Originally Posted by 03MachMe
That's where the Officers discretion comes in. Most are not going to take the passenger to jail in a situation like that. The law is written that way to prevent the large gatherings and things like TX2K. I promise you anyone that was "just driving around" with a friend in a car like that in Houston during TX2k know exactly what they are going out to do. Like I said cops do not make the law and more often than not do not enforce laws by the letter because we are smarter than that. And my reference to drugs and prostitutes was in regards to your "Everyone except cops." Yes in order to catch criminals we sometimes have to do the things criminals are doing, I.E. under cover buys for drugs, under cover johns for prostitution and undercover cars for street racing.
oh and racing isn't a ticket. Both the driver and passenger go to jail
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There's a difference in being an undercover john or a fake drug dealer. The difference is, you're not actually doing it, you're feigning the part. When the cop in this video was catching the criminals, he ACTUALLY broke the law. Pretending to be a john isn't a crime. Pretending to by drugs isn't a crime. To my knowledge, cops aren't going to prostitutes, paying for the sex, then arresting the prostitutes. That's the big difference here, the cop ACTUALLY broke the law.
So, sorry we will just agree to disagree. It will never make sense to me that, in order to enforce a law, you have to break it. That's contradictory to the purpose.
You're still good in my book and don't want you to think this was personal. Just, as a non-cop to cop conversation, we just won't agree on most things.
-Alex