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Street Cop Podcast

Rear Seat Passengers and Seatbelts

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

Education

4.9967 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this classic episode, Dennis explains to look out for rear passengers not wearing seatbelts as this allows for further investigation as a basis to start. Recorded on 03/26/2017.

Transcript

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0:00.0

One of my little.

0:01.4

One day.

0:01.7

I'm in a day.

0:04.7

You're trying to be a street cop.

0:11.9

Fix my little shirt there.

0:13.0

Here we go.

0:14.0

All right, guys.

0:14.5

It's Sunday's day before class.

0:16.4

I'm in here just reading case law and juvenile law.

0:19.3

I'm actually in juvenile law right now reading that. And just trying to straighten some things out. Inserting those pictures you guys have sent me

0:24.4

into the program for tomorrow, so I'm going to embarrass the shit out a bunch of people. Get

0:30.2

prepared. Nobody will know whose pictures are going to be in what and where. It's kind of fun part

0:35.3

with the QAuth class. But today we're going to talk about, because we're having a discussion in a previous post, about rear seat passengers being secondary offenses on a motor vehicle stop. Now, these are gold mines, folks. If you haven't been looking at rear seat passengers, you've been losing out big time. I've made some huge arrests on rear seat passengers not wearing their seatbelts.

0:54.8

How do you go about doing that?

0:55.9

Let me just read this text to you first.

0:57.8

And this is, let's see, it is called an act concerning safety seatbelt, usage, and amending, supplement, blah, blah, blah.

1:08.9

All right.

1:09.2

So I left the link on the other side for you. You guys can click on that link, and it'll bring it to the statute. If you go to the post below this video, I'm not going to repost. Maybe I'll just repost the link, so you guys know it's clicked through. And you can read the statute and how it was amended. And this was amended in 2010, I believe. I recall correctly. Anyway, so what the amendment was, it says all rear seat passengers, 18 years of age or older, of a passenger automobile operated on a street or highway, and this state shall wear properly adjusted and fasten seatbelt. All right? That's what it says. So at the bottom, when people have asked me, hey, where does the secondary violation come from? Right here on the bottom, it says enforcement of the provisions of subsection C, this section, by state or local law enforcement, shall be accomplished by treating the violation thereof only as a secondary offense from the driver or passenger of a motor vehicle. I just see the power button on my computer. A motor vehicle has been stopped for another reason.

2:01.2

So what does this mean?

2:03.5

Well, now you have rear seat passengers not wearing seatbelts who are now subject to a summons

2:09.0

in the Title 39.

2:10.8

They, one, have to provide, you can compel identification, so they must provide identification

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