OK, so I'm just kind of thinking out loud here, so bear with me.
I remember the thread on here with the CPD officer that used to write a bunch of front plate tickets, and he was a huge dickbag about it. Then he got busted for kid porn or something (karma LOL). But I never really heard about anyone else writing front plate tickets. Sure it might give the Staties or Westerville or whoever a reason to pull you over, but it didn't seem like it was being enforced too strict by anyone.
Back in 2006ish I got pulled over in Hilliard and given a warning for no front plate, and a couple years later my buddy got pulled over in the small town of Attica (we were on our way to Cedar Point) and written a ticket. Nothing since then. I've had numerous Camaros with no front plate on any of them. I had a job as a field supervisor driving 200 miles a day around central Ohio, with no front plate on my S10, and never once got pulled over. We never put a front plate on my wife's Equinox and we drive that thing everywhere.
I know lots of folks that put a front plate on their Corvette or whatever because they don't want to be hassled. So have I just been lucky, or have we reached the point that the police really don't give a shit anymore since they expect front plates to be phased out soon? I keep hearing that front plates are going away, but I've been hearing that for a decade now.