How you can tell the local police dept. needs more money.

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: Compton

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Earlier this week:
There was a busy signal where people would turn into the suicide lane leading upto the left turn lane so they're not blocking through traffic. There was nowhere else to turn at the point where people were doing this. They were writing people up for doing that.

Yesterday:
Blocked off a major thoroughfare during rush hour for a random DRIVERS LICENSE CHECK.

A few weeks ago I saw a cop that looked like he was writing up a ticket for two teenagers on gas powered stand up scooters.

how do they make money off of that? if you don't have your license all you have to do is take it to the station within a certain amount of time, right?

By catching unlicensed drivers, drivers with suspended licenses, that sort of thing.

ah, didn't think of that but how many do you think they'd catch? my guess would be extremely few or none. not worth the time and hassle.

They always find other things to ticket people for at checkpoints, such as expired motor vehicle inspection stickers.

Ding Ding Ding!!! Correct.
They write tickets for lights out, plates, seatbelts, etc... anything that makes money.

Funny thing is 3 houses were broken into less then 3 blocks from one of these road blocks. I guess "serving and protecting" fell wasteside to writing easy tickets that make money. :roll:

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: Trikat
I think there is a good amount of people who drive with "bad" licenses or no licenses at all. Atlease this catches underaged drivers, repeat offenders, and illegal immigrants. To me it is a great idea and would love to see many an increase in these types of traffic stops.

But a major road during rush hour?

By major, I mean two lanes each direction with turn lane in the middle. Traffic was backed up atleast three blocks.

I'm more amazed at the people who have all the time in the world to turn, so that they don't go through the roadblock, but go through anyways, apparently hoping that the police won't notice the expired registration, expired inspection, lack of insurance, suspended license, etc. What do these morons think? "I'll bet they're just checking everyone's tire pressure" or something??!

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: Trikat
I think there is a good amount of people who drive with "bad" licenses or no licenses at all. Atlease this catches underaged drivers, repeat offenders, and illegal immigrants. To me it is a great idea and would love to see many an increase in these types of traffic stops.

But a major road during rush hour?

By major, I mean two lanes each direction with turn lane in the middle. Traffic was backed up atleast three blocks.

I'm more amazed at the people who have all the time in the world to turn, so that they don't go through the roadblock, but go through anyways, apparently hoping that the police won't notice the expired registration, expired inspection, lack of insurance, suspended license, etc. What do these morons think? "I'll bet they're just checking everyone's tire pressure" or something??!

Actually if you turn back when you see it they will send a car after you. usually have Z28's or other high powered cars. Same with DUI check points.