Yes a LEO is allowed to speed responding to a call but is a LEO allowed to speed to get home for the night, or to take his kid to the basketball game? **** no he is not. I have followed several cops who were speeding like a mother just to get home. And I have I have seen more than a few cops pull somebody over just to see who was driving the car and for no other reason. If they ever pull me over without cause their butts will be in trouble with their superiors. They can not pull a person over without probable cause and just to look in the window to see who the driver is, is not probable cause. And yes it does happen. My dad followed the local sheriff in our town going 85 the entire way one time. He went straight to the gym and dropped his kid off and my dad waved as he drove by him. He knew he was caught. Needless to say that bugger leaves us alone now.
And personally our local LEO is a pain but at the same time he is doing his job. What ticks me off is he comes out and checks us while night rabbit hunting. We were legal and he asks us to give him a courtesy call for next time. So we give a courtesy call three times in a row, and three times in a row he comes out and checks on us anyways. Every ******* time we were legal he was just being a pain in the butt. So needless to say he no longer receives a call when we go out. To **** with it, we try to let him know so he doesn't have to be up at 3:00 am but he comes out anyways so we make him earn his money now. Also he likes to play ninja cop and run around with his nightvision equipment and follows us around just to see if he can catch us doing something illegal when he has no premise to suspect us of anything illegal. And we are always courteous and polite. Well off my soapbox.