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MasterOfNone wrote:I have no problem with LE generating revenue by ticketing people who have legitimately violated an ordinance. I hear people all the time complain about getting a ticket because "the cops were just looking for someone to bust." They admin to having done wrong, but feel that it is wrong to have been caught. If I get caught with an expired registration, it's because I was wrong, not because they were out to get me.

I agree.

I also believe it's ridiculous when we have so many laws of such obscurity that all involved recognize that you're going to break a law every couple minutes or whatever the crazy statistic is. And even then, the police need to be able to pull you over for something suspicious but not illegal as a pretense for getting you on something illegal from that massive book not even they can fully remember/understand.

I don't have a problem with the officers; I have a problem with the idea that we need more laws and more ways to catch people. If we're having to catch a decent number of people out on warrants, of drug dealers, etc by stopping them for a suspiciously wide right turn after leaving a known crack house, we've got a larger societal problem that needs to be addressed directly.

McKnife wrote: 1) Where you coming' from?
2) Where ya headed?
3) What's in the trunk?

Answering these honestly got me out of a ticket I deserved. I thought the speed limit was 45 in a town I was passing through on a daytrip, passed an officer going the opposite direction and looked him in the eye and smiled and about 1/2 a second later I saw the posted speed limit sign. He turned around and pulled me over and wanted to know where I was going and what I was doing and why I was speeding. I told him the truth on each and he gave me a warning. And he was so super polite, too! I was so grateful that I pray for him to this day.