Main/During traffic stops, why do the police ask for your vehicle registration and insurance?/c000046
The same case shoots down my argument that cops can't ask that we roll our window down more substantially: "We reject petitioner's claims that Boe improperly expanded the traffic stop. * * * Boe's request that defendant open his window was not an expansion of the initial stop of the sort that might lead to suppression under ORS 810.410 or Dominguez-Martinez. ORS 810.410(3)(b) allows officers to 'stop and detain a person for a traffic infraction for the purposes of investigation reasonably related to the traffic infraction, identification and issuance of citation.' We have no difficulty concluding that Boe's request to open the window was reasonably related to identification and issuance of the citation, at least. We do not read ORS 810.410 or Dominguez-Martinez to suggest that a lone police officer approaching a traffic offender at 2:30 in the morning must conduct her inquiries through a two-inch crack in a car window."
