I don't see what the fuss is about, if your car has ILLEGAL mods, you deserve to be ticketed.
You can't tell them "don't you have bigger things to go after." They're not going to let all the speeders, drunk drivers, burglars and rapists go because a mass murderer is on the loose. Illegal is illegal, regardless of its severity, you have something illegal and they catch you, you pay for it.
Tickets/fines for impounding ARE a justified way of collecting revenue, it punishes (or even capitalizes on) those who break the law, but more importantly it saves the innocent law-abiders of paying through higher taxes.
However, cops harassing LEGALLY modifed cars is total BS, this has alot to do with racial/vehicular profiling, which all law enforcement agencies use but I don't want to get into that ugly mess.......
"All these years I thought it was power that brought responsibility. It's not. I was wrong. It's responsibility that brings power. It's knowing what needs to be done that brings strength. And courage." - Peter Parker, Earth X