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Cops protecting us from...Uber drivers.


crash_davis

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i fucking feel safer already. heroes!

 

tldr: cops pose as people needing rides but their phone is dead. they have suitcases to match the tourist in distress look. uber driver accepts ride without the app, boom, ticket.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/tqu4fh/lapd_trying_to_entrap_uber_drivers/

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/only-on-2-uber-drivers-nabbed-in-lapd-sting-call-their-arrests-entrapment/

Each of the men said they were flagged down by a woman on the side of the road who was looking for a ride. The drivers explained they stopped to pick the customer up as they thought she could use the app right then and there if they pulled over.

However, the woman did not have the Uber app, and she insisted on having a ride.

The drivers went on to explain she was an undercover cop trying to catch "bandit cabs" who accept off the books rides for cash. Therefore, using the app to order the ride would have been okay.

A Los Angeles Department of Transportation spokesperson confirms the agency participates in these types of operations, along with the LAPD. He says Uber drivers, and many others -- such as limo drivers for example -- are subject to arrest if a ride isn't pre-arranged.

"It's not safe and it's bad for business," according to CBS2 legal analyst Steve Meister, who says even Uber drivers are considered bandit cabs if they stop for a passenger off the books. "There's no accountability for the passenger. There's no accountability for the driver. And so there has to be regulation in this business."

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2 hours ago, Brothahorn said:

Dumb as fuck.

Try posing as a driver and catch the assholes who are robbing/killing other drivers. If that's not too much trouble.

 

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

The cops? 

These two posts made me think of the poor women delivering news papers. They were not prosecuted.

Investigators collect evidence on Feb. 7, 2013, after police officers opened fire on a pickup truck in a case of mistaken identity, wounding two women who were delivering newspapers.

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1) Steve Meister sounds like he'd be a lot of fun at parties. Fuck off Steve, if you're reading this.

2) you would think you could give whoever the fuck you want a ride, whenever the fuck you want, and accept gas money or whatever the fuck in exchange. 

3) at the very least arrest was entrapment (at least the way it was described. but ianafl, thank god).

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