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Houston Police Department: 31-years of service observing Marxism via LGBTQ/DEI destroy my Police Department…

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My personal experience serving 31-years with the Houston Police Department

After having served as an infantryman in my beloved United States Marine Corps and attending undergraduate studies, I applied for and entered the Houston Police Department’s Training Academy in 1979. At that time, the Houston PD was a hard-charging, respected, law enforcement agency, the hiring process was stringent physiologically, psychologically, ethically and morally. According to an academy instructor, for every seat in my academy class there were 19-denied applications for employment. Personal ethics and morality were the primary focus of the hiring process; these personal attributes verified by incredibly stringent and intimidating preliminary interviews and a thorough polygraph examination; this, culminating with an extensive “background investigation” involving months of door-to-door investigative interviews of the applicant’s family members, former employers, coworkers and friends. The primary concern of those reviewing applications for employment with the Houston PD was, “Have you participated in anything, any conduct or behavior, that would embarrass and shame the integrity of the Houston Police Department should you be approved for employment?”

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WOKENESS, Political Correctness, Liberalism, Progressivism/Marxism, Moral Compromise, creeps into the Houston Police Department…

In 1983, with the advent of the Kathy Whitmire Administration in Houston and the Affirmative Action hire of Police Chief Lee P. Brown, the Houston Police Department began a downward spiral in morality, ethics, reverse racial discrimination via Affirmation Action mandates. With the advent of “Neighborhood Policing” protocols and the implementation of an overzealous Internal Affairs Division, the Houston PD incrementally and methodically morphed into a pacifist, WOKE, police agency where “good” officers were those who avoided negative citizenry contacts/interactions; in other words, those officers who did NOTHING proactive thereby avoiding internal affairs complaints and subsequent investigations were appreciated and praised by supervision.

This enforcement pacifism and impotency becoming necessary protocol as “due process protections,” concerning citizenry or supervisory allegations of policy infractions, were absent. The absence of due process protections to buffer unfounded, spurious, complaints/allegations, mandated, as a matter of occupational survival, that the officer “prove his innocence” beyond ANY doubt; therefore, an investigative conclusion/disposition of “unfounded” (no evidence of wrong doing, culpability) was essential if said officer was to avoid a permanent record of misconduct allegations, internal investigations, having been conducted, placed in his/her personnel file. By Department policy, subsequent a specific number of misconduct allegations (of any disposition other than perhaps “unfounded”) in a specified time frame resulted in a “Personnel Concerns Committee Review.” This serious review of an officer’s complaint history could possibly result in termination of employment with the Houston Police Department as the Personnel Concerns Panel/review was made policy as an alternative way for the HPD to terminate an officer’s employment via bypassing employment protections that shielded officers from retaliatory motives of a biased and compromised police administration.

This overzealousness by HPD’s Administration, their obsession with liability concerns, and their “yes” boys in the Internal Affairs Division, gave way to law enforcement impotence, apathy, laziness, a valid fear of engaging in any form of “proactive policing” essential to law enforcement effectiveness; therefore, the criminal thugs in Houston became emboldened as police routinely “look the other way” and refuse to engage the criminal element due to an absence of support from the upper echelon of the Houston Police Department; consequently, the citizenry unnecessarily suffers due to an absence of effective police service.

As one “old timer” patrolman/training officer would tell his rookie trainees as he parked his patrol vehicle in a remote wooded area facing an old tree away from public view: “You see that old tree over there, that’s MY tree…I come here everyday I’m on duty and I watch that tree grow and if you desire to complete twenty-years with this police department, you’ll find you a tree and watch it grow.” In other words, do nothing, say nothing, see nothing, don’t be an “over achiever,” take your calls-for-service, write your reports, turn your shop (patrol vehicle) in on time, go home and keep your mouth shut, that’s how you complete twenty successful years with the Houston Police Department…sad, but true.

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My experience having rejected the advice of the old training officer…

Subsequent 8-years of patrol duty involving assignments in uniformed street patrol and motorcycle patrol (Solo-Motorcycle Patrol Unit), I transferred to the Helicopter Patrol Division in 1989 where I served just under two-decades, 18-years as a commercial helicopter patrol pilot. During those two-decades in helicopter patrol, I had lost touch with the street officers I patrolled with in Houston’s Downtown Districts during the early 1980s; therefore, I was unaware of the liberal, WOKE, Progressive, changes that were manifesting within my Police Department. WOKE policies and agendas that warred against true, effective, police patrol work.

I routinely heard the “rumors” from patrol officers who visited the helicopter hangar at Hobby Airport, but I found their accusations and complaints difficult to believe. Then, in 2009, due to a heated disagreement relevant to proper protocol over the recovery of a downed helicopter, I ran afoul of a new, arrogant, supervisory administration assigned to the Helicopter Patrol Division and ultimately requested a transfer back to patrol duties. As an aside, the undo harassment I received from the new administration’s Captain concerning my transfer request to patrol and the “lesbian” Assistant Chief who appointed this new administration to the Helicopter Division was subtly disturbing. More on that later.

Subsequent months of enduring harassment from the new administration’s Captain assigned to the Helicopter Patrol Division, returning to uniformed patrol duties was indeed an eye-opening experience subsequent 19-years in the Air Support Division. What those patrolmen had been complaining about when visiting the helicopter hangar: HPD’s compromise with LGBTQ; the fear and concerns relevant to performing productive proactive police work and investigations; an overzealous Internal Affairs Division; an out-of-touch Police Administration, were indeed TRUE. The Houston PD of 2009 was NOT the Houston PD I had worked for over two-decades earlier as a patrol officer on the streets of Houston; but in all fairness, neither was the society that HPD was responsible for providing protection. Progressivism/Marxism; liberalism/atheism/secular humanism; sexual deviancy via pervasive moral relativism; rampant drug addiction; drug induced mental and spiritual illnesses; the weakening of the Biblical family unit; the absence of state-run mental institutions, these have all taken their toll on the City of Houston, Houston’s Police Department and the United States as a whole. America is a mentally and spiritually ill society. I am so very thankful to my LORD for having had the opportunity to experience a few years of actually performing police work before demonically rooted Progressivism-Liberalism-Marxism destroyed the job I love so very much. To this very day, I bleed blue.

The slippery slope of moral compromise via moral relativism…

My Houston PD had become a bastion of LGBTQIA++ compromise; DEI-Affirmative Action discrimination, hiring quotas – assignments based on sexual orientation-race; these inequities and unfairness inevitably fostered racial tension within the ranks. [The Houston PD literally stole my promotion to sergeant via Affirmative Action protocols costing me hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars in income over the years; this, due solely to the color of my skin as they promoted unqualified Blacks and Hispanics, some of whom having never passed a promotional exam let alone achieved a promotable score.] A lowering of hiring standards, relevant to moral turpitude, allowing the mentally, morally, ethically and spiritually deceived to receive employment with the HPD as homosexuals, transsexuals, lesbians, were welcomed into the HPD, this compromise resulted in employee morale faltering throughout the Police Department. Quoting a patrol sergeant at HPD’s Westside Station, “Love the job-Hate the Department.” The Houston PD’s compromise with moral deviancy via the PRIDE/LGBTQ Marxist agenda, discriminatory DEI/Affirmative Action protocol, was and is interpreted as treasonous, unfaithfulness, unprofessionalism, traitorous, by the men and women who believe that the law enforcement community should be one of honor, dignity, morality, ethics, professionalism.

It is my understanding that certain applicants with “misdemeanor criminal histories” were also permitted to apply for employment with the Houston PD for positions in uniformed patrol. As if these insane policies were not sufficiently embarrassing, one male supervisor wanting to transition into a “female” reportedly had a penis-tuck surgery (gender reassignment surgery) performed in the Orient and returned to the Houston PD as a supervisor in drag. I personally observed this tall, rather large “man” in a dress as a “supervisor” of officers! The Houston Police Department had become something I no longer recognized or could identify with.

