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Originally Posted by PORSCHE
Now, for the tint. It's wrong for you to have it.
The police officer's right to LIVE outweighs your desire for privacy, coolness, whatever. The officer NEEDS to be able to SEE you and SEE your HANDS as he approaches your vehicle. The officer's life depends on it.
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"Wrong"? On a moral level, it's not wrong at all. Illegal, sure, but morality and the law are two different things.
This probably won't be a popular opinion, but let me say police officers have a fatality rate somewhere around 16 per 100k. Conversely, farmers are at 38.5/100k and garbage men at 25.2/100k. Police are very well compensated, at least in California (60-120k / year), for what realistically requires very little education. In short, they know what they're getting in to.
With that said, does that mean they deserve to be shot at? Of course not, but it should not infringe upon someone's right to privacy while residing in one's own property. In fact, the individual in the car, when stopped by the police, is more at risk of bodily harm or death than the police officer (particularly if one happens to be male, or worse, a male minority).
tl;dr being a cop is pretty safe and well compensated and we shouldn't restrict innocuous rights because it makes police feel better.