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Re: Why would the cop touch your car after pulling you over?
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2009, 07:49:47 pm »
a good story from the NPR (National Propaganda Radio) station.
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Re: Why would the cop touch your car after pulling you over?
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2009, 06:44:31 am »
Interesting. I recently (or I guess not, it was in November) got pulled over and I wondered why the officer placed a couple fingers on the upper rear quarter panel of my car.
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Re: Why would the cop touch your car after pulling you over?
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2009, 04:48:52 pm »
so why do they?  not enough time to listen to the show, at work anyways.
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Re: Why would the cop touch your car after pulling you over?
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2009, 05:04:37 pm »
so why do they?  not enough time to listen to the show, at work anyways.

So there is a record of their fingerprint on the car to let investigators know that they stopped that vehicle in case they get killed by the occupants.
They never should have let that out. Anyone with any sense will wipe down the car with alcohol if they kill a cop.

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Re: Why would the cop touch your car after pulling you over?
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2009, 08:37:09 pm »
You're right. They shouldn't have let that out... but to be honest, there are many other ways to tell now days. I bet everything recorded on their internal video cameras gets uploaded to a server somewhere instantaneously.
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Re: Why would the cop touch your car after pulling you over?
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2009, 09:11:17 pm »
You're right. They shouldn't have let that out... but to be honest, there are many other ways to tell now days. I bet everything recorded on their internal video cameras gets uploaded to a server somewhere instantaneously.

Yeah, but its about collecting as much evidence as possible so that there's no way the scumbag could possibly slip through.

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Re: Why would the cop touch your car after pulling you over?
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2009, 05:07:55 am »
You're right. They shouldn't have let that out... but to be honest, there are many other ways to tell now days. I bet everything recorded on their internal video cameras gets uploaded to a server somewhere instantaneously.

Yeah, but its about collecting as much evidence as possible so that there's no way the scumbag could possibly slip through.

True enough... but how many scumbags watch NPR? :D

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Err... listen to. Stupid studying for finals.
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Re: Why would the cop touch your car after pulling you over?
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2009, 12:21:42 pm »
You're right. They shouldn't have let that out... but to be honest, there are many other ways to tell now days. I bet everything recorded on their internal video cameras gets uploaded to a server somewhere instantaneously.

Yeah, but its about collecting as much evidence as possible so that there's no way the scumbag could possibly slip through.

True enough... but how many scumbags watch NPR? :D

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Err... listen to. Stupid studying for finals.

Well, Mumia was a former NPR reporter.