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I'm too sexy for my shirt. LOLOriginally Posted by HBARleatherneck
I've been told I look like a slightly younger Richard Dreyfuss or Dick Cheney!!
Well then, that surely wasn't the reason. LOL!
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I am pretty sure cops are not allowed to run plates without a reason.
I think there might even have to be a reason put in the computer when run.
This issue came up in a rather large legal war I had with a cop neighbor years ago, and I suspected him of running our plates, so my info should be accurate since it was used in court.
Last edited by crashdown; 12-16-2014 at 16:48.
not correct. SOP, it's done all the time. Done for personal reasons may be another story.
Last edited by SuperiorDG; 12-16-2014 at 17:00.
This patrol unit didn't have the plate scanner cameras on it (quite familiar with what they look like). She said it was her standard policy to run plates while on routine patrol.
Perhaps if I didn't have my glasses on she might have looked like a young Suzanne Sommers................nah!!
Fact of the matter is. The officer can pull you over if they want, they don't have to have a reason. They have to have a "reason", but the way the laws are you can be hemmed up for one at any time anyways.
Then the officer goes before a judge and say "I saw <NOUN>doing <VERB>, so I stopped him/her to investigate." and you can say, "I was not doing said <VERB> and I was stopped for no reason." Guess who the Judge will side with? Case dismissed.
Last edited by rbeau30; 12-16-2014 at 17:10.
Well this was a "no harm, no foul" kind of thing. I just found it really weird that she had the info on my old truck even though the plates also showed on the newer one. Also the DMV, the office off Arapahoe Rd, stated there's no way the old truck info should've been connected to my plates. Hmm, strange things afoot.
Maybe she was looking at the database that they are not supposed to have? [tinfoil]
Winner!!! Haha, best answer yet, thanks! Trust me, I'm about the least interesting person she'd encounter, even in my very quiet corner of Centennial.
My guess is she put the wrong year in the field for the registration when she ran your tag. If she put in 2012 or 2011 rather than 2014 or 2015, she would have gotten a return on the older vehicle.
The MDT access to CCIC is for "Official Use Only." She doesn't need reasonable suspicion to run a tag, but she can't run a tag out of personal curiosity or to get the address for a dapper gentleman who happened to drive by in ten year old Tahoe. Some departments discourage routine running "rollin' stolen" tag checks, while other departments encourage the practice. The practice is not illegal and not against the access agreement for CCIC.
Be safe.
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