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Pulling into a vacant parking lot late at night in the suburbs growing up always invited a police contact. I could've been doing something as innocent as looking at a map, cleaning up spilled coffee, or trying to dial my mobile phone.

They usually used the "we've had a lot of burglaries in this area and all of these businesses are closed" justification.

They were mostly likely looking for:
- drunks
- drug deals
- teenaged romances

Right or wrong, most LEOs aren't Constitutional lawyers. Most of them are trying their best to find bad guys and inadvertently end up wasting the GGs time every now and then. I used to get angry the few times I got pulled over in high school and the first question they asked was, "How much have you had to drink tonight?" (I didn't have a drink until I was 25.)

On one occasion, she pulled me over for "making several legal, calculated lane changes in sequence that raised her suspicion." (I got on the freeway, blinkered my way one lane at a time to the left lane, went two miles, blinkered my way to the right lane, and exited. She pulled me over on the frontage road for driving too carefully. No ticket or warning issued.)

Another quick one: I got pulled over in front of my house for not signaling the turn onto our culdesac early enough. I used my blinker, but by the book, I did it a few dozen feet too late. The drinking question, a check of my ID, and a "have nice evening" later, I walked inside to explain the flashing lights to my parents.

Any excuse to make contact. Ahhhh, the suburbs.