[randywebb]

"His ticket, if challenged in court, would have gotten tossed in 30 seconds."

- IF California has that statute, it is unusual. Are you sure of that? i.e. have you read the actual statute itself?

In Oregon, and in many states, any officer can give you a ticket anywhere in the state. They have to go to law enforcement officer school (measured in hours, not weeks or years) and they can ticket you.

Even if an officer cannot ticket you for an infraction, they can surely stop and arrest you for a crime -- in fact, any citizen can do that in most states.

In fact, in Oregon, any citizen can enforce the motor vehicle laws (!) I'm surprised the local anarchists haven't thought of enforcing the motor vehicle laws against the city police here, which they routinely violate (when they aren't too busy beating up arabs, hassling black people and raping women -- all true and reported in the news in the last 12 months).