Colorado Drivers Accuse Out of State Police of 'License Plate Profiling"- Casey Lampert

Since Colorado passed a law legalizing recreational marijuana in January, Colorado drivers have reported that while driving out-of-state they will be pulled over and  have their cars searched and examined for weed. One couple reported that even though they were following driving laws, a state trooper in Nevada pulled them over after recognizing their Colorado license plate and immediately started to try and smell their car through the window in an attempt to smell for weed. In another instance, a man with Colorado plates was detained and had multiple searches done on his car to find marijuana by an Idaho law enforcement official despite not being in possession of any at the time. It has begun to turn into a Civil Rights violation by the profiling of these plates.

By stereotyping every Colorado resident as a marijuana-smoking citizen, our law enforcement is wasting energy on people that are, in fact, following the law when they could actually be on the lookout for people breaking laws. It's one thing to be pulling people over for actual traffic violations but to just be looking to get a drug bust is ridiculous. I hope that the troopers will stop profiling these plates and instead help prevent other more important things like drunk and negligent driving or whatever.

Casey Lampert Period 4

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