I voiced and physically demonstrated my disdain for LGBTQ sexual deviancy in the ranks of the Houston Police Department. I voiced my disappointment with my Department’s compromise with LGBTQ/DEI while forced to attend mandatory in-service training classes (sensitivity training), queer deviance stemming from mental and spiritual deception that was wearing the uniform, the badge, a weapon and allowed to police the streets of Houston, this queer deviancy was permitted in supervisory capacities as well. Furthermore, I protested the Department’s coercion that I attend class presentations by a lesbian speaker whose agenda was to sensitize the auditorium, filled to capacity with officers and supervisors, to the perversions and deceptive lifestyle of LGBTQIA++. I voiced my anger to the lesbian speaker that I was insulted that my police department would expect me to sit and listen to this perverted filth. I then proceeded to walk-out of the auditorium in demonstration to the deceptive and destructive policies undergirding moral and ethical compromise within the Houston Police Department. I’m sure this act of defiance did not set well with the Houston PD’s Administration.

My disdain and objections to my Department’s compromise with LGBTQ in the ranks of the HPD resulted in subtle forms of backlash/a subtle uneasiness from the morally and ethically compromised Police Administration. My “Assistant Chief” over the Helicopter Division was a lesbian; my Captain in patrol, subsequent my transfer from Helicopter Patrol, was a lesbian and rumored to be the lesbian lover of my former Assistant Chief. The subtle friction between the HPD and me was exacerbated by my concerted efforts to enforce City Ordinance 30-3 (Noisy Vehicles Generally) and Texas, 547-604 (Muffler Required), subsequent my transfer back to patrol duties in 2009.

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Motor vehicle noise enforcement, “the straw that broke the camel’s back,“

My patrol beat assignment in West Houston had, within its jurisdictional boundaries, a very popular “biker bar” known as “The Dam Ice House” (a LOUD, thug inundated, vulgar, drunken, biker bar that I’m proud to have assisted in its closure). Just outside my jurisdictional boundaries in Harris County, was another biker bar located on FM 1093/Westheimer Road extension. The abusively LOUD, mentally and spiritually ill, biker thugs who frequented these unscrupulous biker bars were/are operating illegally LOUD, illegally equipped, motorcycles in violation of CFR 40 Part 205, Houston City Ordinance 30-5, Texas State Muffler Statute 547.604 (Muffler Required).

These illegally LOUD, illegally equipped motorcycles are modified with noncompliant aftermarket exhaust mechanisms (not for road use exhausts-racing environments only as per the US EPA) emitting noise energy output that, in certain scenarios, is audible for one-statute mile under hard acceleration. Much to my amazement, no one, absolutely NO ONE, was doing anything about the unacceptable vehicular NOISE situation in Houston. Why are vehicular NOISE thugs allowed to bully and abuse society’s most innocent, our children, our elderly, our handicapped, our families, with impunity, day and night, and “law enforcement” looks the other way? Yes, we’ve already discussed that…

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Vehicular NOISE violations as lucrative probable cause, (illegal vehicular noise = aggressive driving behavior) – A commonsense approach…

During my enforcement of vehicular noise violations, I discovered that employing illegal vehicular noise as “probable cause” for a stop and investigate to be the most lucrative form of probable cause available to the average patrol officer. Employing vehicular NOISE as probable cause for a stop resulted in clearing via arrest/incarceration untold numbers of active warrants (felony and misdemeanor), arrests/incarcerations for driver’s license suspensions, citations for insurance and equipment violations. It is true that the personality-type of those who illegally modify a motor vehicle to emit dangerous, intrusive, illegal, noise energy is the very same personality type that possesses a propensity to offend in other areas of the law as well; therefore, narcissism, selfishness, are pervasive among those who abuse the citizenry with vehicular NOISE. Riding/driving LOUD is a “red flag” that the violator is a narcissistic thug-bully who cares NOTHING for the health and welfare, the daily quality of life, of his/her neighbor.

Additionally, for many years, Houston has been plagued with illegal street racing which far too often results in major accidents, fatalities, not to mention the destruction to daily/nightly quality of life due to the intrusive, illegal, vehicular noise. There is an inexorable link between illegal vehicular NOISE and aggressive driving behavior. The personality type that enjoys the narcissistically rooted attention garnered by a noisy vehicle also finds a dopamine high from street racing with other performance oriented, illegally modified, vehicles; therefore, commonsense suggests that employing illegal vehicular NOISE as probable cause for a stop, investigate, criminal history check, photos-audio, logging vehicle and operator information into a coordinated database, will have profound impacts on stymieing illegal racing, aggressive driving/riding, on the streets of Houston, Texas.

Why does law enforcement refuse to employ dangerous, intrusive, “vehicular noise” as probable cause for a stop and background investigation of the operator and passengers when applicable?

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Houston’s Leadership cowers in the presence of criminal bullies…

Illegally LOUD, illegally equipped, motorcycles, trucks, automobiles, inundated my beat assignment in west Houston, the citizenry, especially the most vulnerable to the illegal vehicular NOISE, were and continue to be audibly assaulted day and night, 24/7/365. My enforcement efforts to bring peace and lawful order, a quiet, peaceful, healthy, daily quality of life, to those citizens within my beat assignment were met with vitriol, angry rebuttal, vulgar and life-threatening comments, by thug, narcissistic, LOUD bikers, while “biker rights organizations,” such as the Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF), interceded on behalf of their donors in Washington DC; later, the MRF published lies about my retirement status in their newsletter seeking to disparage my professional reputation (letter/rebuttal below).

The “Texas Motorcycle Rights Association (TMRA)” did their part by writing a letter to Houston’s Mayor Parker accusing me of harassment and requesting that I be removed from enforcement (TMRA letter in attachment below); the local news media in Houston allied with the criminal LOUD biker thugs; the biased media waited outside my traffic court to interview bikers subsequent their adjudication relevant to illegal NOISE; business owners in Houston sympathized with the biker thugs fearing a loss of income/revenue if my enforcement initiative deterred biker access to retail establishments; biker thugs were and are glorified as some form of “patriot” when in reality, they’re bully thugs who abuse children with illegal NOISE.

My 99.9% conviction-rate on all vehicle noise emissions violations adjudicated in the municipal court system mandated extra HPD security in my traffic court; this, out of concerns for my personal safety during testimony due to threats of biker retaliation (biker comments URL below); consequently, my immediate supervision ran scared and confused; my Department’s upper echelon cowed to the concerns over liability/Constitutionality; the Mayor’s Office and the City Council ran scared of the aggressive LOUD biker thugs who rallied en masse at City Hall on two different occasions, threatening the City Council and Mayor with retaliation if my Constitutionally sound enforcement efforts were not stopped. I was prohibited by order from attending the biker rallies, protests, at Houston’s City Hall to explain my reasoning before the Council Members and Mayor for enforcing applicable vehicular noise laws. The upper echelon of the Houston PD, in its arrogance, refused to meet with me one-on-one to discuss my vehicular noise enforcement initiative and the Constitutionally sound reasoning for same (letter to Chief below). Cowards all.

Compromised Law Enforcement Personnel: Law Enforcement Biker Gangs

I had never, in my 31-years of service to the citizens of Houston, TX, seen such cowards and pacifists and compromised law enforcement personnel as I did during my years of vehicular NOISE enforcement in Houston. To my amazement, some of my most avid haters and detractors were law enforcement personnel who compromise their oath of office and their personal integrity by riding and driving illegally LOUD vehicles off duty, some were members of local law enforcement biker gangs. Sworn, accredited, law enforcement officers who dress, walk, talk, like thug biker gang members off-duty while they wear a badge and gun and patrol the streets of Houston, Harris County as law enforcement officers while on duty. These law enforcement biker thug organizations/gangs are present throughout the United States and nothing is done by their individual department leadership or the Federal Bureau of Investigations to stop the thug conduct of those who ride illegally LOUD, act and talk like biker trash, while employed as a public servant. This is unacceptable!

