The Sheriff's Office in Kalifornia I retired from actually had a good sense of priorities. If you wrote too many tickets or chippy arrests, you weren't doing your job. It kept you tied up too much. Besides, we were spread REALLY thin, and din't have time to mess with petty cr@p. We used traffic stops as a tool to see who, was where, doing what, but wrote few tickets. Consequently, felony arrest rates were pretty good! My Sgt. told me if I wanted to write lots of tickets, I should have joined the Highway Patrol!