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    4 hours ago

    I’ve absolutely driven past a cop who was playing WoW on his laptop while sitting in traffic.

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    -216 hours ago

    I don’t want to be the guy defending cops, but there is usually more than one officer in a squad car. There is no rule against a passenger being distracted.

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      214 hours ago

      In my area it’s always one cop, and they are driving and using their laptop that sits on the passenger side

    • @Postmortal_Pop
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      436 hours ago

      Where I live it’s strictly one cop per car unless they’re training. That’s why they pull people over in packs.

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        196 hours ago

        That’s something I never got about cops in the US. Everywhere in Europe, there are always two cops per car, at least in the places I have been.

        • @[email protected]
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          175 hours ago

          It’s to create the illusion that there’s more cops than there really are. Same reason behind take home cars.

          My city of about 300k people has about 30 cops patrolling at any given time.

        • @Lennny
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          185 hours ago

          Easier to terrorize minorities if you spread out.

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        16 hours ago

        I haven’t seen that before. I guess they really are just using a laptop and driving at the same time.

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          34 hours ago

          Or they sit at green lights because they are too into their laptop to notice the light change