If you really want to see the abuse every weekend, Watch A&E Live PD, almost every single car, The people are asked to get out of their car or truck and First Patted down, then a full search of them and their vehicle. ( for a freaking burnt out taillight)
This shit has got to stop, Notice if you watch they always say, I smell weed, matter of fact last Friday on the show a Car drove by to S.C. Cops and they pull it over and said when you drove by us we smelled the weed, ( it was raining out the windows on car were up) What is really scary is they found no weed in the car, then the show cuts off from those incidents and goes to another cop pulling over another victim and doing the same shit.
I for one understand the cops being in danger some of the time, But the bottom line is they choose to be i that position and take that job, It certainly don't mean they have to Search every single vehicle they pull over, and if they don't smell weed or alcohol it's then, " why do you seem so nervous?" I mean WTF is this system coming to.
I won't even leave my house on weekends unless I really need to after watching that show, They are out just trying to get quota period, and say it isn't, but what other reason do you have to get a person out of their car on a minor traffic stop?
I once hear a cop say to another cop, don't worry I will make something up to pull them over, "Quote"