California Highway Patrol

Christmas Day 2015, on my long 7 hour journey home, I get pulled over. For what? I ask myself. After providing my documents the officer walks to the front of my car with a measuring tape, measures the height between the ground and the center of my headlights (are you kidding me?) He kept asking me if I’ve lowered the car, for the 5^th time NO! I bought this car off the lot the way it resides. He didn’t seem to understand what that meant, and why are you asking me? You’re the expert taking the measurements. He then (after 15 minutes) proceeds to be the nice guy that he is and let me go with a warning because my car is to low, «a safety hazard» and I need to get it fixed because «I’ll start to see things with my headlights to low» Thanks for keeping my safety in mind officer, but I’ve been driving this car for the last 7 years and have still yet to «see things», and you’ve just wasted my time for a ridiculous infraction. Personally I think that if it was really a problem You would have written that ticket.
Welcome to California.

Be careful with these meter maids.
Three times I have personally witnessed them pass a stranded motorist so they could set up a speed trap.
They have outrageous attitude, and they come off as super aggressive.
It seems to me that they a want confrontation.
Today’s officer approached our car and was very aggressive in his approach, attitude, and manner of speech.
We are new to CA, so when he asked for the registration I asked him what color is it. «Color of what? The tags?» If he is this dense, he should have his license pulled. When I repeated the question slowly, he stated he didn’t like my attitude! T.S. Seemed he wanted me to yell, or give him some reason to raise the situation.
If CHP expects respect, they have a long way to go, for it earned, not granted.

Never had good experience with them. Rude manner & bad customer service. I don’t blame government for cutting their budget.

I witnessed an accident today and tried to be a good samaritan by pulling over to be a witness. I almost regret doing this because the CHP officer asked whether I knew one of the involved not once but three times after I had already told him «No» the first time. I’m just off of work, tired and, trying to get home. I felt sort of discriminated because I’m hispanic and so was of the involved. I thought I was doing the right thing but, this officer turned it into a bad experience. If I am ever to witness an accident I will help if needed but, he changed my perspective in a negative way.

I wish I could give them negative stars. It’s unfortunate that I can fin and locate an Uner car etc on a map and get them to come to my position quickly. However every time I report a drunk driver or an erratics out of control one as a crime is being committed, the CHP are never there. Instead they lurk under overpasses, and on the side of road behind bushes waiting for someone that is speeding. Always there after crimes are committed never there to prevent them. That is out modern police force and Law enforcement community. «We don’t get paid enough» umm no one forced you to be a public servant.

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D. JOHNSON 20 537 N his Partner, Arrogant, No manners whatsoever, Believe to be smart asses N just plain Assholes. FUCK YOU BOTH !!! I have never came across with such rude ass officers like these two… Maybe it would be a great idea if they were forced to take Communication Skill classes before they even serve the public in the first place!!! Fuck you 2 A MILLION TIMES N MORE !!!

Triple A with a badge. They sit on their ass in their car and hope to catch somebody speeding because «its unsafe.» Yet, they speed like a bat out of hell to catch up to you to give you a ticket for going 10 miles over the speed limit. Arrogant as hell. They claim they don’t have quotas. but their supervisors call them «expectations.» They think the public is stupid. When one of them kicks the bucket, they name a highway after these crooks.

Damn these people. Giving out tickets and towing shit just because they’re out of money-.-
I hope they will not retire until their death bed. Fuckin pigs

Driving on the 405 headed toward Santa Monica exit. I signaled to get over to the right where I could exit and a CHP patrolman speeded up slightly to block my path. He then slowed down when I slowed a bit so that I couldn’t get over behind him. This was nothing more than aggressive driving and unprofessional behavior. Sorry if you had a bad day, Officer — but I AM entitled to change lanes. CHP, if you ever look at sites like this and wonder about your incredibly low rating – try looking yourself in the mirror. Behaving like a angry brat in your cruiser would indicate that you need a different job. Not that we’re expecting you to actually take the time to help people, but don’t use your position to screw around or to play silly games with citizens. To put it politely – grow up!

