Originally Posted by
San Rensho
You seem to miss the point also. Cyclists were specifically targetted not because of their alleged violations, but to harrass them based upon resident complaints, all verifired by the officer that stopped me.
Spitting on the sidewalk is an offense in many states, if all of a sudden the cops enforce the no-spitting laws is it because they are afraid of a tuberculosis outbreak or is it a pretext to arrest somebody they don't like? Same thing here, cops are singling out and harrassing cyclists because some residents don't like them riding on "their" streets, not because they are being unsafe.
Do you really think it was an accident that the cops just happened to set up shop at a red light? If the group that was cited didn't arrogantly display their sense of entitlement as they violated traffic laws at will, the cops wouldn't have anything to harass them with, would they? In which case, the "rich people" would just have to suck it up that you were riding on "their road."