Posted on 01/07/2008 8:12:27 PM PST by RDTF
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. - A criminal justice student was arrested Saturday and accused of impersonating a police officer and pulling over an off-duty Fairfax County officer on her way home from work, investigators said.
Steven Rivas, 19, of 7801 Ridgewood Drive in Annandale, flipped on blue lights on a 2004 gold Ford Explorer at about 1 a.m. Saturday and signaled for the officer to stop on the northbound ramp from Gallows Road to the Beltway, police said.
Investigators said Rivas identified himself as an undercover police officer.
When the real officer identified herself and asked to see Rivas' badge and credentials, he drove away with blue and white lights still flashing, police said.
The real officer took down the vehicle's license plate number and gave it to police, who arrested Rivas at his Annandale home.
Jose Rivas, Steven Rivas' father, said his son is in "big trouble." Rivas was driving his father's vehicle. His father said he asked his son many times where he got the flashing lights he used in the stop.
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He’d be more convincing if he ditched the Brownie cap.
Punt!
Is he a Rival-Rivas?
lol I know - poor technical work there
Well, hopefully that will be the end of this simple scumbag’s “criminal justice” career ambitions.
Probably a citizen, but you can't be sure these days.
Where’s the “R-tard ping”. LMAO.
Nope probably means he get to start out as Sargent.
At which point the driver will be tazed, hog tied and hauled off to the pokey. :)
Guess he wanted a real close-up view of the criminal justice system, huh...
*snort*
GUILTY !
That’s screwed up, but our system doesn’t tolerate anything else. Someone flashes blue lights at you, you have to stop or else endure a world of pain.
So even the cop chick stopped for the fakester.
Why have we devolved to this point? For one thing, because police use unmarked vehicles for interdiction. That’s a big No-No.
Unmarked vehicles should be used *only* for surveillance.
But because those unmarked vehicles are abused to do more than just survey, we’ve gotten to a point where any rapist in a Crown Vic can “pull over” any woman on any road at any time.
And the woman pretty well has to stop (even the *cop* in this article stopped) because everyone is intimidated by what will happen if they are accused of running from a real undercover policeman (cue wild-eyed rants about how tough we are that we wouldn’t stop...easy to say over the Internet...harder to do in real life).
Which is screwed up.
If police *only* pulled over people when in marked vehicles...and saved unmarked vehicles for observation instead of interdiction, then we wouldn’t be in this position.
Thus, the misuse of real police vehicles (e.g. the unmarked variants) needs to stop. Unmarked cop cars should be used for undercover surveillance, not interdiction.
can’t argue with that
That or maybe he gets to go right to the local psycho SWAT team, kicking in the wrong door and blowing a few innocent people away.
And the way they are making some of the marked cars (low profile lights, more normal looking) allows them to be used a little more discreetly - but still people would be able to determine they were a real police vehicle.
LOL! I wondered what that was. ;o)
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