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Originally Posted by Rob
Interesting, but then how would you explain it? It's a freaking fact that all of these small in-city towns ticket outrageously, frequently unnecessary tickets.
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Well, I guess I could explain it like this:
Ticket outrageously, I dont think so. To be honest, for a lot of officers, traffic enforcement is a time filler between calls or directed assignement because of a problem area. Most of the problem areas and brought to the attention of the police by you....The Public....we respond and issue citations to curb the issue.
Also, most big city depts, have specially assigned units for traffic and only those cars are equipped with radar units.
If only smal town cops issue a bunch of tickets, then why do I stop people on a regular basis with in excess of 5-10 traffic warrants from SAPD?? Thats a lot of tickets that some SAPD officer issued.
There is a huge book full of traffic laws, in reality, once you start driving your car, a well versed officer could probably find a way to stop and cite you but most dont stop and cite for all violations. Hell, you can be cited for not turning off your car and setting your parking when you run into the store but I bet youd be hard pressed to find a ticket issued for that.
I also hear the horror stories of how some officer wrote a ticket for 1-3 mph over the speed limit, but when I ask to see a copy of it, it can never be produced or its one of those " well, it was issued to a guy I know" things. So until I see a ticket for 1-3 mph over, I still call bullshit on those.
I guess what Im saying is who determines whats an UNECESSARY ticket?? The person receiving it?