Oklahoma Highway Patrol

On March 27, 2015, around 12pm, I was pulled over by Officer Craft of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Troop SO. I was on a road to Nashville coming from California. The officer claimed I was going 5 miles over the speed limit. He said, «I am just going to write you a warning.» He told me to come into his car for a formal warning and asked me several questions. The questions were about what I was doing, where I worked, and other personal questions. Had I known the intent of the officer, I would not have talked to him.
After I got the written warning, he stopped me from leaving the police car and asked me if I was on drugs. I said no and he asked if he could search my car. I politely told him not without a warrant or probable cause. He said that he was going to have a drug dog sniff my car, which I was also opposed. At this point, I was told to stay in the cop car (illegally detained) and a police dog was illegally going around my car. The dog appeared to be directed or told to jump in my car through a open window and proceeded to tear up the interior and my suit.
After the dog violated my 4^th amendment the officer asked me why there was a smell. I said there was food and that the dog only smells for drugs. I said I had a hand-​me-​down snowboarding jacket from California so I had no idea if the dog was smelling that and that it had probably been around stoners (later the jacket in question was my dad’s black old snow jacket so no way that smelled like drugs). The officer claimed he had probable cause, patted me down for weapons, proceeded to go through my car, and called in for back up. He took my keys for the firearms that were unloaded and in a locked container. I still invoked my 4^th amendment rights for the locked containers but officer still took my keys and took my firearms out of the car.
Officer Craft proceeded to go through every part of my car from unpacking all of my luggage, spilling my energy drinks all over my car, went through my engine, damaged the interior of my trunk, appeared to be going through my phone/​GPS device, and ran the serial numbers on my guns. When he failed to find drugs (I made it clear I don’t do drugs) he proceed to look for anything. He implied my shotgun was altered and implied I committed a federal crime by sawing it off. At one point he claimed my handgun was loaded and tried to get me to admit guilt. The firearms were unloaded in a locked container, complying with Oklahoma laws and I had previously been shooting with an officer of the Oklahoma City Police Department who gave me further guidance on this situation before I crossed state lines and continued on my way to Nashville after this incident. That officer is also how I got SO commander’s number and called within minutes of being detained.
Officer Craft claimed he was pro gun and was going to let it go. In reality it appeared he was trying to save face since he could not find anything nor could even get anything on me including the «claim» of me speeding.
After all this the officer let me go but as I was leaving he said I should hang out with better friends. This was the worst part. After having two government employees illegally stuck their nose where it did not belong they said something that unprofessional was not only disrespectful to me and my friends, but showed that this behavior is not a isolated incident, but appears to be a pattern of behavior by the SO division of the Highway Patrol. My friends consist of police officers (all over the US including Oklahoma city police), political figures, lawyers, doctors, military vets, and nurses to name a few
After the incident I contacted a friend in the Oklahoma Police Dept. explaining what happened. I was given the department number and asked for a supervisor. The conversation was nice but the supervisor claimed that what the officer did was legal based off of tons of Supreme Court cases (no cases were mentioned though) and that I have no Fourth Amendment protection if I have a window partly open. I was told if I were to invoke my Fourth Amendment rights that I would have to keep the window rolled up or it’s a free pass to search my car. Again, I disagree, but would make for an interesting federal case. With all the news reports of a few police officers abusing their power all over the country, I guess I see firsthand why police officers are hated so much.
I had to dry clean my suit from the dog digging into it and the interior of my trunk was damaged
In all, based off this experience, the Special Operations division of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol has showed that they have little respect for people’s Fourth and Second Amendment rights

As I am driving on historic Route 66 I-​40 near Clinton, OK. a state trooper is following behind me for some time, he is running my registration that comes back clear, then he turns on his lights to pull me over, he asks me for my drivers licence then requests me to sit with him in his cruzer, then the questians start, where are you comming from and where are you going, how long will you be there, what do you do for a living and how long have you been in that profession, why are you drivng instead of flying, i have the impression right from the start that i am being profiled, as he checks my background history on the computer, this takes several minutes and of course he already knows i am clear with no previous history, i have had no citations, no arrest record exhists, as law abiding citizens we are still subjected to this type of treatment when we should be free to travel without being stopped and detained or profiled as a drug runner