So would police apply the same context as those rules if say...
I saw someone robbing someone else. I was bigger, they were unarmed, and I yelled at him to stop what he was doing. He stopped. He ran away.
Technically, he still committed a crime, even if he didn't take anything right? I prevented him from continuing the crime by telling him to stop. Am I in the wrong? Apply as:
Someone is speeding (already committing the crime). I flash my lights (telling him to stop speeding/committing the crime) and he stops. Although they are not exactly the same thing.. just like the first "scenario"... the driver was in the process of committing a crime, I "yelled at him", and he stopped. No one thinks, when you flash your lights at them, "Oh man, that guy caught me speeding, I better slow down." They think oh...cop nearby? Thanks for the help man.
It's only different because I KNOW where the cops are? What's to say he wouldn't have slowed down by himself? Can't prove he wouldn't have... And on top of that... what if the person I flashed my lights at wasn't ACTUALLY speeding? I can't tell if they are or aren't. In that case, all I'm doing is telling them where the cops are. I can tell anyone where cops are sitting if they are NOT doing anything wrong and it's not illegal...
Sorry, I just like discussions