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Legal precedent ignites a fire fueling retribution…

My patrol Sergeant, who drove an illegally LOUD racing Corvette to 6AM roll call, ordered me to STOP enforcing the vehicular noise laws to which I rebutted and challenged his unlawful order with legal precedent, Aaron C. Aguilar v. State of Texas (2008); Aguilar provides legal precedent relevant to law enforcement’s right to stop and investigate loud motor vehicles based solely on an officer’s professional opinion as to the vehicle’s illegality due to a defective or illegal exhaust mechanism. Houston’s “City Legal” Department overturned the Sergeant’s unlawful order; this legal victory over my immediate supervision drove an unforgivable wedge between my NOISE enforcement efforts, my immediate supervision, the police administration; both, the Mayor’s office and the City Council; after all, who was this old patrol officer possessing the audacity to challenge the omnipotence of Houston’s Police Administration and supervision? How dare he! My enforcement of applicable vehicular noise laws was lawful and Constitutionally sound; therefore, HPD opted to place me on desk duty, repeatedly, to STOP my vehicular noise enforcement initiative seeing that I refused to stop citing and incarcerating, whenever possible, those who abuse the citizenry with unlawful vehicular NOISE energy.

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Houston PD’s Administration panders to the perjury of the LOUD Biker Cult[ure]…

Also, noteworthy concerning the cowardliness and apathy of the Houston Police Department’s Administration. Criminal, LOUD, thug, biker trash, at the behest of biker rights organizations in Texas and in Washington DC, were lining up at the citizen complaint intake at HPD’s Internal Affairs Division to file spurious, perjurious, false allegations of misconduct against me for having cited, arrested, incarcerated, those who willfully, with intent, abuse Houston’s most vulnerable, Houston’s most innocent, with illegal vehicular NOISE.

The biker rights organizations were made privy to Houston’s weak-link concerning “citizens complaints” and the tactic of employing same to undermine my lawful, constitutionally sound, vehicular noise enforcement initiative. As the false allegations began to stack-up requiring a mandatory response from me, over and over again, I submitted a request via my chain-of-command to criminally charge these individual bikers for perjury; after all, they had signed an affidavit that their allegations against me were true when audio and video evidence existed that exonerated me of these spurious and perjurious allegations of misconduct. In response to my request for intercession, Houston’s “Major Offenders Unit” began approaching the Harris County District Attorneys Office to file perjury charges against those bikers who had perjured themselves by swearing to false allegations of misconduct.

Shamefully, the Chief’s Office of the Houston PD interceded and stopped investigators from Houston’s Major Offenders Unit from filing perjury charges against the lying, deceiving, bikers stating that allowing these bikers to be charged with perjury might deter other citizens from filing complaints on officers for allegations of misconduct. In other words, to HADES with the false allegations against Officer Holtsclaw, we don’t care, Holtsclaw is expendable; to Hades with the rule of law; to Hades with the quality of life of Houston’s citizenry…allow the false allegations to stand and allow the LOUD bikers and LOUD auto and truck operators to abuse the citizenry at will.

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Enough was Enough…

The culmination of the shame I felt for serving a Police Department that compromised its integrity with the deviant immorality and mental illness of LGBTQIA++; the unfairness of DEI; having had my promotion to sergeant stolen through Affirmative Action mandates and having had the blatant reverse discrimination upheld by the 5th Circuit; having had lesbians placed over me in supervision in two separate divisions within the HPD; watching my immediate supervision, my Police Administration, the Mayor’s office, the City Council, run pathetically scared from biker rights organizations and cower to the threats from thug LOUD bikers in Houston; after having been repeatedly placed on desk duty pending LOUD bikers spurious allegations/complaints and the Administration’s cowardliness and refusal to stand with me and support my lawful efforts to provide intercession for the vehicular NOISE beleaguered citizen’s in Houston, my concerted efforts to make Houston’s streets safer and quieter; this, when personal audio and vehicle dash camera video/audio evidence existed to nullify the spurious allegations of untruthful bikers as “unfounded;” finally, my poor wife who had tolerated the stress, the harassment, the impotence of Houston’s leadership, we had enough of the pathetic, pacifist, nonsense; therefore, I honorably retired in 2011 with a broken heart remembering what my Houston Police Department was in 1980 and what it had become as of 2011 via Progressive WOKEISM. Cowards all. Houston, Texas has become the Sodom of the South, exemplified by its Montrose neighborhood and its celebration of sexual deviancy in its streets and within its own local government; unfortunately, the Houston PD has become a morally compromised version of exactly what Progressive-WOKE Houston deserves as its Law Enforcement entity. 31-years of service culminating in sadness and regret. I would not have succeeded void my LORD’s intercession.

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In closing, some advice to those seeking a career in law enforcement…

My professional recommendation to any young, aspiring, man or woman seeking an honorable and fulfilling career in law enforcement; especially those who honor Jesus as LORD. DO NOT seek employment in a liberal, politically blue, WOKE, pacifist, compromised, municipality, county or state law enforcement community; truth is, if you compromise yourself with a liberal jurisdiction, you’ll simply become another “useful idiot” in servitude to Leninist Marxism; liberal, anti-police, leadership will care NOTHING for you, you’re just a pawn for their “progressive” idiocy. You’re completely expendable, they don’t care about you or your family. Don’t waste your career serving the mentally and spiritually ill Democrat-Liberal-Progressive-Marxist.

If you desire to enter into law enforcement, do your homework, read reviews, talk with the officers of the jurisdiction in which you seek employment. If you’re going to dedicate your most productive years to a police department, make sure it is a department that represents your values, your ethics, a department that is truly concerned for the safety, welfare, daily quality of life, of the citizens you seek to serve with your life, your family, your precious time on this Earth. Serve in a department that actually honors the rule of law and “has your back” during those years of policing unpredictable, challenging, scenarios. Do not compromise YOU, your ethics, your family, for a paycheck.

With sincerity,

Rickey D. Holtsclaw, Houston PD/Retired

Also see: The Truth about LOUD motorcycles, automobiles, trucks, the Police won’t or can’t tell you: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2016/03/10/the-truth-about-loud-motorcycles-the-police-wont-or-cant-tell-you/

Motorcycle Noise Enforcement 101: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2016/09/12/motorcycle-noise-enforcement-101/

Loud Biker Comments (vulgarity warning): https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2015/09/04/loud-biker-mentality-1949-v-21st-century/

ADR Grievance with Houston PD/Bikers and NOISE: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2015/09/21/adr-grievance-with-houston-pd-bikers-and-noise/

Motorcycle Riders Foundation – half truths – obfuscation – rebutted: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2025/04/21/motorcycle-riders-foundation-obfuscation-half-truths-rebutted/

Letter to Police Chief – Houston – Noise Enforcement Assistance: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2015/09/21/letter-to-chief-mcclelland-inre-to-motorcycle-noise-enforcement/

TMRA Letter to Houston Mayor Parker: Harassment by Officer: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2015/09/21/loud-bikers-letter-to-mayor-parker/

Psychological Predictors of Environmentally Unsustainable Driving Behaviors: Schadenfreude and Preference for Loud Car Modifications: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17/23/10805

Parkinson’s Disease is skyrocketing and has doubled over the previous 30-years. New Study confirms that the exponential rise in Parkinson’s is directly related to TRAFFIC NOISE: https://youtu.be/huAx9Zy9CHU?si=rF3gtruDZs4r7SQR

