But I do agree with you about Virginia (from personal experience as well), and there should be a firewall between the police and actual trial judges.
I suppose the way I handle the situation is to not break the law and not treat them like we inherently have an adversarial relationship. From my perspective, having the local community support first responders is a good thing and works very well for us here.
This is rural Texas, btw.
If you needed to make a u-turn while driving on the highway, you could pull into special areas in the median of highways to make those turns. The same places highway patrol often use to sit, wait, and monitor traffic.
Both of those things are illegal in Virginia.
