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If Cops ask to search your car do you

  • Allow them because they are just doing their job

    Votes: 12 25.0%

  • Deny them even if your doing nothing wrong and have nothing to hide

    Votes: 36 75.0%
  • Total voters
    48
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Pax Collector

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#3 ·
You have a right to refuse, as long as they don't have probable cause. Dashcam dashcam dashcam! Even if pax leaves something in your car during the search and the cops didn't have probable cause to search your car in the first place, anything they find is inadmissible in court per the Fourth Amendment.

Now, there are other situations that would complicate matters.

Let's say you get pulled over. Police contact you and the pax. It turns out that your pax is on probation or parole and subject to a warrantless search on the spot. Now you best believe that your car is GOING to be searched.

Certain smells, some powder that's in plain view that resembles cocaine, even if it's sugar or flower your pax left behind, are probable causes and would subject you to search under the plain view doctrine.

K-9 hits on your car are considered probable cause to search your car.

Bottom line, IT DEPENDS.
 
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Relevant reading material: AIDED BY PALANTIR, THE LAPD USES PREDICTIVE POLICING TO MONITOR SPECIFIC PEOPLE AND NEIGHBORHOODS
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POLICE STOPS IN Los Angeles are highly concentrated within just a small portion of the population, and the Los Angeles Police Department has been using targeted predictive policing technology that may exacerbate that focused scrutiny. That's according to a report put out this week by the research and activist organization Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, which draws from the testimony of city residents and newly released police documents to paint a picture of a "racist feedback loop" where a "disproportionate amount of police resources are allocated to historically hyper-policed communities."

Survey results included in the report suggest that very few people in Los Angeles bear the brunt of most police interactions: 2 percent of residents who responded to the survey reported being stopped by police between 11 and 30 times a week or more, while 76 percent of respondents reported never being stopped at all. The 300 survey respondents were distributed across geography, race, age, and gender. In focus groups, people who lived in areas heavily targeted by police described a state of constant surveillance. Asking "how often do I see police in my area is like asking me how many times do I see a bird in the day," said one resident.
 
Coaststarlight

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They are obligated to search if you say yes, statistically they find something alot more when they ask casually offering you the chance to say no and you say yes hoping they won't. It's an intentional courtesy to make you feel you should be acting innocent when your not, and to act as if they're asking because they're hoping your say no so they don't have to...

Idk If it's policy or just a trick of the trade, say no if you don't want them to, the nice loop hole is that you have the choice, and if they really wanted to it's because they have a reson to distrust you to begin with, I say no because I don't want my stuff all over the place
 
Adieu

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This is 21st century California

You're supposed to procure substances from places with some pretense of legitimacy

Besides, phen DOES legitimately knock and keep about 3 inches off your pant size... which is not to say it isn't an excellent non-psychotic performance enchancer as well. And mysteriously cuts nicotine cravings too.
 
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