Article by “Car and Driver:” “People who like loud exhaust are psychotic”: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60983144/study-loud-exhaust-psychotic/

Article by “National Library of Medicine” (NIH): “A desire for a loud car with a modified muffler is predicted by being a man and higher scores on psychopathy and sadism” : See: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10699294/

Houston Texas: A Municipality’s Moral Compromise with Marxism via LGBTQ and the PD that sustains it…

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My personal experience serving 31-years with the Houston Police Department

After having served as an infantryman in my beloved United States Marine Corps and attending undergraduate studies, I applied for and entered the Houston Police Department’s Training Academy in 1979. At that time, the Houston PD was a hard-charging, respected, law enforcement agency, the hiring process was stringent physiologically, psychologically, ethically and morally. According to an academy instructor, for every seat in my academy class there were 19-denied applications for employment. Personal ethics and morality were the primary focus of the hiring process; these personal attributes verified by incredibly stringent and intimidating preliminary interviews and a thorough polygraph examination; this, culminating with an extensive “background investigation” involving months of door-to-door investigative interviews of the applicant’s family members, former employers, coworkers and friends. The primary concern of those reviewing applications for employment with the Houston PD was, “Have you participated in anything, any conduct or behavior, that would embarrass and shame the integrity of the Houston Police Department should you be approved for employment?”

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WOKENESS, Political Correctness, Liberalism, Progressivism/Marxism, Moral Compromise, creeps into the Houston Police Department…

In 1983, with the advent of the Kathy Whitmire Administration in Houston and the Affirmative Action hire of Police Chief Lee P. Brown, the Houston Police Department began a downward spiral in morality, ethics, reverse racial discrimination via Affirmation Action mandates. With the advent of “Neighborhood Policing” protocols and the implementation of an overzealous Internal Affairs Division, the Houston PD incrementally and methodically morphed into a pacifist, WOKE, police agency where “good” officers were those who avoided negative citizenry contacts/interactions; in other words, those officers who did NOTHING proactive thereby avoiding internal affairs complaints and subsequent investigations were appreciated and praised by supervision.

This enforcement pacifism and impotency becoming necessary protocol as “due process protections,” concerning citizenry or supervisory allegations of policy infractions, were absent. The absence of due process protections to buffer unfounded, spurious, complaints/allegations, mandated, as a matter of occupational survival, that the officer “prove his innocence” beyond ANY doubt; therefore, an investigative conclusion/disposition of “unfounded” (no evidence of wrong doing, culpability) was essential if said officer was to avoid a permanent record of misconduct allegations, internal investigations, having been conducted, placed in his/her personnel file. By Department policy, subsequent a specific number of misconduct allegations (of any disposition other than perhaps “unfounded”) in a specified time frame resulted in a “Personnel Concerns Committee Review.” This serious review of an officer’s complaint history could possibly result in termination of employment with the Houston Police Department as the Personnel Concerns Panel/review was made policy as an alternative way for the HPD to terminate an officer’s employment via bypassing employment protections that shielded officers from retaliatory motives of a biased and compromised police administration.

This overzealousness by HPD’s Administration, their obsession with liability concerns, and their “yes” boys in the Internal Affairs Division, gave way to law enforcement impotence, apathy, laziness, a valid fear of engaging in any form of “proactive policing” essential to law enforcement effectiveness; therefore, the criminal thugs in Houston became emboldened as police routinely “look the other way” and refuse to engage the criminal element due to an absence of support from the upper echelon of the Houston Police Department; consequently, the citizenry unnecessarily suffers due to an absence of effective police service.

As one “old timer” patrolman/training officer would tell his rookie trainees as he parked his patrol vehicle in a remote wooded area facing an old tree away from public view: “You see that old tree over there, that’s MY tree…I come here everyday I’m on duty and I watch that tree grow and if you desire to complete twenty-years with this police department, you’ll find you a tree and watch it grow.” In other words, do nothing, say nothing, see nothing, don’t be an “over achiever,” take your calls-for-service, write your reports, turn your shop (patrol vehicle) in on time, go home and keep your mouth shut, that’s how you complete twenty successful years with the Houston Police Department…sad, but true.

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My experience having rejected the advice of the old training officer…

Subsequent 8-years of patrol duty involving assignments in uniformed street patrol and motorcycle patrol (Solo-Motorcycle Patrol Unit), I transferred to the Helicopter Patrol Division in 1989 where I served just under two-decades, 18-years as a commercial helicopter patrol pilot. During those two-decades in helicopter patrol, I had lost touch with the street officers I patrolled with in Houston’s Downtown Districts during the early 1980s; therefore, I was unaware of the liberal, WOKE, Progressive, changes that were manifesting within my Police Department. WOKE policies and agendas that warred against true, effective, police patrol work.

I routinely heard the “rumors” from patrol officers who visited the helicopter hangar at Hobby Airport, but I found their accusations and complaints difficult to believe. Then, in 2009, due to a heated disagreement relevant to proper protocol over the recovery of a downed helicopter, I ran afoul of a new, arrogant, supervisory administration assigned to the Helicopter Patrol Division and ultimately requested a transfer back to patrol duties. As an aside, the undo harassment I received from the new administration’s Captain concerning my transfer request to patrol and the “lesbian” Assistant Chief who appointed this new administration to the Helicopter Division was subtly disturbing. More on that later.

Subsequent months of enduring harassment from the new administration’s Captain assigned to the Helicopter Patrol Division, returning to uniformed patrol duties was indeed an eye-opening experience subsequent 19-years in the Air Support Division. What those patrolmen had been complaining about when visiting the helicopter hangar: HPD’s compromise with LGBTQ; the fear and concerns relevant to performing productive proactive police work and investigations; an overzealous Internal Affairs Division; an out-of-touch Police Administration, were indeed TRUE. The Houston PD of 2009 was NOT the Houston PD I had worked for over two-decades earlier as a patrol officer on the streets of Houston; but in all fairness, neither was the society that HPD was responsible for providing protection. Progressivism/Marxism; liberalism/atheism/secular humanism; sexual deviancy via pervasive moral relativism; rampant drug addiction; drug induced mental and spiritual illnesses; the weakening of the Biblical family unit; the absence of state-run mental institutions, these have all taken their toll on the City of Houston, Houston’s Police Department and the United States as a whole. America is a mentally and spiritually ill society. I am so very thankful to my LORD for having had the opportunity to experience a few years of actually performing police work before demonically rooted Progressivism-Liberalism-Marxism destroyed the job I love so very much. To this very day, I bleed blue.

The slippery slope of moral compromise via moral relativism…

My Houston PD had become a bastion of LGBTQIA++ compromise; DEI-Affirmative Action discrimination, hiring quotas – assignments based on sexual orientation-race; these inequities and unfairness inevitably fostered racial tension within the ranks. [The Houston PD literally stole my promotion to sergeant via Affirmative Action protocols costing me hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars in income over the years; this, due solely to the color of my skin as they promoted unqualified Blacks and Hispanics, some of whom having never passed a promotional exam let alone achieved a promotable score.] A lowering of hiring standards, relevant to moral turpitude, allowing the mentally, morally, ethically and spiritually deceived to receive employment with the HPD as homosexuals, transsexuals, lesbians, were welcomed into the HPD, this compromise resulted in employee morale faltering throughout the Police Department. Quoting a patrol sergeant at HPD’s Westside Station, “Love the job-Hate the Department.” The Houston PD’s compromise with moral deviancy via the PRIDE/LGBTQ Marxist agenda, discriminatory DEI/Affirmative Action protocol, was and is interpreted as treasonous, unfaithfulness, unprofessionalism, traitorous, by the men and women who believe that the law enforcement community should be one of honor, dignity, morality, ethics, professionalism.

