Posted on 10/25/2013 7:00:13 AM PDT by Rusty0604
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A North Texas woman was handcuffed, stripped down and booked into jail – all because of an overdue traffic ticket.
Attorney Jason Smith told CBS 11 News though, there’s nothing requiring the city to put people in jail. “The constitution doesn’t keep the government or government officials from using common sense. Unfortunately, some police officers, some governments get overly aggressive because they want that ticket revenue.”
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BTDT. It’s your word against theirs and you’re going to lose. The cop was camped out at the intersection for the sole purpose of ticketing people who stopped before the sign rather than at it because a hedge blocked the view when AT the stop sign. Just so happened the hedge was at the city’s civic center, ha, imagine that.
This has always been the policy, whether Texas or California.
If you don’t pay a ticket a warrant is issued, if you are caught then you go to jail, jail means a strip search.
This goes back to at least the 1960s and probably far before that.
There’s got to be more to this story. A judge is not going to issue a bench warrant over a traffic ticket.
A long time ago I didn’t pay a traffic ticket in Texas because I simply did not have the money. I rec’d a call from the police dept. warning me that a warrant had been put out so I needed to pay the ticket if I didn’t want to get arrested. It worked and I borrowed the money, went down and paid the fee.
What is wrong with that?
When we lived in Switzerland, a friend who lived there before came back on business. There was an old photo-ticket (radar camera speeding ticket - gets you for less than 5 mph over the limit) he had never received as it was at the time of his move. First night back, police showed up at his hotel room demanding immediate payment of fine and penalty.
What you say makes a good case for people tracking their own driving with one of their own video cams in their car that tracks all their driving.
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