@@Constantly1Shot the stats are derived from the stats that EVERY police department sends in to the justice department.. the data is all there. So no, in Iowa, the stats are just as bad as everywhere.. the only people that even question the data are the blind that back the blue with out questions.. anyone else doesn't even need to visit the department of social stats to get basic info.. it's apparent. But to those that are constantly "blind" to the abuses of law enforcement.. "nothing to see here"
They'll just come up with another reason. The problem is qualified immunity. If you're not held accountable for your bad actions, you're going to continue doing it.
I live in Utah, and I have had a K9 unit called on me three times over smell accusations. They found nothing in my car. They did scare the shit out of my kids.
They should fuk off if they don’t witness an actual crime…..as i asked an officer what “smell” evidence do you use as evidence in actual. court witcha bogus ass
Idk about all that but I can smell weed coming off a car 2 or 3 car lengths ahead of me with all my windows rolled up. That shit is pretty strong. It's illegal to drive and while smoking weed.
Cops are so good that when one pulled over my Grandma last year, he could smell the last marihuanna cigarette she smoked all the way back in 1953. Or at least, he must have, since he tore her car apart for three hours and didn't find anything, and he wouldn't lie about it or anything, that'd be completely ridiculous, right? At least when she got upset that they were trying to test Grandpa's ashes to see if they were drugs and raised her voice a little bit, they only dislocated one of her shoulders, so at the end of the day it was a good traffic stop. Maybe the next time he would have actually caught her in the act, since clearly she must have found some way to hide it, and exposed her for the unrepentant drug addict that she was apparently, based on what that cop said. Apparently her addiction had gotten so bad that the whole 4 days she was in jail for resisting arrest and assaulting the poor innocent officer by making him sprain his back when he had to hip toss her for getting loud and not listening, that she would not stop asking everyone for her "medication" that she thought she needed to "live", thank god the jailhouse staff ignored her and didn't feed her addiction, even whens he started acting up and stopped responding to them. It's just such a shame that she coincidentally happened to die of stroke while she was there, the stress of having her double life of crimes exposed must have been too much. Back the Blue 💙👮💙 Make All Grandmas Accountable
when people smoking and driving in front of me its loud af even with the windows up i can smell it through my ac lol people are slow these days riding around in a hot car
You're right! I've even seen one cop who pulled a man over and said it was because he could smell weed. The guy's windows were up and he somehow smelled it. No weed was found. Only saw dust. also tried to get him on window tint because the weed accusation didn't hold up.
Thank you 🙏🏽 I didn’t understand what they were saying. But you put it in simple terms for us all lol I’m glad they’re putting an end to that stupid shit
The courts ruled against this police activity several years ago now. Maybe the cop should've had to "smell" the meth, and discover it was fentanyl. World's smallest violin on tyrants
@@richardellis8076 Most of the world at that time did. There are still slaves in 2024. Africa is full of them. Can't blame the wht man for that one, now can ya?
I got pulled over for throwing a cigarette out the truck window. I told him I don't smoke, no lighter, no matches, no vehicle lighter, no cigarettes. So he wrote me a warning. Lol. I took it to the station and demanded the supervisor look in my truck. He did, and the officer was put on report.
The smell of marijuana is cop code for "I pulled you over because I was discriminating against you and found no wrong doing. Now I really need to find something before I get in trouble."
The problem is that smell cannot be proven or verified in a courtroom...and it looks really bad for the cops when they claim to "smell weed" *and then DON'T find any weed...*
People who smoke weed regularly often stick to high heaven like disgusting cigarette smokers. Smoke sticks to their clothes, car, home furnishings, even their children.
Congress passed a constitutional amendment to make alcohol illegal because they recognized that the congress does not have the authority to prohibit drugs. This is also why congress passed the marijuana tax tamp act rather than prohibit it outright. Further, the declaration of “I smell weed” to circumvent the 4th amendment has always been a constitutional violation and thankfully courts are beginning to uphold what they once did before- that prohibition is unconstitutional.
I would tell them "You must be hallucinating. I am concerned for you. Somebody should investigate why you are hallucinating. Have you used any controlled substances today? How much did you drink tonight? I am only trying to help you."
Even if the police smell weed, what about people who have medical marijuana cards? Or are legally smoking before they are in their vehicle or have a passenger who carries a scent? This has always been a lame excuse for police to harass citizens without just cause.
