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In reply to the discussion: Warren listed race as 'American Indian' on Texas bar registration [View all]at140
(6,110 posts)I am immigrant from India, have an accent and light brown complexion.
Arrived in USA in 1960, lived and worked in Chicago from 1962-1997.
For 8 years lived in the city with 25 miles round trip driving to work each day.
Other 27 years, 50 miles driving round trip through the city each work day.
Point is I drove a heck of a lot in Chicago, was stopped by cops dozens of times for various reasons.
I was cited for traffic violations with tickets may be a dozen times by both white & black cops.
One time a black cop stopped me and gave me a ticket which was not even close to my fault. All other tickets were my fault to some extent.
Many other stops by both white and black cops were to check why my car did not display a city sticker. During those 27 years I lived just outside Chicago city limits, and did not need to buy the city sticker. These stops were totally unnecessary, but they saw my driver's license which showed my residence was outside city limits and they had to let me go on.
Each time I was pulled over, I was polite and did not argue with the cop. Only one time a white cop asked me to open my trunk to search my car. Other times they just wrote me a ticket or a few times just let me go without a ticket. I hated being pulled over because of the hassle of taking time off from work to go to traffic court. Main reason for going to traffic court was to have the citation not go on my record, to keep my insurance costs from escalating.
Overall, I can say that I was pulled over more than I should have, but no cop ever treated me with brutality. Just my personal experience of driving for 35 years, a total of 400,000 miles in Chicago.