who's Police farce has too much time on their hands with nothing to do. So, they have developed a routine of stopping everyone who is not local with any excuse to snoop in vehicles and search people with the hope,, "we might get lucky".

You're likely to find whoever is the "Chief"-"Sheriff" or whatever either has not clue one of what his patrol people are doing or,, he systematically has endorced-approved his department's behaviors.

Keep that in mind when addressing the Chief or whatever.

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