DEBUNKED: Why cops touch the rear of cars – former cop explains this myth

31 thoughts on “DEBUNKED: Why cops touch the rear of cars – former cop explains this myth”

1. I suspect the former cop news host is lying because he knows, if the public knows why they do that, and it's just a scare/diversion tactic, it becomes useless. Then again, two of the most lying-est careers to ever lie, so who knows.

2. It's a power thing

3. So, all I have to do to get access to a police officer's fingerprints is get pulled over?
   Hmmm… twists mustache I wonder what could be done with that?

4. They're checking to see how clean/dirty the vehicle is.

5. It's called counting coup. Like getting your DNA

6. Ask the cop nicely to wipe off his dirty finger prints from your car next time.

7. I was trained to leave prints on the car to positively identify the vehicle through prints or DNA if they flee. It's good evidence particularly if the car plate is not for the vehicle involved. Don't know where this guy got his training.

8. 👍❤

9. Good one

10. Well that makes a lot more sense than the fingerprint most likely the average criminal would know to wipe off at fingerprint…
    I don't like how road pirates touch your car everywhere else they're leaning on it scratching the paint disrespecting your property acting like they're just your best friend. I think a lot of them lean and touch all over our cars because it's a territorial thing and showing us there in control and there's nothing we can do about it and they're hoping to get a rise out of a lot of people and set them off so they can drum up more business….. I'm not referring to the tail light though I'm talkin about everywhere else they put their little oinking hoofs at

11. I can attest, having been in Broadcast Media for 20 years, that they evening news is lying about the facts of their stories at least 60% of the time.

12. Ambush a cop?

13. I always tell them to Wipe off their fingerprints. I don’t want smudge on my car.

14. CANT TOUCH PRIVATE PROPERTY TO BEGIN WITH.Touch my car I'll break ur finger n sue the shit out of u..DONT TOUCH MY SHIT..Fuck the hide in trunk shit..OMG..

15. They taught us at FLETC it was to check the trunk to make sure it was shut

16. Muscle memory huh? Well let’s teach them to go for their taser first instead of their gun 🤔

17. They touch the tailgate on MY truck!!!

18. Wanna see a cop lose his mind ? After the traffic STOP get out and wipe his prints off where he touched. Instant trigger.

19. Well they are telling me a cops fingerprints on your dirty car just in case something happens
    Have your dirty work truck broke into and have thousands of dollars in tools stolen and have the cops show up and not fingerprint because it to dirty

20. Your wrong. I've watched videos and the police never touched the trunk. They only touched the side quarter panel. I need some hip boots for the load of crap your dishing out. 👎🏻

21. Totally agree with you as it relates to the fingerprint. I spent 20 weeks in the academy and we trained extensively in officer safety to include traffic stops. As it relates to traffic stops, we were trained to check the trunk of the car for the sole purpose of protecting against ambush as you explain. Additionally, every traffic stop goes out over the air with vehicle information and location. When a plate is not visible/present the phrase "negative plate info" is stated and the vehicles description goes is broadcast. Officers in the area recognize this and will swing by to ensure the officers safety. In today's environment body cameras put the officer at the scene in the event things go south

22. If your first amendment honestly and asked if you're detained and you're not, you do have to add well that if I'm free to go that I'm free to stay. But yeah I totally agree with the traffic stop yeah yeah get out, get out while you still can!

    And that brings me to a thing where I was talking to an officer about him writing me a ticket in a parking lot because I was parked in front of an embankment that was blocking off parking spaces for use as outdoor seating for a restaurant on private property. So it's a private road it's not a public Road technically it's a roadway if the parking spaces are blocked and what's their blocked you kind of create an automatic right of way there to that side for people to walk by because the sidewalk is covered and so is are the parking spaces

    Becomes the shoulder of the road if you will.

    So then I meet up with him about 4 minutes later on the other side of the parking lot I meet up, other side of the parking lot we're talking and something triggers him and he immediately says well I can write you a ticket right now for that, as I added well no it's been like you broke away let me move didn't give me a ticket you can't now decide later to give me a ticket for that. And he absolutely cannot. Once he has broken from an infraction detention or a traffic stop and has completed it he's done he can't go back later and say oh by the way you weren't wearing a seatbelt I'm not going to give you a ticket for that he has to do that at the stop.

    Am I wrong?

23. Ok then why the state trooper do it to my F150 no trunk and you can see in the bed 🤔

24. i've had a cop do it to my truck.

25. Even if the Fingerprint part were true, couldn't that be construed as planting evidence…

26. I like hearing this answered by officers who were taught this in the 80 -2003 era. They know why they were trained on it and the class films they had to endure.
    This goes back way further though. So the answer is always based off of the individuals training or his experience.
    Both reasons were taught throughout the country but this is the first time you hear it from a pre 2003 officer. The emergency releases were in cars (not mandated ) in the 80s.
    As a kid we would "prank" other drivers at stop lights by having a guy jump out hands tied and run then someone in the car would chase him.
    Dumb childish prank that a decent officer admitted was funny but caused too much concern so we stopped doing it.
    The officer asked how we got out of the trunk and we showed him the modification to the trunk release latch.
    Oops I disclosed I'm a dinosaur.

27. Yeah, this is total horseshit. As a cop for 24 years. I was taught to make sure the trunk was closed so I wouldn't be ambushed from behind. In 24 years it only happened once. But that one time could have killed me. I love good cops and I hate bad cops.

28. Once a member of the blue brotherhood, ALWAYS a member in good standing of the blue brotherhood, therefore, since a pig is authorized to LIE, one has NO reason to believe ANYTHING a member of the brotherhood of the badge, past or present, chooses to oink about.

29. Keep up the good work and ty.

30. WHEN I WENT TO THE ACADEMY I WAS TOLD TO ALWAYS CHECK THE TRUNK BY SLIGHTLY PULLING UP ON IT. ANOTHER REASON TO TOUCH THE CAR WAS TO LEAVE YOUR DNA ON IT.

31. The Air Force taught us in 1981 to push the truck is closed.

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