FebreezeIt
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For those who are unfamiliar, I HIGHLY recommend watching both Never Get Busted and Never Get Raided!!!
Barry Cooper is a former narcotics officer who was highly successful in his career. Upon realizing the injustice being done against the American people, he became pro-active and produced videos documenting all the techniques cops use to arrest people for cannabis. The videos are very straightforward and easy to follow and could very well keep you out of jail! By watching his video, I had the right tools to keep a cop who pulled my friends and I from searching our car.
Reasonable Suspicion:
Pot leaf key chains, high times magazines in plain view, rolling papers, scales, baggies, etc.
none of these things are illegal themselves, but will definitely be a huge red flag to a cop! This will cause him to ask you more questions, and potentially want to search your vehicle.
PROBABLE CAUSE:
ONE POT SEED! A roach in the ashtray, or a car reeking of weed.. If a cop see's/smells even one of these things, game over. He has every legal right to search your car right then and there! So don't be cruising around burning J's, be smart about it.
LASTLY:
This piece of advice kept a bad situation from getting worse. A buddy of mine had a heavy foot, and I had a little herb with me. Cop pulls us over, 3 young hippy looking guys out for a drive. Sure, he had a "hunch" but that was all. As we were being pulled over I reminded my buddy of the video we had watched and the crucial last moments of the interaction with the cop. MOST LIKELY, the cop will wait till after the ticket is issued BEFORE asking permission to search. This is a CRUCIAL detail!!! A cop is trained to make any case as airtight as possible. What this means is that while being questioned while pulled over, a lawyer could easily argue intimidation to gain the search. By waiting until after the citation or warning is issued, YOU ARE FREE TO GO!!! done deal. This means that if you give him permission after this point, no lawyer can argue the intimidation angle.. I made sure my long haired buddy understood this very well. As soon as he hands you the ticket, ask, "Am I free to go?" Don't fall for their cop trickery!!!
So the cop asks my buddy to step out of the car for a little chat. "Where you guys going?" all this kinda shit. Obviously by asking someone out of the car, the situation is now escalating somewhat. Lacking any sufficient evidence for a forceful search, all he can do is write my friend a ticket. After writing this ticket, he asks my friend, "So you guys wouldn't happen to have anything illegal in your car...?" To which my educated friend replied, "I have my ticket now, am I free to go?" Legally he was, so the cop answered in the affirmative, situation over.
Another (controversial) piece of advice Barry Cooper gives is in consent to search.. If the first situation doesn't apply, the question about giving consent to search comes up. He recommends that if an eager cop seeks permission, give it. The crucial part however is that you must have your stuff hidden VERY WELL! Sure, you can argue about your non-existent constitutional rights on the side of the road with a cop. He will call for backup, run a drug dog around the car, and will eventually find a way to get in ANYWAYS. When they do, they will go over that bitch with a fine toothed comb. If you give him permission without a fight, he will most likely give a quick cursory search in the usual hiding spots and then be on his way. That's a scary situation to be in, and ultimately that's your call.
Creative hiding tip.
Rather than hidden in a center console or under the seat, I have a healthy amount of clutter in my car (call me a slob) empty pop bottles, old auto-trader magazines, etc. If you just go pick up a bag, I take an old fast food bag, and an old hamburger wrapper. Put the bag inside of the old wrapper, inside the fast food bag, carelessly tossed in the backseat with other garbage in said bag. Psychologically people (cops included) wouldn't assume people would store an item of importance in a bag of trash (literally) Especially if this would require him rifling through nasty garbage with his bare hands
. There are no certainties, but it seems like a solid idea to me.
Barry Cooper is a former narcotics officer who was highly successful in his career. Upon realizing the injustice being done against the American people, he became pro-active and produced videos documenting all the techniques cops use to arrest people for cannabis. The videos are very straightforward and easy to follow and could very well keep you out of jail! By watching his video, I had the right tools to keep a cop who pulled my friends and I from searching our car.
Reasonable Suspicion:
Pot leaf key chains, high times magazines in plain view, rolling papers, scales, baggies, etc.
none of these things are illegal themselves, but will definitely be a huge red flag to a cop! This will cause him to ask you more questions, and potentially want to search your vehicle.
PROBABLE CAUSE:
ONE POT SEED! A roach in the ashtray, or a car reeking of weed.. If a cop see's/smells even one of these things, game over. He has every legal right to search your car right then and there! So don't be cruising around burning J's, be smart about it.
LASTLY:
This piece of advice kept a bad situation from getting worse. A buddy of mine had a heavy foot, and I had a little herb with me. Cop pulls us over, 3 young hippy looking guys out for a drive. Sure, he had a "hunch" but that was all. As we were being pulled over I reminded my buddy of the video we had watched and the crucial last moments of the interaction with the cop. MOST LIKELY, the cop will wait till after the ticket is issued BEFORE asking permission to search. This is a CRUCIAL detail!!! A cop is trained to make any case as airtight as possible. What this means is that while being questioned while pulled over, a lawyer could easily argue intimidation to gain the search. By waiting until after the citation or warning is issued, YOU ARE FREE TO GO!!! done deal. This means that if you give him permission after this point, no lawyer can argue the intimidation angle.. I made sure my long haired buddy understood this very well. As soon as he hands you the ticket, ask, "Am I free to go?" Don't fall for their cop trickery!!!
So the cop asks my buddy to step out of the car for a little chat. "Where you guys going?" all this kinda shit. Obviously by asking someone out of the car, the situation is now escalating somewhat. Lacking any sufficient evidence for a forceful search, all he can do is write my friend a ticket. After writing this ticket, he asks my friend, "So you guys wouldn't happen to have anything illegal in your car...?" To which my educated friend replied, "I have my ticket now, am I free to go?" Legally he was, so the cop answered in the affirmative, situation over.
Another (controversial) piece of advice Barry Cooper gives is in consent to search.. If the first situation doesn't apply, the question about giving consent to search comes up. He recommends that if an eager cop seeks permission, give it. The crucial part however is that you must have your stuff hidden VERY WELL! Sure, you can argue about your non-existent constitutional rights on the side of the road with a cop. He will call for backup, run a drug dog around the car, and will eventually find a way to get in ANYWAYS. When they do, they will go over that bitch with a fine toothed comb. If you give him permission without a fight, he will most likely give a quick cursory search in the usual hiding spots and then be on his way. That's a scary situation to be in, and ultimately that's your call.
Creative hiding tip.
Rather than hidden in a center console or under the seat, I have a healthy amount of clutter in my car (call me a slob) empty pop bottles, old auto-trader magazines, etc. If you just go pick up a bag, I take an old fast food bag, and an old hamburger wrapper. Put the bag inside of the old wrapper, inside the fast food bag, carelessly tossed in the backseat with other garbage in said bag. Psychologically people (cops included) wouldn't assume people would store an item of importance in a bag of trash (literally) Especially if this would require him rifling through nasty garbage with his bare hands
. There are no certainties, but it seems like a solid idea to me.