Your chain of events seems more and more far fetched every time you go into it. I have been driving through Hamilton for a few decades now and have been pulled over more times than I can count and never had a tenth of the issues you are talking about.

I don't know what you do to get pulled over or what you are saying, but if you are catching this much crap either you pissed someone off in the past or you are doing something to draw attention to yourself.

BTW, I have dealt with a few cops who were tools before and yes, I have had my car searched before.(I gave consent) But those instances are few and far between. I can't see you being the only person in all of Hamilton being picked on and no one else I know even coming back with a story.

Maybe its the car. Or the driver. I have long hair, piercings, and drive sports cars...and i get my plates ran all the time and pulled over all the time too. Once they see i have a clean record and am paid up they leave me alone. And i live in a very bad drug area too, but it does help to be white, no offense, and to have a white-part-of-town address

:rofl: You gotta have a hot car to get pulled over in LB.

It's the shoes

so that must mean you have had another color skin at some point, and know how each race is treated personally? :shrug:

3 different times i am speaking of just last year that has happened to me.

1.

first got the camaro, still had the pink card in the window. pulled over because my card ''looked too faded. (3 days old)'' proceded to run everything. my license is clean, no points (use it for work) and registration and insurance are valid (again 3 days old). I was told that my car smelled like marijuana and they asked to search. I let them search. they searched my car over and over for an hour and found nothing.


2.

pulled over two days later for ''failure to signal''. i explained to the officer how i just bought the vehicle and havent had a chance to look it over. i also respectfully told the officer that i would gladly take the ticket and pay for it because its not a big deal. once again ''your car smells like marijuana'' blah blah. same result


3. this is like 2 months ago. driving down chambers street from cedar lane towards liberty. hamilton narc pulls behind me and flashes his emergencies, so i go to let him pass and he pulls behind me. so i continue a block down the road to pull over in the gulf gas station on liberty and chambers because i dont trust whats going on. he explains to me that '' I dont belong in this neighborhood, this isnt where I should be and that I must be there to cop drugs.'' I explain it to the police officer that I grew up in that neighborhood, am visiting with my sister and asked him why dont i ''belong'' here. he then put my in handcuffs for ''his saftey'' ''im not arresting im detaining'' and then he searched my car for over an hour. during that hour two other narcotics officers show up to help toss my car over. i was told for almost two hours that the leaves on the floor of my car was ''marijuana debris'' and then asked where the pot is and then when they were done violating every single last one of my civil rights i asked for the cops badge number and he said ''**** you i dont have to tell you ****'' and drove off



so yeah hamilton cops are garbage. one of the cops was someone i went to high school with too and i know who they are. so before you go saying that it must just be me....its not. i know about 6 other people this has happened to. all different ages and races and looks too

hmm never happened to me or anyone i know that grew up here?

Story #1 Police check the pink cards all the time because people fake them regularly

Story #2 If I pulled you over and you gave me a smart ass answer about just taking the ticket, I would have busted your balls too

Story #3 You once again managed to ask the cop a smart ass question. Were his statements appropriate, no, but if he is already giving you attitude you should be smart enough to keep your mouth shut before you take the shovel and complete digging the hole he lead you to.

I don't know what you consider respectful or rude when dealing with an authority figure. It is however clear, just through the way you tell these stories, that there is some sort of chip on your shoulder when dealing with the police. I don't know if you noticed in life, but it is always the person who makes the scene that gets "picked on" or "singled out"

No but i do have friends who are and are treated very differently. I dont agree with it, but it really doesnt matter because they are just trying to keep the streets safe, and i understand that. trust me im not on the other end of that argument

HMMMM. I believe you are correct sir. Not a single person I know has had a problem with cops in Hamilton. And this isn't because my father is a lawyer in Hamilton or because my boyfriends father is a Hamilton cop. I have been pulled over for speeding in a BMW, an Altima, a Camaro, a Mustang and a Grand Prix and was never given ****. I was pulled over for running a red light. I was polite and the police officer let me go with a warning. I was pulled over with an expired registration sticker, I cried and got a ticket lol. Each time I was pulled over I never gave them my PBA or FOP card and I only received one ticket. I even got loud with a cop and I received awritten warning. That time I did use my PBA card, but I got it back. Never once was I searched or trated like crap by any cop. Hamilton, trooper or what not.

Hey guys, back on topic a little bit... I just realized that I was supposed to call 7 days ahead of time. Can I show up in court and plead not guilty without calling?

If it says to call I would do so, just to stay on the up and up. I think you also need to call so that they put you on the schedule.

i had to call by today and I don't have the ticket on me... looks like im going out for lunch

You can go at the date on your ticket, but when you talk to the prosecutor he will ask you if you plead guilty or not and they will just make you a new date.

so i am just better off calling?

Wow....court sure has changed a lot since the last time I went....all I had to do was look at the date on the ticket, go to court that day, plead not guilty, have my lawyer talk to the prosecuter to lower the charges, go back to the judge, plead guilty to the lower charges, pay my fine and leave. Has it really been that long? Lol

well... my friend who got a careless driving ticket said he didnt call, just show up on the date... plead not guilty...the prosecutor will lower it...pay the fine... so i am hearing so many different things from different people its frustrating / stressful

if they want you to call, it will say on the ticket in the fine print......"if you plan on pleading not guilty, please call the court clerk at xxx-xxxx and inform the court of your intentions"

if it dosent say that, then just go on the date.....

its much easier than asking people on a forum 40 times, as your bound to get 40 different opinions

yeah, i just went home for lunch and got the ticket, it says if i plan to plead not guilty to call, so i just called... they said they will mail me something with the new court date

problem solved

I got pulled over for "not putting my signal on early enough before turning" going from 25mph road to a side street. He then came up and asked me for my license etc, so I unbuckled myself and got it from the glove compartment. He then told me I wasnt wearing a seatbelt. I explained that I just took it off infront of him to reach the glovebox. He said, "oh I couldnt see that you had it on through the rear tinted window". Pretty annoyed at this point, I turned around, looked at my window, then looked at him at said there are no tints on any of my windows.

if this was RowPo then they have an obsession with pulling people over for not using their blinkers... they "pulled" me over once when i was parked in a parking lot at Mimosa picking up a friend...nonetheless 4 RowPo showed up because they have nothing better to do (you know like maybe protecting the students from getting mugged)...so... was this RowPo?

This was not rowan police, it was in west long branch. Actually happened about 10 minutes after shownomercy was pulled over for whatever (his post in this thread).

I havent been pulled over by rowpo yet, but then again I dont drive much when on campus

i would file harasment charges on the cop and a cop can only stop you for 25 - 30 min by law