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gigag04 wrote:

Rex B wrote:

gigag04 wrote:I make this stop all the time.
Also no front LP. Fail to signal w/in 100 ft of turning, and fail to stop a designated point.

Sure glad I don't live in your jurisdiction. I hate front license plates.

...who cares what the law says anyways...

Careful now . . . how many fellow LEO's have you let off out of "professional courtesy?" In my 15 years as a COP, I never wrote a single citation to a LEO, although many deserved it. Had I done so, I would have been a pariah in my department.

So yes, laws are to be obeyed . . . by everyone. It would gall me no end to hear one of my fellow officers chastise a driver for some traffic violation knowing full well he/she did far worse at the end of every shift.

Chas.

Charles L. Cotton wrote:

gigag04 wrote:

Rex B wrote:

gigag04 wrote:I make this stop all the time.
Also no front LP. Fail to signal w/in 100 ft of turning, and fail to stop a designated point.

Sure glad I don't live in your jurisdiction. I hate front license plates.

...who cares what the law says anyways...

Careful now . . . how many fellow LEO's have you let off out of "professional courtesy?" In my 15 years as a COP, I never wrote a single citation to a LEO, although many deserved it. Had I done so, I would have been a pariah in my department.

So yes, laws are to be obeyed . . . by everyone. It would gall me no end to hear one of my fellow officers chastise a driver for some traffic violation knowing full well he/she did far worse at the end of every shift.

Chas.

I totally agree - however, I would never complain about being stopped for a lawful reason...or even being cited while I'm an LEO. I try to keep that fact to myself unless for safety reasons (weapons etc) I need to disclose it to the officer. No such thing as feather-legged stop, just a feather-legged ticket is how I word it.

Also - couldn't agree more on lecturing driving. I didn't put on a badge to gain a platform for preaching.

jester wrote:

gigag04 wrote:

Rex B wrote:Sure glad I don't live in your jurisdiction. I hate front license plates.

...who cares what the law says anyways...

Certainly not the dealerships who sell cars without a front license plate mount.

I'd rather that than drill crooked holes in the new bumper on my brand new $30K car. My wife drove a Chrysler 300 2 years with a cockeyed front license. I think that was part of the reason she traded it early.

I do have a front plate on my truck, so we're at 2 for 4 in my driveway

Charles L. Cotton wrote:
So yes, laws are to be obeyed . . . by everyone. It would gall me no end to hear one of my fellow officers chastise a driver for some traffic violation knowing full well he/she did far worse at the end of every shift.

A few years back a retired DPS officer wrote a book about beating traffic tickets. In the foreword he wrote that during his career, when he stopped a driver for speeding WAY in excess of the limit, chances were very good it was an off-duty LEO.

A lot of the HPD cars don't have front plates.

FYI: For those that do not know, and did not see the other thread.

Case law has just recently been set by The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on the Front Plate topic.

http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-pol ... 18800.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This is a ruling by a court of appeals, so it now applies to every court below them, which is every court in Texas.
The law is no longer gray. It is now 100% Front Bumper. Windshield does not cut it.

I can't wait to see HPD cars pulling each other over for no front plate.

boba wrote:I can't wait to see HPD cars pulling each other over for no front plate.

I'm pretty sure Police Cars are exempt from many of the administrative requirements, including this.
IIRC, Police cars do not need to be registered, or inspected either (at least not in the same way civilian cars do).

It sounds like a confession there's no real need for a front plate!

This gives me an idea for a new thread.

Plenty of other states seem to keep the populace under control without a front plate.
Look at all the expense it would save, to say nothing of all the fuel lost due to losses of aerodynamic efficiency.