Then they are driving under the influence even if you take antidepressants it can impair your driving and can be charged for driving under the influence
Still can't drive if you just smoked weed. It is illegal to drive under the influence, even if weed is legal in the state. Plus even in state's where it's legal, you need to provide your medical card and the Marijuana is supposed to be unopened in the dispensery container, having it in a zip lock isn't legal.
@@Constantly1Shotthis is just moving the goal post. When you get pulled over for DUI they don't search your car, you take a test to prove impairment. They don't say "sir I smell alcohol I'm gonna need to search your car for open containers." Whether or not you are "impaired" isn't the issue, it's that they use the presence of a substance as justification to search your vehicle. For reference Police are trained NOT to use the smell of alcohol as an indicator of intoxication. They have to use other indicators and their bs circus tests at a minimum. Even then they do a blood draw at the station to prove intoxication.
When this doesn’t turn up anything actually criminal, it’s primarily utilized for *civil asset forfeiture*. Even in the 4 states that have civil asset forfeiture protections, there is a massive loophole called *federal equitable sharing* that allows law enforcement to completely bypass state law in the interest of federal law (like with marijuana being legal in many states but not federally). And for anyone who doesn’t know what civil asset forfeiture is, in a nutshell, it means police can take anything they want if they “suspect” it is involved in illicit activity and YOU have to prove to a court that it wasn’t if you want to try to get it back. Police don’t have to prove anything, and this almost always leads to people giving up and police keeping what they took. They can then use/sell all these assets and use it to enrich the police department however they choose. Also thought it was interesting how much these two anchors tiptoed around the possibility of police being wrong or lying. Really is a reminder that local news has a close relationship with law enforcement because that’s where so many of their stories come from. Don’t want to bite the hand that feeds.
If a cop saying he smells marijuana from a car, how can anybody contradict that ? It’s a loophole for illegal search. Another illegal trick is that dog indicating something. Criteria need to b set if dog smells something & cops didn’t find anything then that dog must be retire & not allowed to smell any other vehicle.
And police have never lied on affidavit. They’ve never lied to the public. I love how I was pulled over and almost charged with DUI because the officer said he smelled alcohol. I told him if you smell alcohol. It’s coming out of your own breath because I haven’t had a drink in over 30 years.
You can drive by any farm field and smell weed, some smells can be interpreted by a police officer as weed. Really any search should be illegal and considered harassment.
Once worked at a restaurant (a franchise Wendy's back in the 90's, long since gone, last I heard that building was a small branch of some bank) that had a small oven for baking potatoes. That thing always smelled of weed. Lots of things smell similar to weed.
I was kayak fishing in a local park once and smelled that something got skunked. A game warden came by and asked for all my licenses which i gave him. Then he said 'I smell marijuana" and proceeded to search all my stuff, dumbfounded at how strong the smell was but nothing to be found.
20 years ago the state of Ohio passed a law where the smell of marijuana is not probable cause. I used to deliver inserts to newspapers back then and I was at a newspaper one day when I witnessed it said it on the front page.
As a former federal agent, I’ll tell you that this makes sense. You can’t “I smelled it” because you don’t have training for smells, can’t prove it if asked, and smells are subjective. This sounds silly but you want this 4th Amendment protection.
Yeah…. If ya got latex gloves on and smell skunky……. I don’t know, I use to sell pot when it was illegal and grow as a hobby, cops never fucked with me cuz I wasn’t an idiot, I do feel they should have the right to do their jobs when idiots cross lines but at the same time don’t go looking for trouble that ain’t there ya know?
@@DoggosAndJiuJitsu bud….. I can smell the difference between pot that has been cured and dried and pot that is growing in the ground, whether it is in a jar or had just been smoked, lol I could sniff your ass and tell if you were the one smoking it!
Also marijuana can have such a strong lingering smell that it can easily be present in a car long after a passenger who smoked it (outside of the car) has been long gone. The smell of marijuana is in a car is in no way reasonable suspicion that marijuana has been smoked illegally IN the car, or that any other crime has been committed. I used to steam crab legs for an all-you-can-eat buffet, and after leaving work I could smell a strong odor of crabs on myself. Other people who had not been working in that smell for hours probably noticed the odor even more than me. If steaming crabs in your car had been illegal, this stench that saturated my clothing would in no way have been any strong indication that I had done so, and thus would not fall under reasonable suspicion. Just because a crime is always associated with an odor does not mean that the odor is always associated with a crime.
