...the cities and FHP really are on a push to get revenue back in the departments with tickets. The officers are not making the tickets up, but they do look more proactively and agressively for more hours of the day to make their supervisors in office happy. The County Sheriff's Departments have not stepped up the enforcement beyond the normal efforts seen before the economic tax problem in my opinion, just the cities and State Troopers following orders to "make the roads safer".
You've
got to be kidding brother!???
Why would you eliminate the
County Sheriff's Departments from the group?
They're no different than any other agency, albeit they have a penchant to spend more.
I know the HCSO had stepped up it's enforcement efforts along with every other Sheriff's Office I know of personally. they won't admit it publically, but talk to the officers and you get the real story. Of course if the numbers were public, it would once again be hidden behind "traffic safety."
I will say that recently (very recently) they (HCSO) dropped the pitch down a bit, but they're still very "PROACTIVE."
All of the agencies have stepped up thier enforcement efforts to raise revenue. The Sheriff's Offices are no different. They need $$ to survive just like the cities and state.
Instead of learning to adjust and live within a budget, they'd rather whine and start getting chicken chit with the tickets. It embarrases me at times, to have been associated with them:nonod:
I'm sorry man, but as a retired motor cop, I feel it's necessary to have standards and not hide behind "traffic safety" as an excuse to raise $$$.
Our minimum standard was 12 over and that was in residential areas, excluding school and active construction zones of course, and we still wrote on average, 20-30 citations per day per officer. There's no reason other than $$$ to lower the limit to 6-8 over:thumbsdown:
The only time I've EVER written something that piss poor was in a school zone and then, generally you had to piss me off to get me to do it
If we were sent to a residential area on citizen complaints and happen to nail the "citizen" that "complained" (that's happened more than once), then yes, they got the BS ticket too:thumbsup:
Now don't get me wrong. I'm not anti-law enforcement and I certainly don't have any use for street racers and people that do inherrently stupid chit on the street:thumbsdown:
But an 8 mile an hour ticket? Come on....!!
There's no traffic safety there. You'd hardly notice the difference in the an impact. It's all about the benjamins:nonod:
What burns me up the most, other than turning cops into revenue agents, is the way the administration trys to BS the public into believing it's for our own good
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