Went through a podunk town in VA over the weekend with a (VA local friend) and we were stopped by 3 state troopers (lights flashing) at a “license checkpoint”. They went over his car with a fine-tooth comb, looking for “infractions”. I asked him afterwards if this was normal and he indicated they set up there a lot trying to catch “travelers”. I thought it quite odd that VA can afford to have 3 State trooper cars and troopers sitting in an out-of-the-way (dying) town, trying to find vehicle infractions in order to write tickets...
Most of the time they are snooping around the car trying to get a glimpse of anything that would give them an excuse to search your car. We have become the police state our founding fathers feared.