Re: 997.2 LED lights - stopped by UK police
This type of behavior also depends upon the priorities and marching-orders that trickle-down from top command, chiefs, sheriffs, etc...
I've got many friends who work in law enforcement, various ranks and departments from local PD to FBI...
None of them are terribly concerned with nit-pick nonsense or envy-ticketing... They've got bigger fish to fry, and their command sets that agenda and that department-wide ethic. If you believe that your local force is misguided, look to the top.
That said, I wish that the city, county and state forces would pay more attention to:
- Un-safe vehicles... sh**-boxes running on bald tires, almost-flat tires, smoking a quart of oil an hour, cocking 20-degrees sideways and countersteering the brakes, etc... Talk about death and injury upon innocent others waiting to happen...
- Red-light runners... Big pet peeve of mine. Anymore, I see mostly females, cell-phone on ear, running through the red turn-arrow with a casual look of "duhhh" on their face as they blow by horns and one-finger-salutes on their way to nowhere..
- Children hopping around a moving car like a jungle-gym... C'mon, you can get free safety seats at Goodwill...
So, in certain respects, I wish there was more emphasis in my area toward traffic enforcement, aimed at those who pose the greatest risk...
ALSO, never forget that alot of traffic pulls for seemingly "manufactured" and trivial reasons are just an excuse to run your tag and driver's license through the computer... I don't so much have a problem with this, as this IS an effective way to nab yourself a real crook. I've heard countless stories from friends, "it was slow, I was bored stiff, pulled over a guy with a burned-out taillight, popped his DL into the computer, and.... Holy crapola, the warrants hit the screen like America's Most Wanted...
A young guy in a Lambo, you never know, they may have been fishing... Now, you can say that it's not proper, that it's profiling, that it's a violation of your rights, etc.etc... But as long as they don't proceed to TICKET ME for something stupid, I'm fine with allowing them to peek under the corner of the rug to make sure I'm not Gotti Jr.. However, if they then ticket me once they discover I'm as clean as a whistle, that's B.S..