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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rhart" data-source="post: 4101965" data-attributes="member: 16596"><p>Neat story. While I believe it's still possible to run into decent LEs now days, I also have this suspicion that things have changed from back in the 70's. People are more political and divided now it seems to me - and that includes LE (especially with their focus on drug trafficking). Police are incentivised by their departments to perform vehicle searches to find drugs/confiscate money and make DUI arrests (bonuses, promotions, etc.). The system actually encourages officers to violate citizens rights to play a numbers game to make busts. By 'numbers game' I mean for every so many searches they make X-amount of drug busts. Not sure what the actual statistics are, but let's say they make 1 drug bust for every 15 searches they make - that means 14 innocent citizens were coerced into agreeing to be searched so that one arrest could be made (alternatively, some number of drug-sniffing canines falsely alerted on cars so that police could have probable cause to search). My research indicates that some LE agencies actually train their officers on how to use trick wording and/or other methods to get people to agree (however reluctantly) to searches - I call this coercion (telling them how much longer they'll be delayed if they have to wait for the canine unit, etc.). I wish things were like the 60's and 70's again, but unfortunately it isn't so.</p></blockquote><p></p>