I've pretty much lost all respect for traffic enforcement cops in my area as well. Too many things I've seen and experienced firsthand that have led me to believe that they really are just a gang of assholes, who have nothing better to do but (a) pick on motorists minding their own business or (b) meeting their so-called non-non-existent monthly tix quotas.
The latest example i witnessed really pissed me off, and it didn't even happen to me.
So, I'm heading east in my car going with traffic flow on a 30MPH 3 lane one-way business district street. I approach an 4-way signal intersection and see the light turn yellow and stop rather than speed up. Lucky for me, I also see a bacon on 2-wheels sitting right at the far corner facing north & ready to pounce.
So, the light is red by the time I've stopped, but some stupid *** teenager in a rice rocket behind me thinks I'm too goddamn slow & decides he's gonna go around me. So, he speeds up to like 45MPH, moves into the left lane, and blows past me & thru the red in a super busy intersection.
So I think, "uh oh, cop is right there u ****ing moron." And of course the stupid pork lights up his bike and turns right and begins to follow that idiot car.
Oh but here's where it gets good...
Then the stupid cop sees a shiny, black Mercedes CLK parked curbside and suddenly changes his mind and pulls right over to ticket that car instead.
WTF
It was not even a handicap zone, nor was it a red zone. Just a green loading zone.
The friggen Mercedes was there in plain sight the entire time. And this bacon decides he's serving the public safety by issuing a parking tix instead of a red light runner ticket. Talk about hating on rich ppl and not doing his goddamn job. What THE F kinda logic is this anyways?
And I see this kinda shit every friggen day in my neighborhood driving to work. I dunno how the cops in the city of Pasadena can even be called that.