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Police in Colorado may soon have to stop asking their most popular question

Mar 11, 2025, 4:47 PM | Updated: Mar 12, 2025, 7:42 am

Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems as though there are more important things for our government to be arguing about than what a cop asks you when you’re pulled over…

You know when you get pulled over the first thing you’re likely to get asked by the officer is, “Do you know why I pulled you over?” Well, that phrase and others like it could be going away in Colorado…

HB25-1243 would make it so that officers could not ask that question or others like it to drivers who has been pulled over in Colorado. Rather, the officer making the traffic stop would need to inform the driver of the reason or reasons as to why they were stopped.

The House Bill has only two sections. Section two states that the general assembly believes that the act of informing the person who is driving needs to know why they are being pulled over in Colorado to preserve the public peace, health, and safety of Colorado departments and Colorado institutions.

If the bill passes and a Colorado police officer does ask the driver if they know why they were pulled over, it does not mean that the question is grounds for dismissal of a charge or exclusion of evidence.

Similar laws are already in place in California, Connecticut, and Minnesota.

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Police in Colorado may soon have to stop asking their most popular question