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Reading all these stories makes me really happy that I ride my bicycle...screw motor vehicle law, a cop, 99% of the time, will ignore a bicyclist unless they are endangering themselves or others by doing something stupid...I've been pulled over in my care twice, once for my tail light going out (on the way to the store to buy a new bulb) and once for speeding at night while I was the only one on the road for at least 5 miles in both directions. But never for anything I've done on my bike, and I'll admit, I've done some pretty stupid things on my bike and some of them were actually in front of cops.
My personal opinion on police has already been stated, there are good and there are bad. However, the bad ones can be REALLY bad and there aren't enough good ones (at least that I've met) to make up for the idiocy of the really bad ones...I understand that law enforcement is necessary, but the distribution of power in the law enforcement system is very very centralized and is a prime example of why we have a system of government over top of them that supersedes anything that they do, like we have...but like any system, there are loopholes, and some of those loopholes when found by the wrong (or right actually) bad cop, can really mean a world of hurt for whoever happened to fall victim to their trap.
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