What is a LEO suppose to do?
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What is a LEO suppose to do?
I have a question for you guys. when you're pulled over by a LEO for a traffic stop and you show them your concealed license, what are they suppose to do?
My situation- Got pulled over, showed the Leo both my id's, and not a single word was said from his mouth. He just told me to sign on the ticket and left on his way. He started writing my ticket before he even approached me and finished it when he came to my side of the car.
Is there a certain protocol that they have to follow, by the way this was in El Paso county.
My situation- Got pulled over, showed the Leo both my id's, and not a single word was said from his mouth. He just told me to sign on the ticket and left on his way. He started writing my ticket before he even approached me and finished it when he came to my side of the car.
Is there a certain protocol that they have to follow, by the way this was in El Paso county.
Re: What is a LEO suppose to do?
Supposed to do?
Nothing, though they can ask you if you are armed and dismarm you (if they feel they need to for safety reasons).
They can acknowledge you have a CHL or not. They can write you a ticket or not.
Basically, there is no requirement on them to react one way or another to a CHL. It just gives them a heads up, they can respond to it or not.
Nothing, though they can ask you if you are armed and dismarm you (if they feel they need to for safety reasons).
They can acknowledge you have a CHL or not. They can write you a ticket or not.
Basically, there is no requirement on them to react one way or another to a CHL. It just gives them a heads up, they can respond to it or not.
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Nothing out of the ordinary here in my opinion.Watcanbrowndo wrote:I have a question for you guys. when you're pulled over by a LEO for a traffic stop and you show them your concealed license, what are they suppose to do?
My situation- Got pulled over, showed the Leo both my id's, and not a single word was said from his mouth. He just told me to sign on the ticket and left on his way. He started writing my ticket before he even approached me and finished it when he came to my side of the car.
Is there a certain protocol that they have to follow, by the way this was in El Paso county.
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Re: What is a LEO suppose to do?
Welcome to the forum.
The LEO did exactly what he should do, and that is not be alarmed or quesiton the fact you have a CHL and may be carrying.
I was stopped last year (last time was 28 years before
) and when I handed him my driver license, CHL and insurance, he handed the CHL back to me and just like your stop didn't ask about it and handed the CHL back to me. Unfortunately he took my DL and insurance and brought me back a ticket to sign.
Can't says I didn't deserve it though, so did my defensive driving and paid the fine. 

The LEO did exactly what he should do, and that is not be alarmed or quesiton the fact you have a CHL and may be carrying.
I was stopped last year (last time was 28 years before



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Sounds like a motorcycle cop if the ticket was half wrote before he got to you. Some LEOs that I have spoken to have the mindset that if they pull you over then they are going to write you. If I'm guilty then it's kind of hard to be mad.Watcanbrowndo wrote:I have a question for you guys. when you're pulled over by a LEO for a traffic stop and you show them your concealed license, what are they suppose to do?
My situation- Got pulled over, showed the Leo both my id's, and not a single word was said from his mouth. He just told me to sign on the ticket and left on his way. He started writing my ticket before he even approached me and finished it when he came to my side of the car.
Is there a certain protocol that they have to follow, by the way this was in El Paso county.
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Re: What is a LEO suppose to do?
They aren't supposed to do anything. Sounds like they did that just fine.Watcanbrowndo wrote:I have a question for you guys. when you're pulled over by a LEO for a traffic stop and you show them your concealed license, what are they suppose to do?
My situation- Got pulled over, showed the Leo both my id's, and not a single word was said from his mouth. He just told me to sign on the ticket and left on his way. He started writing my ticket before he even approached me and finished it when he came to my side of the car.
Is there a certain protocol that they have to follow, by the way this was in El Paso county.
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Re: What is a LEO suppose to do?
That's the perfect situation in my mind. You're not treated any differently than anyone else.Watcanbrowndo wrote: Got pulled over, showed the Leo both my id's, and not a single word was said from his mouth. He just told me to sign on the ticket and left on his way.
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Hang on.
I thought once you produced your D.L. & CHL, all LEO's are required to immediately go En pointe, to then flow into a slow Adagio, from there into a Glissade and finally
perform a Fouetté rond de jambe en tournant, make a bow, smile and go on about their business.
At least, that's what I was taught.
I thought once you produced your D.L. & CHL, all LEO's are required to immediately go En pointe, to then flow into a slow Adagio, from there into a Glissade and finally
perform a Fouetté rond de jambe en tournant, make a bow, smile and go on about their business.
At least, that's what I was taught.
Re: What is a LEO suppose to do?
To me that would be considered threatening behavior.Abraham wrote:Hang on.
I thought once you produced your D.L. & CHL, all LEO's are required to immediately go En pointe, to then flow into a slow Adagio, from there into a Glissade and finally
perform a Fouetté rond de jambe en tournant, make a bow, smile and go on about their business.
At least, that's what I was taught.


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Re: What is a LEO suppose to do?
last time I got pulled over the cop told he didn't care about my chl. I could tell he was more interested in writing me a ticket and catching another then me having a gun.
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Following your lead, I'd imagine a conversation between the LEO and me would go like this:Abraham wrote:Hang on.
I thought once you produced your D.L. & CHL, all LEO's are required to immediately go En pointe, to then flow into a slow Adagio, from there into a Glissade and finally
perform a Fouetté rond de jambe en tournant, make a bow, smile and go on about their business.
At least, that's what I was taught.
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Re: What is a LEO suppose to do?
“Bonetti’s Defense” refers to the Italian swordmaster Rocco Bonetti, who established a “School of Arms” in London in 1576.Vol Texan wrote:Following your lead, I'd imagine a conversation between the LEO and me would go like this:Abraham wrote:Hang on.
I thought once you produced your D.L. & CHL, all LEO's are required to immediately go En pointe, to then flow into a slow Adagio, from there into a Glissade and finally
perform a Fouetté rond de jambe en tournant, make a bow, smile and go on about their business.
At least, that's what I was taught.
Inigo Montoya: You are using Bonetti’s Defense against me, ah?
Man in Black: I thought it fitting considering the rocky terrain.
Inigo: Naturally, you must suspect me to attack with Capa Ferro?
Man in Black: Naturally, but I find that Thibault cancels out Capa Ferro. Don’t you?
Inigo: Unless the enemy has studied his Agrippa… which I have.
“Capa (Capo) Ferro” is a term given to the powerful attack known as “The Lunge”, after Italian swordmaster, Ridolfo Capo Ferro, who taught a linear style of fencing.
Gérard (Girard) Thibault d’Anvers (1574-1627), a Dutch fencing master and author of the rapier manual, Academie de l’Espée (1630).
Camillo Agrippa wrote, "Treatise on the Science of Arms with Philosophical Dialogue" (1553).
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Re: What is a LEO suppose to do?
Dadtodabone wrote:With all this knowledge, "Defeat is Inconceivable."

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