Are cops trained to lie?

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I’m not here bitching…i know the cop was just doing his job, but i’m curious if this is really part of police training/procedure.

I got pulled over on Sheridan last night…around 2AM or so…i signal, pull over, roll down window, turn off car, and put both hands visibly on steering wheel…

cop comes up and right away asks how much i’ve had to drink…and says he can smell it all over me, and that by the way i was driving it was obvious :bloated:

at about 11PM (3 hours before) i had 1 drink…literally, only one for the night…
so i told him, “officer, i had one drink about 3 hours ago…i have no idea what you’re smelling.”

he then asks how much weed i was smoking too (not if i had been smoking any) :tdown:

i told him, “officer, i don’t touch that stuff…it’s not my thing.”

he continues to insist that i reek of alcohol and that i was all over the road, when i clearly know this is all bullshit…

then says “most people tell me they had 1 or 2…you sure you only had 1?”

then i got a bit impatient and said “do you have a breathalyser?”

he told me to get out of the car and wait behind it…then he came back, pulled out the machine, showed me that it was a fresh tube, i blew in it…and he said “according to this you probably don’t even have that 1 drink in you.”

gave me my shit, let me get back in the car…said some bullshit about the tint, issued no tickets and let me go.

less than 5 minutes later, still on sheridan, another cop pulled me over, i told him i had just had a run in with a buddy of his, described the first cop…and this guy let me go without any question.

i’m just kinda pissed that this guy was so insistent that i smelled like tons of alcohol…and that i was all over the road. is it part of police training to lie about what they see and smell, trying to lure out a confession? seems like bullshit to me.

reminds me of a story i learned about in a psych class, where a girl hated her father, so made up the story that he raped her growing up…and made the story so convincing that even the father fell for it, thinking he probably just didnt remember it, and he served hard time, only to be proven innocent later…i wonder if this tactic that cops use could cause a similar effect in a sober driver that panics and admits to drinking just to get the cop to stop harassing him/her with bullshit like that…

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You probably did smell like alcohol… I go to bars and not drink and I almost always smell of beer. Shit spills on you.

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the wing.

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nothing was spilled on me…i was outside most of the time, so the smell of alcohol could float away rather than being trapped inside with me…

and i wasn’t in the Z

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thats gay man at least u were not really drunk so t-up

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once i was driving with newman and walker, and i wasnt drinking that night. all of us were sober, werent at a bar at all that night and newman accidentally passed a state trooper on the 90. he pulled us over and asked newman how much he had had to drink tonight. newman said nothing. the cop goes, thats bs i can smell it on you. newmans goes, “no, i dont drink at all” he then goes “hmmmm… must be in the air tonight…”

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were you perhaps covered in black shoe polish?

I swear, it isn’t a co-incidence to me thinking that you can be pulled over DWB. In amherst, almost 80% of the time driving by a car pulled over, its a black person. I think the cops are racist, too…

and that is bullshit that he’d be acting like that. I’d be pissed too.

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I definately understand how you feel.

Last week I was pulled over for the rear windows on a Blazer being factory tinted :bloated:

Right away he asked me how much I had to drink, and I told him two beers a few hours ago. Right away he pulled me out, searched me and gave me a breathalyser :wtf:

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That happens to you, but one time I was BLITZED after a wedding, could barely stand, and the cop let me go…

I was clearly drunk, and he even called a second cop to the scene. I had to do the drunk tests, and was wobbling all over.

No breathalyzer, nothing. WTF is right…

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dude it happens. cops want to find people.

i was driving back from the casino over grand island in my company car. i had sweatpants, hat, and a sweatshirt on. cop comes up to the car, asks me 5 times how much ive had to drink and he can smell it, ran every report possible on my car and me, even told me i looked under the influence of narcotics. i told him i dont drink or do any drugs and asked for a breathalyser so i can get on my way. finally told me i was free to go after 15 minutes.

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statistics boys, statistics.

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if you don’t ask for the sale…

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They are probably just bored since it is Amherst and they have nothing better to do but drive around and pull people over at 2am…They need a reason if anyone asks so they tell you right up front what their reason is going to be so YES…they are trained to lie in my opinion.

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If you are driving around @ 2 am, and you are under the age of 25 - the odds are pretty good that you’re violating some law.

Mudbone once told me when I was younger that “nothing ‘good’ happens after midnight”.

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And they ask these questions to evaluate your reactions and answers.

It can suck, but oh well.

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i had a judge tell me nothing good happens after 8pm once, haha

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Last nigt was “Cinco de Mayo”, no shit they were looking for DWIs

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OMG NO FUCKING WAY!!! YOU THINK IT MIGHT’VE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT???

:tup:

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:bigclap:

Shitty he lied to you, but again, it’s all about tactics. You confront someone who’s guilty and watch for the signs of lying. Shifting eyes, stuttering etc etc. You keep accusing them and see if the details of their explaination of how they’re not guilty change.

Yeah, it sucks if you’re innocent being treated that way but at 2am you use that tactic on someone under 25 because you know the odds are in your favor that they’ve been drinking. Respond to a few DWI fatalities and notify a parent their kid isn’t coming home a few times and you’re probably not going to feel too bad “harrassing” some kid for 10 minutes. A smart cop probably would have let you go as soon as you asked for the breathalyzer though. Unless he had reason to believe you were so drunk that you might do something stupid like that your tactic should have effectively called his bluff. Could be he was just a small penis prick who was mad you called his bluff though too. :slight_smile:

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Violater is going to love this thread.