with the same last name and a name similar to mine. When I called back, I told the dispatcher and they refused to leave it there and wanted to transfer me to the cop in question which I thought was really weird. He took it down but it seemed like there was something else there. And I realized he was probably fishing to serve an arrest warrant or something. To see if I would go, "No, my brother isn't missing. That's my cousin and he's at <address>." Cops do that type of shit all the time.

No, he immediately followed up with "... but I'm going to cut you a break on this one." And did. No ticket. He told me as he left "We're not all bad." It was surreal.

spicybright 5y ago
Your experience is horrifying. Not long till you can arrested for thought crimes if this trend keeps continuing.
tpmx 5y ago
I don't see how that makes a bluff implausible, especially since you were yelling initially.
adamrezich 5y ago
really just sounds like a cop telling a small lie based on your reaction in an attempt to spread good PR on behalf of the police all the while establishing a position of authority, unintentionally making you think there's darker forces at play then there really were, when in reality he was just defusing the situation with a lie. obviously one can't know for certain but that seems like the most plausible explanation. I can see this being an informal personal technique a cop might use in situations like this, all the while being completely oblivious to the terrifying implications of what he's saying.
- ziml77 5y ago
  I doubt there's any way to ever prove what happened here, but this is what I was thinking too. It was a lie to cool things down. Someone who's angry to the point that they're yelling is dangerous, not just to the cops but to other drivers on the road.
vpilcx 5y ago
If they weren't bluffing and you're in the same county, it could just be the dispatcher remembered you from last time. I had something analogous to this where the local PD left a voicemail saying my brother had gone missing and left a name with the same last name and a name similar to mine. When I called back, I told the dispatcher and they refused to leave it there and wanted to transfer me to the cop in question which I thought was really weird. He took it down but it seemed like there was something else there. And I realized he was probably fishing to serve an arrest warrant or something. To see if I would go, "No, my brother isn't missing. That's my cousin and he's at <address>." Cops do that type of shit all the time.