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<blockquote data-quote="TheDoubleD" data-source="post: 3661325" data-attributes="member: 43754">Two things I recall from police academy in the&nbsp; 70&#039;s.&nbsp; As you walk up to a stopped vehicle, check the trunk to see if it was open-counter ambush strategy taught citing an incident in California.&nbsp; It be came second nature to touch the&nbsp; back of a vehicle as you walked up, even pick-up&#039;s.&nbsp; In recent times it I&#039;ve seen it&nbsp; said to leave some DNA.Second thing they taught us,&nbsp; always be prepared to&nbsp; be talked out of writing a ticket, never be talked into writing.Back in the olden days, if I&nbsp; saw two vehicles vehicle moving at the same time from a stop sign I would have stopped the second vehicle.&nbsp; In the jurisdictions I worked&nbsp; the second vehicle would have been required to move up and stop after the first&nbsp; vehicle moved.I recall back in those olden days written Department Policy allowed discretion.&nbsp; For a stop sign violation the&nbsp; black and white of the policy, required a citation&nbsp; be written only in &quot;accident or hazard&quot;&nbsp; &quot;all others warn&quot;. What OP describes as his actions&nbsp; would be a violation of the statute&#039;s from my past and&nbsp; the officer exercised discretion and issued a warning.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheDoubleD, post: 3661325, member: 43754"] Two things I recall from police academy in the 70's. As you walk up to a stopped vehicle, check the trunk to see if it was open-counter ambush strategy taught citing an incident in California. It be came second nature to touch the back of a vehicle as you walked up, even pick-up's. In recent times it I've seen it said to leave some DNA. Second thing they taught us, always be prepared to be talked out of writing a ticket, never be talked into writing. Back in the olden days, if I saw two vehicles vehicle moving at the same time from a stop sign I would have stopped the second vehicle. In the jurisdictions I worked the second vehicle would have been required to move up and stop after the first vehicle moved. I recall back in those olden days written Department Policy allowed discretion. For a stop sign violation the black and white of the policy, required a citation be written only in "accident or hazard" "all others warn". What OP describes as his actions would be a violation of the statute's from my past and the officer exercised discretion and issued a warning. [/QUOTE]

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