As for letting the cart go back to the private property, I don't know how far the cart was from the private property, and I don't know if avoiding public streets was possible. If they could have taken the sidewalk the entire way I would have escorted them the short distance with my lights on. Stuff like this happens all the time. People do stupid stuff, and cops allow them to right the wrong without penalty as long as there was no property damage and no one got hurt.
The fact that this cop felt the need to turn the Chief in tells me there was more happening here. So I will trust that the cop had little choice in the matter and was right when he turned her in.
“As for letting the cart go back to the private property, I don’t know how far the cart was from the private property, and I don’t know if avoiding public streets was possible.”
But you posted, without conditions, that you would have let them go.
This is Florida, not Missouri. Illegal carts on the roadway is a problem. Driving at night with no lights is not just “bad judgement”.
> . If you are a police officer and you are pulled over, you are supposed to identify yourself. <
Why would that be?