# Info on not talking to cops

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**Created:** [July 21, 2009, 1:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/info-on-not-talking-to-cops/245584 "2009-07-21T01:29:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 6:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/info-on-not-talking-to-cops/245584/8 "2009-07-22T06:34:55Z")

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> [@FS: 92 ford explorer sport 4x4 5spd $500 obo](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-92-ford-explorer-sport-4x4-5spd-500-obo/20757/2):
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> I don’t get your logic. You’re basically saying if you do something wrong and get caught by the police you need to rat yourself out.
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> I’m not saying if you get pulled over just to sit there silently and give em the stank eye. Be polite but it’s not your job to tell the officer what you were doing wrong.
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> I respect real police work and even wanted to make that my career for awhile. I just don’t like how being a cop has turned into “screwing middle class America out of their paycheck, for doing the same things that they do while off duty.” And that quote came from a directly from a State Troopers mouth.

The short version of my logic is this: In my experience being honest and open with the officer has got me out of more tickets than I can remember. Guaranteed that if I gave the officer shit about, “im not talking to you”, he would have given me the ticket and that is that, because when you do that, in their eyes you are either being a smart ass or you have something to hide.

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