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I can guarantee you that I can go to any police station walk up to a police officer's personal vehicle and I will see window tint on their vehicles, that is darker than the law requires, bunch of hypocrites
@@hey2556 Me too. It depends on how cool you are with them. I got pulled over recently for crossing the double yellow line. They had actually replaced the double yellow line with road dots, so I thought I could turn into the parking lot for Jack-in-the-box there. He said, "No, it's still a double yellow." I didn't argue. Plus, I didn't have my insurance at the time, but I was working on it. I was so nice and cool with the officer and I explained myself, very quietly and respectfully to him. I'm a black male too, for those who think that makes a difference. He said he would let me go with a warning. I got my insurance and registration shortly thereafter. I had to pass smog and I failed 4 times, because of a full carbon fuel canister and contaminated purge value. I didn't know all those details at the time, and I hadn't even taken it for smog yet. But, I got it fixed and I passed smog. My kindness and respect got me through having to go to court and everything. Believe me, the saying is true. "You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar." When I was younger, my car was smoking badly, and I had to get that fixed too. I had just come back from Pep Boys, and I got pulled over for that in the early 1980's by LAPD in Hollywood. I use to play music in bands and I had a joint in my car too. The two white cops asked me if I had any drugs. I told them about the one joint that I had, that I planned to smoke that night in my ash tray. They found it and threw it on the ground. They had me dead to rights, and I knew it. Me being a jerk, would just make it worse on me. I was so cool and honest with them that they let me go with a warning and they let me pick up my joint too. I smoked it that night!
These fools are trying so hard to control every part of our lives, yet they just go around breaking all the laws they sworn to protect I have no respect for any of them
there is. can only be so bright, and must be pointed at road. and more things. but law has never stopped anybody before, so i keep sunglasses on my head to flip down when the blinding light appears
Exactly, I delivered pizzas at night for many years and those big trucks and SUV headlights are blinding, especially if you've driving a low riding vintage car. I don't drive at night anymore cause my night vision is bad now.
@@azza-in_this_day_and_age good idea. I fell for the hype and got some " amber vision" glasses. They make it worse! But it's only the blue one that really bother me.
@@d.fenestrator9529 it's not the same as wearing sunglasses officer lol I've had tinted windows for years never had any issues what's so ever.... It's more for control as well as see who they stealing money from legally calling it the law lol with no tangible evidence that tinted windows are dangerous
It's the law. Laws are made to protect us all. People said similar things with seat belt laws and helmet laws. But, eventually common sense prevailed. In fact for awhile in the 60's, you could have an open container. But, that changed with M.A.D.D. A lot of young kids like tinted windows because they think it's cool. I still see people talking on their cell phones while driving and clearly distracted. I yell at them sometimes and they look at me like something is wrong with me. "Get off your cell phone and pay attention to where you are driving!"
California especially Southern California is a desert. We need tinted windows to combat the heat and from getting sun burn. That's my reason. And I see out just fine, no dark tint is the key...
The law only applies to non police officers and firefighters right? I see police officers leave in their personal cars out of the police station with dark tint all the way around. Not to mention all the firefighters i see in there huge diesel trucks with limo tint all the way around with their firefighter sticker on the back window 😂
Well that's because so many people in California were chanting, Defund the police. Is that what Californian's wanted? Where are those idiots now? Remember when we were making cops get the jab, and they resigned? That also hurt us and we lost more cops. Where are the idiots who loved the mandates?
If it's a state patrol car it will have an exempt plate That means exempt from registration fees Now on the police officers personal vehicle registration fees have to be paid But tinting If an other officer pulls an officer over I'm sure there will be a officer courtesy
I was pulled over and cited for using a signal less than 120 feet. Than I asked him why was he driving with a cracked windshield? His response “Its not my car, it’s a city vehicle, you can take it up with the city”
I was about to say the same thing, the state got unemployment issues, homelessness, gun violence, drug Lords and cartels. Instead the law goes after a piece of dark film on a car. How petty can they go?
@@marioelburro1492 And even then, modern carbon and ceramic tints only become a problem at 20% and under on completely unlit rural roads. Which in San Diego is extremely rare. My tint has never posed an issue for me otherwise.
because they are a bunch of "GESTAPO" NAZI pigs and think they can do whatever they want. They'll even park in a Handicap parking spot & or even block your driveway.
Interesting, but in light of everything else going on in our country right now, I believe window tint is about the last thing on most peoples minds. The price of food, gas, housing and rent is slowly wiping people out.
i must object that there are more important things to deal with. Illegal tint, should be banned period. medium at the most. Tickets after a warning should be $500. Seriously
I have limo tint on both of my cars but have never been pulled over for them. I believe it depends on the cop. You're correct about a lot newer cars having tint on every window.
@Tim Timmy I have the darkest tint, which would be limo. The trick to having dark tint is rolling your window down half way so the cop can whose driving. Otherwise, it's legal to have any shade on your back windows but your passenger and driver window has to be nearly visible.
One of my friends had really dark tint on his side windows. A cop pulled us over and my friend said to roll down my window. The officer approached and told my friend why he stopped him and asked him to roll up his window. My friend said they don’t roll up. Of course the cop doesn’t believe him, so the cop tried to roll them up and they wouldn’t go up. He was pissed. He said “I know what I saw”. My friend had installed a hidden switch that killed the power to the windows haha.
Here's an idea, why not CHANGE IT instead of continuing to hand them money for fines? Every state bordering CA allows 35 Percent VLT on the front side windows.
