[Terabitten]

Police are immune from citations. They cite “professional courtesy”

Although it's common, I'd hardly say LEOs are "immune." The "rule" is that although you can ask for 'professional courtesy,' the officer who pulled you over is under *no* compulsion to grant said courtesy.

Usually it's granted for relatively minor traffic violations - speeding (not reckless driving), illegal U-turns, that sort of thing. It's almost never given for more serious traffic violations, and in fact, most LEOs I know get pissed when a brother LEO asks for courtesy under such circumstances.

[miliantnutcase]

Yeah, my brother in law who is a state trooper in MN has to always obey traffic lights/laws when he is not responding to a call with lights/sirens. A ton of locals and troopers got tickets when the new red light cameras were running and they all had to pay their tickets like everyone else.
They MUST use lights and sirens when exceeding speed limit to a call now because of a drunk woman who was hit while crossing the highway after bar close late at night. The sheriff who hit her at 70MPH with no lights or sirens on pretty traumatized. He’s never gonna be the same, and neither are the rules for them.

[VRing]

“It’s almost never given for more serious traffic violations, and in fact, most LEOs I know get pissed when a brother LEO asks for courtesy under such circumstances.”

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