WHEN POLICE WORK, PRIVACY CLASH.(MAIN)

Byline: BRENDAN LYONS Staff writer

Albany Traffic is heavy on Interstate 90 when Officer Harold Warner punches the gas of his patrol car to get behind a driver who just switched lanes without using a turn signal.

As the driver of the blue pickup swerves slightly -- apparently to avoid a large pothole -- Warner shifts his large frame and his dark hair brushes the roof of the patrol car. ``Did you see that?'' he says, pointing at the nondescript truck.

Within 90 seconds, the nervous driver is standing between his truck and Warner's patrol car, staring skyward on the shoulder and following orders to touch his nose with a finger. This driver passes the roadside sobriety test and is sent on his way with a ticket for failure to signal.

It's not always the case. A one-year tally of the drugs and weapons that Warner has seized from cars on Albany interstates reads like an …