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DC Criminal Lawyer - Ada Chan discusses Profiling by the police - 202-455-5610

Attorney Ada Chan, criminal lawyer in DC and Maryland. One issue we see in D.C. is police officer finding a reason to pull the driver of the vehicle over, and thereafter, search the automobile. My name is Ada Chan. I'm an attorney practicing here in the District of Columbia, as well as the State of Maryland. So can police profile me and stop me for any traffic offense? In the law, we call these pretext stops. Pretext traffic stops are often used by law enforcement as a method to initiate a stop in search of automobiles suspected of criminal activities. The traffic stop involves a police officer stopping a driver for a traffic violation, minor or otherwise, to allow the officer to then investigate a separate and unrelated suspected criminal offense. So the question becomes, can the police do this? The simple answer is yes, they can. Let me give you an example. My friend lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. Every day she goes to work. She's a doctor. She hangs her stethoscope, you know the thing that goes around a doctor's neck, on her rearview mirror in her car. D.C. law says no vehicle operated on the highways of the District shall have any object attached to or suspended from the rearview mirror, or rearview mirror bracket, or have any object attached to or suspended from the windshield, the rear window, the front side window, or the frame of the windshield, rear window, or any front side window. In ten years of driving her car in D.C., she has never been pulled over for this offense. Police routinely use this law to pull over cars that they think they can find other issues with. So if you are young and driving in D.C., with even something hanging from your window, you may find yourself under the barrel of this law. Or if you have an out-of-state tags, and you're driving in a drug area, and something is hanging from your rearview mirror, you can expect to get pulled over. Remember, even when pulled over, you do not have to consent to a search of your vehicle. Remember, even if you get pulled over, the police officer must have probable cause that you have committed a traffic offense. You can challenge that stop, and the burden is on the government to show that your rights were not violated. If you would like to know more, please contact our office at 202-455-5610, or the website on the screen. Oh, and please subscribe to our channel. And thank you for watching. Please note that laws change. The law firm of Rollins and Chan submits that this information is accurate as of the date of this video was published and is not to be construed as legal advice. For more information call our office at 202-455-5610 Rollins and Chan Law Firm 419 7th Street, NW Suite 405 Washington, DC 20004 This video is related to the following terms: Criminal law, traffic offense, traffic violation, suspected criminal behavior, probable cause, hanging items on rear view mirror, rear view mirror, rear view mirror traffic offense, consent to search, out of state tags, items hanging from rear view mirror, driving in the District of Columbia, profiling, pretextual stop