Quote Quoting Chuck77
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Police are human too and can be beaten down and frustrated when enough people want to break a certain law. Example: Uncovered super bright halogen lights mounted above the cab of a truck or off-road vehicle have been illegal for as long as I can remember. I am not aware of that code changing, yet the police do not enforce it anymore. Example 2: Heavily tinted windows. The police used to enforce that code but have since, in large part, given up. They also seem to have given up on the blue tinted headlights and super-bright headlights that shine upward into oncoming motorists eyes.
There has been a trend in CA of moving patrol officers away from most traffic enforcement. Aside from the CHP whose primary function IS traffic enforcement, with dwindling resources, many agencies in CA have restricted or even prohibited patrol officers from conducting traffic enforcement for equipment violations. Some agencies even discourage their officers from stopping vehicles for movers unless they endanger someone else.

As for the blue tinted lights, the courts have ruled that those halogen lights are not blue insofar as the CVC is concerned. When they first appeared in the 90s, we stopped them all the time. The courts decided the matter for the police.