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Youtube comment gives advice how to run from cops is it accurate? (lemm.ee)

submitted 22 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (5 children)

Lots of half-truths here.

1: the first thing every cop says at a stop is "turn the engine off and put your key on the dash" if you haven't done that by the time he gets to your window

2: if you're pulled over, it's already too late to run. Cruisers have had dash cams for decades and your tag has already been photographed.

3: improper use of "statistically" but the best autos are quicker than sticks. That's why squad cars use them and theyre probably better than yours

4: you can probably talk yourself out of a ticket for speeding, GL talking yourself out of an evading charge.

Tl;dr cops suck. Nobody likes them. You can (and should) fight them in the courts and the voting booth, but you will lose if you try to do it on the road.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

1: the first thing every cop says at a stop is “turn the engine off and put your key on the dash” if you haven’t done that by the time he gets to your window

I've been pulled over many times and have never experienced this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Also, high speed chases are much more likely to end in the shooting death of the suspect. Which is why more progressive communities tend to bar cops from high speed chases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

For a brief time in the Seattle area you could actually run from cops and they couldn't do shit besides go the speed limit and watch you drive off.

Those days are over now and cops are finally enforcing other laws... weird how that works.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

Cameras are definitely the main problem. To get away with any crime in the modern age, you probably need to plan for being caught on camera. Especially if you end up in front of a cop.

[–] hddsx 3 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

In the world of push to start, do cops actually ask you to put your keys on the dash?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I've been pulled over quite a bit and have never had a cop ask me to put my keys on the dash.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

It's never happened to me either. Maybe he's experiencing some weird regional thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Got pulled over in an EV. Not so much as an on/off switch. Cop didn’t ask me to do anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

"KEEP YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM AND PUT THIS GROUNDING STRAP AROUND YOUR WRIST!"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

Hmmm. Hard to say. A cop pulled me over for "Operating a motor vehicle without her phone number". Eventually, she agreed to only give me a DWS (Driving While Sexy). It feels like an abuse of power, but as she reminds me all the time, she's the one with the gun...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

If evading the cops is a life or death thing, doubt this would be effective. You're not outrunning A cop, you're outrunning the cops (collective).

Let them get to your window, grab them, and drive like a motherfucker. Its much harder for them to catch you if they can't communicate back to other cops and coordinate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

And this is how you escalate a traffic stop into attempted murder of a cop.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

"Attempted World Improvement"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know why you need the first part. As you said, you're running from THE cops, not the 1-4 in the cruiser. They have radios and helicopters and satellites and thermal cameras and license plate scanners and traffic cameras and informants and qualified immunity and stingrays and cooperation with other agencies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And until they figure put an officer isn't responding, that's a head start where they aren't really looking at all that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

"Yes, Special Agent Preshuss, Officer Zetafsky just pulled over Chris Parvitol. Please send locations for their family, friends, and known High Interaction Areas."

You think you can move faster than information!?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You're not outrunning the cops (plural), at least not for long. Especially not once you've physically assaulted one, they're gonna be out for blood.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

GTA V would like to have a word.. Five stars is living the dream!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

THANK you. If that's not realistic, why did they create the simulation!?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xFcUoFF3dIY