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Originally Posted by MadMex
In OC when a skycop is hovering over your house are you required to run outside and wave your papers in the air?
How about when you’re passing through a DUI checkpoint?
What about passing through a construction zone and the trooper motions YOU, the lead car, to stop?
Better yet, how about when a policeman motions YOU, the lead car, to stop so a funeral motorcade can have the right of way?
Seriously, it would be interesting to have your Sheriff respond to SierraNevadaCCW’s quiz.
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None of those would be considered "contact" (And Im not sure the cop in line behind you at the Starbucks would either. Thats a gray area where I would decide based on how "Chatty" the LEO got.... I go out of my way to NOT have contact with LEOs in uniform.... And not because I dont like them. But because they dont bother me when Im at work, I like to extend them the same courtesy. For certain, until HE says something to ME, Im not saying ANYTHING TO HIM. Hes just another dude in the Starbucks and I go out of my way not to notice him.)
To me "Contact" means when you are approached by a police officer in the course of his duties and he verbally makes you aware that he wants to have an official chat with you. Its a term of art LEOs use in their reports. EG- Car stops at the point he walks up to the window. A DUI Check point when YOU are the car they randomly pick. On a "PEDESTRIAN CONTACT" when they say "Sir, step over here a minute." etc.
I think the contact inform rule is SMART. It lets the LEOS know RIGHT FROM THE GET GO, that theyre dealing with a good guy, and keeps the issue from going south when they accidentally see the gun. I would do it whether OCSD required me to or not, because I know that if the cop SEES the gun (Pretty impossible for me to get my wallet out while sitting in a car and NOT have him see it) I know hes going to point his gun in my face... And I know when guns are pointed in peoples faces, ACCIDENTS CAN HAPPEN... AND I COULD END UP DEAD....