I once got pulled over by a motorcycle cop for not wearing a seatbelt. Talk about irony.

I wish they would pull over those who don't use turn signals as well.

The moment the lights go on, every car in the surrounding him are immediately like "Shit..."

*He's wearing a Seatbelt...His Brake Light is out*

what is he, like the seat belt police or something.

You can clearly see at 1:16 the driver is wearing his belt. This cop probably was on a call or got a tip off and was looking for the vehicle description and/or license plate. What's worse than not wearing a seat belt though is people who don't use turn signals.

Just imagine how nervous that guy probably felt knowing he had no seat belt and a cop car turned on its lights right next to him

Must've been a slow day if you have cops doing that.

At 1:16, you can see the driver of the Golf has the seatbelt shoulder strap stretched over indicating that he has it on. Could be busted for something else.

Here is a solution! Step 1: grab your seat belt Step 2: drag it in front of you to the opposite side Step 3: Buckle it in Step 4: Cops will never pull you over for not wearing a seatbelt!!!!

That's real police work at it's finest.

I was involved in a head on collision in 1978 before seat belt laws were implemented and nearly had to bury Dad it was so bad. As each of us was discharged from the hospital, we buckled up and have done so ever since. If we'd been buckled in we'd have walked away. I'm living proof that seat belts save lives when worn.

no no he smelled the donuts in that car they're train just the way they train the k9s

Nigga his break light is out, and he's wearing a seatbelt

Putting on your seat belt is so easy. A 4 year old can put one on

The car also had a broken tail light so the cop must have saw that at the last second as he passed the car a bit.

Cop was right on his ass like he was running away lmao

Busted for driving a Volkswagen

The amount of people saying "break light" and not "brake light" in this comment section really has me concerned for humankind.

GTA Logic: Tommy Vercetti gets arrested by police for not wearing seatbelt, but police gives him jail for 20 years instead of warning him for death by accident.

Pause at 1:15, the guy in the car is wearing his seatbelt.

For everyone commenting on this video, first this is not American it's Canadian, the police service in the video is the RCMP in Richmond BC as it says on the car. The police services do a monthly selective traffic enforcement program and seat belts are often the focus of the month. These programs are based on what the municipal government has outlined to the police what they want enforced on their streets. The municipality pays the police so technically the police constable here is doing his job as requested by the municipalities. All fines collected go to the province and not the police services so quotas are not apart of policing. Seatbelt safety, impaired driving, distracted driving and speeding are usually what the municipalities tell the police what they want enforced. If you want to know what it looks like when you don't wear a seat belt talk to any police, fire, ems or coroner personnel I'm sure they can describe what it looks like when a body has been ejected.

*Is this on everyone's recommended all of a sudden ?*

Omg Richmond BC!!!!!!!

He's doing what he's paid to do. Checking for traffic infraction, drinking alcohol, drugs, looking for criminal elements.

I honestly love how people can be so ignorant and blame the cops when they get pulled over for doing stupid things. "Oh they are just being jerks and trying to fill their quota" Yeah, maybe but guess what? If you arent an idiot and just wear your seatbelt/stay off your phone while driving, you probably wont get pulled over. Yeah, some cops are jerks and I hate them just as much as the next guy but dont blame cops for the consequences of your bad decisions behind the wheel. I dont know how often I see people texting and driving, cutting people off, slamming on their brakes for no apparent reason, speeding well above the limit, etc. and it just amazes me the ignorance that people can have. Not only are you endangering yourself, but others as well. This is why I have no sympathy for those who get pulled over and then complain about it, even though its their own dang fault.

I have a friend who is a cop and we discussed this and he was scratching his head on the way the cop initiated the stop and felt it was unsafe. You never turn on your emergency lights at a controlled intersection, especially at a red light, unless your plan to control that intersection and proceed to whatever your destination is. What this cop did here was confusing to all motorists around him/her. The proper way to initiate this stop is to wait until the driver proceeds then follow the driver through the intersection, wait until its safe to do so (not a controlled intersection or an area without a shoulder) then activate the emergency lights and initiate the stop. My cop friend told me if he did this and got reported, eh would of been in trouble for not following safe procedures.

First of all, I was a officer for 20 years. I'm not sure about the validity of this video, but Law enforcement will use any and all tactics to gain a search. Road blocks are used to profile drivers. Not all cops are bad, but most are just looking for a way to search and seize. Our rights in this country have eroded to the point of no return. Protect & Serve? or Harass & Collect? Government is rotten to the core. These type of videos have exposed thousands of crooked cops...Keep up the work

Tal about trivializing law enforcement. When we task cops with making sure you have your seatbelt on, we make them small.

Gotta recover your national debt somehow.

