Yeah, it sounds like patrolling for violations isn’t really the core of their job, so they probably only issue a ticket when someone does something egregious in

Yeah, it sounds like patrolling for violations isn’t really the core of their job, so they probably only issue a ticket when someone does something egregious in front of them. It makes some sense: if a cop is at a corner directing traffic, people aren’t going to flagrantly break the law, and the cop probably can’t really leave their post to deal with whatever does occur.