I took a speeding ticket to court, had the officer sitting behind me pre-trial talkin' smack with a colleague "why are you here? Speeding, ha, how hard is that?" Yeah, so he gets on the stand and "reads from his notes" every single thing he said was fabricated, only my location was accurate, his location was a lie: in reality he "witnessed" me from a side street 3 blocks back from the intersection he crossed but in his testimony he "observed me passing a line of five cars" - yeah, except that never happened, what I was passing was a single gardening truck doing 10mph for the past 3 blocks, the other 4 cars were stacked up behind me.

Maybe he really thought that's what he saw, which is all the more reason his dashcam should have been the evidence, not his notebook. https://www.restonyc.com/can-you-not-be-a-police-officer-with-a-high-iq/