The five real reasons police pull you over.

On the police report, it will say something like "observed vehicle swerving erratically. Issued verbal traffic warning. Officer detected aroma of marijuana."

But in reality, says Ofc. Frank Adams-- the renegade 15-year Miami-Dade veteran who this week claimed to New Times that he watched his fellow officers severely beat an unarmed man-- that quota-chasing cop pulled you over because you're black and dreadlocked, and then he illegally searched your car in the hopes of finding anything illegal.

You always knew it was true but had never heard it from a cop. Before now. Here are the real reasons you're staring at your beleagured reflection in that trooper's aviators:

1. You're in a car with a lot of people.
2. You're black (Hispanic).
3. You have dreadlocks and gold teeth.
4. You are among six black, dreadlocked men packed into one car.
5. The cop is behind on his field interview and arrest quotas.

"There's not a specific time of day when the need for stats arises. There's no specific day of the week. It's more so when you look at your numbers and you realize you're in need. Every day you want to try to get something-- one or two arrests, a traffic infraction, a field interview. The expectation is that you average two of each category every day you're on duty. Then the department will be extremely happy with you.

And let's say for some reason you didn't hit your numbers the day before. Then it's catch-up time. Maybe you were forced to respond to a scene of a death yesterday. You were there for hours, and you didn't get one stat. That next day, you want to camp out on a busy street in the city, and just start pulling people over. Or you'll want to head to an area-- say in front of a corner store-- where you know there's drug activity, and just search everybody in front of the place. Even though that's illegal."

Link:
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/09/the_five_real_reasons_that_cop.php