Originally Posted by slvoid
Cops don't know their asses from a hole in the ground. I seriously don't expect them to know anything about the law.
In the way they respond to most things, I'd say they're more like paramedics. They get their quickly but they're not there to prevent the tragedy, only there to clean up afterwards 90% of the time.
That's a pretty broad generalization don't you think ? Of course, my dad is a cop so I am no doubt somewhat biased but I know many of his colleagues and a few of them are jerks and do not make as much effort to learn about stuff as the others.
Having said that, cyclists who don't wear proper lighting and who don't outfit their bikes with proper lighting are just asking for trouble. The number of times I see idiot cyclists on a main thoroughfare on dark streets (i.e. dusk, dawn, night, poor weather) wtihout any lights and wearing dark clothing is just amazing. What the hell are they thinking ? I cringe when I see them because I know that at some point they're going to become a fatality and the poor bloke who clocks them off their bike due to not being able to see them is going to have to live with that all their lives !
It's got nothing to do with the police - just lack of common sense on the part of some cyclists.