Is an anonymous tip about reckless driving enough for police to make a traffic stop?

[WHAMPOM]

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Yay state! Rah rah! Go state! *pom poms*

I have little doubt that the "supreme court" will rule in favor of state mercenaries.

So if your neighbor sees your house burgled and calls it in, you don't want a cop to come investigate and detain the loaded truckful of your valuables if he did not see the burglary?
Makes the world a better place doesn't it?

 

[Moonbeam]

A just person must live within his moral belief system and act responsibly to it in the world. A decision to act against the potential rights of a driver who may be guilty of nothing but has been reported by another to have done something that could be a danger to himself or others if continued is not going to be weighed not by grand theoretical concepts of personal liberty but whether the person can live with a bad decision. If a person can live with the consequences of inaction based on a theory of noninterference, if the person identified later kills himself or others as the caller had feared, then he or she may actually do nothing, but if a person couldn't live with that possibility they will make a stop. Such a determination will always be a judgment call based on ones internal ethics and gut instinct regarding the seriousness and sincerity of the report, in my opinion.

 

[NoStateofMind]

So if your neighbor sees your house burgled and calls it in, you don't want a cop to come investigate and detain the loaded truckful of your valuables if he did not see the burglary?
Makes the world a better place doesn't it?

It gets old telling people to think things through before speaking and this is an example of one who did not.

When the burglar broke into a house did he commit an act of force or fraud? Is theft or damaging property seen by you as moral? Answer those and you'll have your answer. An erratic driver has the potential for causing harm when the burglar actually damaged property and entered without consent. Sigh.

 

[Fern]

Looks like some people didn't read the article, brief as it is.

This looks like a 4th Amendment case: Did the officer have probable cause to stop the vehicle? If not, it was an illegal search and the (drug) evidence would be thrown out (in this case, overturned on appeal).

Fern

 

[Doppel]

It should be, and will be, just as the police will come if I say I saw a guy with a gun walking around the neighborhood. I have called the police before on people and will do it again irrespective of any ruling. Now that I drive with a dash cam though I have footage I can give to police.

 

[alkemyst]

Anonymous tips are BS.