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ScifiterX wrote:

Same in the area where Daniel and I live but there are stretches here where cops aren't around to hear or see problems very often.

And apparently Florida Ave is one of them.

Daniel wrote:

macnuke wrote:

if you are inna hurry. leave 5 minutes earlier.
or just get the Tank and be done with it.

I should not have to turn a 5-minute trip into a 20-minute trip because some smurf feels like crawling along at the head of the line.  That is not reasonable.

ok.... you choose tank.

but it's prolly best when doing trip calculations to use the smurf factor in it.
the odds of an smurf being in front of you are highest when you calculate with max speed on your trip.

But do you really think that when plans are laid out for the placement of signs (and believe me, there are likely plans upon plans made for tiny details such as this) there is some overarching agenda in place to trick people into violating the law?  Especially in a city so large? 

If money were the issue, why wouldn't cops settle on the first guy who drives by going above the limit?  I pass police monitoring traffic speed all the time while exceeding the speed limit, and haven't been pulled over for speeding since I was 16.  When I worked in traffic court, 10 mph over the limit was generally the lowest ticket that I would see.

Daniel wrote:

Yes.  How else are they supposed to pay for a police force nearly 4,000% larger than it ought to be?  How else can they fund the war on drugs?  How else can they finance a police force better armed than the citizenry?

Sorry, I still think you're demonstrating a profound ignorance for the process involved.  H

Because radar guns have a margin of error, and they've been beat in court enough times to not bother.

I never lost a ticket based on a "margin of error."

Look, I get your anti-cop thing and it's obviously something you feel quite passionately about.  My suggestion is to stick to those legitimate grievances against them.  You can't expect people to take you seriously when you start in with this conspiracy theory nonsense about how the cops are pulling strings everywhere in some devious attempt to further their desired police state.

Do proceeds from traffic fines even go to funding the police in your area?

The city's response is bullsmurf. The yellow lights at the San Mateo-Montgomery intersection last three seconds, that intersection is partway down a really long slope(Montgomery Blvd.).

There are videos of the lights in question.

Poor timing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxCjXFZHMsE

Mistakes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fC-_J2yCU8

Some Albuquerque City Councilors were trying to get the cameras disabled:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NORVrpxn5tc

Then the state said it wanted the money from the cameras:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWMPVE_dPtU&NR=1

And without that revenue(surprise surprise), CABQ stopped the cameras:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FJRwaTwO4s

Then Albuquerque's Mayor Martin Chavez(someone a lot like George W. Bush, who's more interested in *the impression* that he's done anything useful than in actually doing anything useful) had the cameras turned back on.

Now they're going to limit fines to $75, rather than the current $100 for first offense, and $250 for each subsequent offense:
http://alibi.com/index.php?scn=news& … ullstory=y

I'm thinking about getting one of these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LoVEyL1dmQ

Daniel wrote:

bratboy wrote:

Look, I get your anti-cop thing and it's obviously something you feel quite passionately about.  My suggestion is to stick to those legitimate grievances against them.  You can't expect people to take you seriously when you start in with this conspiracy theory nonsense about how the cops are pulling strings everywhere in some devious attempt to further their desired police state.

It's not conspiracy theory nonsense.  I lurk on several cop forums.  The smurf they say, practice, preach, and do is horrifying.

And they're all talking about how they police departments are gettin' rich off of speeding tickets?



Do you know how many tickets I dismissed on a daily basis because the officers that issued them simply wouldn't show up to court (usually because they chose to spend whatever time they were off the jobs with their families)?  Seems like a major hole in that conspiracy! (The other being that in many cities, to my knowledge, ticket fines go into the general coffers or are directed at something else entirely.)

bratboy wrote:

Daniel wrote:

bratboy wrote:

Look, I get your anti-cop thing and it's obviously something you feel quite passionately about.  My suggestion is to stick to those legitimate grievances against them.  You can't expect people to take you seriously when you start in with this conspiracy theory nonsense about how the cops are pulling strings everywhere in some devious attempt to further their desired police state.

It's not conspiracy theory nonsense.  I lurk on several cop forums.  The smurf they say, practice, preach, and do is horrifying.

And they're all talking about how they police departments are gettin' rich off of speeding tickets?



Do you know how many tickets I dismissed on a daily basis because the officers that issued them simply wouldn't show up to court (usually because they chose to spend whatever time they were off the jobs with their families)?  Seems like a major hole in that conspiracy! (The other being that in many cities, to my knowledge, ticket fines go into the general coffers or are directed at something else entirely.)

I wonder haw many secondary charges resulted from the speeding stops?

bratboy wrote:

zoees wrote:

I wonder haw many secondary charges resulted from the speeding stops?

I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to, but most of those would have been handled in the same setting at the same time--suspended license, failure to present insurance, expired plates, etc.

Speeding tickets don't add up nearly as fast as drug charges. And you can't just start pulling people over whilly-nilly until you find some. Speeding, broken tail lights, any other bullsmurf excuse they can think of to get around your privacy rights in order to get meet that quota.

Those prisons need to show a profit. The shareholders demand their money!