@@UP9390catch 22 my friends. Laws in the country has practically made it financially impossible for most Americans to even put forth the stupendous effort to get laws changed. The average person is trading time for money. When most of your waking life is just surviving and trying to make rent and bills, it’s. Sort of pathetic that the only option people practically have is lobbying your politicians. Like that has ever worked for normal people, en masse, in the modern day, in a metropolitan.
If they’re allowing drivers with no insurance getting into big accidents and they still get to continue driving even after being reported for no coverage, only a real asshat officer will be pulling over a car over tinted windows.
Usually cops on motorcycles give tint tickets cause they just camp out at one spot all day looking for cars that don’t make a full stop, tint and no front plate. Only in cali lol
It's a motherfucker on the west coast. But the weather makes it all worth it. It's diffently a police state police everywhere. When I was a teenager they use to stop us from our music being to loud and then came tinted windows and then loud mufflers and then fat tires with low treads made from the manufacturers. Now cool air induction is illegal and back to tinted windows again about 40 years later. But they never have shut down the tint business are the sound stores who installed all that powerful music equipment in cars are all those muffler shop that put those bad ass loud sounding muffler on cars nor have they shut down any speed shops that tune cars to 800 to 1000 horse power. But they always focus on us regular people's and fine and tow our shit off. And get us But not the company's that sell us all that good stuff that we buy and put on our cars. They never make laws against the companies that make and sell all that shit they ticket us for having on our cars u can bet police personal Cars are fly to with some of the same shit that make our cars fly.
I live in California and a law is only good if it’s enforced. Looking at the amount of cars driving with tinted windows clearly show the law is not being enforced.
It's a law that rarely gets enforced, judging from the number of vehicles that I see with dark tinted front windows. I received a fix-it ticket for front windows about 15 years ago. They weren't even that dark. I knew someone in law enforcement that signed off on them. I never removed the tint and haven't had an issue since.
I'm in NC and having a hard time finding someone to inspect my car with the tint and NC cop's don't mess with you much about it. But in VA cop's are Nazis about illegal tint.
What I find ironic is that I see unmarked units or even marked units with 15 or even 5% on the front windows and their law enforcement. My book we are all human whether you're an officer or a civilian we're all driving cars. We all have the same percentage of creating an accident or being in one. So if your law enforcement that doesn't give you an exception right?
The windshield tint is where I'm worried. That seems more contentious than the front side windows. I'm running 25% on the fronts and the cops here in the bay area don't care. But I'd love to go windshield. Just i don't want the attention to get state reffed.
"You don't wear sunglasses at night" is there a law saying you can't wear sunglasses at night? Window tint laws are seriously abused by law enforcement ~ Personally I can't have a car without tint, I feel like the items in my car are so exposed without tint. And last: most law enforcement vehicles have dark tint, back and front.
I think having your windows HEAVILY tinted is about the most proactive thing you can do to protect yourself from the thugs and all the violent criminals out there! Mine are limo tinted and I wouldn't have it any other way. I won't be carjacked since the morons won't know who's in the vehicle! 😂
The law is actually obsolete and bias. Obsolete because with the new tint you can actually see at night vs old 90’s tint. And the law is also bias because if it was a “hazard” then they wouldn’t of put them on their police and government vehicles.
Yup. Did you know that railroad locomotives have tinted windows but commercial trucks aren’t allowed to have tinted windows. Some police cars have dark tinted windows.
The reason are simple: cops want to see whose in a vehicle and they don't think it's any of our darn business what they are up to. Typical double standard. When cops are yelling and cursing at you while you are just sitting there alway say " what with the attitude ?"
@@NAT-turners-Revenge how many have blown up and been recalled? And what are teslas gonna do when the power grid shuts down and they can't charge the junk? Atleast when the government shuts down the power I'll have a full tank and get the hell outta here.
This is a rule a lot like an apartment complex stating that you have to make two and a half times your rent. It's meant for discrimination. The original rule was to allow an officer to see who they were pulling over prior to. Apartment complex have a two and a half times rent clause that they can use their discretion to overrule. If they don't want the tenant they will obviously enforce the rule to the letter but if they like the potential tenant they have their discretion of excusing the two and a half times rule... Like these officers when they see the driver, it allows them to use their discretion whether or not to pull them over if they've committed a violation.
Know your rights: tinted front windows in CA are _reasonable suspicion_ to be pulled over, temporarily detained & questioned. However, tinted front windows (on their own) are *not* _probable cause_ for a search of your vehicle. Point: if you're pulled over for tinted front windows, be polite, explain that you bought the vehicle in that condition & that you'll remove the tint ASAP, & then decline the vehicle search when asked. Simple.
THANK YOU. I'm glad someone else is aware of how idiotically inconsistent tint laws are between states. VA is just as idiotic with the tint laws, excluding DC, every state bordering VA allows 35 Percent VLT on the front side windows. If I didn't live very close to the VA border, I would absolutely have 35 percent on my front side windows. VA considers a tint violation a misdemeanor offense, they only allow 50 percent VLT on the front side windows.
