Originally posted by moldyhands
you're partially right. a cop could enter your house without permission to stop you from hitting your wife. they have a right to enter private property and protect the public. now endangering people in a parking lot could be left to the cop's discretion, however i'd agree that in a private area like an industrial park, the cops would not be able to bust someone for streetracing. they could charge them with public endangerment, trespassing (if the owner pressed charges), and many communities have "menace" laws as catch-alls that wouldn't actually hold up with a decent lawyer.
i think the problem here is that a good lawyer would beat a "street racing" ticket if the race occured on private property. but an idiot who went into court without representation would get laughed at by the judge, because what are they going to do without a lawyer and proper knowledge of the laws and ability to reference those laws? as for burnouts in parking lots, if the cops were smart, they'd arrest those people for disturbing the peace and public endangerment (or whatever similar laws they have in the particular jurisdiction). a decent lawyer could probably get you off (i.e. consenting parties around the burnout, etc.), but a layman on his own would get busted.
THANK YOU !!! The Police only have the power to stop endangerment of public !! They have NO MOTOR VEHICLE Jusidiction ! If you goto court with no one representing you of course they will laugh at you, to them your a Dumb Street Racing Punk Kid. Ive fought MANY tickets like this and won, 1 for having a nice lawyer and 2 One of my Close Freinds is a PCSO Detective. KNowledge is key ! Ive had cops catch me in parking lots and ask to search my car or whatnot Ive said NO and left ! NOTHING THEY CAN DO !!!! Now if there is something endangering The public and no people standing there watching isnt PUBLIC they are participants THEN and ONLY THEN they can step in ! Industial parks off of County Roads or Hwys are PRIVATE the owners and tennents pay fees for the Buildings and Roads in the complex just because its paved doesnt mean cops can patrol it ! PRIVATE means PRIVATE to EVERYONE !!! Read the Statute I posted it states all of this Unless your to ignorent to read it !
