• sanpedropeddler
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    6 hours ago

    I don’t want to be the guy defending cops, but there is usually more than one officer in a squad car. There is no rule against a passenger being distracted.

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      In my area it’s always one cop, and they are driving and using their laptop that sits on the passenger side

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      Where I live it’s strictly one cop per car unless they’re training. That’s why they pull people over in packs.

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        That’s something I never got about cops in the US. Everywhere in Europe, there are always two cops per car, at least in the places I have been.

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          It’s to create the illusion that there’s more cops than there really are. Same reason behind take home cars.

          My city of about 300k people has about 30 cops patrolling at any given time.

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        6 hours ago

        I haven’t seen that before. I guess they really are just using a laptop and driving at the same time.

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          Or they sit at green lights because they are too into their laptop to notice the light change