I used to work with a retired K-9 cop and he told me that they train the dogs to give sign based on their signals NOT the smell of anything. They are loop holes to violate our rights. He laughed out load in joyful memory. And if the dog comes up with nothing. Then oh well. No recourse!
Not to mentions drug dealers like to keep drugs everywhere so even if ya got a dog, it will go for the bait and lose all credibility, lol they should hire ex druggies to sniff out drugs lol
And, one could have the smell of marijuana on your clothes. I smell weed on folks all the time- I am so glad this is no longer allowed. This video is so informative. Thank you.
Thats what I was wondering you could have been at home smoking it and the smell lingers on the clothes and it would smell within your car, that was a strange law to allow to happen considering it would be like hearsay.
Yep, that smell gets in everything and lasts for a long time. Especially if you had a pair of pants that smell like weed and you leave it in a hot car, it make the whole car reek
Keep in mind this is only Minnesota. It is still illegal to possess Marijuana in most states. The court only ruled in this favor because possession is legal in those states. In states where its illegal its still probable cause for a search.
Lol bullshit, if no you say to a search, then no the answer is, period. Cops absolutely can not search when consent is not given, period. Also cops are allowed to lie to you, never believe anything a cop says, period.
I remember when a cop told me he smelled weed from my car. I've never use weed in my life or had anyone in my car that did. He was making it all up to search my car. Wasn't the first or last time cops violated my rights to search me or my car.
@@bryanmeier272xp8 wouldn't Terry Vs Ohio override this specific law about smelling cannabis odors? So basically instead of cannabis being the cause they can just make up reasonable suspicion. Smh
Love how “cops use this tactic” is mentioned and worded the way it is. As if it’s not something the cops abused to unlawfully search vehicles for years.
Unfortunately trump wants to grant the police more immunity. I am a former republican, moved to the libertarian party. I voted for trump in 2016 and 20, not this time.
@@Kosher_Sliderlibertarianism is the way to go! My grandfather used to hold weekly libertarian party meetings in his basement ballroom. I remember things such as his copy of "separation of church and state" that he ALWAYS had close by, and the way he would complain about public schools and how drugs should be decriminalized. I must have absorbed a lot of his ideas more than I realized as a kid, I hadn't really gotten into politics much until the past couple years, but as an adult I fall squarely into the same category, based on my understanding and experience with those things (political influence by religious groups, the war against drugs [people], and the slow and steady suffocation of our constitutional rights to be free to make choices, even bad ones, for the sake of "public safety" or whatever sorry excuse they come up with every time). I think there's a lot of issues that might come up along the way, but that's to be expected when you roll out any societal reform or new way of doing things on a large scale. So far, we can see that voting republican or democrat are just two wings of the same bird, the bird that serves and protects the "system" and the people working in it above all else, rather than the people. I reject any system that gives any kind of immunity and special protections to anyone who is given authority and is expected to be held to a higher standard of performance in their duties, and to protect the public. Plus the Supreme Court has made some horrendous decisions, allowing the constitution to be "interpreted" and distorted to best serve their interests. America is becoming what our founding fathers fought to escape from, because too many people "go along to get along" and wholeheartedly believe the people that govern them are trustworthy and have their best interests at heart, abandoning the system of checks and balances that needs to be vigilantly enforced, and we can see where it has led us.
This is the right thing to do , because citizens of Minnesota have the right not to be harass by a police officer on the odor of so-called of the police officers involved in the traffic stop , to tell the drivers that the police 🚔 officers smells Marijuana inside of the car 🚗 🙄. Now the Minnesota Supreme Court abolished such a law that police 🚔 officers in Minnesota can not used anymore. Hopefully other states will abolished this sort of mistake and retrained their police officers to get a legal warrant to search a vehicle in the U.S.A.
Of course.They can claim any grass or leaves that build up on your floor mat “looks like marijuana”.Powdered donut stains or icing can be drugs.And lastly “furtive movements or gestures”.Google that one for a laugh.
