SCOTUS signs off on traffic stops solely based on anonymous 911 calls

[Anti Federalist]

I've heard this sort of thing is becoming more common -- a new type of "road rage." Somebody cuts you off or something, you can get back at them by calling 911 and saying that they appear to be driving drunk or whatever.

I'm sure the police don't mind it , it's just more job security for them. Even better now that it has the Court's seal of approval. Pull the alleged offender over and find that they are not drunk, then it's time for "do you mind if we search your vehicle? You don't consent? Ok then, we'll just wait here for the K9 unit ... " .

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[bunklocoempire]

I've heard this sort of thing is becoming more common -- a new type of "road rage." Somebody cuts you off or something, you can get back at them by calling 911 and saying that they appear to be driving drunk or whatever.

I'm sure the police don't mind it , it's just more job security for them. Even better now that it has the Court's seal of approval. Pull the alleged offender over and find that they are not drunk, then it's time for "do you mind if we search your vehicle? You don't consent? Ok then, we'll just wait here for the K9 unit ... " .

True. Check your local scanner folks with the pitiful amount of info police will roll on.

 

[kcchiefs6465]

So now police can call in anonymous tips, and then arrest whoever they want.

It's not even that serious. They don't need to call.

They'll pull you over for any multitude of fictitious reasons and proceed to search the vehicle on nothing more than officer statements of a jittery driver/passenger, smell of marijuana, etc.

It's really not even anything new. They've been doing this for a while, absent this SCOTUS decree, and will continue to do as much.

 

[Lucille]

Congressional candidate: ‘When you see tea partiers driving or swerving, call the police’
http://twitchy.com/2014/04/26/congr...partiers-driving-or-swerving-call-the-police/

Self-defined left-wing liberal Mike Dickinson, who is running to unseat Rep. Eric Cantor in Congress, has made no secret of his hatred of the Tea Party. When he says he wants the names and addresses of Tea Party members, he’s not kidding. Now he’s asking people to collect and run the license plates of Tea Partiers so he can expose the Tea Party “idiots.”
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Twitchy missed this one:

More at the link. h/t http://www.strike-the-root.com/

 

[thoughtomator]

I'm wondering how there can even be anonymous phone calls, with the current technology.

 

[Lucille]

I'd like to know why that Dickson fellow hasn't been arrested. He is encouraging people to call the police when they see a tea partier doing nothing but driving in order to "harass" them.

Great job, you black-robed clowns. It only took a week for the abuse to start.

 

[Lucille]

He's still at it today.

 

[kcchiefs6465]

He's still at it today.

Where's that thread at, Lucille? I can't find it.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

I've heard this sort of thing is becoming more common -- a new type of "road rage." Somebody cuts you off or something, you can get back at them by calling 911 and saying that they appear to be driving drunk or whatever.

I'm sure the police don't mind it , it's just more job security for them. Even better now that it has the Court's seal of approval. Pull the alleged offender over and find that they are not drunk, then it's time for "do you mind if we search your vehicle? You don't consent? Ok then, we'll just wait here for the K9 unit ... " .

Well, with legalizing MJ shortly down the road, the JUST US enforcement will need new ways to generate revenue/confiscate property.

It's all about lies and theft...

 

[Carson]

So now police can call in anonymous tips, and then arrest whoever they want.

Exactly.

And...

Seems unconstitutional in regards to facing your accuser. All of the anonymous stuff seems that way.


But imagine your on the police force and one of these calls comes in. That should give you TWO people you may want to take a look into.

And they can "arrest whoever they want".

In my life I don't seem to do very good at pointing my boney, holier than thou, finger at others. When I do it seems it isn't long until I'm doing the same thing or something worse as I accused them of. It's as if, if there is a superior being, I've just found fault in the grand scheme of things and the one I accused is off the hook and I've volunteered myself and am the new boob.

 

[Czolgosz]

Maybe we need to use the system on as many people as possible.

 

[Carson]

It should be, if they find something that wasn't listed as being searched for on the search warrant, it shouldn't be admissible in court.

I was thinking that if they are looking in normal places you might expect to find something listed in the warrant and found something unexpected and illegal it would be admissible.

On the other hand if say the listed a stolen cow and where looking in places someone wouldn't expect to find a stolen cow, or a cow would even fit, the evidence would be inadmissible.