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2012-06-29 10:25 AM
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GomesBolt - 2012-06-29 10:24 AM

Jtiger - 2012-06-29 8:31 AM  Kind of like impersonating a police officer, but not quite that far. 

Wife brought this up last night.  Why is that not freedom of speech?  I guess the response is going to be something about public safety and screaming "fire" in a crowded movie theater, but if you just wear a police uniform and drive in a car with lights going, couldn't you be arrested?

 



You can claim to be a cop all you want. The minute you try to assert any authority doing it you're breaking the law. It's a form of fraud but you're committing fraud under the colour of law by assuming authority you do not have.

If you're running lights, you are asserting authority you do not have. You will be arrested.





2012-06-29 10:29 AM
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Wearing a uniform with a badge and pulling people over is not speech. We have had several people here impersonate officers. They pull people over by use of authority they do not have. One person was a rapist and raped a couple of women they pulled over. The motorists did not stop and pull over because some body said they were a cop on a bar stool and talked about all the good things they did, they pulled over because they thought they were the police.

Impersonating a cop s a crime. Fraud is a crime. Lying is not a crime unless it's under oath regardless of what it is about.

2012-06-29 11:25 AM
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I'm not saying pulling people over or running lights.  If you had a cop-like car (cutlass with lights) and wore a uniform and drove the speed limit, could you get arrested for impersonating an officer?

 

2012-06-29 12:20 PM
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GomesBolt - 2012-06-29 12:25 PM

I'm not saying pulling people over or running lights.  If you had a cop-like car (cutlass with lights) and wore a uniform and drove the speed limit, could you get arrested for impersonating an officer?

 



Having blue lights on your car is illegal in, I believe, every state. Most states having a light other than white or yellow viewable from the front of the car is illegal.

Driving a retired Crown Vic with a uniform on is legal.

Having a metallic badge the says the word "Police" on it presented in public is illegal in most states.

In a lot of places having a badge visible without some sort of authorization is black and white illegal and by itself is an arrestable offense without doing anything else.


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