Are these police on duty? If a policeman gets a call for a crime in progress, or other emergency, he will exceed the posted speed limit to get to the scene. Certainly we’re not going to ticket a police officer in a case like that are we?
Of course they’re speeding to a crime scene!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How can I know this? Because cops obviously would never run lights otherwise.
During the last eight months of 2007, the department's cameras recorded 224 instances in which county police vehicles were nabbed traveling more than 10 mph over the speed limit, the department disclosed this week in response to an inquiry from The Washington Post.Of those citations, 76 were dismissed after supervisors determined that officers were responding to calls or had other valid reasons to exceed the speed limit. Nearly two-thirds of the remaining 148 fines have not been paid, including an unspecified number that remain under investigation, said Lt. Paul Starks, a police spokesman.