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Originally posted by Baby Gorilla
In some places, I know full well the cops are out to do "revenue generation," and that's an ungodly use of the law for illicit proffit. In places like that, the whole go to court thing is an insult because you know the cops and judges are crooked.
Especially when you see some of the "traps" they set up....going from 55 to 35 in 30 feet or deliberately labeling a place a construction zone with an intolerable low speed limit (25 when it easily should be 55) just because they know people in a rush will risk going faster. This bothers me. Not that I speed (as the 421 crew will joke about), but I can take a ticket better when I know I was wrong and the cop's just doing his job vs. revenue generation.
The drawback of being a Christian with a legal education is that you KNOW the illicit ends for which human law is designed. Hard to be in submission to such godless law and be content about it. 
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I agree.
My former supervisor got 2 tickets in the same little city
both in the same week - about 2 months ago.
I drove him out to the area for lunch a few days later
and there were LEO's EVERYwhere.
Had people pulled out of cars, against cars,
marked cars, unmarked cars, you name it.
It was like a little circus.
My supervisor went to court for the first ticket
and said the LINES were UNbelievable.
Out the door and around the building.
He spent all day out there (twice).
Revenue-generating-machine this operation was.
I've heard several stories from hardcore sportbike riders who get hasseled.
I'm not saying they're all true, but I know some of them are.
There are crooked people on both sides of the law.
It is unfortunate, however, when police abuse their power.
My roommate got pulled over for "speeding" in one of his hometown neighborhoods.
He said he wasn't - and I believe him to this day.
Told me the officer was very arrogant in the fact that
he was going to give my friend a ticket
and there was nothing he could or was gonna do about it.
On the flip side of this, there are honest, merciful officers.
When visiting North Carolina for the first time last summer,
LytSpeed and I were hauling butt home from a long day of riding.
He told me "Let's haul @$$ home." so I did
Well, I was leading and admittedly speeding,
we crested a hill and the trooper was up on the embankment on the edge of the trees
The FIRST thing he said when we were pulled over on the side of the road
was "Thank you for stopping. I know you guys coulda outrun me."
I was shocked to hear this. He was stern, but appreciative.
He did not write us up for the full amount of the transgression,
and grateful I was indeed.
Welcome to North Carolina son, now go park your bike!
That didn't happen, and thank God.
Sometimes you get spanked, sometimes you get reamed, sometimes you get hassled.
It's a personal decision how to handle your situation.
If I was being hassled for something I didn't deserve, then I'd t take'em ta court.
Each man has his own convictions and his own choices to make.
If it was a minor or first offense, the cop might just let it slide. My mom got a reckless driving ticket when she tapped a person's bumper at a stop sign. The cop issued the ticket because he said he had to cite someone. He didn't bother going to court for it and the ticket was tossed out (heck, even the law showed that what my mom did could not be established under the law for reckless driving....so, he would have lost anyway).
Hmmm....
