@jwildeboer @mort Then there's indeed one reason to go to court. The second one however still is evidence that the police lied. Unfortunately, in that case, you need a strong proof of innocence.

@jwildeboer @mort It doesn't end up in the “Führungszeugnis” if it's no more than 90 “Tagessätze”, and the first offense. There's not enough information in Jan's toot, but many “Strafbefehle” are exactly those 90 Tagessätze, for exactly that reason that it's then not going into the Führungszeugnis.

Going to court adds another risk: the judge is free to impose a higher fine.

@jwildeboer Difficult to say. Is there any video proof that she didn't?

If the police goes to court with such allegations, they really always win, UNLESS there is a video proof showing that the police lied. Yes, they always lie. But the court will never admit that the authorities lie, until there is a really convincing proof.

@inthehands But that's what they do. The interpreters of the law are not the humans I would trust with that task. Judges are a self-selected set of people who think that law is just, particularly the way they interpret it. They often also think the way power is distributed now is just.

These people are the last ones that should be allowed to do that life debugging of the law. They are even worse than the politicians that make the law in the first place (and that's awful enough).