Ask Lemmy

Cameras are definitely the main problem. To get away with any crime in the modern age, you probably need to plan for being caught on camera. Especially if you end up in front of a cop.

In the world of push to start, do cops actually ask you to put your keys on the dash?

1: the first thing every cop says at a stop is “turn the engine off and put your key on the dash” if you haven’t done that by the time he gets to your window

I've been pulled over many times and have never experienced this.

For a brief time in the Seattle area you could actually run from cops and they couldn't do shit besides go the speed limit and watch you drive off.

Those days are over now and cops are finally enforcing other laws... weird how that works.

Also, high speed chases are much more likely to end in the shooting death of the suspect. Which is why more progressive communities tend to bar cops from high speed chases.

You're not outrunning the cops (plural), at least not for long. Especially not once you've physically assaulted one, they're gonna be out for blood.

And this is how you escalate a traffic stop into attempted murder of a cop.

I don't know why you need the first part. As you said, you're running from THE cops, not the 1-4 in the cruiser. They have radios and helicopters and satellites and thermal cameras and license plate scanners and traffic cameras and informants and qualified immunity and stingrays and cooperation with other agencies.