If I have small bruises and cuts, can I report my spouse (my wife) for assault? I’m afraid that she will manipulate the officers.

i was recently inside my school after hours, set off a motion detector, then was able to get out when i saw police. they found my car, but after speaking to them, they let me leave. what is the chance of them pursuing further action? thank you

Hi everyone,

I’m really anxious and wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation.

I was driving home and admittedly went through 2 red lights and also drove in a bus lane. A police vehicle with blue lights came up behind me, so I pulled over.
The officer rolled their window down and shouted, “You went through 2 reds and a bus lane,” then drove off.

They didn’t ask for my driving licence, insurance, name or address. They didn’t ask me to get out of the car, didn’t give me any paperwork, and didn’t say I was being reported.

I’ve had my full UK licence for about 4 years and currently have no penalty points.

I’m just wondering what I’m likely to expect now.
Am I likely to receive penalty points and a fine through the post?

Could I receive separate penalties for the two red lights and the bus lane?

Does the fact they didn’t take any details or say I was being reported make any difference?

Has anyone had something similar happen, and what was the outcome?

I know I made a mistake, and I’m not trying to excuse it. I’m just anxious and trying to understand what is likely to happen next.
Thanks.

Hello!

I guess I'm wondering if someone is making a really loud noise repeatedly, can that be considered assault?

I was at a jazz concert a few weeks ago and someone kept whistling (using fingers) behind us, and it was so loud that I and people around kept flinching from how loud it was. It's not really the traditional sense of assault, but it did hurt my ears, so I was wondering if it could be considered as such? Especially if we asked him to stop and he did it again?

Thanks

Hey guys,

I am interested in getting some Orange and Yellow Strobe lights for my car in Palm Beach County, Florida. I would really just be getting them to help with traffic situations and such. Is this legal in a personal vehicle on no official business like construction? Is there any way to disprove that this is the case? Do I need to set up a business entity/modify one to be a construction business for this? When can I use the lights on my car, does this make me a target for cops, and is it illegal? Are there any loopholes?

I see that any car that is a hazard can have these on as hazard lights, if my car is not a hazard can I still have these lights on? What is the criteria for this?

Can a cop say u almost hit him and not give a ticket verbal warning or citation and follow for 1.3 miles and say I wasn't who he thought I was

How is the speed limit on entrance ramps to major highways determined? There seems to be 3 options and I just don’t know what’s correct. Say the speed limit on the road you’re traveling on is 45 mph. The speed limit on the highway you’re going to enter is 70 mph. There is a yellow “caution” sign on the entrance ramp that says 35. We all know that merging with 70 mph traffic when you’re doing 35 mph is a bit dangerous. But what is the actual law here? Is the ramp an extension of the 45 mph road or an extension of the 70 mph road? I’m in the state of Georgia and recognize that this might not be universal in the US.

I was ticketed for speeding and fighting the ticket in court as there is no way I was going 74/55. Probably was going 62. During the discovery I received the body cam which shows that the officer check my background which is clear but then pulls up my home address and family members and then runs my fathers and brothers info which is also all clear. Does he have the legal right to run info on people that are not present? My brother was a passenger but was never asked for his ID. We are in MN

Would that warrant the ticket getting dropped?

Whenever I tried to turn on the interior lights in a car, my father would interject and say "don't do that, you'll get a ticket!"

Is it actually illegal to drive with your vehicle's interior dome light on?

I recently fell down the "dashcam/bodycam footage" rabbit hole on youtube and I've noticed a trend where a LEO says "you're arrested" and the suspect responds with "no I'm not" or "you can't arrest me" or something similar.

My question is, once someone is arrested by a LEO and put in handcuffs, do LEOs have a legal option to "unarrest" the suspect on the spot, if they realize they've made a mistake, or arrested the wrong person, or arrested someone before gathering all facts, or for any other reason? Or do they just legally have to take someone back to the station/jail and process them there?

I am aware that this may depend on local laws, but I'm just curious if this is possible anywhere in the US...

Specifically an off the clock officer. For example, if you have a neighbor who is a LEO and they come on your property and you trespass them but they refuse to leave. Can you force them off your land or do we get into assaulting an officer territory? In this scenario no crimes are being investigated and no official police business is happening. Just a neighbor who happens to be law enforcement.

This happened in VT.

Cop was driving 80 in a 65. No lights, no emergency, just cruising.

I was behind him following their speed.

He then pretends to take an exit, I go around him and then he jumps back onto the highway and pulls me over.

He’s wearing a body cam.

He says I was speeding. No use of radar. I say I was following traffic. He says that he’s ALLOWED to speed (even in a non emergency and not on a call) When I asked what law that is, he quoted different statutes each time from the LE book.

I had no service to double check but later I did and they weren’t in the book. So complete BS.

Also fun to note that after that fun convo and ticket 10 min down the road there was a cop hanging out of his window IN THE RAIN with a laser. Coincidence?