It is my understanding that certain applicants with “misdemeanor criminal histories” were also permitted to apply for employment with the Houston PD for positions in uniformed patrol. As if these insane policies were not sufficiently embarrassing, one male supervisor wanting to transition into a “female” reportedly had a penis-tuck surgery (gender reassignment surgery) performed in the Orient and returned to the Houston PD as a supervisor in drag. I personally observed this tall, rather large “man” in a dress as a “supervisor” of officers! The Houston Police Department had become something I no longer recognized or could identify with.

I voiced and physically demonstrated my disdain for LGBTQ sexual deviancy in the ranks of the Houston Police Department. I voiced my disappointment with my Department’s compromise with LGBTQ/DEI while forced to attend mandatory in-service training classes (sensitivity training), queer deviance stemming from mental and spiritual deception that was wearing the uniform, the badge, a weapon and allowed to police the streets of Houston, this queer deviancy was permitted in supervisory capacities as well. Furthermore, I protested the Department’s coercion that I attend class presentations by a lesbian speaker whose agenda was to sensitize the auditorium, filled to capacity with officers and supervisors, to the perversions and deceptive lifestyle of LGBTQIA++. I voiced my anger to the lesbian speaker that I was insulted that my police department would expect me to sit and listen to this perverted filth. I then proceeded to walk-out of the auditorium in demonstration to the deceptive and destructive policies undergirding moral and ethical compromise within the Houston Police Department. I’m sure this act of defiance did not set well with the Houston PD’s Administration.

My disdain and objections to my Department’s compromise with LGBTQ in the ranks of the HPD resulted in subtle forms of backlash/a subtle uneasiness from the morally and ethically compromised Police Administration. My “Assistant Chief” over the Helicopter Division was a lesbian; my Captain in patrol, subsequent my transfer from Helicopter Patrol, was a lesbian and rumored to be the lesbian lover of my former Assistant Chief. The subtle friction between the HPD and me was exacerbated by my concerted efforts to enforce City Ordinance 30-3 (Noisy Vehicles Generally) and Texas, 547-604 (Muffler Required), subsequent my transfer back to patrol duties in 2009.

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Motor vehicle noise enforcement, “the straw that broke the camel’s back,“

My patrol beat assignment in West Houston had, within its jurisdictional boundaries, a very popular “biker bar” known as “The Dam Ice House” (a LOUD, thug inundated, vulgar, drunken, biker bar that I’m proud to have assisted in its closure). Just outside my jurisdictional boundaries in Harris County, was another biker bar located on FM 1093/Westheimer Road extension. The abusively LOUD, mentally and spiritually ill, biker thugs who frequented these unscrupulous biker bars were/are operating illegally LOUD, illegally equipped, motorcycles in violation of CFR 40 Part 205, Houston City Ordinance 30-5, Texas State Muffler Statute 547.604 (Muffler Required).

These illegally LOUD, illegally equipped motorcycles are modified with noncompliant aftermarket exhaust mechanisms (not for road use exhausts-racing environments only as per the US EPA) emitting noise energy output that, in certain scenarios, is audible for one-statute mile under hard acceleration. Much to my amazement, no one, absolutely NO ONE, was doing anything about the unacceptable vehicular NOISE situation in Houston. Why are vehicular NOISE thugs allowed to bully and abuse society’s most innocent, our children, our elderly, our handicapped, our families, with impunity, day and night, and “law enforcement” looks the other way? Yes, we’ve already discussed that…

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Vehicular NOISE violations as lucrative probable cause, (illegal vehicular noise = aggressive driving behavior) – A commonsense approach…

During my enforcement of vehicular noise violations, I discovered that employing illegal vehicular noise as “probable cause” for a stop and investigate to be the most lucrative form of probable cause available to the average patrol officer. Employing vehicular NOISE as probable cause for a stop resulted in clearing via arrest/incarceration untold numbers of active warrants (felony and misdemeanor), arrests/incarcerations for driver’s license suspensions, citations for insurance and equipment violations. It is true that the personality-type of those who illegally modify a motor vehicle to emit dangerous, intrusive, illegal, noise energy is the very same personality type that possesses a propensity to offend in other areas of the law as well; therefore, narcissism, selfishness, are pervasive among those who abuse the citizenry with vehicular NOISE. Riding/driving LOUD is a “red flag” that the violator is a narcissistic thug-bully who cares NOTHING for the health and welfare, the daily quality of life, of his/her neighbor.

Additionally, for many years, Houston has been plagued with illegal street racing which far too often results in major accidents, fatalities, not to mention the destruction to daily/nightly quality of life due to the intrusive, illegal, vehicular noise. There is an inexorable link between illegal vehicular NOISE and aggressive driving behavior. The personality type that enjoys the narcissistically rooted attention garnered by a noisy vehicle also finds a dopamine high from street racing with other performance oriented, illegally modified, vehicles; therefore, commonsense suggests that employing illegal vehicular NOISE as probable cause for a stop, investigate, criminal history check, photos-audio, logging vehicle and operator information into a coordinated database, will have profound impacts on stymieing illegal racing, aggressive driving/riding, on the streets of Houston, Texas.

Why does law enforcement refuse to employ dangerous, intrusive, “vehicular noise” as probable cause for a stop and background investigation of the operator and passengers when applicable?

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Houston’s Leadership cowers in the presence of criminal bullies…

Illegally LOUD, illegally equipped, motorcycles, trucks, automobiles, inundated my beat assignment in west Houston, the citizenry, especially the most vulnerable to the illegal vehicular NOISE, were and continue to be audibly assaulted day and night, 24/7/365. My enforcement efforts to bring peace and lawful order, a quiet, peaceful, healthy, daily quality of life, to those citizens within my beat assignment were met with vitriol, angry rebuttal, vulgar and life-threatening comments, by thug, narcissistic, LOUD bikers, while “biker rights organizations,” such as the Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF), interceded on behalf of their donors in Washington DC; later, the MRF published lies about my retirement status in their newsletter seeking to disparage my professional reputation (letter/rebuttal below).

The “Texas Motorcycle Rights Association (TMRA)” did their part by writing a letter to Houston’s Mayor Parker accusing me of harassment and requesting that I be removed from enforcement (TMRA letter in attachment below); the local news media in Houston allied with the criminal LOUD biker thugs; the biased media waited outside my traffic court to interview bikers subsequent their adjudication relevant to illegal NOISE; business owners in Houston sympathized with the biker thugs fearing a loss of income/revenue if my enforcement initiative deterred biker access to retail establishments; biker thugs were and are glorified as some form of “patriot” when in reality, they’re bully thugs who abuse children with illegal NOISE.

My 99.9% conviction-rate on all vehicle noise emissions violations adjudicated in the municipal court system mandated extra HPD security in my traffic court; this, out of concerns for my personal safety during testimony due to threats of biker retaliation (biker comments URL below); consequently, my immediate supervision ran scared and confused; my Department’s upper echelon cowed to the concerns over liability/Constitutionality; the Mayor’s Office and the City Council ran scared of the aggressive LOUD biker thugs who rallied en masse at City Hall on two different occasions, threatening the City Council and Mayor with retaliation if my Constitutionally sound enforcement efforts were not stopped. I was prohibited by order from attending the biker rallies, protests, at Houston’s City Hall to explain my reasoning before the Council Members and Mayor for enforcing applicable vehicular noise laws. The upper echelon of the Houston PD, in its arrogance, refused to meet with me one-on-one to discuss my vehicular noise enforcement initiative and the Constitutionally sound reasoning for same (letter to Chief below). Cowards all.

