Rosendale police are notorious for pulling over vehicles. Its a sleepy little village with a police budget far too high for its crime level/population. I believe their main job is revenue collectors. My commute takes me through this area and now that I am working nights it seems I get stopped once a week because I am on the road during driving home drunk hours, presumably they are trying to find drunk drivers? Just last week a Rosendale cop turned around, I assumed to pursue me, so I had just passed a pull-off area where it would be safe for him to get out of his car off the road and out of traffic, so I backed down the road 20 feet. He gave me a ticket for unsafe backing, even though I specifically told him I was backing up with his safety in mind. Half of my family are cops around this area and they all cannot believe the way this police officer acted. I always try to get to a safe area and pull as far off the road as I can so that policemen are not in any more danger than they face everyday serving civilians. I do this and of course hope others do the same for any of my family members that pull them over just trying to do their job. I stopped in my lane, put my blinker on, and checked my mirrors and was looking behind me while I was backing up. There were no other vehicles on the road that I would have placed in danger. It was only myself and the officer coming up behind me. I was extremely polite and courteous, after all, they are just at work like any of us. He decided to "give me a break" on my NYS registration that was not FULLY attached to the window because of the cheap materials NYS DMV uses for their stickers. So instead of giving me a ticket for that, he gave me a moving violation with points on my license. Avoid Rosendale at all costs. I think I am going to start driving the extra 15 minutes on my way to work to avoid this area all together.

Plus one to the comment above, Revenue collectors is all that place is.