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Originally Posted by billmac91
Let's just be realistic about this scenario and what actually happened in all liklihood. Cops are hanging in the city patrolling, see a young black male driving an expensive SUV, call in an annoymous tip that an SUV is in the area with heavy Narcotics. The tip, that they just gave themself, is used to pull Santonio over iwthout probable cause.
They find three joints in the car (far from heavy dose of narcotics). Call me crazy, but the obvious conclusion to me on this is:
Cops thought Santonio was a dealer, callesd the tip in (annonymously), gave themselves probable cause to pull him over, and found 3 marijuana cigerrettes.
It doesn't excuse Santonio's behavior, but it bothers me that this is what likley happened. Any time a cop wants to pull someone over, apparently all they need to do is call an off-duty officer or friend, and have them report an annoymous tip on a vehicle.
That or pull them over for not wearing a seat-belt...another funny law put in place for the sole purpose of pulling suspicious people over.
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That's true. If it's that easy to abuse the system than there is certainly a problem. The only argument I have (and I realize it's not a very good one, because it doesn't even address the main issue here, which is the violation of civil rights) is that if you aren't doing anything wrong in the first place then it won't matter if the cops search your vehicle.