Compromised Law Enforcement Personnel: Law Enforcement Biker Gangs

I had never, in my 31-years of service to the citizens of Houston, TX, seen such cowards and pacifists and compromised law enforcement personnel as I did during my years of vehicular NOISE enforcement in Houston. To my amazement, some of my most avid haters and detractors were law enforcement personnel who compromise their oath of office and their personal integrity by riding and driving illegally LOUD vehicles off duty, some were members of local law enforcement biker gangs. Sworn, accredited, law enforcement officers who dress, walk, talk, like thug biker gang members off-duty while they wear a badge and gun and patrol the streets of Houston, Harris County as law enforcement officers while on duty. These law enforcement biker thug organizations/gangs are present throughout the United States and nothing is done by their individual department leadership or the Federal Bureau of Investigations to stop the thug conduct of those who ride illegally LOUD, act and talk like biker trash, while employed as a public servant. This is unacceptable!

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Legal precedent ignites a fire fueling retribution…

My patrol Sergeant, who drove an illegally LOUD racing Corvette to 6AM roll call, ordered me to STOP enforcing the vehicular noise laws to which I rebutted and challenged his unlawful order with legal precedent, Aaron C. Aguilar v. State of Texas (2008); Aguilar provides legal precedent relevant to law enforcement’s right to stop and investigate loud motor vehicles based solely on an officer’s professional opinion as to the vehicle’s illegality due to a defective or illegal exhaust mechanism. Houston’s “City Legal” Department overturned the Sergeant’s unlawful order; this legal victory over my immediate supervision drove an unforgivable wedge between my NOISE enforcement efforts, my immediate supervision, the police administration; both, the Mayor’s office and the City Council; after all, who was this old patrol officer possessing the audacity to challenge the omnipotence of Houston’s Police Administration and supervision? How dare he! My enforcement of applicable vehicular noise laws was lawful and Constitutionally sound; therefore, HPD opted to place me on desk duty, repeatedly, to STOP my vehicular noise enforcement initiative seeing that I refused to stop citing and incarcerating, whenever possible, those who abuse the citizenry with unlawful vehicular NOISE energy.

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Houston PD’s Administration panders to the perjury of the LOUD Biker Cult[ure]…

Also, noteworthy concerning the cowardliness and apathy of the Houston Police Department’s Administration. Criminal, LOUD, thug, biker trash, at the behest of biker rights organizations in Texas and in Washington DC, were lining up at the citizen complaint intake at HPD’s Internal Affairs Division to file spurious, perjurious, false allegations of misconduct against me for having cited, arrested, incarcerated, those who willfully, with intent, abuse Houston’s most vulnerable, Houston’s most innocent, with illegal vehicular NOISE.

The biker rights organizations were made privy to Houston’s weak-link concerning “citizens complaints” and the tactic of employing same to undermine my lawful, constitutionally sound, vehicular noise enforcement initiative. As the false allegations began to stack-up requiring a mandatory response from me, over and over again, I submitted a request via my chain-of-command to criminally charge these individual bikers for perjury; after all, they had signed an affidavit that their allegations against me were true when audio and video evidence existed that exonerated me of these spurious and perjurious allegations of misconduct. In response to my request for intercession, Houston’s “Major Offenders Unit” began approaching the Harris County District Attorneys Office to file perjury charges against those bikers who had perjured themselves by swearing to false allegations of misconduct.

Shamefully, the Chief’s Office of the Houston PD interceded and stopped investigators from Houston’s Major Offenders Unit from filing perjury charges against the lying, deceiving, bikers stating that allowing these bikers to be charged with perjury might deter other citizens from filing complaints on officers for allegations of misconduct. In other words, to HADES with the false allegations against Officer Holtsclaw, we don’t care, Holtsclaw is expendable; to Hades with the rule of law; to Hades with the quality of life of Houston’s citizenry…allow the false allegations to stand and allow the LOUD bikers and LOUD auto and truck operators to abuse the citizenry at will.

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Enough was Enough…

The culmination of the shame I felt for serving a Police Department that compromised its integrity with the deviant immorality and mental illness of LGBTQIA++; the unfairness of DEI; having had my promotion to sergeant stolen through Affirmative Action mandates and having had the blatant reverse discrimination upheld by the 5th Circuit; having had lesbians placed over me in supervision in two separate divisions within the HPD; watching my immediate supervision, my Police Administration, the Mayor’s office, the City Council, run pathetically scared from biker rights organizations and cower to the threats from thug LOUD bikers in Houston; after having been repeatedly placed on desk duty pending LOUD bikers spurious allegations/complaints and the Administration’s cowardliness and refusal to stand with me and support my lawful efforts to provide intercession for the vehicular NOISE beleaguered citizen’s in Houston, my concerted efforts to make Houston’s streets safer and quieter; this, when personal audio and vehicle dash camera video/audio evidence existed to nullify the spurious allegations of untruthful bikers as “unfounded;” finally, my poor wife who had tolerated the stress, the harassment, the impotence of Houston’s leadership, we had enough of the pathetic, pacifist, nonsense; therefore, I honorably retired in 2011 with a broken heart remembering what my Houston Police Department was in 1980 and what it had become as of 2011 via Progressive WOKEISM. Cowards all. Houston, Texas has become the Sodom of the South, exemplified by its Montrose neighborhood and its celebration of sexual deviancy in its streets and within its own local government; unfortunately, the Houston PD has become a morally compromised version of exactly what Progressive-WOKE Houston deserves as its Law Enforcement entity. 31-years of service culminating in sadness and regret. I would not have succeeded void my LORD’s intercession.

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In closing, some advice to those seeking a career in law enforcement…

My professional recommendation to any young, aspiring, man or woman seeking an honorable and fulfilling career in law enforcement; especially those who honor Jesus as LORD. DO NOT seek employment in a liberal, politically blue, WOKE, pacifist, compromised, municipality, county or state law enforcement community; truth is, if you compromise yourself with a liberal jurisdiction, you’ll simply become another “useful idiot” in servitude to Leninist Marxism; liberal, anti-police, leadership will care NOTHING for you, you’re just a pawn for their “progressive” idiocy. You’re completely expendable, they don’t care about you or your family. Don’t waste your career serving the mentally and spiritually ill Democrat-Liberal-Progressive-Marxist.

If you desire to enter into law enforcement, do your homework, read reviews, talk with the officers of the jurisdiction in which you seek employment. If you’re going to dedicate your most productive years to a police department, make sure it is a department that represents your values, your ethics, a department that is truly concerned for the safety, welfare, daily quality of life, of the citizens you seek to serve with your life, your family, your precious time on this Earth. Serve in a department that actually honors the rule of law and “has your back” during those years of policing unpredictable, challenging, scenarios. Do not compromise YOU, your ethics, your family, for a paycheck.

With sincerity,

Rickey D. Holtsclaw, Houston PD/Retired

Also see: The Truth about LOUD motorcycles, automobiles, trucks, the Police won’t or can’t tell you: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2016/03/10/the-truth-about-loud-motorcycles-the-police-wont-or-cant-tell-you/

Motorcycle Noise Enforcement 101: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2016/09/12/motorcycle-noise-enforcement-101/

Loud Biker Comments (vulgarity warning): https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2015/09/04/loud-biker-mentality-1949-v-21st-century/

ADR Grievance with Houston PD/Bikers and NOISE: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2015/09/21/adr-grievance-with-houston-pd-bikers-and-noise/

Motorcycle Riders Foundation – half truths – obfuscation – rebutted: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2025/04/21/motorcycle-riders-foundation-obfuscation-half-truths-rebutted/

Letter to Police Chief – Houston – Noise Enforcement Assistance: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2015/09/21/letter-to-chief-mcclelland-inre-to-motorcycle-noise-enforcement/

TMRA Letter to Houston Mayor Parker: Harassment by Officer: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2015/09/21/loud-bikers-letter-to-mayor-parker/

Psychological Predictors of Environmentally Unsustainable Driving Behaviors: Schadenfreude and Preference for Loud Car Modifications: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17/23/10805

Parkinson’s Disease is skyrocketing and has doubled over the previous 30-years. New Study confirms that the exponential rise in Parkinson’s is directly related to TRAFFIC NOISE: https://youtu.be/huAx9Zy9CHU?si=rF3gtruDZs4r7SQR

Article by “Car and Driver:” “People who like loud exhaust are psychotic”: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60983144/study-loud-exhaust-psychotic/

Article by “National Library of Medicine” (NIH): “A desire for a loud car with a modified muffler is predicted by being a man and higher scores on psychopathy and sadism” : See: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10699294/

Illegal Vehicular Noise – A Nationwide Plague upon the American Citizen – Solutions?

