This has me pondering a couple of questions about how an officer would find out for himself. Let's say that for the sake of discussion that we're talking about a routine traffic violation stop - a write a ticket and everyone moves on kind of thing. In your experience, how frequently would an officer in that kind of a situation find it necessary in any way to interact with a passenger? What would be a reason to interact with a passenger - let's say for the sake of discussion, who is just sitting silently in his seat?thunderarms wrote:Your not required but you probably should...Being Leo I want to know who and what I'm dealing with during every stop. Lets face it its all about going home at the end of the day. Make the officer at ease an disclose before he finds it himself.
I'm asking because although I have never myself been pulled over, I was one time one of two passengers in a car that was pulled over. I sat quietly while the other passenger tried to speak to the officer and was told very bluntly that they were not involved, that it was the driver who needed to speak. I have no personal basis for knowing if that is typical. So I can't help but wonder though if trying to hand over ID/CHL might then be viewed as interference that the officer needs to now be concerned about.