Still illegal in Texas. But, I do agree police have too many powers, and have been given too much discretion to sidestep the Bill Of Rights. That said, if you do smoke weed, do it at home. Liquor is legal, but drinking and driving is not. I can't imagine toking and driving is either. Not smart to be behind the wheel with a blunt in your mouth.
@@MisterMikeTexasthe problem with it is it’s legal to smoke at home the smell lingers on clothing so your passenger smoked it but you didn’t the smell alone should not be grounds for search. If done in a state that it’s legalized in. I understand Texas it’s not legal but this case is in a state that is
@@BlackRoyalty_ distribution for profit I is against the law for the people. The federal government made it legal in certain places. I wonder why? 🙄 Is it to keep certain people oppressed for enjoying recreational weed smoking.
@@BlackRoyalty_there aint no federal misdemeanor possession tho all federal weed laws deal with weight or distribution.. try looking up fed cases involving possession of less than a quarter pound of weed ill wait
I’ve said many times that someone make a car air freshener that smells like pot. If they try the I smelled pot you can point to air freshener and say I like the smell but I would never partake myself.
We also need to address the problems with drug dogs. There have been dozens of good studies now...one that looked at 94,000 searches,...that show that dogs indicated false positives at about 75% of the time. The best was 56% found drugs and the worst was 7% found drugs after the dogs indicated they were there.
@@angiehayes7397 It isn’t great data. The OP is talking bollocks. Don’t get me wrong - K-9 sniffs aren’t reliable, but the data shows that K9 dogs that sniff for drugs in vehicles are only accurate 44% of the time. NPR reported on it. It simply isn’t as extreme as the OP claimed. Lol at 75% and 93% failure rate!
One EYE OPEN... case by case, every case is unto it's own, right? What about an individual looking for a quick buck (mule), that hasn't a clue. Picks-up a gig to transport & partakes of the hall, then stopped with a shit-ton in the (trunk) LOAD that can be smelled a mile away. The MULE can't, their desensitized? What happens to excuse me, would you please get out? Cuz like we all know, THAT'S NEVER-EVER?! HAPPENED before?
@@BNatoAk Criminals typically aren't the smartest. The lure of money is a powerful aphrodisiac to boot. Plays games with the smartest on two legs all the time. How to numb the mind & senses, just add one of two things... sex or money, & doubling does better. There aren't only the Best of Us out there, & they wear customs to look just like us too. 😉 😉
As long as we all know, this is far from a Get-Out-of-Jail free card. Laxidasical behavior will only bite yourself in the you know where. Mules, alcoholics that feel the need to top off the ride, etc. are all prime examples of slowed thinking, not as sharp, lazy, messy, disorganized lifes & vehicles. They don't need another reason for them, & why hand it to them by thinking this IS your GET-OUT-OFJAIL-FREE-CARD. The 4th Amendment is there for the best of reasons, so let's not give it up for FAFO.
I had this happen once on a speeding stop coming home from camping. Now, I don't smoke weed, and I didn't at the time, what I did do is burn a smudge fire the whole time I was out there to keep bugs away, and burning pine needles leave a (while not identical) similar smell to pot, I told the cop as much, he wasn't buying it, and since I was in no rush to get home I told him sure, search the car. Now, I'd just been in the woods for a week, with two other people, and I had brought most of the gear, so my tiny Ford contour was absolutely packed with totes and bags, so I watched him waste almost two hours of his time digging through everything with a smile on my face. I especially enjoyed when he shoved his hand in my trash bag to look for stuff. In the end I left with a speeding ticket, he left smelling like smoke and week old garbage, it was hilarious
The police used this line for fishing expeditions in most cases. There never being a smell of any marijuana. And as an individual how can you really fight against a smell of anything?
Atleast this is a step in the right direction to stop cops from lying about smelling weed, tearing your car apart, finding nothing then saying "well, you can go" Leaving you on the side of the road with your front seat sitting on the ground next to your car
Meanwhile, that person may have been in a room where others were smoking pot but they themselves did not partake. They'll still have that smell on them if the room wasn't all the ventilated.
No one should ever be allowed to search your car without a warrant and even then, there should always be a non-biased 3rd party recording everything the cops are doing or searching to assure they don't plant evidence.
That's not realistic and there's no chance in that ever happening. Best we can hope for is ending this BS with the "I smell, such and such", and to maybe end qualified immunity if we're lucky. Probable cause will always exist and there is such thing as non-biased; not to mention requiring a third party be there would be deemed to burdensome.
