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speedsix wrote:...like some politicians, some law enforcement takes the power that we give them to serve us and uses it to oppress us...our legal system has remedies for that...glad to say it's relatively few LEOs that operate that way...and I've seen far less of that attitude in Texas LEOs than anywhere else I've been...

Most LEO I know in california always act as though there is something to prove. Most of them are nice people outside the badge. Once the badge is on their attitude towards people changes. I don't see that here in Texas. Don't know many personally here, but every one I have come across has always been respectful of people.

Generally, I am not opposed in many situations being searched. Several years ago, I was stop by CHP because I pulled over where road constroction equipment was being stored while fixing the roads. There was a lot of theft happening there. He asked if he could search, and I had no issue with that, he then stated I was ok to leave, never searched. His request raised a resonable explenation of why to me. How ever in this situation, I would have told them to bug off and if they cuffed me and searched anyway, I would go after them till I could go no higher, and was able to retire