perfect.disguise

Me and a friend both have white edge GTs and theres one black cop in town that has bitched a time or two for no reason but other than him all the cops seem ok in my town.

viza

This is absolutely true. If you are driving aggressively and someone calls 311 and reports the activity, and your license plate, the person taking the call puts a note on your dmv record. If you get pulled over, the officer will see it and take this into consideration when deciding to let you off with a warning or give you a ticket. This is kind of unfair because people can just arbitrarily call on you and say whatever they want and they'll put the note down. I'm sure there are people that would call on you just for merging into traffic, or because they are a racist, or [insert stupid reason here]. I guess the theory is if they hear from a lot of people about you, you are probably driving like an idiot and deserve a ticket.

Aside from this, this is a really interesting thread. I've been driving a stock 97 escort for a while (yea it was torture but I have a mortgage, a 5 year old, and I was biding my time8), and speed often, though I never push it too far, or drive aggressively (following closely, swerving around people, etc). Generally I just keep up with the nutcases so they don't ride my bumper. I usually stick to slow lane, but if flow of traffic is 75mph, I go with the flow. If people in slow lane are being deadbeats I pass them. I never camp the fast lane because that's begging for it.

I got a new GT because the wife's car is paid off and now I get a new car >8).

It will be interesting to see if I get pulled over in the GT as opposed to getting ignored like I did in the escort. I'm going to try really hard to not drive differently but it will be tough not to

I'll update this in a week or two and let the board know if anything changes. I live in a large metropolitan area so it's not like I have the only GT in town, like someone else posted, and there's only two police. If I get pulled over by all different police, then it's probably the car. I've only ever gotten one ticket a really long time ago and haven't been pulled over in the last 8 years or so.

-Viz

bluegill

I've only been followed once so far in the month I've had the car. It was at night and I was the only one on the road. How long does it take to run a plate to check for warrants at 45 mph, a few hundred yards... He followed me for over 4 miles before a speeder came the other way and got priority attention. If they can't find a reason to pull you over they will make one up, in Michigan your guilty until proven innocent when it comes to traffic laws, the judge ALWAYS, with out exception, sides with the cops. The ***** cops know this and think they are gods. I've been followed by the pigs for miles, so I pull into a gas station to get them off my back, he follows me in and turns on his lights and starts harrasing. Then trumps up some B.S. charge. Disagre with them and you get arrested for disorderly conduct. I had a cop follow me over a mile into another township, across the border and follow me into my work parking lot, the pig was out of juristiction. He said he was in "pursuit". Yet he didn't turn on is lights until we were in the parking lot, and the little ***** ***** stopped at a frickin stop light that was green for me. You run the gauntlet with the cops in the Metro Detroit area at night in any kind of bright colored sporty car.

Mike

squad272

I don't get followed because I have been driving a Crown VIC police interceptor for the past 2 yrs. I get waved at alot. It has Firefighter platesand that helps also. I was pulled over in middle of night on bridge to philly I was speeding and he pulled up behind
imediately shut off lightbar gave me a beep beep with the electric horn and drove away. I was stopped while going to a house fire( I even had My blue LED bars going. once we stopped he then pulled up along side of me and Said " my bad" and waved me away.

If you want to really get back at the ones who know you, get a better police car than they have. yours will be nice and thay have to follow you around in their beater.

Jexey

I definately get harassed and followed him my town. I put QTec Exhaust cutouts under my baby, I have pretty dark tints and have temp plates from another town simply because I plan on uninsuring my car this winter. (No use getting new plates until after the rebuild this winter).

I guess I deserve it.

SuperHoss

I may be a little behind, but...

-there are not any laws against a cop following you, but there are laws for following too close behind someone.

I have one cop that constantly badgers me, BUT HE HAS A REASON. I haven't broken a law in my town in over 2 years and he still follows me around. He has been rude to me every time I've seen him, since he had to drop the street racing charges. My friend and I went by him racing and he was out of the car, didn't get to clock us, and by the time he got in his car, we were already running the speed limit again(so he couldn't even gauge our speed). His only argument was that our engines were revved up...got lucky, but I have been careful every since.

I was with another friend riding around on a cool Friday night and there was an officer following us very, VERY closely(I mean dangerously close). A deer jumped across the highway, my buddie slammed on breaks, and we got rear-ended. The officer tried to write us up for wreckless driving even though we argued that he was following too close. A few days later, the chief of police viewed the recording off of the officers in-car camera...charges were immediately dropped.

...Police screw up just like anyone else, it's just when we screw up, they have a reason to follow us. Don't give them a reason to bother you, and they can't really do anything to you but stare and be jealous of what you have.

tightdogal

its not only cops but also even in my own neighborhood. people will yell to slow down even though im going like 20 in a 25. wtf?? i make sure i dont speed in the neighborhood and yet people still think im speeding. its stupid

Billymac76

its kinda like that car commercial where the old man gets out of this house and yells at the empty red parked car "SLOW DOWN" then mumbles somethen.. hah

BigBen09

nope not me

miamiman23

its kinda funny cuz on my way to school a cop heard my exhaust and followed me 3\4 of the way to school and didnt leave until i reached the parking lot. then i swear to god going home from school a cop in the oncoming lane tured around and followed me for like ten minutes. And thats not the first time its happened