Joe...I would hope that an inspector would spend more than 5 minutes looking at an installation that took me days and sometimes weeks to complete.I do make errors on occasion and though that call from the inspector makes butterflys in my stomach,I do learn from my mistakes.
Also I would think that the inspector would be exposing himself and the city he represents to some liability if he blatently overlooked a violation in which a person were hurt or property was damaged.