About this video
You are sitting in your parked car — waiting for someone, taking a call, sleeping it off — and an officer taps on the window because a neighbor called. Brian Foley explains what the officer can lawfully do: approach and talk (a consensual encounter), check on your welfare (community caretaking), or detain you — but only with reasonable suspicion, which an anonymous "suspicious vehicle" call rarely supplies by itself.
This video is educational only and does not create an attorney-client relationship.