Remember to fight your tickets with Trial by Written Declaration meaning you just have to fight it threw the mail and 2 chances of winning. I've won like this before
I live in Chicago where we have the same window tint laws as California. My car is tinted to where you can’t see in which I like for privacy, and dates lol… I can already have my gun out and shoot through the glass before criminals see me. It’s only illegal so the police can pick and choose who they wanna make take it off. I also have a clean record, clean car and a police flag sticker on my trunk. Police know you’re on their side. They care about the really suspicious ghetto mf’s who drive blacked out Dodge Durangos and Nissian Altimas that smell like weed and don’t have car insurance and criminal records. My tint Windshield 50% Front windows 25% Rear windows 20% Trunk glass 20% Police won’t bother you. Ever… unless you give them a reason to. California is a shit hole so they probably will regardless. But here in Chicago or Illinois in general they won’t. People need to understand many laws are only in place so when YOU mess up they have some control over you and can charge you. Think about that.
I get pulled over sometimes in IL. I stay in the burbs. I have 35 on the windshield, 15 on the front 2, 5% on the back. Idc. Tint protects your interior, I don’t want to be seen & who the fuck want’s sun in their face all the time? Cali is a L state regardless. Their politics are worse than IL. That’s why ppl are leaving
How about enforcing laws like, I dunno, um License, insurance, and registration? May as well defund every agency since the "lawmakers" seem to want to fine the hardworking citizens while criminals run amok with impunity. Window tint? What about the transients playing Frogger on the freeway?
I feel you on that, but if someone is driving around and driving well, even if they don't have a license registration or insurance, how would anyone know they dont gave a license, insurance, etc unless they were to get pulled over for some other reason? In this case, for their window tint...
It gets well over 100 in most of SoCal. I’ve always fully tinted my vehicles. any cop that hassles people for tint is participating in “chicken shit policing.”
I live in l.a county and about 50% of cars have blacked out tint all around. Make me nervous, is it a gang related individual hiding in there, drug dealer, criminal,can they properly see me when walking or driving near them... but i just keep seeing more and more.
Identifying criminals is easier by looking at the car type and rims and so on. Not window tints. Someone with a Prius or Nissan leaf and tinted windows isn’t gonna rob you.
This is the one CHP officer that actually knows what he is talking about. Most of us shops always tell the customer the legal limit on the front windows is 70% which is basically nothing it’s clear. Customer always decided to go darker
What if your car was parked in a shitty areas and you didn’t want people to Break in so you’re tinted your windows?. Organized theft they can’t stop but tell you you can’t protect yourself
I got 25% tint (or i think it's darker), but it's perfect at daytime since it gets really hot out, and it helps out a bit keeping the interior (cool). My car also came with a 4 inch sun strip, and i haven't been pulled over. It definitely helps when the sun is trying to blind you. Sometimes, i drop the window down to take turns ar night, but it's not a huge issue for me. Maybe Cali should drop it to 30%
You’re windows are just as dark on the inside as they are on outside. One way tint is for commercial applications and was never designed to be put on cars.
@@Tintmasterswindowtinting I have a Ford truck extended cab with tinted windows on the back side windows. From outside I can't see in. From inside they are the same as all the others. Not dark at all. I don't know the particulars. Maybe added by the previous owner. But definitely only dark one way ( and very dark.) The driver and passenger windows and windshield and back window are untinted so hopefully I wont get stopped. Kinda weird to tint just those 2, but it makes it easier to find in a parking lot. There are an amazing number of white Ford pickups out there. You tint windows for a living I gather . I only know what I see on my own vehicle, which has a number of bizarre after market additions.
They have no Penal Code on Window tinting. I have researched and Cops NEVER pulls up a penal code that says it’s illegal. The law says YOU the driver have to be able to see out the window. Not them seeing in
I see tinted front windshields quite often, especially pickups in the carpool lane. Nothing's enforced..I mean, you'd have to actually be on the freeways to enforce anything.
One thing to note is if you have your window tinted beyond what's legal, you're essentially giving a cop probable cause to pull you over anytime they want to or feel like it because you have a violation.
Well hell if I go to a car dealership and buy a car, I assume it's legal.. or do I need to pay extra on eBay for a window tint reader to test it before I buy genius?
One thing to note: if police believe you to be "suspicious" which is subjective and isnt a crime. You are going to be followed until they can justify or make up a reason to pull u over
For me also for civilians to see who in my neoghborhood took my catalystic converter! I am having a hard time getting a description. Is there a way to better identify the driver when needed?
Drive by the employee parking lot of ANY law enforcement agency in California. Tell me how many Illegally tinted personal cars you find that magically don’t seem to get cited. “Rules for thee but not for me”
I don't get it, California has the Mojave Desert and Death Valley, two very hot places; Why is the VLT for Front Side Windows limited to 70 percent? Many normal states allow 35 Percent VLT on the front side windows. Every state bordering California allows 35 Percent VLT on the front side windows. I think California should change the VLT limit to 35 percent to keep consistent with the neighboring states.
I think it’s funny the cop is saying people are ill informed on the law yet most cops don’t know the laws they enforce
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Lol, sure, whatever you say buddy....
Right
@@guadalupe8589 either that or they're corrupt. Pick one
Scum bag pigs......
I can guarantee you that I can go to any police station walk up to a police officer's personal vehicle and I will see window tint on their vehicles, that is darker than the law requires, bunch of hypocrites
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they all have dark ass tint
Then do it.
even some sheriffs patrol car have tint on them here in LA
It’s to hide their “identity”
In my experience, a cop ONLY stops you for tint if he was going to stop you regardless, the tint just gives him an instant justification.
In my experience a cop doesn't care if your windows are over tinted. I see a lot of cars whose tint is over the limit and they don't get stopped.
