I don't really fancy myself anything other than a guy trying to get to work and back without dying. I'd like to be able to make that trip on a bicycle, for various reasons.

I had noted previously that these incidents were happening and that in many cases they made me feel unsafe. Various police contacts had told me that they didn't have time to be doing proactive enforcement. Submitting some reports was basically just checking to see which exact parts of the process they didn't feel they had time for— turns out it was basically all of it, unfortunately. But it was worth finding that out, I think, for the purposes of shaping other interactions with the PD, politicians, and local media.

In any case, the higher level of government takes these kinds of violations very seriously— not yielding to a pedestrian crosswalk is 4 demerits and a fine of up to $1000, so it really is up to my local PD to pick their priorities, and for whatever reason they choose not to enforce it.

Someone who reports a driver who nearly ran them over to police, with video evidence, is “an amateur traffic cop?”

What’s your standard for reporting a crime or attempted crime?

So... you're saying they're probably bad at their jobs? Got it.

Well, yes? That shouldn't be surprising, it's not an unusual phenomena, but it seems I've offended somebody enough to have them downvote every comment I've made in the past day (which is hilarious.)

When you do something that somebody else should be doing but isn't, it's common for that somebody else to response in a less than gracious way. It's not limited to police, but it's particularly common with police.