From the Bike Law Blog: Getting away with it: how Oregon police are toothless to cite bad drivers.
In my work providing legal advice and a legal voice for Oregon’s bicyclists, I often hear about times when a road user reports a dangerous driver to the police. Such reports can be met with a collective shrug by law enforcement and no citation is issued. While apathy by law enforcement is pretty common when it comes to road user complaints about dangerous drivers, there is a legal reason that the police do not issue citations to these drivers: they are not allowed to. ORS 810
