Actually just what is the legality of giving a ticket for anything in a mall parking lot? The big ones around here are owned and kept up by the malls and the city or county has no authority to police them in my opinion. Yet I have seen local police parked in the mall parking lots watching people come and go and stopping them in the lot for everything from a brake light being out to no seat belt fastened.
One, the police force is so depleted with lay offs that I would think they would be needed to fight the murders, rapes, and such more than to watch parking lots in hopes of getting to give a ticket. Two I don't believe it is legal for them to do that unless the mall would request their presence because of problem drivers.
I know the cop that was going to give me a ticket for speed exhibition in my own driveway had to drop it when I told him I was on my property which was posted and he had no business coming up into my driveway because I burned about a foot of rubber. I later called the police station and talked to the day commander and he told me that what I did on my property was my business and the officer should have stayed off and just driven on by. And I wasn't trying to agitate him. I had just had a new Posi unit installed and wanted to see how it worked.
Ron
