Pulled over for literally no reason, read?
Ok, my cousin gets pulled over all the time. Sometimes he knows what he did, such as rolling a stop sign etc, but on few occasions , he has claimed that he didn't do anything and that the cops wouldn't even give him a reason, which doesn't sound lawful. I didn't believe him, until he got pulled over while i was in the passenger's seat, adn he did indeed get pulled over for no reason. The cop pulled up to his window and said something about his, something about "like the song", and he replied " yeah i like this song" and the cop replied "well, maybe the neighborhood doesn't like it". at which point we understand that the cop meant that the music was loud (which it was a little loud, but he doesn't even have a system, so it wasn't nearly as loud as other cars), to which he replies by apologizing and turning the volume down. The cop proceeded to ask him to pull over right then and there. The cop then asks both of us if we have drugs or weed on us (none of us do any drugs at all), and he says no, and the cop says "it smells like weed", which it didn't . So the cop asks my cousin to roll his window down and he replies that his window doesn't work and doesnt roll down, so the cop tells him to get out and to put his hands behind his back (WTH?), so he does and he isnt cuffed, just frisked and asked t sit in the back seat of teh cop car. My cousin asked what he did wrong to which the cop replied "you didnt do anything", after a few seconds, the cop comes and asks me if i use drugs and i say no. then im also asked to step out (which is a surreal moment, seeing that i had never experienced this before), and the cop frisks me adn asks me to sit in teh back of the cop car also, at which point my cousin says" now do you believe me?" , and like 15 seconds after that, the cop tells us to get out quick because he has to stop another car that just passed us, so we get out and the adventure is over. ive heard of people say "they pulle dme over for no reason", but then they were doing drugs or something along those lines, but in this case we literally didnt do anything wrong, and even teh cop couldnt think of a reason, which i thought by law they would need to.
1.Can they legally pull someone over, frisk them, and ask them to sit in the back of the cop car without ever having or giving a reason?
2. Was this a "qouta" thing? or is that a myth? efore we got pulled over, another car had just been pulled over seconds before by the same cop, and then it pulled a third car over after he let us go, so what was going on there ?
it was a terrible feeling to live in America and have your liberty and rights taken away like that , if even for a few minutes, with no explanation given, nor anything unlafwul being done on our part.
alot of the answers are along the lines of "well your friend put himself on their radar with his previous tickets". So what you are saying is that after a person gets some tickets, they can now be legally pulled over for no reason ? And what about me? I have never gotten a ticket, and i was also asked? also, that doesnt answer teh basic question about the cop saying that nothing illegal was commited. Arent they supposed to atleast come up with a reason ?