I live in the NYC metro area and I estimate at least 95% of traffic goes a minimum of 5 miles per hour above the posted speed. So for cops to write 12 tickets a month would be like jumping in a full pool and hitting water.
I was about to say that sounds like a urban myth or just BS BUT...
Last year Geico Insurance Co. donated $20,000,000 ( twenty million dollars ) to police departments in the form of new laser and radar guns. Other insurance companies donated large amounts as well.
But yea this is all in the name of "safety". :roll:
why not make quota's for violent crimes or drug arrests? things much more worthy of police attention than traffic tickets
What got me is 3 years ago Geico tried to raise my rate after another driver rear-ended me! Clearly the other woman was at fault, the cop that wrote it up said so, and she even admitted it and was quite apologetic. Yet Geico's logic was "There's a wreck on your MVR... so we raise your rate." In the state of AL any accident goes on your record regardless of fault. The catch is the bold print at the top of the MVR that states inclusion of collision data on this report does not indicate fault in any way.
See, that's the problem. Most of us don't follow the rules to the letter. We go a little too fast, we roll through stop signs. And the cops won't stop us all the time. Go past a police car at 72mph in a 65mph zone, it'll be overlooked most of the time. So we get into a habit of it. Then all of the sudden when they decide to enforce, it feels unfair.
I didnt think this thread was about who's right and who's wrong, rather public perception. It's human nature that if we get singled out for doing something that gets overlooked most of the time, we're gonna feel some resentment.
mugs
Lifer
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Each officer has to issue 144 tickets a year... 12 a month... figuring they work 20 days a month, that's less than one a day. It's not like he's telling them to give tickets just for the heck of it, he's just telling them to actually do their job. In my experience with cops, every time I've been pulled over in my home state it was for something I REALLY deserved a ticket for. In other states... not so much. In general I think cops are pretty reasonable. I've had cops pull up behind me when I'm doing 75-80 in a 65, and I just move over and they go right by. Just the other day someone I know was on his cell phone on the highway (illegal in NJ) and a cop pulled up beside him, motioned for him to hang up, then went right on by. There's so many times cops COULD give tickets and don't, because for the most part they're reasonable human beings.
See, this varies widly from place to place. In a lot of larger cities, they seem less concerned with small traffic infractions, but in other locations, they can go the complete opposite. In my town they regularly give out tickets for 3-5mph over, and most normal car's speedometers are not exact, so you could essentialy get a ticket for your gauges reading 1-2mph low....and we all know if the speed limit is safe...2-5mph over is freakin DANGEROUS!
in Indiana I believe the state police have a quota. I'm not sure how many they have to give each month though. We also have "Operation Pullover" where you see people pulled over everywhere for about a month or so.
I was on 66 just out of DC one evening. It was pouring rain - really bad. This cop pulled me over, got out of his nice dry car and walked in the downpour to my window. Then he said, "Sir, would you please turn on your lights". He then went back to his car and left. I will forever respect that cop. He was interested in safety!
Really? Well they've done the same thing in Nashville. There was a huge push from the new chief of police to give out tickets. The problem is Briley Parkeway has been worked on for over 4 years. The REAL problem is the construction company up and quick and there had not been any work on it in over a year. They kept the MPH at construction speeds for the whole year and setup speed traps on parts of the highway. People didn't do freaking 45 because it's NOT A FREAKING CONSTRUCTION ZONE!!!! They were charging people 500 a pop for "speeding in a construction zone", EVEN though the city was in the process of SUING the construction company for stopping the job and up and leaving town.
Not to mention that my son and I got a speeding ticket on the way back from a Titans game for doing 65 in a 45 (another highway, 65N - a "construction zone" - one that has been going on for over 6-8 years) because I merged from another highway ontop 65 and there were NO speed limit signs for the reduction in speed, they were on down the road. Going from an interstate that's 70 to a 45 and there's no signs or construction. I get a ticket and the cop didn't seem to care there was no posted speed limit from one highway to the other.
When I went to traffic court, that's when I heard about all the complaints about Briley Parkway. I don't personally drive it often, but apparently a lot of people there did. Cops are just abusing the situation.
You get the point. Police do their own thing sometimes. I resepect what they do, but there's a point sometimes where they don't play fair.
Quotas are ridiculous. Especially when you get pulled over for the crappiest reason only 'cause it's the end of the month and that effin' copper has to make his quota.
Svnla
Lifer
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We will have a vote this weekend whether to renew a sale tax for police/firefighter pay raise. Kinda funny how low key the police were in the last few weeks.
The local news showed at 10 p.m. the chief pulled over some folks for speeding and only gave them warnings. What a nice fella...LOL.
What even more funny is the last time when we went to vote for that same sale tax, the police were very low key. But when the sale tax pass, the police were all over the tv ad and showed how touch they are with "Operation Seatbelt".
The local news showed at 10 p.m. the chief pulled over some folks for speeding and only gave them warnings. What a nice fella...LOL.
What even more funny is the last time when we went to vote for that same sale tax, the police were very low key. But when the sale tax pass, the police were all over the tv ad and showed how touch they are with "Operation Seatbelt".
Yea they don;t have quotas but I bet if she did not write a single ticket for the month she would be pulled to the side or checked on.
My grandfather said things were changing when he left the force decades ago. Use to be if you wrote a ticket no thing. But when he was leaving them would make mention of who wrote the most. Who was "not keeping up". etc... and that was 20+ years ago. Current cops I know say it is the same or worse.
Fritzo
Lifer
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It's impossible not to write tickets. In fact, that's what usually leads to major arrests. The pattern is as follows:
1) Driver has broken/no tail lights, obscructed license plate, so something similar while driving a POS car.
2) Pull over to check out, 9/10 times driver has no drivers license. Gives fake name.
3) Friend in car screws up, get ID out of driver and passenger, they have warrants or have drugs on them.
4) They go to jail.
She said she writes a speeding ticket about once a month. Most of her tickets are things light running red lights or extreme vehicle violations.
Krazy4Real
Lifer
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I know that a lot of people here don't have an issue with a cop giving a ticket for speeding, but I feel there are certain circumstances where it starts to get ridiculous. There's a road that I travel on everday to get to and from work. There is a point on that road where it is 3 lanes going in each direction, but the speed limit changes from 45 to 35. There almost always is a cop right after that point with somebody pulled over. It usually is some middle aged man or woman driving a car like a nissan sentra. They end up getting tickets for going 45 in a 35 since they didn't react in time. I'm sorry, but that really pisses me off. How is that going to help the general public?
WOW!!! So a cops job is to make numbers? Here and I thought it was to serve and protect, not be a ticket machine. But I guess we know what cops really think. Thanks
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