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Originally Posted by mahalom3
We surely can't profile but once you insatiate the TS, I have dispatch ran their plates, the RO to get intel who I am dealing with for officer safety. To be honest with you I don't do a lot of traffic stops anymore.
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It's been quite a while since I was in a scout car, and I only worked in a rural area or on a highway for a short period of time when I first got on in '85. Most of my time in uniform was in the downtown core, but the tactics should be the same. I always ran the plate and RO on the work station before the stop, but you don't always know who's in the car.
It was difficult to tell from the recording but did the officer know the gun was in the car? I gather that isn't completely unheard of in the US, here in Canada the rules are pretty strict about transporting guns legally anyway. It almost sounded like the officer had some discussion about the gun with the guy before he exited the truck.