A New York cyclist has filed a lawsuit against the city’s police department and has accused the force of getting the law wrong when issuing fines to cyclists who ride through red lights.Last week we reported that New York’s cycling community had hit back at plans to issue criminal court summons, rather than regular traffic ... Read more
The courts have ruled that the police need not know the law to enforce it, in Heien v. North Carolina. However they also hold that ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it for those of us that are subject to it, Ignorantia juris non excusat. So the public is expected to be more aware of legal minutia than the “trained” enforcers of that law.