Originally Posted by alathIN

6 stories that made it to the news and are documented with videos probably represents a much larger number of actual cases.

Sure, LEO are often wrong on the law. You can still be wrong and be a professional instead of being wrong and being a total d@@k.

We live in a country that is largely designed around automobiles. Our political system has, in many cases, artificially and unnecessarily added to that trend. We are gradually waking up to the fact that there are some downsides to designing everything in the country to cater to the convenience of automobile use, at the cost of other modes of transportation.

Because of where we're coming from, there are obstacles to extensive use of bicycles for transportation. Most of the infrastructure isn't designed around it. It isn't part of the road culture, which includes, in some cases, police officers being less familiar with laws that pertain to cycling than to driving.

I think it's reasonable to work to reverse some of this. Advocacy is one way to do that. In your mind, is everyone who points out a problem being a pity partier and a crybaby?