That's why I have no tint and an inconspicuous car and can carry a gun ALLL day in my car seat because I don't draw attention.
@@juanjosehernandez4595 let them rattle most cops are cool i got let go recently🤣
In my area it depends on who ya get 🤷🏾♀️
@@hey2556 Me too. It depends on how cool you are with them. I got pulled over recently for crossing the double yellow line. They had actually replaced the double yellow line with road dots, so I thought I could turn into the parking lot for Jack-in-the-box there. He said, "No, it's still a double yellow." I didn't argue. Plus, I didn't have my insurance at the time, but I was working on it. I was so nice and cool with the officer and I explained myself, very quietly and respectfully to him. I'm a black male too, for those who think that makes a difference. He said he would let me go with a warning. I got my insurance and registration shortly thereafter. I had to pass smog and I failed 4 times, because of a full carbon fuel canister and contaminated purge value. I didn't know all those details at the time, and I hadn't even taken it for smog yet. But, I got it fixed and I passed smog. My kindness and respect got me through having to go to court and everything. Believe me, the saying is true. "You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar." When I was younger, my car was smoking badly, and I had to get that fixed too. I had just come back from Pep Boys, and I got pulled over for that in the early 1980's by LAPD in Hollywood. I use to play music in bands and I had a joint in my car too. The two white cops asked me if I had any drugs. I told them about the one joint that I had, that I planned to smoke that night in my ash tray. They found it and threw it on the ground. They had me dead to rights, and I knew it. Me being a jerk, would just make it worse on me. I was so cool and honest with them that they let me go with a warning and they let me pick up my joint too. I smoked it that night!
These fools are trying so hard to control every part of our lives, yet they just go around breaking all the laws they sworn to protect I have no respect for any of them
that's real shit speak that homie
exactly
EXXXACTLY
Thank You!!! Agree 100%
Move then
there should be a law on those blinding head lights on cars
Ain't that the truth!
YES! Those blue light are like daggers.
there is. can only be so bright, and must be pointed at road. and more things. but law has never stopped anybody before, so i keep sunglasses on my head to flip down when the blinding light appears
Exactly, I delivered pizzas at night for many years and those big trucks and SUV headlights are blinding, especially if you've driving a low riding vintage car.
I don't drive at night anymore cause my night vision is bad now.
@@azza-in_this_day_and_age good idea. I fell for the hype and got some " amber vision" glasses. They make it worse! But it's only the blue one that really bother me.
Let's be honest, tint has nothing to do with personal safety. It's simply an easy way for the police to hit revenue goals
🎼🎹Their goals will be met. 😂😂😂 They have got their money from all tinted windows. 🪗🪇🎺🎷🪘🎤Oh, happy day! 💃🏾🕺🏾
Exactly it's a fraudulent business
Really? Would you have better or worse visibility at night wearing sunglasses?
@@d.fenestrator9529 it's not the same as wearing sunglasses officer lol I've had tinted windows for years never had any issues what's so ever.... It's more for control as well as see who they stealing money from legally calling it the law lol with no tangible evidence that tinted windows are dangerous
It's the law. Laws are made to protect us all. People said similar things with seat belt laws and helmet laws. But, eventually common sense prevailed. In fact for awhile in the 60's, you could have an open container. But, that changed with M.A.D.D. A lot of young kids like tinted windows because they think it's cool. I still see people talking on their cell phones while driving and clearly distracted. I yell at them sometimes and they look at me like something is wrong with me. "Get off your cell phone and pay attention to where you are driving!"
They let people defecate on the sidewalks but their worried about how dark your tint is...😂
Not to mention, defecate in the capital.
California has it's "priorities" a little mixed up you could say...
They can’t extract revenue from the shitter or the shit, so they focus on fees, from permits and fines. Land of the FEE. Home of the PAID
Police prioritize abusing their community and revenue. If they cannot get money, abusing their community they're not interested.
Ewwwww .... YiiiiKEESS.!!!!! U RIGHT IMM DEAD 😅😂HAHA LMAO....
California especially Southern California is a desert. We need tinted windows to combat the heat and from getting sun burn. That's my reason. And I see out just fine, no dark tint is the key...
The law only applies to non police officers and firefighters right? I see police officers leave in their personal cars out of the police station with dark tint all the way around. Not to mention all the firefighters i see in there huge diesel trucks with limo tint all the way around with their firefighter sticker on the back window 😂
True that
Cry more
@@lionheart5329boot l?
@@lionheart5329 LOL say's the guy into laser eyes NFT money sink hole. We all know who's crying .....
@@lionheart5329 what you can't afford a nice car and tin so you troll here
They forgot to mention thier own Police don't even follow these laws.. expired tags years behind,Tinted windows, no license plates etc..
Well that's because so many people in California were chanting, Defund the police. Is that what Californian's wanted? Where are those idiots now? Remember when we were making cops get the jab, and they resigned? That also hurt us and we lost more cops. Where are the idiots who loved the mandates?
Report them ALL to adjacent departments. 🤣
If it's a state patrol car it will have an exempt plate That means exempt from registration fees Now on the police officers personal vehicle registration fees have to be paid But tinting If an other officer pulls an officer over I'm sure there will be a officer courtesy
I was pulled over and cited for using a signal less than 120 feet. Than I asked him why was he driving with a cracked windshield? His response “Its not my car, it’s a city vehicle, you can take it up with the city”
That’s good that they don’t enforce the expired tags part. It’s dumb to pay tags every year, which is a fraudulent business
It’s funny how they talk about how illegal to get your front windows tinted but law enforcement and celebrities do it.. very hypocritical of them
Celebrities are just willing to pay the fine , and never said anything about the law
As long as I roll my windows down….. what does it matter.
