cop question...

[randlemanboater]

Originally Posted by tsubaki

And let's get into the subject of "weaveing". This is the act of moving left and right with your car inside of the yellow and white lines. In Georgia there is no such probable cause for pulling people over without crossing over either of these lines in the road. Yet it has been the common practice to stop people for said weaveing. At a party I had the opportunity to hear a retired policeman tell of a rookie he chastised for pulling a driver for it. The reason for the correction was, if it went to court it could possibly thrown out because there is no law against "weaveing" inside the lines.

You are correct that weaving within your lane is not illegal, but weaving in your lane is one of the things that an impaired driver will do.

I would not stop you for weaving in your lane, but if you were weaving, and swung wide on a turn, and were traveling below the speed limit, and took several seconds longer than normal to leave a stop light, then based on my TRAINING and 19 years of EXPERIENCE, I would stop you because it is REASONABLE for me to believe that you could be impaired.


I do not have PROBABLE CAUSE to arrest at that point, but REASONABLE SUSPICION to stop.

I am not out there to "MESS" with people, I am out there to try to prevent the daily tragedies that occur on our roads every day.

In the last month in my city I have been called out to 4 crashes involving death, 3 were the result of combining alcohol and high speed. One was inattention, possible cellphone use.