How many of you are equiped with them and how often do you use them?
They are pointless in IL because you cant tint your drivers side or passenger windows to the slightest percentage.

They are a useful tool against these gang-bangers. Walking up to a car where they can see you but you cannot see them is hairy to the max and for safety reasons either should not be allowed or the officers should be allowed to make a felony stop when stopping someone with those windows, even if it is running a stop sign, traffic light. minor speeding, wherever. Now I have also seen it used to harass people for no reason. I saw a damn DOT officer check a bunch of dump trucks in Florida and write tickets for it including one to a truck that had 'factory' tint! There are some legit reasons to have dark tint, especially in places like Fl, AZ, NM, TX, etc.

Don't get me wrong, here in GA tint violations are pretty kosher PC in order to conduct a traffic stop on that car that your gut tells you just "needs to be stopped". I've always cautioned rookies, however, that there's a fine line between such things, and that dirty word...."profiling".

I only use the window tint as my PC when I really need to find out who is in the vehicle for a case or something along those lines, otherwise I rarely use it. I've only used my tint meter about two times. I don't like using bullshit PC for traffic stops, so like I said I rarely use this technic.

5% isent that dark....wink wink.....or even worse is the miror tints. you can see almost perfect if your in the car, but if your out looking in, you see yourself.
But if you really want to get pulled over, tint your windshield. lol

Here in Mississippi, the law used to read that if you have sufficent enough vision to obtain a D.L. you should be able to see through the tint from the outside. Easy p.c., right? It was changed a couple of years ago to having to check it with a meter. My Department won't buy them. I've got "dark" tint on the side windows of my truck for my family's safety. If I want an insoection sticker I have to pull it off. Guess what? Come October will be two years since that sticker was valid!

I actually dident know that tinted windows was PC. I thought you had to wait for a traffic violation to pull a vehicle over. Thats a great tool then.

Don't have tint meters yet, but the dept is working on that.