@@davidh4305 you don't get to just pay the fine. You have to take your car to court and a Sheriff Deputy will confirm if you removed the tint.
They just want to see what we're doing lol 🤣🤣🤣 still keeping my tint
All these laws for working people .. no laws for criminals and homeless
And government.
I was about to say the same thing, the state got unemployment issues, homelessness, gun violence, drug Lords and cartels. Instead the law goes after a piece of dark film on a car. How petty can they go?
it doesn't apply to police officers personal vehicles.
EXACTLY!!!
That's not true. There are jaywalking laws, vagrancy laws, and jails full of criminals charged with crimes.
Safety reasons? Hard to see at night? Why do all police cars have tinted windows?
Tint in the front or in the back?
It only becomes hard at like 25% and under. They tripping if their limit is 80%
Same reason a cop can play with his laptop while he’s driving
@@marioelburro1492 And even then, modern carbon and ceramic tints only become a problem at 20% and under on completely unlit rural roads. Which in San Diego is extremely rare. My tint has never posed an issue for me otherwise.
because they are a bunch of "GESTAPO" NAZI pigs and think they can do whatever they want. They'll even park in a Handicap parking spot & or even block your driveway.
We the people will still do as we please thank you carry on 👍🏽💯
Then he drives off in his personal car with dark tint all around 😂
100% accurate
and no front plate number too😂
Interesting, but in light of everything else going on in our country right now, I believe window tint is about the last thing on most peoples minds. The price of food, gas, housing and rent is slowly wiping people out.
Women with Melasma on their face needs it. Period!!!!
Lol you give the NPC'S to much credit 😂
Crapfornia
Commifornia
i must object that there are more important things to deal with. Illegal tint, should be banned period. medium at the most. Tickets after a warning should be $500. Seriously
I once got a Ticket for Tint. I still see lots and lots of Brand New Cars with Tint on the Front and all around.
I have limo tint on both of my cars but have never been pulled over for them. I believe it depends on the cop. You're correct about a lot newer cars having tint on every window.
How dark are your front windows?
Ditto.. but I was pushing it . They even told me at the tint shop. I got pulled over a week later 😅
Lesson learned
@Tim Timmy I have the darkest tint, which would be limo. The trick to having dark tint is rolling your window down half way so the cop can whose driving. Otherwise, it's legal to have any shade on your back windows but your passenger and driver window has to be nearly visible.
I bought my car with tinted windows
One of my friends had really dark tint on his side windows. A cop pulled us over and my friend said to roll down my window. The officer approached and told my friend why he stopped him and asked him to roll up his window. My friend said they don’t roll up. Of course the cop doesn’t believe him, so the cop tried to roll them up and they wouldn’t go up. He was pissed. He said “I know what I saw”.
My friend had installed a hidden switch that killed the power to the windows haha.
smart . now i need to eventually get one too just in case. lol
Or simply when you see a cop near by just roll the front windows down, until they pass lol
I live in SC but am now a expert on CA window tint laws. 🧠 the brain is growing!!!!
Nobody follows the laws in California, it's more of a suggestion 😂😂😂
Facts
Here's an idea, why not CHANGE IT instead of continuing to hand them money for fines? Every state bordering CA allows 35 Percent VLT on the front side windows.
@@UP9390catch 22 my friends. Laws in the country has practically made it financially impossible for most Americans to even put forth the stupendous effort to get laws changed. The average person is trading time for money. When most of your waking life is just surviving and trying to make rent and bills, it’s. Sort of pathetic that the only option people practically have is lobbying your politicians. Like that has ever worked for normal people, en masse, in the modern day, in a metropolitan.
If they’re allowing drivers with no insurance getting into big accidents and they still get to continue driving even after being reported for no coverage, only a real asshat officer will be pulling over a car over tinted windows.
Exactly.they are allowing illegal IMMIGRANTS drive without insurance or anything. What about that
@@afsanaioali8737 The illegal aliens are a protected class. You aren't allowed to question them.
Usually cops on motorcycles give tint tickets cause they just camp out at one spot all day looking for cars that don’t make a full stop, tint and no front plate. Only in cali lol
@@afsanaioali8737you are stupid with that response I had a person that was a citizen crash me with no insurance and no registration.
i admire you people that live in California! i couldn't imagine living somewhere with so many laws and taxes! youll are tough people
It's a motherfucker on the west coast. But the weather makes it all worth it. It's diffently a police state police everywhere. When I was a teenager they use to stop us from our music being to loud and then came tinted windows and then loud mufflers and then fat tires with low treads made from the manufacturers. Now cool air induction is illegal and back to tinted windows again about 40 years later. But they never have shut down the tint business are the sound stores who installed all that powerful music equipment in cars are all those muffler shop that put those bad ass loud sounding muffler on cars nor have they shut down any speed shops that tune cars to 800 to 1000 horse power. But they always focus on us regular people's and fine and tow our shit off. And get us But not the company's that sell us all that good stuff that we buy and put on our cars. They never make laws against the companies that make and sell all that shit they ticket us for having on our cars u can bet police personal Cars are fly to with some of the same shit that make our cars fly.
