You know its interesting. My g/f is a member of a 109 board. She showed me a thread about some COPS running ticket traps up there. Looks like they are getting outta hand in the tactics they are using to entice bikers into doing something to give them a ticket. Busting them for passing on a double yellow because they are running a bait truck at 20 M.P.H. on the roads to get them to pass so they can hand out a ticket up ahead.
Some asshat of a cop was there on the thread talking about what lengths they will go to and to basically dare us to question it.
Its the same problem as usual. A few bad bikes makes it bad for everyone else and a few bad cops, well you hope are a few anyway, make us have an attitude about them.
You point out, and I agree, there is nothing wrong with a police presence to keep things grounded. But if they make it to where the main revenue stream they have goes away, because we are getting hassled, they are hurting only themselves.
The last time went, we met some great cops. I hope that the bikers haven't made it so bad that the rest of us don't want to come there to get jacked up for simply trying to enjoy the area like most of us do.
Ya know its was funny, the cop openly admitted he broke the laws on his bike in the mountains there. I'm like WTH kind of crap is this!!!