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I'm off today but had to take my unit in to get my camera system rebooted. I slipped on my gun, clip on badge and ran out the door. I'm on the interstate (city loop/bypass) and it's 60mph. I'm cruising at about 64 which is the normal speed and if someone was cruising at this speed in front of us that is about what we allow (although each his own this is average). Here comes this Ford F150 weaving in an out of traffic. Around me also (marked unit). I'm thinking look at this idiot he must think it's 70 like the main interstate. I get behind him as that usually gets their attention. I see he's going 81 in a 60. I stay behind him for 2 miles. I get close on his butt so he gets the picture. doesn't get it he continues. During this time he passes two tall clearly visible 60mph signs. Surely people are wondering is that cop going to pull that guy over. I hit my lights for a few seconds behind him and then shut them off hoping he'd get the picture. All I wanted to do was run to the fleet shop and get my system rebooted and go home, but I can't let someone fly by me on the interstate in a marked unit like I wasn't even there. So I hit my lights again and this time I hit the siren. He finally pulls over. As I approach I see the small cross pistols sticker and a hand flip out from the window handing me a state DL and a DoD ID. Now I'm ****ed because I give military a break even other cops, but when the expectation gets thrown in my face I don't like that because I don't, haven't and will never do that to a cop and never did that when I was in the military. I purposely asked was the other ID some kind of green card, he said no my military ID. I said I only needed to see his Drivers License. While he was switching between the Id's I explained his reason for the stop. He had an immediate attitude. Now I'm thinking you have got to be joking, I must be getting punked or something. I ask if he has any weapons in the vehicle and he says no firearms but I have my duty cuffs 
I said sir I just asked about weapons not work tools.
I tell him to hang tight and I'll be back. Still had not decided I would give him a ticket. Just planning on running him and giving him a little quick speech. As I turned away he said, "Your not about to give me a damn ticket are you?" I said excuse me. He repeated it. I said you were speeding 22mph above the speed limit went around a cop to do it, do you not think a ticket is warranted?"
He replied, but I'm a cop also and I know you don't give other cops tickets. I said sir I'll leave out my comments on whether MP's are cops, but the point is your not behaving as though you are understanding to my delima here so there is only one way to get my point across. I said quite frankly you've talked yourself into a ticket. Then he said, well what if I don't sign it. I said what do you think will happen. By this point I'm boiling and told him he had 20sec to sign the ticket or he was going to jail. BTW, he was from Ft. Polk. When he didn't sign I called for another unit to come. The shift Sgt showed up. He put him in his car and transported him to the office. He decided signing the ticket was in his best intrest. We put him in a detention room and called his 1sg. I left to get my video booted and stopped back in on my way home. His 1sg was on his way to get him. He was an E-7 Very disappointing a freakin E-7 acting like that. When I drove off from the roadside I saw his front decoration plate in my rearview mirror, 2 cross pistols
Whether he was in the miltary as this douch or another cop come on seriously slow down long enough for us to be out of sight. It's the fact of how does it look when everyone else is obeying the speed limit because a marked unit is right there, and you come flying by 22mph over the speed limit. That makes that marked unit look very bad. Even with my own units around locally when I'm driving my POV off duty I show the respect and slow down so as not to make him look like a plug for not doing something about me. I do it and it's not that hard.
PS: and he had a radar detector, he was asking for it, LOL!!
I said sir I just asked about weapons not work tools. I tell him to hang tight and I'll be back. Still had not decided I would give him a ticket. Just planning on running him and giving him a little quick speech. As I turned away he said, "Your not about to give me a damn ticket are you?" I said excuse me. He repeated it. I said you were speeding 22mph above the speed limit went around a cop to do it, do you not think a ticket is warranted?"
He replied, but I'm a cop also and I know you don't give other cops tickets. I said sir I'll leave out my comments on whether MP's are cops, but the point is your not behaving as though you are understanding to my delima here so there is only one way to get my point across. I said quite frankly you've talked yourself into a ticket. Then he said, well what if I don't sign it. I said what do you think will happen. By this point I'm boiling and told him he had 20sec to sign the ticket or he was going to jail. BTW, he was from Ft. Polk. When he didn't sign I called for another unit to come. The shift Sgt showed up. He put him in his car and transported him to the office. He decided signing the ticket was in his best intrest. We put him in a detention room and called his 1sg. I left to get my video booted and stopped back in on my way home. His 1sg was on his way to get him. He was an E-7
Very disappointing a freakin E-7 acting like that. When I drove off from the roadside I saw his front decoration plate in my rearview mirror, 2 cross pistols Whether he was in the miltary as this douch or another cop come on seriously slow down long enough for us to be out of sight. It's the fact of how does it look when everyone else is obeying the speed limit because a marked unit is right there, and you come flying by 22mph over the speed limit. That makes that marked unit look very bad. Even with my own units around locally when I'm driving my POV off duty I show the respect and slow down so as not to make him look like a plug for not doing something about me. I do it and it's not that hard.
PS: and he had a radar detector, he was asking for it, LOL!!
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