I female 24 years old was driving by myself across country to get to my son who was with my ex I'd been out of stay taking care of a sick family member it was the middle of the night in New Mexico and I saw police lights behind me I was exhausted and annoyed because I hadn't been speeding or anything there were not really any other cars on the road at the time and I was close to the exit for the hotel I had planned to stop it for the night I pulled over and the cop came over to the driver side window which in itself was weird because usually they come to the passenger window on busy roads and this was a highway so I gave him all of my stuff and he just stared at me for the longest time he walked to his car and then returned almost immediately told me to step outside the car okay so I was worried at this point because I'd gotone tickets before but being asked to step outside the car was not the norm but I did as he said and he asked if I had been drinking I said I hadn't been and then I asked why he pulled me over he said I was driving erratic which was definitely not true he then asked asked me if I was a terrorist which was absurd I was just a young American woman just driving so there wasn't really any reason for this question it was weird and I was a veteran with an ID also he gave me a walkth line drunk driving test which I passed and then said he needed to search my car to see if I had drugs thought about this for a minute because I knew my rights and all but it was so late and I was so tired I just didn't want to deal with all the BS for refusing so I gave him the okay because I knew I didn't have anything in my car so when he got to my truck he opened opened up a small suitcase that I had with my dancer and stripper stuff in it he asked about it and I told him I was a stripper this really set him off and he started screaming at me about being a trash person this pissed me off and I started looking around at my situation I was alone for the most part with this weird guy and every once in a while a car would pass for the most part the roads were empty it was the middle of night and I didn't have anything on myself to protect myself and he had a gun told me that I needed to walk back into the tree line that was next to the road I stared at him and said no I then demanded that he call for backup and that other officers come he was thrown off by this I said I wanted a female officer and I would no longer comply with anything he said then I started trying to wave down cars when they passed by he told me to call him down and wrote out a speeding ticket and let me go I never paid the ticket and never heard a word about it this was 20 years ago at the time I was really shaken and I just forgot about it but looking back I don't think he was a real cop [Music] some nights my son and I drive his father to work so I can visit family as they live close by it was around 9:30 at night on a highway in Northern California my son had just fallen asleep in the car on the way to his father's work which is a craft store we were in a two-lane road and which it would eventually turn into one as it was turning to one he slowed down letting me pass as I passed him he turns on his lights but no siren went off the car was all black and I couldn't even see who the person was or what they looked like I pulled over getting my insurance and license out did I do something wrong I thought well he let me pass and it was a passing zone as he was walking towards my car I noticed something he had no uniform he was just wearing all black he almost looked like a shadow though I didn't question at first I now realized how much danger I could have been in I showed him my license and asked if I did anything wrong he looks down at it for a solid minute then hands it back I looked at him again and then asked what's your badge number what department are you from he didn't reply back he stared into me in the back of my car where my son was sleeping then walked off started his car and left I drove as fast as I could picked up my son's father and told him what happened I was crying and shaking because I had so many questions now that it's been a few hours since it happened I have so many more questions was my son the reason he didn't do more was he a sex trafficker what would he have done had my son not been there where can you even buy cop lights similar to real ones I've never had any problems with police every time I get it to or pulled over I'm very respectful none of those involved have criminal backgrounds and I just graduated a large University with a criminal justice pre-law degree my two best friends Ally and Lena are generally very nice people at the time we were all newly 21 and they are fairly attractive young women I have the good personality we all live in within 5 minutes of walking distance of each other's homes and the town itself that we live in is just under 1 square mile it's one of those everyone knows each other and each other's business type sounds we jokingly used to say that you could do literally whatever you wanted there cuz we had never ever seen a cop the College semester had just ended so we settled into our usual summer routine I'll would get off work waitressing late nights to town over I would drive to Alley's have a beer or two hang out and go home if I ever had more than two beers I walked home or slept there so I could get drunk one of the first nights of summer I was leaving alleys around 1:00 a. m. I turned onto my street and noticed a car parked in this weird lot that is essentially grass and dirt a couple houses down from mine as I drive by I see that it's a cop I've never seen one in our town so it was actually a little weird I remember texting Ally being all there's a cop on my street I got home and went to bed and forgot about it I went to Alley's with Lanta almost every night we don't have many other friends or money to go to the bar honestly every night I would drive home the cop would be in the weird lot I always saw a shadow of a guy in the car but it was dark usually usually after 1:00 a.