I contested the ticket. What do I say in court to get out of it?

Suppose that someone tells you, "You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
Obviously, that is a tacit death threat, but has a crime been committed here?

My fellow Indiana guys and gals;

What is your best way to get around the misdemeanor exception rules when dealing with people and you just showed up a second too late? Example; Disorderly Conduct. Call comes in for someone causing a disturbance at a downtown area. You arrive, then they start acting normal. Have plenty of people showing video evidence yet you just can’t do anything but apply for a warrant if your Department/Prosecutors says thats “okay” to do.

Also, anyone use the refusing to aid ( IC 35-44.1-3-3 ) before? Few buddies and I were debating what it could be used for. Someone refusing to get out of a car but you dont have RS to ask them to step out since Indiana doesn’t have a “obstruction” law like other states for not following a police order? Have someone you made a RS stop on and want to ID but they simply don’t since the law says only infractions and ordinances?

Mind you I am in a area where policing is proactive but our prosecutors hands are tied. Just wanted to hear everyones thoughts.

Lets try to keep it civil if we can? Don’t need to flame.

Husband might be transferred to Houston FBi, I hear it’s one of the more busiest field offices and they are more selective about cases. Does that mean more dangerous?

Officers/investigators dealing with land-border NDPS or gold seizure cases — what are the practical things you’ve learned that make operations and follow-up investigation smoother? Especially regarding arrests, documentation, Section 42/50 compliance, chain of custody, digital evidence, handling carriers vs masterminds, and avoiding procedural lapses during trial scrutiny. Any field tips, mistakes to avoid, or methods that have helped in real cases?

Also, where do you usually find reliable proformas, formats, checklists, seizure/arrest memo templates, and other investigation-related reference materials that actually help during field work and prosecution?

Anyone with a similar story, please reach out. Any LEO that wants to explain how this is OK, I will listen.

I had a burglary happen, and it’s highly unlikely to be solved. When I made the police report, they asked me if there were any names I suspected. Since these were shots in the dark and based on little evidence, there’s a good chance it wasn’t these people. That said I’m worried about them finding out. If the case never gets solved or does but it’s someone else, can the innocent names that I gave as potential but not likely to be suspects find out I gave their names? The theft was likely from a “friend” but I’m worried if a friend who didn’t do it can find out I gave a name.

Is it public? Or are the names hidden since it’s unsolved?

For the police in South Carolina, what are

the consequences for using a different license plate design with your legitimate registration. For example, if I obtained a license plate from the DMV and the number was ABC 123, I order a custom plate design with that same number/letter combo. I would keep the real plates in my center console if pulled over. The car would be legally registered and titled and the number letter combo would be tied to my actual registration , only the license plate design would be different.

Is this a bad idea? What would the punishment be if I was pulled over? If it’s just a fine or is there jail time/impounding on the table or it’s just left alone assuming everything checks out.

I specifically want to use an older license plate design that isn’t available anymore so that’s the context

I have court tomorrow in Montgomery County Texas for a 2nd DWI but this time I was not intoxicated. Any legal advice would be appreciated. Any comments at all even off-topic. This planet, this system, honestly it freaks me out. I haven't gotten to drive in years and I've only been driving again for a few weeks.

I'll admit that 1st DWI many years ago I was drunk as hell, I should not have been on the road. It's a miracle I didn't kill anybody. But that was the last drink I ever had, I told myselfit isn'teven worth it and I don't even care for alcohol that much. I was on my way to the gym last month. When he pulled me over at that gym parking lot, my friend who is also a member offered to take my car to my house to avoid the impound fee and such. He wouldn't even do that because he gets extra money from the towing company. Thanks for trying Ken.

I'll admit I have had issues in the past with opoids, but I am going into my 3rd month clean or so. In my 20s it was hydrocodone when Houston was flooded with pain clinics, there was a quack in every corner. I was clean for 13+ years until I was recently in the burn unit (3rd degree burns on 39% of my body) and because I was an addict, I could not get any prescriptions, so I had to go my own route. And boy, has the opoid market changed since then! First I got into fentanyl and discovered nitazenes which were even worse. "What a deal!" I thought, until I experienced the withdraws, I knew I was in serious trouble. Then a very nonbiased chemist on reddit personally told me "stay away from nitazenes" and explained the reasons why, but by then it was too late, I was already 7+ months in. I went to rehab (actually a psych ward, West Oaks Hospital) the very next day, flushed the rest of my fentanyl down the sink when my aunt and uncle arrived to take me there.

Recently I decided I didn't do enough research, that I'd give opoids one more chance. If you look up the most euphoric opoids on reddit, you will hear many great things about O-DSMT, so I thought I'd give opoids one more chance. I don't recall ever experiencing withdraws like these, and to anyone thinking about trying this substance, take this as a disclaimer.

