I was driving my girlfriend's civic (lowered) today. I see a cop car in front of me at the red light. I am at the lane adjacent to him. I leave the light following the speed limit. He follows behind me for about three blocks, then he pulls me over. He asks if I own the car, I said "No, it's my girlfriend's." He asks to see my license and returns to his car. He never asked for the registration or insurance. He comes back five minutes later and says I can go. I ask him why I got pulled over, he said the address on the vehicle registration shows a outstanding warrant for my girlfriend's brother. He was checking to see if I was him. Is this legal? Do they pull over everybody at an address if one person has a warrant?

 

these are cops, they can do anything they want i've been pulled over in my Yellow Z06 2001 and the stupid cop told me, it was reported ealier that a yellow car was stolen, so he pulled me over just to check, this was before i had my plates on the car. if its your word against a cop, then you loose.

 

Those are both valid reasons to pull someone over - a car with no plates is lacking one if it's major pieces of identification, so if a similar one was reported stolen of course they're going to check yours out. Why would you frown at a little inconvenience? If your car was stolen some day would you like the cop to not pull over the guy that did it because it would be inconvenient for the theif? Sheesh...

And yes, if a cop sees a male driving a female's car and the female's car is registered to an address with an open arrest warrant for a male, well you do the math...

 

well put, drogers.
people just need to understand that cops have reasons for doing certain things (and that it's protocol). How else are they going to catch evading criminals? Cops have to be smarter than the criminals and the two instances above were examples of that.