Here is how to avoid this situation: Step 1: Pull the seatbelt to your opposite direction and hold it for a couple of minutes when you saw the cop Step 2: Wait until you think your arm/fingers are tired then keep holding for a little more until the cop passes you Step 3: If you at a red light, just trying to hold it for a little more or until you fingers fall off. Step 4: You realized you are just torturing yourself instead of just buckle up the damn seat belt.

Lol I love how the description said the cop should be looking for people using phones when the guy himself was recording the cop using his phone

They are revenue collectors for the state.

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queen of keeping people safe

Im in love how those flashers flash.

Throw him a doughnut

1:22 hahaaa finally i got some one.. let the party begin (lights on)

He's like a drill sergeant checking his recruits before bed

Thanks. I never knew that cops had to look side to side for seat belt!!! Lol

i drive a 67 that didn't even come from the factory with seatbelts. Im exempt from your silly laws requiring belts! i win. until i get hit. then ill probably still win since its a 67 pickup and weighs several times what modern vehicles do. America!

A 4 year old clip suddenly getting poplar? lol I live in Vancouver, BC, I miss the RCMP using Crown Vics.....

I've learned here that a cop checks to see if you are wearing a seatbelt by pulling up next to you and looking to see if you are wearing a seatbelt.

Holy fuck you're a god damn genius, nobody would've ever figured that out. Following a cop with a video camera, your a fucking super hero too.

Im watching this stoned on my phone in the safety of my own home, and i still felt a shiver of fear when this fucker turned them lights on.

If you zoom in just a few feet before the cop pulls along side the driver you can see the seat belt is pulled across as if the driver was wearing it. I think this was more about drivers using a mobile phone.

Hey a video from my area. Cool. Never understood not wearing a seatbelt .

This was uploaded 11 years ago. Makes sense that the thumbnail isnt misleading

Checking for seat-belts, phones, drinking a beer, rolling or smoking a joint, "suspicious behaviour" (eg looking at the cop and then reaching under their seat), etc. Good to see some cops actually enforcing public safety.

Really serving the community ain't he? What would we do?

I'm going to say that was him checking for people using cell phones not whether or not you have a seat belt on.

Why did this make me so happy?

I feel so much safer thanks to great cops like these.

Canada ,eh? You gave away your right to bear arms,so what's a seat belt ticket or two ?

You just know this is a Canadian cop, just saw the exact same thing yesterday in Hamilton, he tried to check me but my Hummer was too high and the seatbelt is mounted to the topside of the seat back so there's pillar mount to go by. lol. I can literally just touch my shoulder and pull it on, no exaggerated moves. Dark tint goes a long way too, they don't enforce that one often hete, I had a Grand Wagoneer with 5% all the way around, looked like a death hearse but never got troubled or needed sunglasses.

Noted that the same vehicle had a tail light out. Another great way to crate a traffic stop. Vehicle ahead in line had one or two out as well. Lucky bastard!

Clear example of police creating a problem. Pathetic.

I can't believe that in this day and age, with all the publicity about wearing seatbelts, there are *still* people out there who refuse to wear them. You're just handing the state $65 dollars for no good reason.

A cop once blocked me from merging onto the freeway because he was riding right next to me in the adjacent lane... I had to stop before the merging lane ended. If thats what he was checking he could have picked a safer time to do so. And for the record I ALWAYS put my seatbelt on in my car, it beeps incessantly at me if I don't.

In arizona you cant get pulled over for a seatbelt violation...it can only be a secondary violation...meaning they have to stop you for something else..but most of the time you can say it was on and i had taken it off to grab my registration.

cop was low on rent....

Awwwww, such a good little piggy working on his quota.

In Toronto, cops board the public busses and radio the description or plate number of a car they want to bust and then near by cruisers goes in with the bust with undercover cruiser

For a the people saying that he's wearing a seat belt, there is a very good possibility that he clipped in the seat belt so that the sensor wouldn't go off and then sat on top of the seat belt, I've seen it happen a lot.

His brake light was out.

not wearing a seatbelt shouldn't even be illegal you're risking your own life

Wtf. I thought my new ear buds broke. Thanks for giving me a mini heart attack

nearly 6000 people a month now, are dying from opiates nationwide, but "clicket or ticket" is where the high-priorities, man-power and cruisers are allocated...one hick-town in west virginia had 28 ODs in 45-minutes from the good shit, but everybody had their seat-belts clicked, on the ride to the local cemetery.....heroin enforcement, pay raises, promotions and picnics costs money...minor traffic violations generate it out of thin air...in kentucky, they have seat-belt laws with stiff penalties, for driver safety.... but you can ride your harley down the highway at 70 mph with just your freak-flag flyin....

What a frickin' scab on the ass of society. Police departments should be done away with completely.

nothing better than serve and collect.

he may of gotten pulled over for having his right break light out

I always thought they got like x ray and can tell if you have it on

Finally an officer that actually does what he's supposed to

it is nice to see a cop doing his job. ensuring the safety of motor vehicle occupants. red light disctricts are a popular place for rear end collisions because all of the stop and go traffic. Not to mention cell phones.