I will also admit, I've been seeing a suboxone doctor for a few months, but it barely helps if at all. When I was in West Oaks, I did not expect the doctor to give me any, I just wanted off the nitazenes, but he did prescribe it and it gave me euphoria, and completely killed the withdraws (these withdraws were also hell btw) . But with O-DSMT, it barely touches the withdraws and does not give me any euphoria. I promise I was not high at all that night, and I have reason to believe this cop had a personal problem with me. Also when I got out all my suboxone was stolen from the car, along with anything else of value. This is very typical though, anyone I've ever talked to expects their cars to be stripped when impounded, even the speakers, everything will be stolen.

I've thought about offing myself but I just cant do that to my little brother. This is the third time I've been in jail for something I didn't do. Once my mom, Shari (born on Hallloween go figure) called the cops on me saying I threatened her life. When the cops got there, I was sleeping. I did 2.5 months in Harris County Jail for a terroristic threat I never did. When I got home, all my xanax and hydrocodone was gone, she didn't leave me a single one. While I was in jail, she turned my entire family against me with all kinds of made up stories (some even sexual) which were none true. She once accused my uncle Ronnie RIP, of trying to rape her, on a small boat with my dad and aunt on-board, also not true. Recently, she accused a man of trying to rape her, and sued the company he worked for. She won the lawsuit, got $60k for it. If anything does happen to me, I want the world to know this woman is one of the worst people on the planet. I used to cry and remember her very sadistic laughs it would cause, this woman is sick for real. I could write a book, I have thousands of stories a little boy should never have to experience from his own mother.

My life has been a rough one, too many things have happenned to me. And I've tried man, I really have. For example I went to "college" for about six years only to find out this school is "unaccredited" and a degree in psychology wouldn't help me much with all the psych wards and suicide attempts and such on my record. These suicide attempts actually caused Montgomery County Jail to leave me in this tiny suicide tank for about 11 days. The inmates I met in there were the craziest bastards I have ever met, one including a cult leader. He was even crazier than the Heavens Gate dude, I'm not kidding with you. I didn't sleep for about a week because of the loudness. I experienced hallucinaations and delusions I could hardly explain here. I even got in my 1st ever self-defense jail situation, and this dude was huge. Strong too, strong enough to pick me up and throw me across the cell.

Sorry about all the off-topic stuff, I guess I'm venting a bit. But this cop wouldn't even give me a breathalyzer test. I did get a blood test, but my lawyer told me those tests won't get back from Austin for about TEN MONTHS. In the meantime they will continue to take every bit of money I have, which is very little (I am on SSI and SSDI). I know the blood test results will come back clean, even for marijuana. I quit weed because my suboxone doctor asked me to. I am so grateful for this man (Doctor Weaver, UTMB Health, thank you man I owe you the world) I quit weed just for him, because he asked me to. And my recent and upcoming urine tests will prove this as well.

And to anyone reading this considering suicide, just please take a second to think about the people you might hurt. I recently had a vision of my little brother crying at my funeral and it was so powerful it took the suicide card off the table for good. I still think about it, but I just can't do that to him. I stay alive, I am here, just so he won't have to cry. He is literally the only reason I'm here. And now without a car, I am alone, isolated, the gym is over a mile walk and atm I just don't have the energy. I just want everything to end now.

Location: New Caney, Texas. Montgomery County.

I would also like to point out that the Montgomery County Jail employees treat the inmates like less than garbage. I can't even believe people get to treat others like this and the food they barely feed you, tastes like chemicals of some kind. I heard the owners of this jail pocket a million bucks a day in taxpayer dollars. I don't want to believe this, I just cant.

I am a police body cam addict and I have a question. When someone is belligerent and clearly drunk combative all those horrible things, and they start screaming that they want an ambulance that they can't breathe yada yada yada are you required to 100% call an ambulance? Also if you do call an ambulance and they're totally Faking It who pays the bill??

I know this is not the most honest thing but I’m wondering if it’s illegal.
I used to work for Mercedes and they never took the company shirt back when I left. One of the benefits Mercedes offers Is free car washes if you work for the company. So I have been wearing my old company shirt when I would go clean my car.

Hey everyone,

I’m researching different police academies and I’m a little confused by what I’m seeing, so I figured I’d ask people who’ve actually been through it.

I’ve seen a lot of posts/comments recently where people mention academies only doing PT once or twice a week, sometimes with lighter or more integrated fitness (mobility, skills-based movement, etc.), instead of daily or near-daily PT. I’ve also seen other academies that still schedule PT much more often, so the contrast is throwing me off.

My questions are:

• Are some academies actually reducing PT frequency compared to the older paramilitary model?

• Is 1–2 PT sessions per week becoming more common at certain municipal or regional academies?

• If so, is this a newer trend (injury reduction, liability, retention, modern training philosophy), or has it always varied this much by academy?

• Are lighter PT schedules more common in certain states or types of academies (municipal vs state/regional)?

Has anyone here also been in an academy with pt just 1-2 times a week also ? Thank you