More like stupid people!
I live in California and a law is only good if it’s enforced. Looking at the amount of cars driving with tinted windows clearly show the law is not being enforced.
It's a law that rarely gets enforced, judging from the number of vehicles that I see with dark tinted front windows.
I received a fix-it ticket for front windows about 15 years ago. They weren't even that dark. I knew someone in law enforcement that signed off on them. I never removed the tint and haven't had an issue since.
I'm in NC and having a hard time finding someone to inspect my car with the tint and NC cop's don't mess with you much about it. But in VA cop's are Nazis about illegal tint.
What I find ironic is that I see unmarked units or even marked units with 15 or even 5% on the front windows and their law enforcement. My book we are all human whether you're an officer or a civilian we're all driving cars. We all have the same percentage of creating an accident or being in one. So if your law enforcement that doesn't give you an exception right?
I agree. What good for the goose is good for the gander. Show us by being the example. That’s what Jesus done.
It's because a lot of cops think that they are somehow better humans than you and they don't have to obey the laws like us pesky citizens do.
I’ve been next to cops with limo tint & 50% windshield tint they didnt give a rats ass
Same here.
The windshield tint is where I'm worried. That seems more contentious than the front side windows. I'm running 25% on the fronts and the cops here in the bay area don't care. But I'd love to go windshield. Just i don't want the attention to get state reffed.
"You don't wear sunglasses at night" is there a law saying you can't wear sunglasses at night?
Window tint laws are seriously abused by law enforcement ~
Personally I can't have a car without tint, I feel like the items in my car are so exposed without tint. And last: most law enforcement vehicles have dark tint, back and front.
Guaranteed that Sgt. has limo dark tints on his personal vehicle.
I think having your windows HEAVILY tinted is about the most proactive thing you can do to protect yourself from the thugs and all the violent criminals out there! Mine are limo tinted and I wouldn't have it any other way. I won't be carjacked since the morons won't know who's in the vehicle! 😂
Can't see if a gun is being pointed at them from outside either which is the best cover.
@@rkjeffery777 💪💯😁
As a single woman who lives in my car due to housing costs. ...my tinting saves my life on a daily basis
@@JustOneOpinion Amen, sister!
@@JustOneOpinion may I ask how ?
Pull them over for tint and give em tickets! But let the thief steals $3,000 in a store and just let them go makes a lot of sense.... not
Exactly
Makes perfect sense, the cops are there exclusively for revenue and to abuse their community, they only harass those whom they can take money from.
Sounds about right
The law is actually obsolete and bias. Obsolete because with the new tint you can actually see at night vs old 90’s tint. And the law is also bias because if it was a “hazard” then they wouldn’t of put them on their police and government vehicles.
Yup. Did you know that railroad locomotives have tinted windows but commercial trucks aren’t allowed to have tinted windows. Some police cars have dark tinted windows.
And this is why I fled California. My new state is not this petty 🙏
Window tint is crime now 😂
He didn't say, but I heard from a cop...cops want to be able to see inside the vehicle.
Bingo!
I've been pulled over and I roll down all 4 windows before stopping. Cops have a dangerous job.
@@Charliegsand i also pre lubricate my rectum
@@danp7463 yeah, job so dangerous they risk their lives to pull you over at night because they can’t see you
That's all it is. You can't challenge their authority. Direct results of hiring policies weeding out the "thinkers" and hiring only the "followers"
I bet his cars have limo tint on all windows
Literally having my windshield tinted right now
why do police vehicles have blacked out windows on the front sides back literally every window
Damn near every law enforcement vehicle I see has the darkest tint available..
The reason are simple: cops want to see whose in a vehicle and they don't think it's any of our darn business what they are up to. Typical double standard. When cops are yelling and cursing at you while you are just sitting there alway say " what with the attitude ?"
@@jefolson6989 EXACTLY!!!! You are 100% correct.
At one time the story was you couldn't have your windows tinted to protect the cops when they pull you over so they can see you.
Yep I remember that story too.
When the cops pull me over i lower all my windows and put my hands on the dash so they dont say we cant see with the tint.
I live out of my 4runner, as a single female nomad I need the tint for safety as well as it keeps the heat down inside the vehicle quite a bit.
Cops don't care about "safety" they want to violate your privacy and he did not even mention that
LOL. 🤣
@@rerite2 what’s funny?
Where do you poop
He forgot to mention that if you drive a tesla u can have all your windows tinted 🙄
I want every window covered even front and use camera and monitors they just want to pick to pull everyone over to go fishing
That's because one is embarrassed driving that piece of crap car
@@White_Snake69😂👍🏽
@@White_Snake69 too bad you cant afford one... enjoy your 5+ gas
@@NAT-turners-Revenge how many have blown up and been recalled?
And what are teslas gonna do when the power grid shuts down and they can't charge the junk? Atleast when the government shuts down the power I'll have a full tank and get the hell outta here.
This is a rule a lot like an apartment complex stating that you have to make two and a half times your rent. It's meant for discrimination. The original rule was to allow an officer to see who they were pulling over prior to.
Apartment complex have a two and a half times rent clause that they can use their discretion to overrule. If they don't want the tenant they will obviously enforce the rule to the letter but if they like the potential tenant they have their discretion of excusing the two and a half times rule... Like these officers when they see the driver, it allows them to use their discretion whether or not to pull them over if they've committed a violation.
I see these are the important things for CA to enforce!
