Idiot cops who don’t know the law throwing their weight around.
My respect for law enforcement continues to decline.
I don't know. Other than cuffing them and one or two of the comments I don't see a lot to criticize. They responded to a citizen complaint. I don't blame them for drawing on the two since they had no idea of their intent. They questioned them, checked things out, determined no crime had been committed, and let them go. They could have gotten a lot worse than that.
Mrs BN & I were driving home from town yesterday on a local four lane, divided, limited access highway into a rural area. The portion we were on had a 55mph speed limit coming away from the intersection with the Interstate highway. Cars exit the 65mph Interstate into this highway, which has Interstate standard design and construction. Immediately after this section the four lane goes to 65mph.
Two highway patrol cruisers were sitting, one each side of the highway, waiting to catch "eeeevilll-doers" speeding over the 55 limit. I made the comment to my wife that because of the revenue-enhancing mindset of local & state authorities, law enforcement vehicles are universally seen as 'The Enemy'.
This is contrary to "government of the people, by the people and for the people" and is very poor public relations and psychology. It does very little to improve highway safety, ticketing someone driving 60 on a road designed for 70+ speeds driven by "little old ladies" in a 1956 Chevy with drum brakes, no seat belts and bias-ply tires.
Speed limits used to be set by timing cars on a section of road, then determining the speed at or below which 85% of the cars were traveling. The rationale was that while there are idiots and ignorant drivers out there, most people are reasonable & prudent in selecting their speed over a given section of road. As a result, most two lane roads in the South were posted at 60 mph. Tennessee had 65 mph on the winding two lane roads adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains.
Now we have Interstate with sections of 55mph limits. Traffic is bunched together, drivers afraid of being ticketed. Which is more dangerous, nose to tail clusters of cars driving at the artificial limit, or a MAXIMUM speed set higher and drivers spread out with each traveling at a speed which they deem reasonable & prudent? The highway patrol can spend most of their time training slow driver s to move to the right lane.
If government is really concerned about safety, why don't they really get drunk drivers off the road? Perhaps double penalties for government authorities DWI, just to convince the little people that they are serious?
Another safety improvement would be to have a realistic driving video game. Drivers would be tested annually. Dangerous driving or crashes during the game test would result in the driver being zapped by stun gun electrodes...and drivers licenses suspended for a time.
/rant