&quot;“They’re stopping cars without legal justification all the time,” said Kaeckmeister, who in the past year has gone to two tribunal hearings to testify before a judge that his superiors forced him to seize a car when he didn’t have the evidence to do so.&quot;<p>His superiors pressured him to steal a car by threatening to fire him, and to fabricate evidence, perjure himself, and file false police reports in order to hold it for ransom without legal basis.  It shouldn&#x27;t make a difference whether he&#x27;s in the traffic enforcement business or the puppy breeding business, the same actions are a clear crime regardless of his background;  He wasn&#x27;t even under duress by the definition of that word used in the courts, though perhaps whistleblower protections apply (if they still exist).<p>Dude&#x27;s just confessed, before a judge, to a massive profit-seeking criminal conspiracy over and above what was authorized by local legislature.  Arrest <i>somebody</i>.