# Do those Trooper Supporter Stickers help?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-those-trooper-supporter-stickers-help/60439
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 2, 2001, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-those-trooper-supporter-stickers-help/60439 "2001-04-02T02:58:28Z")
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### Author: ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2001, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-those-trooper-supporter-stickers-help/60439/1 "2001-04-02T02:58:28Z")

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Every year I get solicited by the state highway patrol to donate money to their fund. If you make a donation they send you a sticker for your bumper or back glass that says, “Trooper Supporter”. I wonder if this helps out in a traffic stop situation.

Seems to me that it’s intimated that it will or otherwise they would just accept donations without offering the stickers. I get the same solicitations from the Oklahoma Sheriff’s Association as well as the Fraternal Order Of Police.

What’s your opinion? Are the police offering a little backhanded immunity with these stickers? I have one on my car but haven’t been stopped in years, so I don’t really know for sure.