Also being a man of the Badge. I've also been in this situation many many times. Attitude is everything when it comes to getting out a ticket. I pulled a guy over in a Roush Mustang one night doing 83 in a 35. This 35 however is a 4 lane highway (through town) and it was 3 am. No other cars around. Speed limits are there for public safety. Speeding tickets are also for public safety. If there is no public around and the weather is nice, why not open up what you car is made for. Not to mention this particular car had one of the nicest sounding exhausts I've ever heard in my life. And as someone posted above, the gentleman was very nice and as I walked up he said, "If you want to drive it, you'll see why I was speeding." The next day when I got off work, he met me at the police station, and I drove it. Just as a few other said also, we have discretion, we can pick and choose when to write, warn, or arrest violators. I'm a DUI expert. I use speed as a reason to stop vehicle in known DUI hot spots. Then if they aren't DUI, I let them go. Instead of wasting my time writing a speeding ticket while DUI's go zipping by. So that's my opinion, 911, until they've done our job, some people see no good in what we do.

Oh yea, as far as shaking hands, we don't not shake your hand cuz we're ******, it's a safety thing they teach in the police academy. A simple thank you and smile is sufficient enough.