Currently the state of Illinois is promoting speed traps for municipalities by paying a bonus to the towns for each ticket, this while drugs are rampant and people are dying at an alarming rate because of contaminated drugs and drug overdose. Is this the best possible use of taxpayer money?
2006-11-25 10:25:47 · 18 answers · asked by FEVER 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Yes i have, there is an overpass in the town where i live and the local police set at the bottom and nail people if they exceed th 30 mile per hour limit by 2 miles per hour.
2006-11-25 11:27:40 · answer #1 · answered by Smoky! 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have noticed a trend in this country lately. We are starting to loathe the same people who try and protect us but blame them, when we make their jobs harder or almost impossible with polotics and beurocracy.
Our cities and municipalities hire police and law enforcement officials to help protect us and they get treated like ****, bad mouthed and plain screwed sometimes for doing their job.
Are you perfect enough to handle their responsibilities?
If so, the shut the FU CK up and go do them!
If not, then obey the rules and quit crying.
I do not neccessarily like "cops", especially when I am recieving a ticket, but a few of my friends who happen to be very good, respectable people are police and law enforcement personnel. They were hired to do a job, let them do it. We pay them for it, so stop making their job harder and let them do what we pay them for.
No different that the troops in Iraq. They have a job, let them do it! Stop the polotics, the beurocracy and the BS.
AND YES I HAVE BEEN VICTIM OF A SPEED TRAP (more than once!) AND YES, I think it is a wonderful opportunity to find drugs, illegal weapons, immigrants, and DUI's.
If you are doing nothing wrong, then why should you be concerned? What are you doing to help solve or prevent problems other than whining?
We probably waste more taxpayer money paying the higher ups and "Official" salaries, pension plans and the like.
2006-11-25 20:14:31 · answer #2 · answered by konstipashen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have set up many "speed traps" as you call them. I don't do it for the tickets. I do it to slow people down. Most of my big arrests came from these "speed traps". I only wrote about 20 percent of those stopped and they were usually for good reasons. This is a habit used in Texas with great results in interdicting drugs on the interstate. Try going on a ride-along and get a better perspective of what is really happening there.
2006-11-25 19:22:32 · answer #3 · answered by spag 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, in California, when the radar guns first came out, in about 1971 or 72, I asked for a jury trial & beat the charges against me by showing a certificate from the AAA Club that the top speed of my vehicle was only 70 mph. I was clocked at over 90, according to the Officer & the jury found me innocent, as I was driving a 1968 Datsun Pick-Up truck & it seemed fishy enough to them to ignore what the new devices said! I doubt this could happen in todays world! I later learned that these devices were picking up my radiator fan speed! What a joke & a waste of money for us taxpayers! :o)
2006-11-25 18:45:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, traffic stops are an excellent way for police to discover drugs. If you are stopped, cooperate with the police as we are just doing our job. Most of my officers will cut you a little bit of a break. You will still get a ticket, but it won't be as much. Again, we are looking for criminals: robbers speed, burglars transport stolen merchandise, DUI's are out there, too.
How many times have you wished you could stop someone for running a light or blowing you off of the road? Help us help you.
2006-11-25 18:35:58 · answer #5 · answered by Christopher H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I drive down this steep hill in my city and at the bottom there is a speedtrap which is impossible to not set off because the sigh at the top of the hill says 60 mph and if you go past that down the hill you will set off the speed trap. So unless you slam the brakes at the bottom you will set it off.
2006-11-25 18:33:26 · answer #6 · answered by Seraph Xero 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you lost a child due to a speeder you would agree with the speed trap program.But all you have to lose is money.Maybe if you done the speed limit then you would not be a poor victim of the speed trap.
2006-11-25 18:40:13 · answer #7 · answered by darlene100568 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but I have had a couple of tickets that I deserved because I was speeding. Paid them both. If you break the law it's impossible to be a victim of that law.
2006-11-26 05:17:11 · answer #8 · answered by .45 Peacemaker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No i never speed, but i have been observing all the drug activity and find it disturbing that there would be such a high concentration of effort on speeders and ignoring the drug problem.
2006-11-25 19:00:10 · answer #9 · answered by SICKO 2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey if they write enough tickets they can operate off ticket money. and yes i have been the victim of a speed trap in Alabama and Georgia
2006-11-25 18:32:05 · answer #10 · answered by roy40372 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