U.S. Hwy. 129
Well they have scaled down the number of officers in an attempt to meet budget constraints (down to 3 from too many to count). But, what they have always done, is hire the bottom of the barrel officers and officers fresh out of the Academy (young guns looking to make their mark in law enforcement) so this area is quite prone to over zealous officers. Also, for a town that dosen’t even have a post office they have managed to build a very impressive courthouse complex so you add it up where the money is coming from. The speed limit on the 129 bypass is now 55 thru the city of Arcade so they have lost that element of surprise so look for them to make up the short comings in other types of traffic stops. After watching the blotter in the local paper for the last few years it seems that their favorite is equipment violations i.e. license plate light out, tail light/headlight out just to gain access to find other things and do vehicle searches.They pulled over my son once for plate light out and when he went back to see the defective light it was working just fine. At that point the officer’ s story changed to it was going on and off. But, while he was stopped, the officer asked if he would consent to a search of the vehicle and he replyed “No.” So the officer called in a K-9 Unit to do an external search(nothing found) but all this took almost 2 and a half hours. All that for a supposed non working plate light. So watch out as you pass thru this area as they will pull you over for just about anything so they can go fishing for things to cite you for.
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