Drugs? I'm more worried about the idiots in the full size pickups who are driving Warp 9.95 down the interstate than I am the idiots who are sitting in their basement smoking dope.
Base salaries for many police departments (out of academy) is normally in the mid-low 30s to mid 40s before OT.
Also, overtime is normally given to the senior officers before the rookies, which will get stuck with crap shifts and worse overtime shifts.
Hell, in NYC it's only $25k in the academy, and then jumps to $33k after. You don't get up to $60k until after 5 1/2 years.
Wealthy suburbs is where you want to work if you want to make money in LE, but it's normally something you have to transfer into, or have other experience such as military, EMT, or fire dept.
This wouldn't stop speeders. It would stop those who care and even those who can can afford it.
The people who run 90 down the highway now don't care and wouldn't pay the fines anyway.
The people who run 90 down the highway now don't care and wouldn't pay the fines anyway.
zinfamous
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I disagree. Plenty of of logical, sane, and normal people have been convicted of murder. jdini76 was just showing how the most extreme incentive attached to one of the more reproachable crimes is still not enough incentive to abolish this crime. Speeding is barely a crime, and simply increasing the punishment is not going to drop the number from ~95% of people who do it (for whatever reason, at any given moment) to 0%
This idea is stupid. It sounds like it came from a 12 year-old.
Forgive me if someone already mentioned this, but I drive a lot as part of my job, and every other day a cop flies past me at 90mph. No disco lights, no other apparent reason except for the love of hauling ass.
A friend of mine broke down on the side of I95 a few years ago. A cop pulled up, and sat with him on the hood of the car, waiting for a tow truck. People were speeding by, and my friend asked why the cop didn't pull anyone over. The cop said if they weren't going over 70mph, he couldn't pull them over. The speed limit was 55.
A friend of mine broke down on the side of I95 a few years ago. A cop pulled up, and sat with him on the hood of the car, waiting for a tow truck. People were speeding by, and my friend asked why the cop didn't pull anyone over. The cop said if they weren't going over 70mph, he couldn't pull them over. The speed limit was 55.
If they increase speed limits by 10 or more sure, if not then don't give me a $1000 speeding ticket.
Not everyone thinks all speeding is a horrible crime, I hit triple the limit earlier today in a fairly safe manner.
It's a stupid idea because everyone is going to be driving around looking at their speedos instead of the actual road. People will remain longer on the wrong side of the road when overtaking trucks, etc etc.
You'd think that if it was such a good idea, the government might have implemented it already. I doubt you with your 20 seconds of 'thought' will be able to come up with anything more effective that those who are paid to try and minimize traffic accidents each day.
Flamebait.
You'd think that if it was such a good idea, the government might have implemented it already. I doubt you with your 20 seconds of 'thought' will be able to come up with anything more effective that those who are paid to try and minimize traffic accidents each day.
Flamebait.
Specop 007
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This idea is really dumb and unfair. Now the highway will become rich men's playgrounds and the elite will still speed nevertheless - all the better now that those who can't afford to pay the $1k will either drive very slow or avoid driving altogether.
To reduce speeding and related accidents, speed limits should be "reasonable and prudent" instead of a hard and ill-defined number.
To reduce speeding and related accidents, speed limits should be "reasonable and prudent" instead of a hard and ill-defined number.
bamacre
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That is not the reason cops monitor speeders. They do it for the $$. Same reason they continue lowering the legal limit of the influence of alcohol. It is not to decrease the amount of alcohol related accidents, it is to increase the number of DUI's and increase the amount of money coming in.
If they raised the fine for speeding to $1000, nobody would speed, and it could decrease the amount of money coming in. But keeping it low, say $25 to $100, keeps people speeding, and keeps $$ coming in. This is, in economics, known as price-elasticity, or at least very similiar.
People just use those to see just how fast they can make it through the pass, hoping they might beat their old personal best.
Well, I know two females who wouldn't be considered rich or insane. One assaulted a police officer for pulling her over for loud music in a residential neighborhood. The other, in response to my surprise, said 'Hey, s%$# happens'.
Just because someone is sane, and capable of making risk/reward decisions, does not mean that everyone will value a given risk/reward at the same level. In this case, ego was more valuable than jail time.
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