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Why do the police touch your tail lights when they approach a car?

Why do the police touch your tail lights when they approach a vehicle they have stopped for a moving violation? EVERY time i have been stopped (very minor stuff, speeding, no turn signal, ect..) they touch my tail lights and it looks like they try an open my trunk lid. The trunk thing makes sense, they are checking to see if its unlocked an if someone is going to jump out and possibly attack the officer or something to that extent. But why do the police touch your tail lights? 10 points for the correct answer.

It’s actually your trunk, this is A) leave their fingerprint just in case something happens and they need to see for certain if it was that car B) to make sure the trunk is secure and someone is not going to pop out and attack them.

By Michael Webster: Investigative reporter May 22, 2008 5:00 pm PDT

More than 1,500 people have been killed in Mexico so far this year, according to news reports in Mexico. Most of the killings have taken place in states that are hubs for drug trafficking and organized crime. In one day this week, alone, Mexico recorded 40 executions. These murders are the most violent episodes that are believed ordered by Mexican cartels with some of the victims are U.S. citizens. The states of Chihuahua, Baja California and Sinaloa accounted for at least 18 executions, while Tamaulipas and Guerrero there were 12 in the last seven days. Those in the states of Chihuahua brought total of 400 deaths caused by organized crime. Six of these deaths occurred in Ciudad Juarez. Four bodies were found in Baja California near the border with the United States.

Violent acts, along with a shootout in Durango this week left at least 16 people, taking the total of 1,360 executions in the last 141 days. The assailants were dressed in black and the authorities of Mexico also reported of finding a dozen late model vehicles which had been reinforced with armor.

The states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Durango, with cities of Juarez, Tijuana, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Zacatecas and San Luis Potosi are the focal point for drug control, human and terrorist smuggling routes in Mexico. The states and cities are nearly 1,000 violent deaths this year.
The governor of Sinaloa, has restructured the police command in the three major cities of the state and has career military personnel in charge. In Ciudad Juarez, a military officer assumed command of the police in the city, its predecessor was murdered nine days ago.

Police in the area of Rosarito Beach, Baja California, said, "that through the border from San Diego, who discovered the bodies of three men and a woman Sunday in an abandoned car in a remote patch of scrubland near the Pacific coast (not far south of Tijuana), the locale where criminal gangs are now trafficking in drugs and people. At night the area is a reception area for drugs, but also a of departure for boats carrying undocumented easier for the United States through the mountains, desert or the border gate. "Also, in Playas de Rosarito, 11 people were arrested when they found that the unloading of a ship with 2542.6 kilos of marijuana in different vehicles. Two of those arrested were minors old.

A semi-trailer towing nopal (prickly pear) northbound towards Tijuana was found that there were 334 kilos of cocaine in 180 packages. The finding was again at the Benjamin Hill, Sonora, checkpoint where many drugs have been found lately and is the third major in a week.

In Orozco, Sonora, an 18-wheeler struck a checkpoint and the driver fled. Interior, 300 packages were found with 329.4 kilos of cocaine in each.

In the ocean from Los Mochis, Sinaloa, a couple of fishermen in the area spotted a floating object and then saw a pair of feet sticking out at one end. The unidentified victim type gangland execution had been wrapped in duct tape a common tactic used by cartel hitmen.

Meters Tuesday morning near Masiaca, Sonora, Mexico military personnel found 150 sticks of dynamite "25 cms. Long by 5 cm. In diameter" (8 1 / 4 "X 2") about 600 of the road. The explosives were destroyed. (Masiaca is halfway between Los Mochis and Ciudad Obregon.)

Federal highway police checked a car abandoned in Mexico City – Cuernavaca. The four-way lights were working, and the trunk lid was ajar. Inside: the tie, the agencies with blindfolded and tortured by two men who had been shot while inside the trunk. A great sign of the Board label bodies read: "This is the so that all will end up being against El Chapo and El Rey Zambada "referring to the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquin El Chapo Guzman and Ismael El Mayo Zambada. The two victims were later identified as the Director of the State of Morelos Ministerial Police and of another officer of the same agency.

In Culiacan, Sinaloa, two male suspects, 23 and 20, were arrested by federal agents in a safe house where they also found firearms, including A Cal .50. rifle, speed loaders, grenades, tactical vests and 16 armored vehicles.

In recent months and after Mexican President Town sent the Mexican army and federal police to many interior cities and Mexican cities on the U.S. Mexican Border the level of violence has increased significantly.
Mexican Senator Ramon Galindo Noriega said that federal support for Ciudad Juarez has been evident but nevertheless there will be no Federal Police or Army that will be enough to combat crime if the city and state police are infiltrated by drug traffickers.

Sources:
Open Sources Mexico News, LA Times, Ciudad Juarez, police, Police of Rosarito, the National Association of Former Border Patrol officers, and Diario La Laguna

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