In Indiana, for both officer and motorist safety, it is illegal for an officer to make a traffic stop in plain clothes.
*Unless they are in a marked police car* - Plain clothes and marked police car is a valid stop.
In Indiana, for both officer and motorist safety, it is illegal for an officer to make a traffic stop in plain clothes.
*Unless they are in a marked police car* - Plain clothes and marked police car is a valid stop.
I don't believe I'd try that if the alleged LEO is standing there pointing his gun at me.
Feeling threatened or being afraid is not a justification for using deadly force on anyone. There has to be threat of death or great bodily harm. Not necessarily the same thing as feeling threatened.
I cannot imagine a situation where drawing a gun on a LEO is going to be a good idea. I cannot imagine it working out without serious jail time.
"If I don't shoot this person right now am I going to die?" If the answer is yes hammer down. If the answer is anything but yes. Do something else.
But my gun is striker fired
Nothing is less dignified than a screaming Grelber!Then you probably already shot yourself in the leg on the draw anyway. Bleed out quietly.
In Indiana, for both officer and motorist safety, it is illegal for an officer to make a traffic stop in plain clothes.
*Unless they are in a marked police car* - Plain clothes and marked police car is a valid stop.
Sec. 2. A law enforcement officer may not arrest or issue a traffic information and summons to a person for a violation of an Indiana law regulating the use and operation of a motor vehicle on a highway or an ordinance of a city or town regulating the use and operation of a motor vehicle on a highway unless at the time of the arrest the officer is:
(1) wearing a distinctive uniform and a badge of authority; or
(2) operating a motor vehicle that is clearly marked as a police vehicle;
that will clearly show the officer or the officer's vehicle to casual observations to be an officer or a police vehicle. This section does not apply to an officer making an arrest when there is a uniformed officer present at the time of the arrest.
BBI. Just use the revolver and hammer down all five times.
My only five shot is hammerless....
If we are talking about things that actually happen more than once in several blue moons, police impersonators and dealing with them is a vastly more likely scenario than dirty cops doing rips in uniform.
If what appears to be a cop starts doing shakedowns or rips on me, I am going to generally assume they are an impersonator and treat them as such.A good impersonator would be impossible to distinguish...
No, it isn't.
Closer, but still not right.
It depends on what you're being stopped for.
The marked car/distinctive uniform requirement is only for traffic law enforcement. Theft? Not a traffic law. Driver has a warrant? Not a traffic law. Littering? Not a traffic law. 9-30-2-2 does not apply.
LEO's are people, people can make bad decisions. Is there an acceptable situation to draw on a uniformed leo, if so what? .
I am not talking about being lawfully detained, or being noncompliant here. I am thinking at what point does it go from law enforcement to endangerment by a law enforcer? What would the aftermath be even if it were legal self defense? I would never want to be in such a situation, but these are the weird things I think about while trying to block out the smell of the deuce i'm laying down on the the $hi**#&.
In Indiana, for both officer and motorist safety, it is illegal for an officer to make a traffic stop in plain clothes.
*Unless they are in a marked police car* - Plain clothes and marked police car is a valid stop.
No, it isn't.
Closer, but still not right.
It depends on what you're being stopped for.
The marked car/distinctive uniform requirement is only for traffic law enforcement. Theft? Not a traffic law. Driver has a warrant? Not a traffic law. Littering? Not a traffic law. 9-30-2-2 does not apply.
My bad...blue falcon stated "traffic stop" which I assumed to be "traffic offense" which is pretty much the basis for any contact between motor vehicle operators and law enforcement. Never say never, but I'm not sure why an unmarked unit with a plain clothes officer would attempt to stop a theft suspect, or a driver with a warrant, or someone littering, without getting a marked unit involved to make the actual stop...