Yup, I hate that. When I was a fire inspector in the fire department when they passed a ridiculous city no-smoking ordinance and made the fire department do it because they knew the cops wouldn't and firefighters are seen as "good guys".
Uh, don’t even cops need a warrant to enter someone’s house to write a citation? Under what authority granted by the citizenry through their representatives are they supposedly acting and shouldn’t they cite to an “offender”? Just curious since you have experience in this area.