While I recorded an Agree with your post overall, there is a lot of ignoring going on. As my best friend here, a Met police officer said when I asked him how he was dealing with the Covid regulations, "Nothing to do with me" he said, laughing, making it clear he was completely ignoring them. And as KirstinS says above, even the easiest ways of dealing with very illegal two wheelers is being ignored. It takes but a moment to tell riders to get off and walk the illegal machine away, with the warning that next time they won't be so lucky, but they cant be bothered.
Here a big disagree, oh yes they did enjoy it !!
Back in the '50s and early '60s when there was no national speed limit, just a 30 limit in built up areas, often designated only by where the lamp posts were less than 250 feet apart, they used to love entrapment. Hiding in their Wolseley in a side road in such a spot, they shoot out onto the tail of anyone doing a little over 30. Hearing the ding-a-ling of the bell on the front of their car I'd know I was about to be the victim. No matter how minor there was never a warning, every time it was prosecution to appear in court or write to the court apologising and pleading guilty.
The beat officers also had their favourite way of entrapment. With hardly any traffic on the roads there were lots of T shaped Halt, Major Road Head signs uselessly at many road junctions even where all the roads were minor. Officers would hide behind the hedge or fence of a corner building and jump out arm up if the wheels of a vehicle were still fractionally turning or if a motorcyclist didn't firmly plant a foot onto ground at the junction, petty in the extreme. Again never a warning, a charge to court every time.
My earliest Yellow cover and later Red cover paper booklet licences still bear these petty endorsements. The £3 fine doesn't sound much, but when I was earning one pound five shillings a six day working week (£1.25 now) it hurt, just as the officers very obvious pleasure at nicking me did.
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