[Raiderman]

Originally Posted by EA

There's a difference between women that don't respect themselves and prostitutes....

Hence MGM at 3:00am ANY day of the week...

[OmegaSupreme]

Originally Posted by von949

This is not a rant about these women. I don't really care what they do. I just wish they would stay off the busy streets and stick to the truck stops or internet. I'm more bothered by the stop and go traffic because of the rubber necking, split second turn decisions and people not paying attention to driving.

couldn't agree more

[OmegaSupreme]

Originally Posted by C_A_Braun

This is why you might often see some ******* on his cell phone driving next to a patrol car and chances are they are not going to be stopped because it is not necessarily that cops job to stop the cell phone holder. However you put that guy next to a motor cop and the odds go up very quickly that there will be a traffic stop in that guy's near future.

I try not to breathe when motorcycle cops are near me... or my car

If they pull you over, you're getting a ticket 100% of the time

[Raiderman]

Originally Posted by OmegaSupreme

I try not to breathe when motorcycle cops are near me... or my car

If they pull you over, you're getting a ticket 100% of the time

Simple justification of existence..

[LV10101]

Originally Posted by C_A_Braun

I don't know if metro operates this way or not but with most large agencies cops are assigned specific duties and those are the duties that they perform.

For instance motorcycle cops are pretty much exclusively assigned traffic patrol duties. They are going to watch for traffic violations and respond to accidents (that require police responses) and the like. They are not going to be dispatched burglaries or murders.

Crime cars are going to be sent to the burglary calls and generally will not deal with traffic issues.

Homicide cops deal with murders and vice cops deal with prostitutes and gang cops deal with gangs and child victim cops deal with crimes against children etc.

This is why you might often see some ******* on his cell phone driving next to a patrol car and chances are they are not going to be stopped because it is not necessarily that cops job to stop the cell phone holder. However you put that guy next to a motor cop and the odds go up very quickly that there will be a traffic stop in that guy's near future.

Not sure where you came from? If a cop is dispatched to a more urgent call they will not stop a vehicle for a traffic infraction but if a cop is doing patrol no matter motorcycle or car and see something illegal they will most likely take action unless it is unsafe to do so. Unsafe would be causing a possible accident or hazard by trying to turn around on an offending vehicle. To say "This is why you might often see some ******* on his cell phone driving next to a patrol car and chances are they are not going to be stopped because it is not necessarily that cops job to stop the cell phone holder." is not factual at all.

[von949]

Originally Posted by EA

There's a difference between women that don't respect themselves and prostitutes....

Well, if they are going to go that far to disrespect themselves, might as well make some money right?

[Raiderman]

Originally Posted by von949

Well, if they are going to go that far to disrespect themselves, might as well make some money right?

True that!

[Merrily Gather]

lol

I can see giving the out of town tour to people, 'Here be hookers and johns'.

[C_A_Braun]

Originally Posted by LV10101

Not sure where you came from? If a cop is dispatched to a more urgent call they will not stop a vehicle for a traffic infraction but if a cop is doing patrol no matter motorcycle or car and see something illegal they will most likely take action unless it is unsafe to do so. Unsafe would be causing a possible accident or hazard by trying to turn around on an offending vehicle. To say "This is why you might often see some ******* on his cell phone driving next to a patrol car and chances are they are not going to be stopped because it is not necessarily that cops job to stop the cell phone holder." is not factual at all.

As I said, I am not sure how metro operates. I can tell you though that, for example, LAPD and LASD operate in exactly the manner which I described.

Will officers on patrol perform patrol duties which they are not assigned? Sure. If a crime car is not doing anything else at the time and someone blows a red light nearly causing a crash, the chances are high that the crime car will stop that person and issue them a ticket. Just like if a motor cop see a guy enter a bank with a shotgun in his hands, chances are the motor cop is going to respond to that situation in an appropriate manner as you would expect any law enforcement officer to do.

However, when you are driving home tonight and you see a motor cop just a block or 2 from your house sitting their with his radar gun and you get home to find your house has been burglarized during the day and you immediately call the cops thinking that Mr Motor cop down the street will be there in just a few minutes but you end up waiting 2 hours, that is because it is not Mr Motor Cop's job to come take your burglary report. That call will be dispatched to a crime car that has already got 3 other burglary reports to take ahead of you.

[unf0rgiven6262]

Tending to anyone breaking the law at any given moment is completely unfeasible and would practically mean pulling people over every 50 feet. Discretion becomes key.