From an outsider it seems like you are missing the point. A court of law is not the place to air your grievances about a police officer’s attitude. Go talk to his sergeant. If you have a legitimate issue it will be dealt with. Whether the cop was a **** or not does not change the fact that you got caught breaking a law you were ignorant of. What were you expecting him to apologize for doing his job and give you a refresher course in traffic laws? Pay your ticket and stop clogging up the court system with bs.
You guys are really passionate about this. If only anyone in forums was half as passionate about staying on topic...
I get it dude, don't complain about the cop in court, ok, I won't. That wasn't my intention anyway. I'd explain more but it's pointless because people on the internet will always find something to argue with you about regardless.
I will say again, though, that it's not a police officer's job to be a ****. I'm totally cool with him pulling me over if I broke a rule, I'm totally cool with him telling me what I did was wrong. I didn't know it was a rule and he informed me it was, and I'm totally cool with that, and I haven't made a turn like that since. I never said "oh I didn't know it was a rule so that makes you a **** and I should get off the hook", that's never been my perspective. The problem was the cop was a raging ******* for no reason. I was out on my 9th wedding anniversary with my wife when it happened, in quite a fine mood, and I was polite to the guy. I never gave him any reason to think I was hostile or negative towards him. This is how I treat everyone. The cop was extremely belligerent, it was like he was trying everything he could to **** me off, and hope I reacted to it. He walked around my truck twice very slowly, looking it up and down, looking for anything he could to write me up for. This cop was a special case of *******, that's the only reason I mentioned it in the story at all. If it happened to you, I guarantee you would not have been happy with how that situation went down. This is not my first interaction with a police officer, believe it or not it IS possible for them to do their job without treating people like shit, and I've usually had positive interactions with cops even when I was getting a citation. I've never complained about a police officer in my life. I just mentioned in my story that the guy was a ****, which he was, and then get a shitstorm of "...back in my day sonny we just took our beatings like a man and didn't ask any questions" responses. That's cool man, you live your life how you want.
I'm not clogging up any court either, it's traffic court, they process whole groups of people at once. I will be globbed in with 10 or 15 other people and they'll ask my reason for contesting the ticket and I will tell them, and if they say that's not sufficient, you must pay the ticket, then I will pay the ticket and get on with my day.
So do you have a story about being noticed by police more in your Raptor or not?