Over the last several months there has been many reports of motorist being pull over by several rogue cops of the Penn Yan police department for bogus reasons, some of these made up charges are not using turning signals or not signaling soon enough. If you or a friend has experience anything similar please contact the PY police chief or the village board and file a public complaint against these BAD COPS.

Sorry "j", what you describe are not illegal stops. If someone does not use their turn signal, or fails to signal within the required distance prior to turning they are tickatable offenses.

Add that to someone committing either one of those violations around 1AM or after it is sure to draw the attention of an on duty officer. If they stopped someone for either of those and they were not intoxicated I am betting they didn't issue a ticket. If they found a driver to be intox after stopping for "failure to signal" I'm guessing they would get the ticket, as it was the basis for a traffic stop. It is what it is!!!

You know as well as I that someone cannot be pulled over unless they commit a violation or there is some other suspicion that it is based on.

Get your video tape rolling, if it is happening as you say then you should be able to document it. Otherwise its a he said, she said situation.

The majority of people charged are usually guilty of what they are charged with! Plea Bargaining is an important part of the system.

As far as cameras in the cars, its a cost issue that the Village would not want to spring for.

Mean Gene, you know I like to play and have fun. :ccol:



As far as cost, I have no idea what these systems cost, but wouldn't it be a better investment than the Village defending itself against a lawsuit? It would prevent any bad apples from making a reason why they stopped someone and those who are truly guilty from making a story that they were wrongly pulled over.

You are preaching to the choir!! My experience was its not in the Village's DNA to spend money on the PD!! I pretty much never did my budget, it was done for me except a few line items that included paper clips, ammo and copying paper!

This is so true. I know of several people who have gone downtown to pick up their kids from the bars and find that they are stopped for not using their signal soon enough. Another friend was followed all the way home when they were going through downtown around 1am and one of pd picked up on them.
This is why most of the people I know won't go out anymore downtown.

Bet most of these stops are on young women driving alone.
I'd get their badge number and report it to the Attorney Generals office and request that it be looked into ASAP

[quote=Chris.Mickelsen]This has happened to me twice, once by NYS Troopers and once by PYPD. I live in PY and drive to Gates every day, 120 miles round trip. Both times this happened it was due to a, so called, complaint from an undercover officer I was told. I was driving north on 14A and come up on a car doing 45mph in a 55mph zone just after Hall. I passed the car legally, broken line and never went over 55mph. Driving southbound was the Ontario County prison transport vehicle which flashed their light at me, even though I was back in the North bound lane 1/8 mile before we passed. The next morning there was a NYS trooper waiting for me at the Frontier building just north of hall. He saw me and pulled me over. I asked why and was told that he had received a complaint from an undercover officer that "I was driving dangerously, with the potential to cause an accident”. I denied it and ask why the “undercover” officer didn’t pull me over, I was told that “It’s not their responsibility”, which I argued that if I am dangerous, isn’t that their job. The office held me for 30 min and inspected every inch of my car and asked if my windows were tinted legally. I told the officer they better be as I had told the shop when I bought the car to make them legal. He put the meter on the window and wrote me a ticket for illegally tinted windows even though he would not allow me to see the value on the meter. Ticket cost me $250 and allot of aggravation. The PYPD time was officer AMO, many many years ago and is too long of a story to tell, but was the first time I watched an officer of the law lie, in court, under oath. [/quote There are good cops and bad cops, PYPD has a few dirty cops who lie all the time just to pull someone over hoping they will make a BIG BUST. These cops are scum who use their badge to harass and set up law abiding citizens, the PY police chief and the other officers on the force know which cops are dirty yet they take no corrective action against them. The Yates county sheriff's department recently force one of these bad cops to retire but then turned around and hire him back as a part time deputy.

Bet most of these stops are on young women driving alone.