To the editor:
In response to Mr. “Retired Connecticut State Police Officer” with 27 years of service and now a full-time resident of the Mount Washington Valley, let me start with thanking you for almost three decades of LEO service.
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Using pepper spray to get a non-compliant citizen to submit to arrest is permissible. As is a tazer. They are non-lethal means of gaining compliance. You have no right to resist an arrest. None.
Does the Daily Sun even review these letters before it publishes them? Your husband was driving around with an expired inspection sticker. You may think you've found the loophole that means cops can never pull anyone over for an expired inspection sticker or any other violation ever again, but a traffic stop is permissible when an officer believes a crime has occurred or is occurring, and there is no distinction as to whether the end result is a violation or not. It's the same reason why an officer can pull you over for speeding, or running a stop sign, or talking on a cell phone. And then, for whatever reason, you neglected to mention that your husband actually DID commit a crime when he refused to provide his identification to the officer. Since you like to read statutes, refer yourself to RSA 265:4. Or you can read up on 263:64, since your husband was also driving on a suspended license. You two just refuse to accept any responsibility for anything you did wrong and it's frankly disturbing.
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