m. and I'm not about to stop and see who it is he was never there during the day one night following the same routine I drove by the lot and as I did I saw the cop's car's headlights flip on the car whipped out of the lot and sped up so close to the back of my car that I honestly thought I was going to be hit immediately I'm terrified he's dangerously close to my car he flips on his red and blue lights but at that point I'm about to turn into my driveway I turn in and turn off my car but don't in my vehicle I honestly thought I was being pulled over my own driveway I'm scrambling for my license nervous as hell when I see the cop just waiting at the top of my driveway lights turned off at this point he sits for a minute and drives off doing way over the speed limit on a sleepy side street I'm scared for a few reasons I had at the time a very distinct car my lovable old PT Cruiser with a red racing stripe to ensure I never got laid my dad's gifted me as a 17-year-old the the cop knew my car if I had the same routine every night and he was a little observant he would see my car turn into my driveway always after 1:00 a. m.
I also wasn't doing anything illegal I was shaken but I decided to forget it I texted my friends and we all agreed that it was weird but whatever he was either being a dick or I had forgot to put my blinker on and he decided to let me go it was whatever until it happened every night after four weeks straight every time I turned down my street after alie's the cop flipped on on his lights rode my car's bumper to my driveway and sped off it's clear at this point he's just being a dick but I don't get the point I was scared honestly but my friends always turn it into a joke so I guess I did too the element that made us so hard to comprehend this situation was that this was a cop and I was younger more shy than I am now and really didn't know how to address this issue this cop did have one distinct quality his brakes they were the squeakiest breakes i' had ever heard in my entire life you could hear him coming around a turn from across the state he had earned himself a nickname squeaky breakes cop this harassment happened for a week by the third week of Summer squeaky braks was gone no one tailed me home all was well until my friends got their first taste of old squeaky breaks Ally and I were sitting on her front porch as she smoked a cigarette it was about 5:00 p. m. as we were making plans for the night drinking on her porch alone Lena was on her way we were in the middle of last laugh about something when I heard them the squeaky breaks I said something along the lines of I bet this is the cop coming around the corner he'll finally see who's been bothering me I was right Ally laughed a little as he drove past her house she agreed he had the squeakiest breaks in the world he slowed down as he drove by and then disappeared out of sight but we heard him coming back and you could tell he was driving fast he slammed on his squeaky [ __ ] brakes and stopped at the end of Allie's driveway and then got out of the car he was far far enough away that if I ever ran to him in the street I wouldn't be able to ID him he had those aviator glasses on his little cop hat the gun the badge the uniform the works but he didn't speak he just stood at the end of the driveway hands on his hips looking at us I mentioned earlier I was a criminal justice pre-law major and my friends considered me their go-to free lawyer even though I'm not because I know just a little bit better what to say to Cops SL what your rights are Ally whispered to me something along the lines of what the [ __ ] is happening so I decided whatever we had to address this and I called out to him can we help you officer he didn't speak for a minute but eventually speaks up what are you young ladies up to smoking weed out of that funny smelling cigarette it was so surreal we even says things like that calmly answered no it was just a regular cigarette and allly held up her box of marble Reds as some form of proof he didn't answer just stared at us then he said so coldly well if there's no weed up there why don't you invite me inside so I can check for myself and we won't have any problems pretty girls shouldn't smoke problems pretty girls shouldn't smoke whatever now I realize this is a cop on a power trip trying to be intimidating Ali is clearly nervous so I do my thing and say no officer that won't be necessary we were just going inside anyway there are no issues here and this is private property I really hope you have a great rest of your day though thank you I I literally grabbed Ally and pull her inside I acted cool in front of the guy but I'm nervous what was this cop's deal we watched