Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

_wheresMySuperSuit t1_j3y9p4i wrote

Reply to comment by TheOGJayRussle in Vehicle won't pass inspection because of tinted windows | Ask the DMV by MavDrake

You can call BS if you want, I don’t care. I’m telling you what I know and have heard from cops themselves.

My windows are tinted and I’ve been pulled over and cops ignored the tint.

I overheard a state trooper tell a kid that he pulled over “I wouldn’t have pulled you over if it weren’t for your windshield”.

My brother in law got pulled over and the cop told him the same.

My other brother in law got pulled over and the cop made him peel off the windshield tint and let him go.

I saw a Providence cop. A cop that you have to do the MOST to make them get out of their car, bust a U turn on Manton Ave to pull over the car in front of me. I drove back down the road and after I stopped at the liquor store, and you guessed it, “Get rid of the windshield tint”.

Never in my 25+ years of living in Providence have I ever seen or heard of a cop using a tint meter outside of drivers ed classes*

13

TheOGJayRussle t1_j3ya6b8 wrote

I have been pulled over in my car and other people’s cars by the tint police. Cops looking for tint are a special type of dick head, because the department doesn’t provide the meter they have to pay for it out of pocket.

−1

_wheresMySuperSuit t1_j3ybqht wrote

I know it was a thing when I was growing up. North Providence, Pawtucket, and all of Eastern RI (EP, Warren, Barrington, Bristol) we’re hot spots for tint. But I’m assuming that generation of cops has since retired, and the younger ones don’t care about tint because half of them have their windows tinted themselves, shit, they’re even allowed to have beards now!

Point is, I think it’s going to trend in the direction of MA, and be allowed 35% everywhere but the windshield. Nobody cares enough anymore and there are tint sops on every other corner in Providence.

7