A law enforcement officer is not required to have any probable cause or level of suspicion to make an inquiry on the status of a vehicle's registration. When officers have computer terminals mounted in the patrol cars, they will often run all of the license plates they see while stopped at an intersection, just in case any of them are on the wrong vehicles or are stolen.
negative im a police officer i run every plate i see Added: 10-4 on that!
As a matter of standard practice, most police will "run" a name anytime they have reason to be in contact with a subject.
Yes, it is a common occurrence.
No. License plates are already in plain sight, and an officer can run the plates at any time. The scanner just speeds up the process.
Yes. Tags are the property of DMV, so officers don't need a reason to run them.
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Because a police officer may have to run after and catch a fit criminal to make an arrest.
Quite a lot. For example, in the cruiser, police officers have access to an MDT(Mobile Data Terminal), this can be used to run license plates, text other officers, run background checks, see where other officers are, get a map of the city, and some other cool things. Going back to the license plates, some police cruisers have ALPR(Automatic License-Plate Recognition), which can scan the license plates of cars around it, and send an alert to the officer if the system finds a vehicle with a warrant.
If he/she was chasing you for a reason than yes! And, I would think if you out ran them and theyfound you later, you would be punished even more
You will probably get sued
You flippin get arrested.