Despite denials of quotas, directives, etc. it's clear that revenue collection is the priority of so-called law enforcement and that giving a badge to a person with a preexisting condition i.e. a Napoleon complex is a recipe for trouble. The red mist descends when they realize their presence is being announced and they issue trumped-up citations.
To debate the legality of such an action is to miss the point; what are laws regarding such an action doing on the books in the first place and why do police feel justified in looking for so-called infractions?
As usual, in their zeal to collar so-called lawbreakers, they unwittingly expose the 'safety' canard. After all, why is law enforcement upset that citizens are encouraging strict compliance with too-low speed limits (don't get me started) and other traffic laws?
Lol, I bet the police love that judge now.
How dare you inform others about the police being present!
Would the judge rule it free speech if I flew the bird in the courtroom?
It’s a lot easier (and safer) to take down middle class traffic violators than gangsta drug sellers and violent offenders.
Sort of like the FBI here in Indiana sending legions of agents to take down a 90 yr old historical collector living in the boondocks.
Just to check, around my area (the Deep South), it’s 3 headlight flashes to warn of a police check-point/speed trap/etc. Is that the same as everyone else’s system?
From the courts right down to the local police we are finding insanity.
Highway Patrol in Florida pulled this same crap several years ago. The judge wound up throwing that out too.
The traffic is relatively light on this stretch of interstate. Meanwhile, sections of I-81 and I-95 are heavily traveled and everyone speeds a lot more. If they don't, they become road kill.
My Garmin GPS actually has a built in radar detector. I'm supposed to disable the feature when I drive in Virginia. It's all about making life easier for the highway robbers who hide behind a badge and a "Smokey the Bear" hat.
Seeking to collect taxes from otherwise law-abiding motorists is much safer than pursuing dangerous weapon-wielding bad guys.
LOL. Send this one up to the Supreme Court and see if it falls within Breyer’s “the First Amendment only protects speech that improves the democratic process” rubric.
A friend of mine, got an alert on his pager than his warehouse security system had gone off. He asked me to ride with him to check it out. His warehouse was in the industrial park, we came down the dark street and there was a car driving slow near his warehouse, without headlights. He flashed his high beams and the car came alive with blue and red lights. It was a unmarked cop car and they tried to give him a ticket for flashing his lights at them. I say tried because we had a Texas Ranger riding with us and he told them he said to flash our lights, because they looked suspicious driving without lights.
The entire purpose of traffic enforcement is to get people to OBEY the speed limits. If this is what flashing headlights does, isn’t the goal the same as that of the police?
Wait, Huh?