Or a cell.
I had always wondered about that (whether there was a reference system for prior warnings). I had a cracked tail light cluster that caused the main light and brake light on that side to show a bit of yellow light along with red, which is apparently illegal in Florida. I got pulled over five times (by five different agencies) for it because I couldn’t afford to replace the whole thing and my tape fix kept falling off. But they always bought my story about not knowing it was a violation if the light was still working.
Figures that it would be a campus cop that finally ticketed me for it. He also tried to ticket me for parking in a disabled spot, which happened to be the only safe place for me to pull over.
“Why have you parked here?”
“You turned your lights on, officer. I assumed you wanted me to stop.”
“Why is your engine turned off?”
“You are parked behind me so I can’t leave. Should I leave it running?”
Moron.
Let me clarify my previous post.
When I said there is a way to see if someone was pulled over previously I meant there is a way, but it’s not set up for actually doing that. A lot of Q&W info now is done by the officer himself via a mobile terminal in the squad, not through the dispatcher. This is quicker, more efficient, and keeps info off the air.
So while it’s possible to go through the data base and see if the vehicle and/or driver was ran previously, it’s highly unlikely one of us would actually do it. There are literally hundreds of traffic stops per day in the 6 county area here. If a driver got stopped and verbally warned a month ago I’d have to go through tens of thousands of entries to find the entry. And the entry may only have the vehicle/driver info. It doesn’t always list the disposition unless the officer typed it in. If a citation was issued the UTC number will be on the entry. A traffic stop would take hours if I did all that.
And to tell you the truth, I don’t give a shit what some other cop did. I’m there with you here and now. I’m going to do what I’m going to do regardless of what someone else did. Which is why someone can get stopped and verbally warned all the time, and then when they finally do get written up they’re all pissed about it. Go figure. :rolleyes:
So what you mean is it doesn’t tie into the history associated with that particular driver’s license? That seems weird. Regular fine/points tickets do, I presume?
Apples/oranges. A fine and such are after a cite has run through courts and ecomes a permanent record.
A verbal warning is just that, a verbal warning with no written record. Traffic stops in and of themselves aren’t generally recorded anywhere except in the internal contact data base of the stopping agency. I can look at stops on the system for this area of the state (6 counties), but it’s basically temporary. After about 1 day there is too many to even do that to go back any further.
And if you get stopped and warned in North Bumfunk, Wisconsin 300 miles away, there is no way for me in Milwaukee County could ever know.
Interesting. Thanks!
And, of course, YMMV. I can’t speak for the Cheeseless 49. Things may be wayyy different depending on location.
On the car my mom had back around the turn of the century, not only was a headlight really complicated and impractical to self replace, but the taillights were also ridiculously convoluted and needlessly hard to get at to replace the bulb. You practically had to take the entire trunk compartment apart (and obviously had to get everything out of the trunk to do so, which with my mom’s cars is never a simple thing in and of itself). Of course that particular car also seemed to burn through the lights at ridiculously fast pace, to the point where I eventually said, no, I’m not gonna go through that hassle to change that bulb again, go someplace that’ll do that for you instead of just getting another bulb.