in the news today, to no one's surprise, a cop blows through a stop sign, and hits a cyclist in a biking lane.

In recent weeks, Toronto’s High Park has become a battleground as cyclists try to ride in the car-free area safely and police have found that this park allows them the opportunity to flex power in a targeted enforcement blitz against cyclists.

 But an off-duty officer physically assaulted a female cyclist, and an on-duty officer blew a stop sign and hit a cyclist outside the park.

A police officer who was driving his SUV in High Park while ticketing cyclists actually hit one just outside of the park, while the rider was cycling in a bike lane.

 He was at a four-way stop with the officer and stopped. The officer turned right into him, failing to yield the right of way. The officer claimed that the sun was in his eyes.

While the cyclist was uninjured, his bike sustained significant damage—$2,067.90 worth of damage, according to Shellnutt. “This represents the only collision we have heard of in the park for weeks, caused by the very people alleged to be there preventing collisions and dangerous driving,” he adds.

“In no other incident would ‘the sun being in his eyes’ be an acceptable excuse for any traffic violation,” Shellnutt says. “It makes no sense that it could be an excuse in this situation.” (And from a vision perspective, sun in one’s eyes shouldn’t have made a cyclist only feet in front of a car invisible.)

“The officer issuing HTA tickets to cyclists failing to stop himself failed to stop but has not been charged

in 2018 in Toronto, roughly 140,000 fewer speeding tickets were issued than a decade earlier; 

44 per cent fewer careless driving charges; 

a 7,000-ticket drop in charges for making an unsafe left turn at an intersection, a 93 per cent decline

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/police-officer-ticketing-cyclists-in-park-hits-cyclist-in-bike-lane-with-his-suv/ar-AA10yIpd

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/12/11/140000-fewer-speeding-charges-how-toronto-police-traffic-tickets-fell-by-two-thirds-even-as-deaths-spiked.html