Alek Schott was driving near San Antonio when a Bexar County sheriff's deputy pulled him over for allegedly drifting lanes. Though dashcam footage later confirmed that Schott never drifted, he was interrogated for 10 minutes before the deputy called for a drug dog. After officers claimed the dog alerted to the presence of drugs, Schott was held on the side of the road for over an hour as police ransacked the truck but found nothing.
Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for law enforcement to use a minor traffic violation as a pretext to stop a driver and investigate for a bigger offense. While officers used to rely mostly on hunches to decide which vehicles to stop, they are increasingly turning to predictive intelligence that tracks and analyzes driving patterns across the United States, according to recent reporting by the Associated Press.
