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Originally Posted by Mtbkski
I was an LEO for four years and never knew OC was legal, till I signed onto this website.
And your right. We (LEO) don't like to be made to look stupid. No one does. Now I got a guy reading me the law off better than I know it. He is telling me stuff that I have no idea if it is true or not. He is making me look pretty stupid, I'll probably get defensive. Is this Wrong? Yep. But I bet I would have copped (pun intended) an attitude too.
Hate to make example of "these poor LEO's". But how many do you forgive before you finally are allowed to stand up and say enough is enough. Apparently they don't think they have to obey the law. More of them think they can enforce the law as they see it. I want to know how many incidents do we have to have before it is OK to do something about it? I think we have reached that point. And the sh*t is about to start rolling downhill and the local LEO's are going to have to learn that OC is LEGAL, and a good law suit will spread the word around PA like wildfire.
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That's why I practice what I would say to an officer, and how I would say it, should I ever be stopped once I take up OC (which may be a while yet). I make sure that if the need for such a conversations arises, I'm able to leave the officer 1,000,001 opportunities to "save face" so to speak before the conversation reaches the point where I start quoting statutes, state constitution, state supreme court cases and rulings, etc. I'm completely confident that in an encounter with an uninformed officer, s/he'll be able to "disengage" without looking stupid or foolish and with a little more knowledge than he had to start with, if he chooses to do so.