Baltimore City Police

[raceman005]

Interesting story happen last night involving my sister.

She was driving home from work she was coming down Hanover st towards brooklyn and there was car double parked at the Papa Johns (Chevy Cavalier) down in the city so she honked her horn and the guy waved her a around. OK She is now driving up on the hanover street bridge and the same car that was papa johns is now pulling up beside her and is speed up with her and braking when she does. The Driver starts to flash blue light in his window, My sister refused to stop because by now she is near Cherry Hill and it about 1:00am in the morning. The Cavalier cuts her off and stops he gets out yelling and screaming at her to get out of the car she doesnt. she has no clue who this guy is so she drives home and parks the car. within several seconds about 8 Police car pull up and they are surrounding her car. The guy in the Cavalier followed her, is City Cop in an umarked car. This guy was ignorate he was yelling at her telling her to get out of the car then tells her to get back in the car. She recieved two tickets. Refusely to stop, and speeding. The marked patrolmen told us if we wanted to file a complaint we could.. so he then instructed us to call 911 and tell them we wants to see a supervisor, which one then showed up. He told us the she did right by not stopping because it could have been anyone. the unmarked cop had no badge he looked like a thug in a big ass white tee and baggy jeans. he never once announced who he was.

then the supervisor said that when an umarked car flashes (They were just flashing Blue) lights and you dont wanna stop Display your four way flashers and this means you acknowledge them by are stopping until you are in a public area like a police station, or fire house. then the supervisor said both tickets would most likely be thrown out and that unmarked police cars dont have radar in them to tell speed like marked cars due.

Just a story and I thought that the Last bit of info would be helpful.
Feel free to post your comments or questions I'll try to help the best i can.

 

[mlevin]

I would've done the same thing. That cop was a jerk! You gotta flash a badge or announce who you are. The guy could be a thug just looking for trouble. Remember, anybody can buy a blue light on the net.

 

[scannerman700]

Man that cop sounds like a jerk!!! I know I wouldnt stop for a Chevy Cavalier with a blue light in the dash myself, I would definately turn on my
4 way flashers and dial 911 on my cell phone and seek for assistance or drive to the closest police station and call into the police station, that depends on how far that I am for a police station...

 

[Metro174]

unmarked police cars dont have radar in them to tell speed like marked cars due.

Some of us do!

 

[skipshark773]

I would wonder if the city officer/detective (sounds like he is a detective, usually cavs = detectives) was working an incident or call. If so, is it possible her vehicle matched a description of something from earlier? Granted, the officer should have identified himself when he approached the vehicle and it does sound as if he overreacted and got carried away, but we may not have the full perspective.
I can recall an incident in my earlier days of humping a post car when one of our light rail units was flagged down by a motorist just off I-83 who was rather distraught and related a similar story about a Ford Tarus with a red light attempting to stop her. The tarus caught up to her and the marked car at the light rail stop and it turns out that it was occupied by two burglary detectives who saw her make 3 illegal lane changes.
On the other side of the coin i remember numerous incidents, 3 in the recent past, in which people who are not law officers have been reported or cought using red or blue lights to stop people.
What the supervisor suggested is entirely correct. You should acknowledge them and move to a public, well lit area. You can alawys ask to see departmental identification in addition to a badge and if you still dont feel safe you can alawys call 9-1-1 and ask to have a marked car sent to your location.
And as a personal note: I was stopped by a pair of detectives in the city once. Not with a blue light, although they were driving a white cav. At an intersection while i was stopped at a red light. He came up to my car window and knocked on it and flashed his badge. They wanted to know why i had a deck light in my car. Unfortunately for me I was without my ID, but luckely had on a dept. T-shirt and a pay stub in my car which cleared things up. But since we were by the inner harbor at night we caused quite the scene. A tac unit showed up as well as a couple foot patrol officers. All of them were very curteous and professional and we were even able to excange a bit of small talk.
Anyways, it would appear as though ive digressed...if your sister feels like shes been wronged she can alawys call the city PD.

 

[raceman005]

As i think about it, its funny when the marked car pulled up the detective left that was following her. and even the marked cops said he was in the wrong and he wrote all of detectives info on paper and gave it 2 her. The Detective worked at OCD.

 

[4909]

That leads me to believe the guy is either a real butthead, or, he does this all the time. I drove an unmarked traffic car for several years, and was always, always, more than patient when people didn't pull over for the blues. Of course, I was always in uniform, so it was a bit easier to figure it out, but she did the exactly right thing. Too many police impersonators out there to do anything different.

Best Regards,
J