The fact that the uploader is completely clueless that the cop is not checking for seat belts but for phone users makes me wanna laugh for 10 hours straight.

not a single comment about cellphone use! Common!!! He was clearly checking for people on their phones (talking/texting/browsing)!!! Seatbelt violation is only a $100+, when cellphone use is $300-500.

I love how the video is titled to make u wonder how cops find out, I mean obviously they look around car to car but when u make it sound like that people think cops do something else like have cameras or scanners everywhere, it really annoys me

Haha, this is a pretty good method to keep people safe.

WOW they use their eyes I would have never guessed 🤷🏽‍♂️

Lots of comments that you can see the seat belt at 1:15 or so. What you cant see is if there is a person in the passenger seat. In Canada where this is shot ( richmond BC ) it is also a ticketable offense for the passenger not to wear their seat belt. If they are over 16 its their ticket, under and its the drivers ticket.

What if you drive a car from the 1940s?

Uninsured ? busted up in a car wreck while not wearing your seatbelt? dont come to me the taxpayer /society to pay your medical/hospital bills then!

Wow, so thats how cops check seat belts! :o ...by checking if you're wearing your seat belt. Incredible

what's the song in the beginning of the video, for the life of me I can't remember.

lool rcmp. i see this all the time in vancouver. they seem to do this more towards the end of each month...

Richmond! :D

Rcmp do these all the time. I see this happen almost everyday and it never fails

Not sure what law is there but here in Florida no seatbelt is a secondary offense and you can't be pulled over for it. You can be written a citation for not wearing one only after being pulled over for another offense.

*cue mario game over music*

and this is why i drive a lifted blazer with window tint

I once got stopped by a motorcop and ticketed for not wearing a seatbelt, only problem was that I was wearing one. I was headed eastbound about to make a left turn to go north bound. The motorcop had his bike at the corner pointed southbound about to make a right turn to head westbound. He made his right turn and quickly made a U turn to position his bike right behind my vehicle. When he stopped me he told me I wasn't wearing seatbelt, and I told him but I'm wearing it. He then said I had put it on before I pulled over when he ran his lights on me. I told him there was no way and then questioned whether he saw me putting my seatbelt on, he admitted that he didn't but still gave me the ticket telling me he had seen the shiny seatbelt buckle on the side of my door window which why he knew I wasn't wearing a seatbelt. I was driving a Ford Explorer SUV and when I got home, I inspected my Explorer to see what the officer could have been looking at and I discovered that alongside the driver side of my Explorer I had Aluminum square rods the type to make window screens. The rods extended from where the seatbelt rests when its not in use all the way to the back of the vehicle. I took pictures of it to fight the ticket in court and even proved to the court that even if I hadn't been wearing a seatbelt, my seatbelt buckle rests well behind the window where the officer say's he saw the buckle, so there was no way it was the buckle that the officer saw. The judge took my evidence and gave the officer a chance to look at my pictures and asked the officer, "What do you think of that, you think there's a chance it was the rods and not the buckle that you saw?" The officer in a defiant voice said, "Absolutely no way, I know what I saw and it was the seatbelt buckle." From a 100 feet away this officer was defiant it had been the seatbelt buckle. The judge shook his head in disbelief that the officer had just dismissed the evidence I had presented in pictures and turned to me to say, "Mr Saucedo, I think this is a reasonable cause to believe that the Officer mistook those rods for the seatbelt buckle and am dismissing your ticket." Should have seen the look on the officers face, my point of my story is that a good amount of police officers wont admit that they may have been mistaken. They hate to lose at anything and its a pity because they shouldn't look at it as winning or losing but be looking out for justice to be carried out.

i drive a volvo, and above the rear view mirror in the car is a red warning light with the words no seatbelt, always thought it was strange to have it up there as there is a warning light on the dash in front of me, volvo mech told me volvo fitted one up there so the police following behind could see if you had your belt on. crafty swedes.

Now; THAT is a police officer, who has truly EARNED his paycheck! ✨👍✨

kind of smart

Whats crazy about this, whether the VW driver has his seat belt on or not is the fact law enforcement can write a ticket for not wearing a seat belt but in some states a motorcycle rider can go without a helmet. Close to 50% of all motorcycle fatalities could be prevented were the rider wearing a DOT approved helmet.

Question? What does an officer do when he sees two cars where both drivers and/or passengers not wearing seat belts? Who does he pull over? Scenario: Car 1 - Two people; driver and front seat passenger both adults and both not wearing belts. Car 2 - Four people; all adults, out of four only two not wearing belts.

This is in Canada XD

how can it be a law to wear a seatbelt but people can still ride motobikes?

some guy was taking a selfie, light was green and police was behind him. 😐 Great job.

My dad got pulled over in Oklahoma. The cop took a good sniff and told him he was free to go. We had a Colorado license plate.