Know your rights: tinted front windows in CA are _reasonable suspicion_ to be pulled over, temporarily detained & questioned. However, tinted front windows (on their own) are *not* _probable cause_ for a search of your vehicle. Point: if you're pulled over for tinted front windows, be polite, explain that you bought the vehicle in that condition & that you'll remove the tint ASAP, & then decline the vehicle search when asked. Simple.
Or you could just be a genius and say cite the 4th amendment officer. I use the 4th to sneak snacks into theaters.
@@navygirlav2012 Yes. & when all else fails:
"I invoke my right to remain silent & I want to speak w my attorney."
So bend over and be weak for an agency that just wants money and greed? 😂
Great stuff on the law
Rather get a ticket than get skin cancer
You know how many times I’ve seen City police, County, or state troopers, have illegal window tint.
Remember if you get a ticket for tint, take a photo of the law enforcement vehicle They are also tinted.
So what about people in AZ or NV. Do they have better vision?
THANK YOU. I'm glad someone else is aware of how idiotically inconsistent tint laws are between states. VA is just as idiotic with the tint laws, excluding DC, every state bordering VA allows 35 Percent VLT on the front side windows. If I didn't live very close to the VA border, I would absolutely have 35 percent on my front side windows. VA considers a tint violation a misdemeanor offense, they only allow 50 percent VLT on the front side windows.
Remember to fight your tickets with Trial by Written Declaration meaning you just have to fight it threw the mail and 2 chances of winning. I've won like this before
What do you write?
@Juan Rodriguez I just put not guilty because of lack of evidence then turn it in very last minute so the cop doesn't have time to respond back
LoL! Windows tint is a huge concern when there are people shooting up,Pooping,pleasuring themselves,breaking into cars 😂😂😂
SYSTEM IS BROKEN
Imagine getting a misdemeanor cuz of window tint lmao
If you have regulations for window tint you gotta have regulations for these high leds
I live in Chicago where we have the same window tint laws as California. My car is tinted to where you can’t see in which I like for privacy, and dates lol… I can already have my gun out and shoot through the glass before criminals see me. It’s only illegal so the police can pick and choose who they wanna make take it off. I also have a clean record, clean car and a police flag sticker on my trunk. Police know you’re on their side.
They care about the really suspicious ghetto mf’s who drive blacked out Dodge Durangos and Nissian Altimas that smell like weed and don’t have car insurance and criminal records.
My tint
Windshield 50%
Front windows 25%
Rear windows 20%
Trunk glass 20%
Police won’t bother you. Ever… unless you give them a reason to. California is a shit hole so they probably will regardless. But here in Chicago or Illinois in general they won’t. People need to understand many laws are only in place so when YOU mess up they have some control over you and can charge you. Think about that.
I get pulled over sometimes in IL. I stay in the burbs. I have 35 on the windshield, 15 on the front 2, 5% on the back. Idc. Tint protects your interior, I don’t want to be seen & who the fuck want’s sun in their face all the time? Cali is a L state regardless. Their politics are worse than IL. That’s why ppl are leaving
Double 5% tint and 20% front window shield. Yall ain seeing me or stopping me 😂
And you ain’t seeing a deer at night
@@PhaseSkater I don't drive my cars at night
Tint laws should only be issued at night then if it’s for safety. During the day it shouldn’t be effected
Yeah because we need to add even more complication to the issue
Tint tickets are scams at the very least it should be a non moving violation
CHP said in the desert you won’t get stopped since it’s ridiculously hot
How about enforcing laws like, I dunno, um License, insurance, and registration? May as well defund every agency since the "lawmakers" seem to want to fine the hardworking citizens while criminals run amok with impunity. Window tint? What about the transients playing Frogger on the freeway?
I feel you on that, but if someone is driving around and driving well, even if they don't have a license registration or insurance, how would anyone know they dont gave a license, insurance, etc unless they were to get pulled over for some other reason? In this case, for their window tint...
@Inner Dimensions the same way they always have? Running plates?
@@J_h_420 sure, if the cop just happens to be right behind them to run their plates.
It gets well over 100 in most of SoCal. I’ve always fully tinted my vehicles. any cop that hassles people for tint is participating in “chicken shit policing.”
Tell your legislators to change the law. Literally every state bordering California allows 35 Percent VLT on the front side windows.
That’s interesting because all the Chp cars have tints on the front windows 😂
I live in l.a county and about 50% of cars have blacked out tint all around. Make me nervous, is it a gang related individual hiding in there, drug dealer, criminal,can they properly see me when walking or driving near them... but i just keep seeing more and more.
Omg stfu 😂😂 don’t leave the house
You be even more terrified in Florida as this isn't a law and our state is hot af everyone has tints
Truth
Identifying criminals is easier by looking at the car type and rims and so on. Not window tints. Someone with a Prius or Nissan leaf and tinted windows isn’t gonna rob you.
I live in Los Angeles and about 75% of cars out here have heavy tink. Mines included.
99% of cops to give you tickets for tinted windows have 5% from the front to the back on the personal vehicles about that
This is the one CHP officer that actually knows what he is talking about. Most of us shops always tell the customer the legal limit on the front windows is 70% which is basically nothing it’s clear. Customer always decided to go darker
What if your car was parked in a shitty areas and you didn’t want people to Break in so you’re tinted your windows?. Organized theft they can’t stop but tell you you can’t protect yourself
yep pretty much. They really don't care about you.