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Illegal Vehicular Noise – A Nationwide Plague upon the American Citizen – Solutions?

Protection is the number-one responsibility of Government.

1) The US Congress delegated authority, responsibility, concerning enforcement of the protective intent of US EPA CFR 40 Part 205 to the individual States, the Governor, Attorney’s General, State Law Enforcement, Local Law Enforcement. Pervasive evidence spanning the previous forty-years confirms that the States enforcement relevant to abusive, illegal, vehicular NOISE has been an abysmal failure. What can be done?

2) The US Congress and the US EPA must pass legislation restricting or denying transportation funding/grants to any State that refuses to aggressively enforce violations of the protective intent of CFR 40 Part 205 of the Code of Federal Regulations as it pertains to vehicular noise emissions and labeling of mufflers. CFR 40 Part 205, vehicular noise restrictions requiring total vehicular noise emissions not exceed a relatively safe 80dB(A) for street-use motorcycles, automobiles, light-medium duty trucks.

3) The US Congress and the US EPA must pass legislation requiring States to initiate an annual vehicular safety inspection program and as part of that vehicular safety inspection, the muffler/exhaust mechanism affixed to those vehicles undergoing inspection must be examined for compliance with the protective mandates of CFR 40 Part 205. State Law, relevant to motor vehicle mufflers and noise emissions, must be worded with legal elements that conform to the OEM-factory installed mandates of CFR 40 Part 205; this, in compliance with the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.

4) The US Congress and the US EPA must demand that the States take civil and criminal action against those companies who manufacture, distribute, retail, install, aftermarket exhaust mechanisms for motor vehicles; specifically, those motor vehicles to be operated upon the public roadways of the United States, that do NOT conform to the safety mandates of CFR 40 Part 205 concerning NOISE energy emissions and proper labeling of mufflers for street-use motorcycles. Any exhaust manufacturer refusing to comply with CFR 40 Part 205 should be civilly sued into insolvency and criminally charged relevant to their contributions to the vehicular noise abuse of the American citizen. Illegal vehicular noise is sound energy and is a physical assault upon the American citizen that destroys daily quality of life and recklessly endangers the health and welfare of anyone exposed to same.

5) The US Congress and US EPA, as part of their agreement with the States concerning transportation funding/grants, must insist that the operators of illegally equipped motor vehicles, illegally LOUD motor vehicles in violation of CFR 40 Part 205, be subject to a progressive increase in fines with continuing violations resulting in arrest, incarceration, impoundment of the noncompliant vehicle until such time arrangements are made to return said vehicle to an OEM-factory installed condition.

6) The US Congress and US EPA must provide oversight relevant to Governor and Mayoral prostitution, graft, misfeasance, malfeasance, compromise, with members of the LOUD Motorcycle, Auto, Truck, Cult[ure] where State and Local Government leadership invites into their State and/or Municipality operators of illegally LOUD motor vehicles for shows, rallies, where the citizenry of those States, Municipalities, are audibly abused, day and night, by the attendees operating motor vehicles that do not comply with the protective intent of CFR 40 Part 205 and applicable State muffler laws relevant to vehicular noise emissions.

7) Every State must acknowledge a law enforcement officer’s legal right to use suspected illegal vehicular NOISE as lawful “probable cause” to stop and investigate both the vehicle and the operator of said suspect vehicle; this, in accordance with Texas Court of Appeals case “Aaron C. Aguilar v. State of Texas (2008).” https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/fourth-court-of-appeals/2008/20953.html

Also see: The Truth about LOUD Motorcycles, Auto’s, Trucks, the Police won’t or can’t tell you: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2016/03/10/the-truth-about-loud-motorcycles-the-police-wont-or-cant-tell-you/

Vance and Hines Exhausts…lawless and unregulated

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Vance and Hines is a lawless company that produces non-compliant motorcycle exhausts violating the safety mandates of CFR40 Part 205 and the SAE J331a drive-by testing procedure required for all street-use motorcycles in the United States.

Graft, political misfeasance, enforcement compromise, have failed the vehicular noise abused citizenry. Vance and Hines is but one of the many lawless exhaust manufacturers that are responsible for destroying daily quality of life, recklessly endangering the health and safety of the American citizen. US EPA Director Zeldin is culpable.

The Truth about LOUD Motorcycles the Police won’t or can’t tell you: https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/…/the-truth-about-loud…/

Illegal Vehicular NOISE as Lucrative “Probable Cause” for Law Enforcement…

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Illegal Vehicular NOISE as LUCRITIVE “Probable Cause” for a STOP and Investigate by Law Enforcement in Lee County, FL…

Those law enforcement agencies and their leadership and their mayor’s and their governor’s who permit vehicular NOISE thugs to destroy the daily quality of life of their citizenry they swore to protect and serve…vehicular NOISE thugs who recklessly endanger the health and welfare of those very same citizens, these are often times compromised as they themselves violate the vehicular noise laws they’re tasked to enforce and consequently the citizenry suffers.

There is also much money to be made, retail and in tax revenue, from permitting vehicular NOISE thugs to violate the rights and daily life of the citizenry…as an overwhelming number of citizens have grown accustomed to the illegal and intrusive and dangerous NOISE unware that laws exist that prohibit same, laws exist to protect our children, the elderly, our handicapped, from vehicular noise thuggery that is out of control and pervasive upon our public roadways; essentially a physical assault as noise is energy.

With that said, during my 31-years in law enforcement/traffic enforcement/street patrol, I found NO GREATER probable cause for a stop and investigate than vehicular NOISE as the same thug who violates the noise laws and audibly assaults the citizenry void conscience or care; these thugs are the very same thugs who often violate other laws for which warrants have been issued, license’ suspended. Any police officer who will take the initiative to stop unlawful vehicular NOISE will see an exponential rise in his/her warrant arrests….warrants cleared.

Driving and Riding LOUD is abusive, thug, mentally and spiritually ill behavior and it is the selfish and uncaring in our society that partakes in same! It is a compromised, lazy, ignorant, police department that permits vehicular NOISE thugs to rule our public roadways.

https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2022/05/03/lee-county-floridas-legal-department-does-the-right-thing/

Loud Thug Bikers & the Acoustical Assurance Period (AAP) – obfuscation

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Video: https://youtu.be/iSSgwlixuE4

Acoustical Assurance Period – obfuscation

First of all, the obfuscation/misinterpretation by the Motorcycle Rights Organizations relevant to the U.S. EPA/Code of Federal Regulation’s “Acoustical Assurance Period” (AAP) located at Title 40 → Chapter I → Subchapter G → Part 205 → Subpart D → §205.152

See: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=d2d0ed3881013fdb0749ea2d54013cf7&mc=true&node=se40.27.205_1152&rgn=div8

(3) Street motorcycles must be designed, built and equipped so that, when properly maintained and used, they will not produce noise emissions in excess of the levels specified in paragraph (a)(1) of this section, for an Acoustical Assurance Period of one year or a distance of 6000 km (3730 mi) after the time of sale to the ultimate purchaser, whichever occurs first.

