Old US 12, through this area more commonly called Michigan Avenue, at all points between Ypsilanti and I-275, perhaps beyond, is Very heavily patrolled from dusk ’til dawn every Friday and Saturday night. It is Crawling with cops looking to finish filling their ticket quotas for the week. They do not limit themselves to speed limits. Cracked taillight? Exhaust a little loud? You’d better beware. You’d think they’d have better things to do. If they cared about traffic safety, they’d be on the streets around the bars in the immediate vicinity of Eastern Michigan University just a few miles away, where the college kids are getting blotto and driving the wrong way on one-way streets, but it isn’t about that. It’s about ticket quotas and if you travel on Michigan Avenue on those nights you can expect to be pulled over regularly for a Very thorough vehicle inspection–they have done everything to me but an emissions check, and that’s probably next.