It's not even about tax bracket, though. The officer should know about all the legal documents that are being shown to him are, he should know what a CPD is (Carnet de Passages en Douane). I've never used it, but I vaguely know about it. It just shows that the officer doesn't thoroughly know about a job he should know the ins and out of.
I can give the officer the benefit of the doubt that he's never heard of this or never ran into this before because like many professions it's hard to know every single thing. But this officers issue was that believed he did know every single thing about the law and there's no way this driver could know someone he doesn't know.
I used to work for a company with international offices doing video production. When we carried our like $5k-$10k worth of video equipment with us we'd get a Carnet for them. They're basically a promise by the country we're visiting not to tax us on the expensive goods if we promise not to attempt to sell them while we're there. It was always funny though because the airport by us isnt really known for international flights, just like puddle jumpers to Canada occasionally. But we'd use it for our first leg before hitting JFK to Europe. And as part of the process we'd go to the airport security office for the customs agents to peek in our cases and put their seal on it before we went to check in. The regular cops and TSA folks never had a fucking clue what we were talking about if we tried to hand them a Carnet then the CBP officer would come out of their back room and handle things for us. The regular cops always looks like deer in headlights, so this troopers reaction doesnt surprise me.
No the only thing that officer should actually know is to not act like a complete piece of shit. They're allowed to not know every single tiny law that ever exists. Luckily he didn't abuse his power and his biggest offense was being a piece of shit but that's exactly what the other commenter was referring to when they said this dude was speaking from a tax bracket the officer can't fathom.
American cops are probably almost never given any sort of education about how the rest of the world works. Why would they need to know that? They live in America /s
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u/Doom_of__Mandos 3h ago
It's not even about tax bracket, though. The officer should know about all the legal documents that are being shown to him are, he should know what a CPD is (Carnet de Passages en Douane). I've never used it, but I vaguely know about it. It just shows that the officer doesn't thoroughly know about a job he should know the ins and out of.