Don’t believe the obfuscation: The Motorcycle Rights Organization’s will attempt to defer or negate LOUD Biker culpability for illegally removing the OEM – Factory-installed motorcycle muffler and replacing same with an illegally loud NOT FOR ROAD USE muffler by obfuscating, misinterpreting the meaning and intent of the Acoustical Assurance Period.

Loud Biker advocates will tell you that the stock/OEM, quiet, factory-installed muffler is only “good” for 3730 miles or one-year from the time of retail/sale.  NOT TRUE – the original, U.S. EPA approved, factory-installed muffler is intended to remain in compliance for the LIFE OF THE MOTORCYCLE according to the author of the AAP, Kenneth Feith (Former EPA Employee).  The AAP is simply a “warranty period” required by the EPA from the manufacturer to the consumer to ensure the acoustical integrity of the factory-installed muffler…for more information, please see:

“Noisy Motorcycles: An Environmental Quality-of-Life-Issue” (see Pages 2 & 19 or Ctrl F “Life of”) http://www.noisefree.org/Motorcyle-Report.pdf

ACOUSTICAL ASSURANCE PERIOD (Excerpts from article)

“The regulation includes an Acoustical Assurance Period (AAP), which specifies a relatively short period during which a motorcycle’s noise abatement elements must be in compliance with the federal regulation during street usage.  Some have interpreted this to mean that, once the AAP has expired, the regulation no longer applies.  This wording of the regulation needs clarification that noise emissions limits apply for the life of the motorcycle.”

 “The EPA should make clear in the regulatory requirements that the tampering provisions apply to all persons for the life of the motorcycle.  In other words, noise limits for owners/operators remain in effect for the life of the motorcycle and do not expire at the end of the AAP.”

Pine Island, Florida – citizens abused by illegal motor vehicle noise as Lee County’s Sheriff’s Deputies refuse to enforce the State Muffler Law…

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Shame on those who abuse Pine Island, FL residents with illegal motor vehicle NOISE; Shame on the Lee County Sheriff’s Department for failing to enforce Florida’s motor vehicle noise laws…

Shame on the selfish BULLIES who abuse the children, the elderly, the families, on Pine Island, FL by operating an illegally LOUD, illegally equipped, motorcycle – automobile – truck on the public roadways that service Pine Island – Bokeelia – City Center – Saint James.

Shame on Lee County’s Sheriff Department, the Deputies, for their misfeasance – malfeasance – their refusal to enforce the factory-installed muffler requirements of the Florida State Motor Vehicle Code.

Shame on Lee County’s Sheriff Department for their refusal to protect and serve the citizens of Lee County, Florida who are daily and nightly subject to motor vehicle noise abuse; especially relevant, the abuse our children, our elderly, the handicapped, our families.

Sec. 316.293. Motor vehicle noise (Florida)

[…] No person shall operate or be permitted to operate a vehicle at any time or under any condition of roadway grade, load, acceleration, or deceleration in such a manner as to generate a sound level in excess of the following limit for the category of motor vehicle and applicable speed limit at a distance of 50 feet from the center of the lane of travel under measurement procedures […]

This following paragraph from Section 293 is very important as it restricts using any non-original equipment which can increase noise limits on cars or other vehicles:

(5) NOISE ABATEMENT EQUIPMENT MODIFICATIONS.—
(a) No person shall modify the exhaust system of a motor vehicle or any other noise-abatement device of a motor vehicle operated or to be operated upon the highways of this state in such a manner that the noise emitted by the motor vehicle is above that emitted by the vehicle as originally manufactured.

This makes it illegal to use any aftermarket modifications louder than ones your vehicle is manufactured with. All devices producing excessive exhaust noise are not legal. There are exceptions which include emergency vehicles, vehicles used in races or similar events, agricultural equipment, and test vehicles.

The TRUTH About Loud Motorcycles, Automobiles, Trucks, the Police Won’t or Can’t Tell You

Questions for the Loud Biker, Auto, Truck, thugs=bullies destroying daily quality of life…

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Loud Motorcycles are abusive…when did a man or woman acquire the “right” or “privilege” to abuse children, the elderly, the handicapped, with illegal motor vehicle noise by operating an illegally equipped, illegally LOUD, motorcycle, auto, truck, on our public roadways?

When did it become acceptable and fashionable to destroy the quality of life of thousands of families, daily, for one’s own selfish, narcissistic, pleasure? Who invited you, LOUD biker thug, into our home, places of work and worship?

California’s Environmentalism and Legislator’s – HYPOCRITES concerning vehicular noise abuse…

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California’s “environmentalists” and State Legislators are hypocrites relevant to dangerous vehicle noise that destroys the environment while abusing the citizenry…

While touring the Bay Area of San Francisco, San Bruno, South San Francisco, Oakland, I was amazed to see and hear the belligerent, narcissistic, selfish, vehicular noise thugs that inundate California’s roadways; those noise bullies who operate illegally modified, illegally LOUD auto’s, trucks, motorcycles.

The US EPA, subsequent thorough testing and analysis relevant to the destruction to daily quality of life, the physiological dangers, of unregulated motor vehicle noise, concluded that 78dB(A) was the maximum safe noise level emissions for motor vehicles operated on America’s public roadways. Initially, for example, the US EPA regulated motorcycle noise emissions to 83dB(A) in 1983 and subsequent further evaluation determined that 83dB(A) was physiologically unsafe and therefore sought a 78dB(A) noise emissions restriction for all street use motorcycles going forward. Suzuki Motors complained that adhering to the 78dB(A) noise restriction would be cost prohibitive; therefore, the US EPA compromised and enacted a 80dB(A) “total” noise emissions for all street use motorcycles 1986 year model going forward. This Federal mandate remains relevant to this very day and every street-use motorcycle is mandated via the Code of Federal Regulations to be equipped with a properly labeled, quiet, muffler and matching frame label.

Unfortunately, the US EPA delegated enforcement of the 80dB(A) vehicular noise emission regulations to the States and the States, their legislators, their police, have been an utter failure to this very day. California’s legislators and Governor Newsom are not only environmental hypocrites but they’re as useless as the tits on a boar hog as they’ve enacted an impotent sound meter legislative mandate relevant to motor vehicle noise which allows for 95dB(A); logarithmically, 95dB(A) is 15X more intense than 80dB(A); therefore, California allows vehicular noise thugs to rule the roadways while the naive citizenry cows and accepts the abuse. Shame on California and shame on socialist Newsom. 

Beautiful California, the Mecca of Liberal-Progressive insanity, a “paradise” that litters its mountain sides with useless windmills and its valleys with Chinese solar panels, a socialist utopia hopelessly deceived by the demonic cult of “man induced climate change,” a deceived State of liberal insanity that gags over plastic straws and liquid gold below their feet while allowing the abusive, narcissistic, thugs, of the LOUD vehicle cult[ure] to destroy the environment, destroy and abuse the daily quality of life of millions with illegally equipped, illegally LOUD motor vehicles…California, the mecca of those who worship the creature rather than the Creator while this beautiful State is destroyed by virtue signaling liberal elites and an arrogant, cocky, Governor that serves the Devil as opposed to his constituency (Romans 1:18-32).

§ 205.52 Vehicle noise emission standards.

(a) Low Speed Noise Emission Standard. Vehicles which are manufactured after the following effective dates shall be designed, built and equipped so that they will not produce sound emissions in excess of the levels indicated.

Effective dateLevel
(i) January 1, 197983 dBA.
(ii) January 1, 198880 dBA.

(b) The standards set forth in paragraph (a) of this section refer to the sound emissions as measured in accordance with the procedures prescribed in § 205.54-1,2.

The TRUTH About Loud Motorcycles, Automobiles, Trucks, the Police Won’t or Can’t Tell You