Can we vote to change this please. Instead of just commenting.
meanwhile ive got 15% ontop of 5% all round and 35% my windshield with a 12" 5% strip its perfect xD
I got 25% tint (or i think it's darker), but it's perfect at daytime since it gets really hot out, and it helps out a bit keeping the interior (cool). My car also came with a 4 inch sun strip, and i haven't been pulled over. It definitely helps when the sun is trying to blind you. Sometimes, i drop the window down to take turns ar night, but it's not a huge issue for me. Maybe Cali should drop it to 30%
Got mine at the same! I'm in Chicago.
My windows are not dark from the inside. One way tint has been available a long time. The truth is cops want to be able to see into your car.
You’re windows are just as dark on the inside as they are on outside. One way tint is for commercial applications and was never designed to be put on cars.
@@Tintmasterswindowtinting I have a Ford truck extended cab with tinted windows on the back side windows. From outside I can't see in. From inside they are the same as all the others. Not dark at all. I don't know the particulars. Maybe added by the previous owner. But definitely only dark one way ( and very dark.) The driver and passenger windows and windshield and back window are untinted so hopefully I wont get stopped. Kinda weird to tint just those 2, but it makes it easier to find in a parking lot. There are an amazing number of white Ford pickups out there. You tint windows for a living I gather . I only know what I see on my own vehicle, which has a number of bizarre after market additions.
They have no Penal Code on Window tinting. I have researched and Cops NEVER pulls up a penal code that says it’s illegal. The law says YOU the driver have to be able to see out the window. Not them seeing in
Being that it’s a safety issue. Remove all tints on law enforcement vehicles
Too many stupid regulations
IF YOU GO TO YOUR LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS PARKING LOT, YOULL FIND THAT 90% OF THEIR VEHICLES ARE TINTED
Question, i seen expensive vehicles like Maybach cars windows tint very dark all around? Any exception???
That's not how tinting works. You can see outside just fine at night
It used to be that way with dyed tint. now with the carbon or ceramic tint there is very good visibility even at night.
If I can’t see because of my tint…….I roll the window down.
I see tinted front windshields quite often, especially pickups in the carpool lane.
Nothing's enforced..I mean, you'd have to actually be on the freeways to enforce anything.
I mean honestly that goes to show it’s not that big of a deal
Lmao my tax money goes to cops that be on their phones all the damn time and they worried about tint
One thing to note is if you have your window tinted beyond what's legal, you're essentially giving a cop probable cause to pull you over anytime they want to or feel like it because you have a violation.
Well hell if I go to a car dealership and buy a car, I assume it's legal.. or do I need to pay extra on eBay for a window tint reader to test it before I buy genius?
@@Tiger-From-Clemson The cop literally answered that question. Was the 5 minute video too long for you remember all the details?
they will pull you over for window tint even if there are no windows at all. and they will smell burning marijuanna as well. also, you resisted.
One thing to note: if police believe you to be "suspicious" which is subjective and isnt a crime. You are going to be followed until they can justify or make up a reason to pull u over
If you have nothing to hide,then why worry about it?
tint laws should be same for every states
For me also for civilians to see who in my neoghborhood took my catalystic converter! I am having a hard time getting a description. Is there a way to better identify the driver when needed?
Its funny because all undercover cops have their windows blacked out
I have 5% tint all around even the windshield on my silverado
They don't give you heat for the windshield? I want to but I'm worried cause I'm not looking for a state ref.
@@heyaisdabomb not really when ever I see a cop i roll my windows down ...
I'm not taking my tint for no one I live in Coachella valley where it gets 120plus degrees go ahead pull me over..
Wouldn't be surprise if this officer personal car has illegal tints.
Drive by the employee parking lot of ANY law enforcement agency in California. Tell me how many Illegally tinted personal cars you find that magically don’t seem to get cited. “Rules for thee but not for me”
Rocks are a factor for collisions, bright sun glare are a factor for collisions, wind is a factor for collision. Etc etc
All of those things you are talking about are considered act of god and out of your control with responsible decisions.
@@craigles623 so why do cops try to prevent gods work
My van has limo tint.
Does that mean the same for law enforcement vehicles as well? Undercover vehicles to
My face burns when the sun comes up
What about the heat? California gonna pay my hospital bills if I get a stroke
I’m from LA I see 1 time with tinted windows all day.
So are they breaking the law?
Then there’s cops that’s run limo tint 😂 like bruh, dystopia much?
Thanks for having this legal expert on to inform us. I like the new legal expert uniforms BTW..
🤣🤣🤣
no one enforces that in California. I’ve got kids and it’s made a world of difference. Then again maybe it’s because im driving a family car.
They really shouldn’t it’s not bothering anyone
They don’t like window tinting so they can profile you 😂
I don't get it, California has the Mojave Desert and Death Valley, two very hot places; Why is the VLT for Front Side Windows limited to 70 percent? Many normal states allow 35 Percent VLT on the front side windows. Every state bordering California allows 35 Percent VLT on the front side windows. I think California should change the VLT limit to 35 percent to keep consistent with the neighboring states.
Go to your police department and see how many personnel cars have way over 30% let's just say one set of laws for police and one for public
Finally an educational video 📹 hope to see more 🙏 🙌
There was nothing educational about this video, dude doesn’t even understand the law he’s trying to enforce
Shut up
30% tint = 30 % light transmission. Wtf this cop is on the news confusing people?
30%+30%=60% not 50 something lmao 🤣🤣🤣