Ron. We live in a society in which government is impotent against real crime for many reasons. In order to justify their own existence and perform a job for which they thought they were hired, they need to make otherwise innocent people guilty of something...just so you don't think that you are so innocent of everything.
Unfortunately a lot of this crap simply comes down to politics.
I was once stopped for making a left turn against a red light. A light that I could not see because I was behind a tractor/trailer making the turn. I presumed that the truck was turning on a green light and it was not.
I was followed into a parking lot by a police officer who was as old as my news paperboy.
In addition to the turn I was also then accused of having illegal tint on my van windows and not wearing a shoulder restraint (with which the van was never factory equipped).
I was lectured by a falsetto midget with a badge who kept calling me Douglas. When I asked for the officer to print his name and badge number legibly on a piece of paper and also the name of his commanding officer, I think there was a detection of a change in attitude by him.
When he asked why I wanted to know his commanding officers name, I said "I want to know why manpower has been allocated to harassing people on the street about trivial laws such as seat belt restraints when obviously the officer in questions is not clear on the laws and why that same manpower could not be allocated towards solving the hoards of unsolved serious crimes like murder?".
The discussion ended abruptly right at that point and the officer handed back my license and registration and said "you have a nice day now and please drive carefully...sir"
There are those that tell me that I have a problem with authority? Not really but I do like to return the favor whenever I can.
