window tint

[Tripper]

I'd prefer they follow the ambulance/firetruck, and ticket the drivers that dont yield to the emergency vehicle. but only if they got just nothin else to do but ticket the evil tinters.

Tripper

[mlatino]

acceptable to me, the public.
umm, yah, i think i can decide whats acceptable to me
I'm simply passing along my experience, observations and opinions, what you do with them is up to you.
i havent dictated anything, i simply stated that I find it unacceptable for an officer to waste MY tax paying dollars to ticket someone for something as frivolous as window tinting. I'd hope that officers dont use that as sole probable cause for anything serious. oh, I guess nobody has ever seen window tint being rejected as probable cause, try it sometime, and let me know how that works out.

I also suggested that I do uphold that officers should have tools available to them that help, because I do think we/the public tie the hands a bit.

Tripper

You'd be surprised how many good felony dope/weapons cases are developed from PC developed form "frivolous window tinting." Not to mention other "frivolous" vehicle code VIOLATIONS such as 24601VC - Inoperable license plate lamp, and 26710VC - Cracked windshield...

[rudigan]

Yes! And the no turn signals, and the won't pull over with over 5 cars behind them guy, silly booming stero, etc. But agree, only if there is nothing else going on.

[Tripper]

sorry, think i'm done now.

Tripper

[IrishJoe3]

if you do get a ticket, its a fix it ticket, so you get a razor blade and a steamer, take it off, get it signed off at CHP , and go re-tint =)

Which is exactly why a lot of officers no longer cite it correctable.

[Lrchops]

Plain English what is legal. Understood it is an officer saftey issue as well as a great "pre text" stop. How does the LE community feel about this and what is acceptable. Thanks everyone.

Yes it is an officer safety issue, but it is also nice to have tinted windows living in a hot environment!! It's legal in many other states. In California, it is a reason to make a stop, but arent most the BS laws??

Just like the cell phone law. Another BIG BROTHER Gov't law to screw the people!!! Yet another avenue of PC for a stop if yah think the dude fits the profile (yeah I know 'PROFILE' is not politically correct, although it is a good reality!!!

[rgray]

Years ago, I had the chance to use a tint meter on loan from SFPD. I measured my stock crown vic and the stock front windows were 92% transmission. We started citing at anything under 90%. In plain English, anything, tint or otherwise, applied to your front windows is illegal. You can decide whether you want to drain your bank account with correctable cites and reapplication of illegal tinting.

[tcsojohnson]

Just my two cents. Every time I pull someone over and intend to give them a fix it ticket, I check their prior convictions to determine if they have had priors for the same offense. If so, I make the ticket non-correctable pursuant to V.C. 40610 which gives peace officers authority to make a correctable offence, non-correctable if we have reason to believe the violator will not comply with a fix it ticket. The fine for a violation of V.C. 26708.5(a) (Window tint) is in the $250 range in my county.

[Notorious]

The tint gives us great P.C.

It's not like it's the crime of the century but if you had many convictions for it and you don't learn, then you probably will get another one.

Never quite understood why you tint the front anyway. It's illegal and it obscures your view at night.

[dls]

I got pulled over in the afternoon in the slow lane on the freeway doing the speed limit for nothing more than the lightest tint on the front side windows. And since I had tint on all 3 back windows I got a ticket for no outside mirror on the passenger side. (1970 Chevelle.)
just fix it tickets, but for the CHP that was plenty to pull me over on the freeway just to check me out.

[odysseus]

As said here, the letter of the law for Cal is no after market tint applied to forward windows. It's another one of those nanny-state laws that over reacts to a very small minority of bad people that inhibits all the vast majority of good normal people. I believe the LE unions fight and lobby against the law being changed.

It is a bullcrap law of course, since many States allow some degrees of tint placed there and it is no problem. It is not just UV that is bad, but all the light heat that can be blocked with decent tint which comes at you the driver and passengers, and the interior of your car. Of course, too much tint is a bad idea since it can degrade night time driving as well as look terrible anyway. I believe a common sense change in the Cal law is to allow some degree of lighter tints in the forward windows.

However there is the spirit of the law too. I actually have aftermarket tint applied to all windows (except of course windshield) on one of my rides, but it is pretty light. There is no problem with visual acuity and I am not hiding behind a thick wall of tint, you can see through to me fine - but my leather interior is very happy for it as well as I. Never been pulled for it, I think because it isn't a problem for anyone. Of course I probably could get a fix it from someone on a pencil pushing mission.

[Lrchops]

Just my two cents. Every time I pull someone over and intend to give them a fix it ticket, I check their prior convictions to determine if they have had priors for the same offense. If so, I make the ticket non-correctable pursuant to V.C. 40610 which gives peace officers authority to make a correctable offence, non-correctable if we have reason to believe the violator will not comply with a fix it ticket. The fine for a violation of V.C. 26708.5(a) (Window tint) is in the $250 range in my county.

Really? I only pull people over to see if they have warrants, parole, probation, search and/or arrest. How do you get any job satisfaction out of writing tinted window tickets?

[mlatino]

Really? I only pull people over to see if they have warrants, parole, probation, search and/or arrest. How do you get any job satisfaction out of writing tinted window tickets?

LOL. This.

[JS89]

Really? I only pull people over to see if they have warrants, parole, probation, search and/or arrest. How do you get any job satisfaction out of writing tinted window tickets?

Well... It is the job of law enforcement. I am a firm believer of giving verbals at times, but tint would happen to be a pet peeve, especially people who have multiple citations for tint. Even better, would be those who FTA on tint tickets. I was on a stop the other night in front of a certain PD station in the Los Angeles Area and I got a good laugh at the amount of off duty officers leaving the station who had no plates on their car and limo tint. Maybe it's just me, but I am a firm believer that those who enforce the laws should be setting an example to the public.

[rudigan]

Maybe it's just me, but I am a firm believer that those who enforce the laws should be setting an example to the public.

Thank you sir! Feel free to go after loud *** M/cycles too...