This past weekend I was talking to a retired Fairfax County cop at a local pistol match. Left after 20-some years and certainly had some very interesting insights about the area after seeing it evolve for 20 years.
I started thinking about this, but didn't get a chance to ask him, so I'll open it up to you all. For those of you in multi-cultural areas what (if any?) is the SOP for a traffic stop where the person simply does not speak English? And I'm not just talking Spanish speakers either, here in DC metro we have dozens of spoken languages from 6 continents.
I would expect a decent sized police force in a large area to have a few officers who speak Spanish, but Mandarin? Russian? Korean? Hindi? yeah not so much.
I started thinking about this, but didn't get a chance to ask him, so I'll open it up to you all. For those of you in multi-cultural areas what (if any?) is the SOP for a traffic stop where the person simply does not speak English? And I'm not just talking Spanish speakers either, here in DC metro we have dozens of spoken languages from 6 continents.
I would expect a decent sized police force in a large area to have a few officers who speak Spanish, but Mandarin? Russian? Korean? Hindi? yeah not so much.