One approach to solving this problem would be a mass distribution of fake courtesy cards. I wonder if the NYPD has an effective way of verifying that a person has a real card that they received from a real cop.
It’s not the NYPD, it’s the union. In NJ, when I was given one of those cards from a friend’s father as a teen, I was told the card would be surrendered if I got a moving violation and I’d answer to him later.
I mean, by "surrendered" he meant he personally would take it back. And that was probably just meant to make you drive normally and use it to get out of tickets, not as a carte blanche to break every traffic law flagrantly.
In the UK, traffic cops used to have "Black Rat" stickers [0] on their personal vehicles (for various reasons they are nicknamed Black Rats- this started out as a derogatory nickname from other police, but they adopted it as a point of pride).
Once it became clear that the stickers were being sold to the public, they stopped working as a way to avoid being pulled over.
op00to|2 years ago
I threw the card out, it was useless trash.
HWR_14|2 years ago
Ichthypresbyter|2 years ago
Once it became clear that the stickers were being sold to the public, they stopped working as a way to avoid being pulled over.
[0]http://bluelightgifts.org.uk/stickers/