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Originally posted by bigdeal:
I gave the ticket, (and $100), to The Ticket Clinic, which is a group of attorneys who specialize in handling traffic citations. Given my driving record, they should be able to get this ticket kicked meaning no points assessed to me and no ticket fee (i.e. $170). Fingers crossed.

That sounds like an efficient way. In NC you'll have about 200 letters from attorney's offering their service. Same sort of thing, flat rate (covers attorney fees, court cost and fines.)

I know it may not be believed here, but...it is sometimes just as bad an experience for an officer to give a citation.

We never had quotas, but our supervisors wanted to us to show work on our dailies. A daily is a form which lists all of our work, where we were and shows our stats.

Before I forget, we had dash cameras back then, but they didn't show what was going on inside of the vehicle. Now, officers have body worn cameras, and i hear with those, officers have less discretion than they did before these cameras.

At roadblocks which we had during day shift, they were zero tolerance. If you had any traffic offense, you were going to get cited for it. Even so, I did my social justice part when I could get away with it, allowing one here and there to slide under the radar. Now with BWCs, I'm thinking letting those slide will open officers to being disciplined.

Also, we had to cite at traffic accidents...no ifs, ands or buts about it, and our policy stated that we 'should' cite for moving violations on regular stops.

I'm not going to say that I ever cried giving citations, but it really did hurt when I had to cite people who were REALLY down on their luck and REALLY needed a break.

Thought I'd share my recent encounter with The Man.

I was helping a widow friend with her home alarm system. (Her departed husband, one of my best friends, had not left it in a good state. I'll just leave it at that.) We managed to set it off in the process.

Next thing we know there's a County Sheriff's car in the driveway, right outside the garage.

Open the attached garage door to give him maximum visibility of our approach. Before he could even see us I called out "Good afternoon, officer!," so he'd know we were approaching. As we came into his view I said "Hi. Be advised: I have a Michigan CPL. I am carrying. It's over my right hip."

"Good," he replied. "I'm ex-Navy and think everyone should carry."

We told him what had happened. He verified my friend was the homeowner and everything was truly ok. We thanked him for his quick response to the call and apologized for the false alarm. I bumped fists with him and wished him a quiet day. He left. That was it.

Nobody got shot, choked-out, tasered, pepper-sprayed, handcuffed, arrested, or otherwise abused.

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Originally posted by GWbiker:
I made a complete stop with the Gold Wing at a stop sign one day in Yuma, without putting a foot down. Yes, you can do that with a motorcycle. It's sort of a "California stop".

Cop right behind me pulled me over and advised me to put my foot down next time.

Got a verbal warning.

If the wheels stopped, he should've have even given you a verbal. I did that all the time in my motorcycle days and could even balance it for a few seconds after the stop.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:

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Originally posted by GWbiker:
I made a complete stop with the Gold Wing at a stop sign one day in Yuma, without putting a foot down. Yes, you can do that with a motorcycle. It's sort of a "California stop".

Cop right behind me pulled me over and advised me to put my foot down next time.

Got a verbal warning.

If the wheels stopped, he should've have even given you a verbal. I did that all the time in my motorcycle days and could even balance it for a few seconds after the stop.

^^^^^^^^^^^^As a spectator have attended several Police National Motorcycle Competitions attended by local and state officers from numerous states. One of the events is where the police officer rider is required to come to a complete stop at a predetermined spot and remained stopped while not allowing either foot to touch the ground while no forward movement while balancing as long as possible against a stopwatch. This type of competition is done while riding their department issued bikes. ....................... drill sgt.