Highway Patrol, Louisville Metro Police Dept. Kentucky
Metro Police Officer Lied about speeding, Harassed Woman -Tried to manipulate by putting me into interrogation room surrounded by men

I was on my way to work across town when I got stopped on the highway. At the time I had a sporty red stratus. My husband had tinted the windows w / mirror tint as a birthday present (I actually thought it was kinda tacky.) I joked w / people about how "gangster" my car looked & I think that came back to bite me that day.

The speed limit on this particular highway is 65.in rush-hour traffic, if you do 65 other drivers & tractor-trailer trucks in particular will run you off the road, literally. So I drive this highway at 70-75 mph.
On my way to work at an office across town I got stopped by an officer. I watched him get out & he looked ready to get somebody. I can imagine what kind of person he expected to see roll down my window. Some punk kid or gangster-looking druggy behind the mirror tint & shiny wax job on my car.

To his suprise it was a young, attractive, professionally dressed woman. He then informed me I was driving 85 in a 65. I respectfully disagreed, my explanation being that I always, ALWAYS as a general rule used my cruise control (because it saved gas) & it had been locked on just over 70.

He asked me the classic, "So miss, are you calling me a liar?" My reply was, "Well... Yes." So I officially had a court date. I had never had a ticket before. Most likely due to the trusty cruise control. But I did now. And I was steamed because I knew I was not doing 85 mph.
On the court date my husband drove me down because I was nervous. He waited in the lobby & saw the officer come to the door & shoo me off down the hall. This made him nervous & ANGRY when he found out what the officer had done to me.

I asked him where we were going & he didn't answer. He led me into an office where I looked around me to find 5-8 other men standing & sitting around while he tried to manipulate me & convince me I had been going 85 mph. As a rape victim it scared me to be surrounded by these men in a small room, but moreso ANGERED me & I looked him in the eye & told him I was not playing his game & asked him who all the other jokers standing around. I told him I had taken off work for the day & had all the time in the world. This made him more angry.

After nearly an hour, he had caused me to question myself & whether or not I was right. Eventually he told me I could plead "faulty equipment", meaning my spedometer was incorrect & pay the court costs.

I ended up paying around $200 trying to prove myself innocent! I had to try to PROVE myself INNOCENT of speeding. WHAT THE HELL! And that is exactly what I had no power to do, stuck in a room, surrounded by "cops" or whoever they were, just because some jerk cop picked my car on the highway, hoping it would have a pot-smoking, school-skipping punk kid in it. And when he discovered that he was mistaken, he had to have some excuse for pulling over my car, so he wrote me a bogus ticket.
It just goes to show you can't trust anyone anymore, even the lousy highway patrol are a bunch of dirty, corrupt pigs of men.

Company: Highway Patrol, Louisville Metro Police Dept. Kentucky
Country: USA
State: Kentucky
City: Louisville
Phone: 5025747660

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