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Signing the citation is NOT an admission of guilt, it is simply a promise to comply (release on Own Reconnaissance) (OR) with one of the following options:
Pay the fine, elect to attend a traffic school or request a court date.
If you choose not to sign then you have to post a bond which is the amount of the citation. The bond can be posted on scene or at the jail. The easiest way to go is to be OR released by signing to comply with one of the options.
That being said, the officer who shot at the vehicle was wrong and should have been terminated from his job,it was completely uncalled for and I'm sure against the department's ues of Deadly Force policy. The rest of it was a goat #$%^, and I'm just happy that no one was injured.
When someone didn't sign during my career, we would call a supervisor to the scene to try to give the motorist a second chance to be persuaded to take the OR option. It worked most of the time.
It's easy to Monday morning QB these situations, but in real time decisions are made pretty quick, then they are subject to being picked apart by people with the luxury of taking months to look it over and discuss it with others, and in this case, review the video.
This will become a good training video that will help cops learn what they can and should do as well as what they shouldn't do.