[navyrain]

When a petty law is frequently violated and overlooked, law enforcement officers can use it as a tool to confront a citizen who would be otherwise entirely innocent. Often other underlying suspicions motivate investigation of citizens, and these laws are simply used as a pretense. Sometimes these suspicions have merit, but it seems like officers too often use these enforcements as a basis to act out their own prejudices.

If an arbitrarily-enforced law has fundamental merit, then the enforcement is the problem. As much as I shudder at the thought, it sounds like the solution here is complete enforcement of every law. The hope would be that the ensuing uproar would cause removal or revision to the laws to ease up the resulting oppression.