Why would a police officer

Question

pull you over for "speeding" and then not ask for your documents?(insurance, license, registration) According to him I was doing 47mph in a 25mph-Never gave me a ticket just a warning-

He did stand outside my car window and stared at me for minutes without saying anything which made me very uncomfortable-then told me to have a nice day and I was free to go which didnt make an sense to me at all?

Answer 1

you are hot congratulations!

lol it was probably the other answer though. quotas and such.

Answer 2

he probably saw you speeding and thought the car matched a stolen vehicle. when he realized that it wasnt stolen he probably just decided to give you a break.

as for the answers about it being a quota. there are no more quotas. they are unconstitutional and officers would be worried about giving that one speeding ticket all the time instead of doing other stuff if they stayed with using quotas. plus you would probably be losing more officers than gaining

Answer 3

He probably just wanted to check you out.

Answer 4

By running your registration plate through dispatch, your name came up as the owner. Dispatch then ran that information also, and gave him a return on his portable radio. The time he spent standing outside the window was while he was waiting for the information from dispatch.

The return could have been very brief, and you missed it. A typical return could be as simple as "Headquarters 120, valid, no wants".

Answer 5

William B - You are wrong about the quotas. They are alive and well in my agency and in every agency in my area.  

Answer 6

Some police departments have a quota for their officers to fill...meaning, a minimum number of warnings, tickets, etc. So if the officer had already issued all the tickets he/she needed, but still hadn't met their quota for warnings, they might give you a warning just to help them meet their quota. That may not be how it works everywhere, but that sort of thing happens here (Lumberton, NC) all the time.