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Originally Posted by Traum
Now I'm gonna sound spiteful and/or petty, but I'm gonna say it anyway.
In addition to disputing the ticket, I'd also recommend you to file a complaint on the officer. In the complaint letter, clearly indicate what you were doing, the year, brand, model, and trim of your vehicle, and specifically describe how your car already has bluetooth so it is unnecessary for you to pull out your phone.
When you are innocent, you totally want to exercise your rights and use the mechanisms available to point out the officer's wrong doing. The only thing you'll lose is a bit of time. An individual complaint won't amount to much of anything, but collectively, this is how we keep the police force in check from abusing the authority they've been bestowed with.
Good luck!
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I used to think this was a good way to create change, however I doubt any complaint thats not directly related to criminal conduct will yeild any result other then a PDF on some government server. Im guessing OPCC is comprised of mostly retired police, these are really good jobs funded by the government so I would expect there framework skew heavily and these are cush safe careers with good hours. If you look at there recent reports, it shows less than 10% of all complaints even had merits for an investigation, most complaints are deemed monitor.
Expect monitor complaints to stack up until an officer does something that warrants criminal charges, at that point it may be of meaning. I also believe they at one time even bragged about only seeing misconduct in 1% of casis, however I cant confrim this right now.
I have looked into this topic heavily and have concluded that no government body has any direct power over police departmants. Any change to police policy will come directly from the cheif themselves, and those who can fire them. The mayor or premiere can probably make change happen and there is many occurances of "liberal" policing that exist, so perhaps a laissaz fare attitude towards car modifiers is possible. Think about how VPD was super cool with weed forever, and never even made any criminal charges about weed even though they could have daily. They dont care about prostition either, theres 100 jerk shops operating in Vancouver, as they know there are bigger criminal fish to fry. Then take a guess how many millions of dollars of crack, heroin, and fentanyl are sold every week in the downtown east side.. it is my opinion that traffic police should not worry about much, other then distracted, impaired or agressive driving which is still a leading cause of death in BC.
How to make change? Not sure its possible in all honesty.