I was in a disagreement with someone when they stated that pulling people over when they have a tail light out or something and then finding out they are drunk is entrapment and that they should only give them a ticket for the reason they pulled them over and just over look the fact that they are driving drunk. They think that if we pull them over at like 2:30 am for no tail light that we won't check for a DUI, or that we pull people over to check to make sure nothing is going on. Part of a reason for pulling people over is to cite them and check to make sure they do not have warrants or they are drunk. It does not matter when or where it is at. How can people think this is entrapment? Entrapment is when you make someone do something they would not usually do. Well they did not make them drive drunk or force the booze down thier throats, or break out a tail light, or make them run a light. I Think that the police force does a dam good job, and should keep up the good work!!!
2007-02-26 05:22:47 · 13 answers · asked by rockinpd 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
They obviously don't know what entrapment is. If you are doing anything illegal, like driving with a broken tail light, you are legally exposing yourself to being pulled over. And once you are pulled over you are subject to any investigating that is within reason from the police. If the police were just pulling people over who came out of a bar parking lot, for no other reason, then that might be borderline entrapment.
2007-02-26 05:28:12 · answer #1 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
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2016-06-02 15:40:23 · answer #2 · answered by Octavia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The whole drinking and driving thing is a scam. I don't care what people say. If you allow millions of people to have cars and alcohol, you will end up with drinking and driving. It is inevitable. So then someone's poor son or daughter gets killed as a result of someone drinking and driving. The first thing society wants to do is get even with the person who committed this "crime". Well, that sounds like justice, but why couldn't the crime have been prevented? Because we are an alcoholic society. We enable the morons and losers who have to drink to forget or calm their nerves, or what have you..... It's a pharse. I bet if you ask the person who's son or daughter is 6 feet deep as a result of a drunk driver, they'd say they would rather the drinker never had a drink, not that they hope to see the drinker and driver pay a steep fine or go to jail or lose his/her license forever. That BS isn't bringing anybody's lost loved ones back.
So I agree, the whole thing is a trap. Sure we all have choices, but not all of us are going to make the right ones, and there's money to be made on the ones who don't. The government makes too much money to help us as a society be safe from the perils of alcoholism.
2007-03-05 01:13:12 · answer #3 · answered by joshnya68 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not consider that entrapment. When someone is out and about at 2:30am that itself is suspicious. I applaud police officers and the jobs they do and the people they protect every day. My cousin who was almost ready to graduate from high school was killed by a drunk driver. I am firmly against it. I have a few cocktails now and again, But I don't drive. How many people have to die for people to realize the seriousness of this? People are always looking for a way out, when they know they are in the wrong, so their solution is blame the police officer. I think police officers are one of the most under paid professions in the US. They risk their life to keep us and our children safe, who else besides the military does that?
2007-02-26 05:42:17 · answer #4 · answered by rachel_ksr 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I support Law Enforcement anyway I can. I have been in arguments similar to yours and explain, just like you did, what entrapment actually is.....usually they shut up and back down after wards.
Have you ever noticed that the people who complain about entrapment and DUI etc are the ones who get caught breaking the law!!!!! or who don't want to get a ticket because they're doing something wrong!!!!!
2007-02-26 15:31:03 · answer #5 · answered by Riley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you 100%.
I've had patrol stops for mechanical violations that saved lives, got drunk drivers off the road and other serious things down to some trivial things that did no more than straighten someone out. The funniest 'straightening out' being a car coming from the opposite direction with its high beams on. I blinked my headlights at it a couple of times, then quickly 'U' turned when the lights weren't dimmed, caught up with the car and pulled it over.
The poor lady got very nervous, saying "Oh my heavens, I've never gotten a ticket before."
I asked her, "Oh, you want a ticket?"
She replied, almost crying, "No, oh no."
I then told her why I stopped her - for not dimming her headlights.
She apologized, pointing to the front of her car telling me, "It's so difficult looking out there when I'm driving and try to figure out if the lights are on high or low."
I pointed to the small 'high-beam-indicating-light' on the dashboard and explained what it was, then told her to step on the dimmer-switch on the floor near the brake pedal.
When she did and the lights flicked to low beam and the indicator light went out she said, "oh my, I've always wondered what that little light was for."
I then told her, "You learn something new every day" sending her on her way a happier and more knowledgeable driver.
2007-03-02 07:04:49 · answer #6 · answered by ha_mer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The alcoholic will seek out an excuse whenever they are in a predicament reguardless if it is not rational . This is typical behavior for an alcoholic to point the finger away from themselves and claim entrapment. Denial is a ***** but there is hope in living a sober life.
2007-03-01 18:08:53 · answer #7 · answered by westhighland 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's not entrapment, sounds like someone was just mad because they got caught, the things people will say. I thank police officers who are out there keeping dumb a** drunks off the road.
2007-02-26 06:52:52 · answer #8 · answered by kc 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Entrapment is when the police cause you to commit a crime (basically). Unless a cop told your friend to drive drunk, it ain't entrapment.
The argument would be better as an argument about illegal search. It isn't that, either.
2007-02-26 05:33:03 · answer #9 · answered by Jay 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Apparently, the person you were talking to is as ignorant of the definition of "entrapment" as they are about driving while intoxicated.
At .08, most people (except for alcoholics) are impaired enough that their reactions are very slow. Put that idiot in a car and it is only by the grace of God that they don't kill someone.
I can't wait until they make it a felony to drive while intoxicated.
2007-02-26 06:18:00 · answer #10 · answered by tnmack 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