Fair enough.

I too hope police choose to selectively enforce stop signs. However, the thing that often determines where police get sent is the intersection stopping compliance; i.e. the percentage of vehicles that actually come to a complete stop... Guess which intersections have the lowest rates of compliance .

When I was a student living in Hamilton Ontario, one of the main roads into the school (Sterling, for those familiar) was residential that had both students and well-off profs, exec's etc. living on it. The well-off folks managed to convince the City to put stop all-way stops at every intersection... and of course, no one bothered stopping. So, soon enough the cops started showing up.. and targetting cyclists!!!!! (Guess which group travels by bike more... students or well-off profs?) Unbelievable.