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Originally Posted by WildBillyT
If it wasn't gold and engraved then it's "disposable" that way. He could have taken it and given you the ticket anyway. It's a card with no guarantee that he will let you off. I know cops that have gotten tickets from other cops for minor things like this. He's got to do his job.
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To some cops (not all!!), there's a "hierarchy" of PBA cards as well. My wife got pulled over for making an illegal right on red a few months ago. She missed the sign that said "No Right on Red between 7AM-4PM", and it was 8:30. Anyway, she gave the cop our brother-in-law's PBA card (he's a Corrections Officer), and she got a ticket anyway. So I called my buddy who's a town police officer, and he explained to me that some cops won't take PBA cards from COs, because they feel like they're "lower" than them. And, they also don't like PBA cards from officers that are higher on the food chain because all they do is sit behind a desk and aren't out on the streets any more. The cop that pulled the OP over ~could~ be one of those guys that follows those rules, and since his card was from a Sgt, he didn't like it too much.