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Originally Posted by white rocket
The law isn't the issue lately, it's the people in charge of enforcing it. VI's have been around long before most of us even drove a car but since the VPD and other units have their hackles up for whatever reason, dukkake(fucking great user name) or not, they are the ones choosing to be so strict. Trying to get them to back off by using a lawyer would be useless.
It's like speeding. The limit posted is 50kph. Everyone cruises by at 60kph average, no cop pulls anyone over. A random car blows by at 72kph, he's getting tagged. Now that guy blows up on social media calling cops out and doing childish things to try to get revenge (or whatever). Now cops are ticketing everyone going over 50kph. People are flipping out crying blue murder that they got a ticket for speeding when they were only going 54kph. Try fighting it. The law states that the limit is 50kph and you got caught doing 54kph. Pretty black and white. And only a lenient judge would grant any sort of sympathy in court.
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This. The speeding example is a good analogy. A VI is something squarely within an officer's discretion. Whether or not they choose to exercise that discretion is entirely up to the officer. They aren't doing anything wrong or exceeding their authority by issuing a VI.
Now there may be reasons not to go on an all out VI spree like maintaining a good relationship with the car community or keeping the image of being nice, etc but again that is up to the officer.
Maybe if whoever started this apologizes to the satisfaction of the officer then they will exercise their discretion and only give VIs to the extremely modified cars instead of the lightly modded or OEM+ ones.