question about cops.....

Absolutely correct. However, I was a kid doing that 20 years ago. I’m now an old man doing that, and it’s my vice. If I’m busted or I die, then it’s my own fault. If I kill someone else, I’ll go to hell. I’ve already got one foot in that door anyhow.
But my only defense is I don’t do it in residential areas. My biggest risk is killing some corn.
But I’m not going to mod the snot out of my car to not enjoy some spirited road driving. All on the correct side of the road, of course. And never where houses are or where I have blind curves that I can’t stay on my side of the road on. And never at the level of what I’d do at a lap day at the track.