Thursday, December 11, 2008
Teen, like, totally had car illegally sniffed by Addison police dog, dude
Mr. Muffles, who is described as a rogue cop by his peers, has come under countless departmental reviews.
Jonothan Bridges (a teenager whose exact age is not detailed in the linked story) claims that a police dog illegally searched his car after he was pulled over for an expired inspection sticker. When the cop (a human cop) asked twice if Bridges would submit to a search, the teen refused. The officer then went to his cruiser to release the hound, which proceeded to sniff the outside of the car before jumping inside the vehicle.
Bridges, whose father is a Dallas police officer, believes the search was illegal, but Addison police insist that the dog is allowed to sniff around and can enter the car if it does so on its own.
Here's my question: Ummmm, so, were there any drugs?
Posted by Erin
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iirc, dog sniffing around outside the vehicle doesn't require a warrant. But wtf do I know, I'm just an internet person.
Methinks Erin is on to something. Was the kid carrying? Is daddy DPD cop in denial?
Scott Doyle Verified
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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The kid wasn't carrying anything illegal, he drove away from the incident being guilty of only the inspection sticker infraction. The Addison police on the other hand took things too far just because the kid seemed suspicious for some reason. Ridiculous, self-righteous, absurd mentality.
subatomicman Anonymous
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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It is probably a good lesson for him. It is all good and fine to exercise your right to object to a search of your vehicle, but if you have nothing to hide, the best thing to do is let them search. The police will inevitably forget they need to have reasonable cause and use your refusal to search as a reason to harass, call in other officers to the scene, deploy a k-9 unit, and sometimes try to obtain a warrant based on a k-9 "hit". His dad should have already told him this stuff and most definitely told him that he should have asked the officer if he was free to go after the citation was issued.
Travis Bush Verified
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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So, they let you go?
I think the Addison police are by far the best looking. Irving PD being a close second. Dallas PD on the other hand...a little shabby, imo.
jtmbls Anonymous
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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"if you have nothing to hide, the best thing to do is let them search."
I disagree. But maybe I'm the only one whose shady friends might have left something illegal in the back seat of the car while drunk.
The way I see it, if I have nothing to hide, they have no probable cause. Unless I'm on my way to something very time sensitive, I'd be glad to waste some of my time - and theirs - standing up for principles.
Pavel Lishin Verified
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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"But maybe I'm the only one whose shady friends might have left something illegal in the back seat of the car while drunk."
Yes, probably the only one.
"I'd be glad to waste some of my time - and theirs - standing up for principles."
Agreed, but for a teen, it might not be the best way to start your record of police interaction. Especially in a small town.
Travis Bush Verified
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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If I lived in a podunk town - and I have - I would tend to agree, based on practicality, if nothing else. However, this is Addison.
Pavel Lishin Verified
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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Pavel, we probably have a different version of what "small town" is. A small police force can make for a rather vindictive entity. This is probably a fact that the DPD officer knew and also skirts as a matter of "denial".
Travis Bush Verified
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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Wait a second, did the officer actually search the kid's car...or are they just bitching that a dog jumped in it? There's nothing indicating the officer actually performed a search after the dog entered.
Either way, end of the vid states internal affairs cleared the officer. Even if there was a search and nothing was found - why make this big a deal out of it? Especially since the kid's dad should know stories like this hurt police rep in general...not just Addison PD.
Scott Doyle Verified
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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There goes Doyle trying to pass Peg news comments as viable Community Service hours again...
Travis Bush Verified
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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I checked with my son who probably holds the record for most times pulled over by Keller and NRH PD's without being ticketed. (Seriously! They pulled him over several times a week on some premise. We figured it was the fact that he was driving a ten year old Sunbird, and that when they ran the plates it showed a Meadowbrook address for the registration.)
He tells me that he never had an officer request to search his car. We both think that the kid must have been giving the officer some attitude or else he wouldn't have bothered calling the dog out.
momzilla Anonymous
11 months, 2 weeks ago
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