Just pay the ticket either by mail or going into court. 90% of the time the officer will have put a court date on their and that date will be on the other tickets he has written because thats the day that he is gonna go to court. If you decide not to pay the ticket , your licenes will be suspended which you will be notified by mail and a warrent will be issued for your arrest and the next time your pulled over your going to jail for a "failure to appear".
The ticket is gonna be cheap but if you go to court and the officer is their your gonna loose then your gonna have to pay court cost and the ticket.
I'm a cop and I will wight a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt if I have a reason , generaly unless your doing sothing stupid I'm not gonna waste my time and effort to pull sombody over just cause I saw them not wearing a seatbelt. If you fit the "profile" I might use that as a reason to stop you and make a further investigation for DUI , Drugs , weapons or whatever. but I also use things like no tag light not using your blinker or about 1000 others. So I'm thinking that you must have done somthing else to catch this guys attention unless he was just realy dumb and bored. Now if I pull you over for any of the above reasons and you get ANY sort of attitude I'm gonna wright you a ticket for every damn thing I can find. , but on another note if I catch you for speeding or rolling a stop sign and your polite and seem half ass honest I'll give you a ticket for the seatbelt because its alot cheaper than a speeding ticket and it doesen't ding your insurance or not as bad. In some departments their has to be a written statement for EVERY stop you make , if you call in a DL to dispatch then you have got to have a reason and their better be a paper trail that sombody can follow and thats generaly to cover the PD's ass.
Now for all you guys that give cops a hard time for stopping you , here is a little bit fo info.
1) more cops are killed in routine traffic stops either for some dumb ass running them over or by the person they pulled over being wanted and shooting them than any SWAT teams does while kicking in doors for raids. I am a SWAT member and I do alot of drug raids and high risk warrents every year and can tell you that being relaxed and complacient in your job while making routine traffic stop will get you killed.
2) laws are made to protect you and the rest of the public like it or not , they may seems like a painin the ass and like their were devised to make your life miserable but their is another reason.
3) Cops don't do this job because its easy or the pay is great , they do it because its a calling and somtimes their are other benifits and somtimes its fun but others its horrible , so befoe you decide that cops are dickhead "pigs" maybe you should try their job for a little bit.
I have cought guys with juice in their car several times and if they were honest and polite with me I generaly let them go with an ass chewing AND a seat belt ticket , about driving around with shit in their car !! if I catch you with weed and its not alot I'll make you dump it and probably give you a seatbelt ticket. Now If I pull over and I have some fuck-O that wants to break bad and catch an attitude , I'm gonna stroke you for every damn thing I can find and hope that you give me a reason to handel your ass! Their is no reason to be a dick , at some point you broke a law and now you got caught so just be nice and suck it up!!
for those of you that don't like cops that fine to , I'm sure at some point you ran accross some little asshole that only does this job for the power trip and he screwed you over and I'm sure that left a bad taste in your mouth . I fully understand your reasoning for it but that doesen't meen that all cops are like that.
I will say though that I probably abuse my power somewhat , I have driven my patrol car to Pop-Eyes to get the discount on the meal and I drive it around town when I'm off duty and let the department pay for the gas and yes my badge has gotten me out of alot of speeding tickets but every one of you guys here would or do the same thing!!
Here are a few rules I have that apply to most other cops
1) you be nice and I'll be nice , you be a dick and I'm gonna be a bigger dick!!
2) you touch me i'm gonna touch you back and its gonna hurt, kaeep your
hands to your self.
3) be honest even if it means you might go to jail , if your honest I'll do my
best to making things as easy for you as possible.
4) DON'T RUN , I'm alot faster than I look and when I catch you your going
to the hospital before jail , and even if I don't run you down the K-9 thats
on the way will find you then your goning to hospital with dog bites!!
5) Please don't try to fight me , even if you can kick my ass I have gun
6) 99% of the time your on camera and everybody else has heard your name
and knows where we are , your not gonna get away