The fact that law enforcement was even permitted to violate the 4th based on a potential smell that could be fictitious was completely ridiculous. Even here in Georgia its been nothing but a shitshow
I live in Texas and since we are close to Mexico border, we have border patrol checkpoints set up near border towns. K-9’s by the dozen and border patrol agents at your rolled down window. Got through with no issue. 2 hrs down the road, pulled over for speeding. Cop tells me he smells weed in the vehicle I said “sir, there’s no way I just crossed the checkpoint. If the dogs and border patrol agents didn’t smell weed, I know for a fact you don’t” he replied “well can I search the car yes or no” by this time I’m out of the car already patted down for weapons. I was like 20-21 at the time. This was a few years back. Moral of the story they will lie about you smelling like weed to search your car. I’ve experienced it firsthand.
Should be like this nation wide. No i dont do drugs of any kinds, no i dont advocate of drug usage of any kind either. Im just a citizen of this Country tired of watching the Police abuse the system. Theres way to many "BAD APPLES" out there.
Police swearing to uphold and protect the constitution is the biggest fraud perpetrated on American soil , they don't even know the 1st amendment and violate rights as an investigative tactic just to run names through NCIC / DAVID / TSDB just for warrants as lazy policing . and police hate civil rights , transparency and accountability.
7:20 LISTEN TO THIS PART PLEASE. This make sense to me. What if the police are able to stop a far more serious crime by doing the search? What if they find a small child being hidden who was kidnapped?? We are just making it easier for the criminals
This is a tactic cops have been using FOREVER! They say they smell weed and instant probable cause goes into effect! They will ask you if they can search your car and if you say nom they detain you and bring a dog in. Then they bring in their dogs who are trained to detect drugs, yes, but they are also trained in hand signals to make a signal, like sitting down, which is also the signal they give when they smell drugs. So regardless, the cops are tearing apart your car. If people could get $5,000 if the search ends with no drugs found after their BS, it would make sense and even the playing field, then that lying about smelling weed would stop immediately! Of course they have many different BS tactics to use to search your car!
One could get more than 5,000 if they knew all the things that go along into detaining you and search and seizure. How do you smell something and than show it to be true? How did that stay in the law system for so long?
Me and my friend went to the cove in La Jolla in San Diego when I was visiting after graduating in 2015 and we were gonna go down and watch the seals and smoke some weed but it was super windy so he talked me into just smoking in the car. For whatever reason I told him to take the keys out of my the ignition. Of course, halfway into the joint a cop rolled up and came up to the window. My friend couldn’t find the keys so he had to open the door and all that smoke came out on the cop. He took our info and basically said since he didn’t have the keys in the ignition he couldn’t charge him with DWI or anything so he said we could either get an Uber or go to jail. We got an Uber but had to get his car before 5:30 or it would get towed so his cousin was pissed lol. I still remember it like yesterday, we were parked right under Eddie V’s restaurant.
One time, they said "ive been doing this for 30 years, THAT'S marijuana" and pointed at a blade of grass in order to search my car. They found nothing, so infuriating.
To anyone who’s not from Minnesota this is not case law and only applies to the state of Minnesota, this does not apply to the rest of the United States.
MN police are going to have to treat people like people instead of using them as only a conviction bonus. Someone needs to tell that to police around the rest of the country. They’re hated everywhere by everyone that has to deal with them.
I drive by a known commercial grow and my car can smell like a weed shop for a few blocks after driving by. I make sure to pass by to keep up on the latest terpenes haha
My brother has been a cop for 8yrs and told me his cop buddies say that all the time even when its a lie. He said he never gave af how much weed a person had, just no drugs or illegal weapons. He's been telling me all their dirty tricks for years
@@ShadovvV this comment is moronic...I know just from my neighborhood the smell of dope is unmistakable. You will NEVER mistake the smell of diesel or kush with oregano
Your hair shoes and molecules leave and attach to whatever you are around Everyone knows how stupid c0ps are and how they lie. I'd bet half of the reports have lies or great exaggerations in them In other words they won't match the bodycam
The young man here presents as a soft spoken and sincere person (as he was trained to do) lies by omission. For every illegal search that yields contraband I would estimate that there are more than 100 where it doesn't.
