What kind of traffic officer would you be?

Imagine you were a police officer assigned to auto traffic (and/or parking) enforcement duty, and you were allowed to exercise a lot of personal discretion about how you did it (which laws you’d enforce, how you’d talk to people, whom you’d give a break and why). How would you be about it? How do you wish the police would be about it?

If you ARE a traffic officer, what’s it been like for you, and/or how do you wish it were?

(Evelyn’s Pet Zebra inspired this question with her reply to the question about whether as a traffic cop you’d give breaks on tickets to people with organ donor labels on their licenses.)