CHP, for the most part, is nothing more than Highway meter maids. I think we as taxpayers should therefore treat them that way. Lets get rid of their supposed law enforcement tasks, and guns, and have them just right tickets since that’s all they do. At least we could pay them a lot less. Just yesterday, I saw 7 CHP officers, in 7 separate vehicles doing speed traps in a 14 mile stretch… on the border of Marin and Sonoma. This is just gross. To CHP officers/​highway maids: When you entered the profession of law enforcement, is this really what you had in mind?

Of all the law enforcement agencies in California, the CHP is on the TOP of my shit list. The agency is a joke and a waste of taxpayer money. Why the hell is our tax money spent on employing these assholes, when they constantly victimize anybody on the highway for the sake of their quotas (targets, or whatever you want to call them)?
I am all for them giving tickets to people who deserve them. You know the ones that speed and swerve through traffic, drive drunk, or reckless, or drive with expired tags, etc. However, I can never get over the fact they give out speeding tickets (especially at night) when the highway is empty, the driver is driving at a safe speed, and the driver is a danger to NOBODY, not even him or herself.
Furthermore I find it fucking IRONIC, that these same guys that give out tickets are the ones that ABUSE the shit out of the traffic laws.
Case in point, I commute to work every night, and it’s been a week since I got a ticket for speeding (80mph) on the 101 freeway at 3am in the morning. The night I got pulled over the ChimP, was speeding down the left lane at 120mph. I figured he was going to pass me but instead he pulls right behind me and lights me up.
Every night since then I’ve been driving the posted 65mph, and of course all the cars around me have been going faster and at least 3 times in the last week, a CHimP cruiser has passed me going well over 100mph. How can I respect guys that break the very laws they are supposed to enforce?
I think the integrity of the CHP agency has long been compromised. The state is broke, so the underfunded CHP is used as a mule to raise revenue through writing tickets.
The result? They pull people over for anything. Not for safety violations, but technical violations. Never mind the fact that California speed limits are artificially low, or that the flow of traffic is faster at night than it is during rush hour, and that CHP officers routinely break speed limits all the time for NO good reason other than they know the speed limit is too low; none of that matters. If you’re not a LEO (law enforcement officer) they will pull you over and write you up for the sake of meeting their quotas.
I think it’s very apparent what the CHP has become. They are no longer servants of the public, but rather a cash mule of Sacramento.

FUCK CHP and their UNEDUCATED useless «officers». FUCK their pensions, and especially, fuck their wives and daughters.,

How the hell does someone give these morons anything more than one star? I would say one out of ten CHP officers are actually nice and courteous. And that’s probably because they’re new to the job. The rest are a – holes. They have a stick up their a– and think they own California. No hello, or good morning, just…‘do you know why I pulled you over?’, no retard, but I bet you’re going to tell me. Watch out these days because they hand out tickets like it’s candy on Halloween to make up for the budget crisis in CA.

On my way to work, I was pulled over for SPEEDING at 75 mph on northbound 280 near SFO by a CHimP.
In those few seconds, I wished I had the face and the cleavage of KIM KADASHIAN. I would be pardoned by simply batting my eyes.
Anyway the speed limit was 65 but the flow of traffic seemed much faster. My mind was probably on Unilocal.
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Out of nowhere from my rear view mirror, I saw an officer on his motorcycle signaling me in a Honda and a black Cadillac to veer towards the right shoulder.
CHimP: Do you know why you were pulled over?
Me: No sir.
CHimP: Do you know how fast you two were going? I was pacing you guys back there for a half mile.
Me: No more than 75.
CHimP: Please get out your driver’s license and registration.
I handed him my documents and he returned to his vehicle. From my rear view mirror, I saw him later go to the black Cadillac and talked to the driver, as well. Wow this CHimP was smarter than the average bear — he caught two civilians at one time!
A few minutes later, he gave me back my documents.
CHimP: Due to an emergency, I do not have time to process your ticket.
Me: OK! (excitedly)
CHimP: I am letting you off with a warning. Please drive slowly on the shoulder and signal to get back on the highway.
I thanked the officer and offered to shake his hand, but he declined.
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He probably went to give the other car a speeding ticket because he was actually driving faster than me and just wanted to ask me about my speed vs the other guy’s answer. I don’t think he had a radar gun on him.
Whatever the reason was I was hella lucky. No traffic ticket and no traffic school.
Dedicated to Vanessa W, who is going to law school. I hope she sees that the burden of the law is on what can be proven, not on hearsay nor intuition.

fuck these pigs! wtf!