I dont live in SD anymore, but I totally agree with the OP. In the space of about a year I had two run-ins with SDPD. In one, I got a speeding ticket when litterally going around a turn where the speed limit dropped from 35 to 25. I got hit up for 30mph, and the cop told me flat out “I know you were slowing, but you need to be at the posted speed limit when you pass the sign.” Open street, no one on it, car slowing in a controlled manor not slamming on breaks or going well below speed limit in the 35mph zone. TICKET HIM……
Year later my house house got broken into. Laptops, TV, $ all stolen. This was a smash and grab opperation where they broke our window. My roommate at the time found his laptop on Craigslist (ID’d by his navy stickers, USS Salt Lake City if I remember right, that they dont make anymore). He called the officer incharge, and she told him flat out to call the number, buy the laptop back, ID it positivly by a serial number or something and then she would do something about it. So we are suppose to run our own stings now too.
