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West central IL | You do your job and only escalate your investigation if you have reasonable articulatable suspicion of a crime. If you pull a car over for speeding you only need their window down enough to ask for their license and registration, with which you can issue the ticket. In the process of issuing the ticket you see something else that appears to be criminal you can escalate the situation. But the driver isn’t required to assist you with anything, nor do they need to speak to you whatsoever. You have the CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to remain silent and expect a reasonable encounter from police. And the police should be perfectly fine with you using those rights. And no, tinted windows in a high crime area from what appears to be a “drug dealer car” is not reasonable suspicion of a crime. All this coming from a pretty right wing leaning individual. | |
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