>>>Update: Police are using this new law to trap motorists. Specifically, they park a police car on the side of the road with lights on (and sometimes without) and wait for motorists to fail to move over. Despite there being no emergency, motorists are then pulled over and issued a “move over” ticket, a 3-point violation.
This law was specifically enacted to protect law enforcement officers who have been killed or injured while responding to roadside emergencies. It is therefore disconcerting that police officers would create fake emergencies to ensnare motorists.<<<
This is disgraceful. They are intentionally causing danger to motorists to wrtie bogus tickets. Any police officer who does this and any superior who approved this (whether police or elected official) should be charged with reckless endangerment.
It is interestting that in at least 2 of the 3 officer injuries/deaths mentioned in the article, the new law would have likely made no difference. In one case the driver was drunk and in another a tire blew out. The other death was blamed on an icy patch of road (which had also caused the motorist the officer was assisting to slide off the road).
There is no law the police will not abuse, except, of course, no law.