Impersonating a cop is a big no no. One man in Florida found this out the hard way after he flashed the fake police lights in his unmarked Dodge Charger at an intersection in order to run a light.
  • b34k@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    3 days ago

    Maybe if cops didn’t break traffic laws all the time, civilians wouldn’t try to follow suit.

    People in those kinds of positions of power should be leading by example, not running around like they’re above the law.

    • NarrativeBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Could not have said it any better.

      When it comes to following traffic laws and I see cop cars, firetrucks, ambulances, city transit, delivery trucks even. I would expert these individuals to be driving around as trained operator’s and “expert’s” and thus held to a higher standard.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
    30·
    3 days ago

    Denying it ever happened is certainly an interesting tactic, especially considering the cruiser will almost certainly have a dash cam.

  • XeroxCool@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    “the sheriff’s department doesn’t have evidence of the guy impersonating a cop any prior time”

    Kinda surprised it wasn’t that one teenager who kept pulling people over in his ford fusion

  • cheers_queers@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Jeremy Dewitt is the funniest serial offender of this. he’s in prison now i believe, but there’s soooo much body cam footage of him, he’s pretty much a lolcow at this point.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    I know a guy that got white flashers on his truck. Turns out people will move aside for any color of flashing lights?

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      We pulled people over with a yellow revolving light when we were dumb teens. Worked every time. We quickly got to scared to keep doing it.