While the police are taking it easy on motorists, they give cyclists the third degree. If you drove your car without wearing your seatbelt, you might expect to get a ticket, but you wouldn't expected to be arrested. It's a sorry state of affairs when you can get arrested for riding on the sidewalk on your bike but not for running a red light in and killing a cyclist with your car. In another case, after a police car nearly sideswapped cyclist Tommy Eden, Eden caught up with the car and asked the officer to be more careful, pointing out that he could have been seriously injured by the police car. The officer didn't respond, so Eden asked for his badge number, and was arrested for doing so.
Police provide biased information to the press.
Also in the Ben Clough case, the police press release stated that the cyclist wasn't wearing a helmet. So the press dutifully reported that a helmetless cyclist died in a collision, implying that it was the cyclist's fault. What they neglected to mention was that the driver had run a red light to hit Ben. The police didn't tell them. It wasn't in their press release.