A couple of days ago, I was driving along NE 8th ST in Bellevue, WA.
Traffic was backed up at the time, so I was actually waiting.

Out of the corner of my eye in my right mirror, I spotted a Bellevue
motorcycle cop hopping his bike up onto the sidewalk. He was cruising
along at about 20 MPH. I figured it must be a bank robbery or something
to justify whizzing by the front doors of so many businesses and risk
hitting a pedestrian. But he had no emergency light on.

He passed me (on the sidewalk), drove up about a block, pulled up in
front of Starbucks, got off his bike and walked in. By the time I passed
that point, he was standing in line, waiting to order the obligatory
donut (no robbery evident).

I wonder how much the lawsuit would have been worth had someone stepped
out of a doorway as he zipped by.