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by OnTexasTime
Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:31 pm
Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
Topic: Another for the 'What happens when you get pulled over' file
Replies: 43
Views: 7763

BrassMonkey wrote:Well, was it a DWB thing? Gut feeling?
Big Calhoun wrote:The whole disarming thing caught me by surprise also, but I kind of felt like, who am I to question him. It was the first time I've been stopped since living in Texas and I am black so I just wanted everything to go smoothly. At the end of it, I thought he treated me with respect and was ultimately just doing his job and doing his best to keep him and I safe. No complaints here.
It makes you wonder if that was why the officer choose to disarm Big Calhoun or if this how the officer handles every CHL holder he stops. I have noticed in listening to the scanner in my home county that some officers tend to ask for back up to start their way more often on traffic stops than others do. Lots of times they end up calling of the back up off before it arrives.

At least Big Calhoun was the one who had his act together in the traffic stop, even if the officer didn't.
by OnTexasTime
Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:24 pm
Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
Topic: Another for the 'What happens when you get pulled over' file
Replies: 43
Views: 7763

Re: Another for the 'What happens when you get pulled over'

llwatson wrote:
bwahahaha wrote: DPS was one of a host of agencies I looked into around 2000 before joining a federal agency...
And for your decision to join the feds, I am sure DPS is better off, and grateful.
+ 1
by OnTexasTime
Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:07 am
Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
Topic: Another for the 'What happens when you get pulled over' file
Replies: 43
Views: 7763

FROM THE DPS SITE:

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers will ask you:

Whether you are licensed to carry a concealed handgun
Whether you have the gun with you
Where the gun is located
A trooper may disarm a licensee anytime he or she feels that safety is at risk. The trooper will return the gun at the end of the traffic stop when the threat to safety has passed.

I have never been asked to get out of the car or to hand over my gun. It seems like troopers are more likely to ask the driver to leave the car when there are other persons in the car than when its just the driver.

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