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Re: Cops Speeding



In article <41nf0a$emd@uuneo.neosoft.com>, Dan Parker  <eds@neosoft.com> wrote:
>
>Just got back from a two-day drive from LA to Houston, and something that 
>bugs me almost everyday occured to me:
>
>Under what conditions are cops allowed to exceed the speed limit? Do they 
>have to turn on their lights/siren? 
>
>What authority do ordinary citizens have to monitor/file complaint/pull over 
>cops who are speeding for no justifyable reason?
>

Kind of the same thing happened to me about 2 months ago.  I was driving 
on the New Jersey Turnpike heading North going back home, and I was in 
the middle lane.  I was doing about 75 and in the left lane, 2 state 
troopers with their lights off, *BLEW* by me.  I was doing 75; they had 
to be somewhere around 100mph.  I gave it a little more gas, and I was 
doing about 85-90 just trying to keep up with them to see where they're 
going with their lights off (yea, not a good idea, but...) anyway...they 
pulled off to the next rest stop about 4 miles later and got stuff to eat 
and drink.  

Bottom line: Cops are legal hoodlums.

-Jeff
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