as he got in his car and left always hitting those squeaky brakes Allie texted me that week saying squeaky brakes had been circling her house every night he had stopped following me home but he had also been circling my house I always heard his brakes leave the end of my street when I was in bed my bed was on the second floor directly under this huge window I always left open that faces the street I always PE K up and saw this car leaving when I heard the brakes one night I was in bed heard the brakes but didn't hear the car make a turn or drive it sounded like he stopped right outside my window I was tired and used to the cops nonsense so I didn't bother looking I was in the process of trying to sleep when out of nowhere my room lights up huge bright light just Illuminating my room honest to God my first thought was an alien abduction until rational thoughts replaced it I sat up in bed terrified and out the window to be blinded by the brightest light I've ever seen it takes me a minute but I realized it's the [ __ ] Spotlight and squeaky breaks cop car he is literally shining me down with a spotlight in the comfort of my own bedroom I'm scared angry and Confused Etc that to me was too far I had to do something it was an invasion of privacy and I realized in order to know which room is mine he had to have been watching my house the next night me and all my friends all meet up at Alley's as usual Elena still hadn't seen the cop that night he must have circled once an hour when he saw my car at alleys so Elena finally knew what we were talking about and finally understood the Nick named squeaky brakes cop it came to a weird agreement and their agreement was that we just kind of had to deal with it it sounds stupid and I know he had crossed a line in terms of doing his job and abusing his power but who could we tell the cops honestly we were terrified it would get worse if we did in hindsight and being a few years older now I'm kicking myself that we didn't but we were 21 and didn't want to be involved in anything like that it's kind of funny or we can handle this he's got a crush on us this was the General consensus the final showdown with a cop happened the last week of Summer all summer the cop was always circling and living in fear of this dude just became an everyday thing one of the last nights of summer we got a ton of beer and decided to get stupid blackout drunk in alli's yard around a fire pit as a goodbye to summer we had been drinking more heavily than normal and we heard the ever faithful squeak of those breaks I [ __ ] hate this guy I really [ __ ] hate that there's nothing else he would rather do than bother us and we never do anything wrong Alie starts going off in this rant yada yada yada he circles once and slows as he sees us sitting in the yard shines his Spotlight on us bright as [ __ ] and Allie blows a kiss suggestively he turns it off and we laugh then he speeds away I don't want to see him again let's go inside before he gets back so he looks stupid coming to look for us again his Lan is suggestion we all agree and are a little drunk and decide to run as fast as we can to the door I trip and holding a 30 pack fall to the ground and the beers fall everywhere it's hysterical we were all laughing picking them up and then we hear the cop coming back he pulls up again but we were in hysterics because my fall was so comical he must see us just laughing and I don't know if that's what set him off but what happened next was terrifying he rolled down his window and screamed get the [ __ ] inside and flipped on his red and blue lights we don't know whether he met inside his Cruiser or inside the house but we obviously opted for the house we ran up her porch and into the house the cop sat there outside for a minute and then sped off and must have been doing 90 mph on a 25 mph road we ran to alli's room and open her blinds we heard him coming so he peaked out he would slow down in front of her house turn on his lights and whip off this timing wasn't funny it seemed menacing it seemed incredibly aggressive we counted and he circled her house 38 times after deeming it safe we cuddled and had more beers and fell asleep together it got to the point of harassment that I did the next best thing to calling the cops I told my mom she actually took me seriously in said in the morning she wakes up at like 4 to walk our dog there's been a cop hanging out near our driveway but he's always gone when she gets back she said once she asked him if he could move because he was blocking our driveway and he just rolled up his window the night we credit to the harassment ending was the night I took a stand I'm a light sleeper and it was about 2:30 a.
m.
