Veteran ticketed escorting body of Private Steven Allen

Beyond unbelievable!

The only time I've seen a cop use this charge was as an add on to other primary charges. What's this guys major malfunction in life.

And the police wonder why a growing number of people dislike them.

She's lucky she didn't say anything, she probably would have been tasered by this moron!

Looks like the VicPD isn't standing behind what their officer did here. No mention of if the ticket is being reversedm, which it should be.

I don't think it should.

{ducks}

I think the law should be enforced, be it covered license plates, blue and red lights on the front of vehicles, etc. His timing could use some work, but the law is the law. If her license plate wasn't covered (presumable trying to avoid photo radar tickets), she wouldn't have got pulled over.

If the officer were less of a dick, it's wouldn't have been under those circumstances.

I've sent an email to CBC Vancouver offering to pay the ticket if it hasn't already been settled, I figure they'll know who to put me in touch with to settle the account. No idea what else to do.

You could petition the government to give all former members of the military diplomatic immunity since you don't seem to believe the law applies to them.

Funeral processions, military or not, are typically exempted from many traffic regulations. It's very unusual and very disrespectful that a motor cop would stop a funeral participant who is part of a funeral procession.

Officers have the discretion as to when and where they can issue a fine. Doing it during a funeral procession for anyone is pretty low class and petty. Following the "offending" vehicle until they reached the funeral home or cemetery and then giving the driver a verbal warning would have been more than sufficient to satisfy whatever bylaw had been inadvertently bruised. Enforcing the law doesn't require an officer to lay the hammer down each and every time something low-grade happens. Save the vigour for the dangerous, the criminal, and the truly obnoxious instead.

OK, so you advocate for an unfair and unequal application of the law. Not very democratic.

I would suggest that officers should enforce the law each and every time something low grade happens, or not at all.

By what measure would you have them use discretion in this matter ? I would think that military personel acting in an official capacity should be held to a higher standard, not a lesser one.

A good officer knows when to give someone a break and when not to give someone a break. That's the last I'm going to say about this because this thread is now getting stuck too deeply in facepalm territory.

I hate to say, but in this case I gotta agree with Delwin While special exemptions are made for funeral processions, and trust me I know what they are because I've worked in that industry before, I'm pretty damn sure there's no special exemption/provision for an obstructed licence plate.

OTOH, holding up what is basically a funeral procession to write a ticket for something that really can wait, is just bad karma.

There's no justifiable reason why the ticket couldn't wait until after the funeral.

There's no justifiable reason why the ticket couldn't wait until after the funeral.
That's what I'm saying. The ticket was definitely deserved, the timing was just piss poor form.