I work at a tobacco shop. And after they said I blown through a stop sign. When asked when drinking I said no. Then he said I smelled, and I quote, “of something suspicious”. I get cops get their paycheck for tickets and such but seriously has it really gotten this bad that for a ticket they try to make it something bigger? and ignoring my rights?
This is why lawyers exist, and why the court room is the other part of the justice system.
Still bullshit you have to probably pay court and lawyer fees and waste however much time it takes to be detained and in and out of court.
If you’re poor you’re fucked either way. “oh after many stressful months they said I am innocent! As a prize, I owe anywhere from several hundred to several thousands of dollars to the state and/or my lawyer, just because this one jacakss cop was in a bad mood one day and didn’t like my face, or the car I drove, or the way I wore my clothes, etc.”
I have lost all faith or confidence in justice existing within this system. It is incompatible with the possibility of what you described.
So this is just to feed lawyers?
While true, cops should have basic competence and not waste the courts time and the defendant’s money.