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Twenty years ago Florida’s Highway Patrol was a competent top-notch police organization. Today they exist solely to generate revenue. Anyplace in Florida where the speed drops ten miles an hour, usually, for no visible reason, is a speed trap. It’s not about safety, it’s about revenue.

I have lost all respect for these revenuers.

It’s not about safety, it’s about revenue.

I have lost all respect for these revenuers.

For years I’ve called them the modern highwaymen.

On an increasing basis, speed traps are being setup during workweeks at rush hours. This is so that they can catch working people who will actually pay their tickets and also because they generally won't take time off from work to fight them in traffic court.

One my way to work each morning, I see the cop cars in the bushes, sitting in the pre-dawn darkness with their donuts and their radar guns.

This is especially infuriating as all the welfare bums are home sleeping and I'm up at 5 in the morning so that I can work my tail off to keep those bums in Doritos, daytime television (on a big screen), cigarettes and malt liquor. Now on top of that I have to deal with traffic cops looking to write me $100 tickets, not to mention years of insurance surcharges.

They say it's about the "public safety" but if they were really concerned about that, they'd be patrolling the highways, going after the jerks who tailgate, shift lanes constantly and otherwise drive aggressively. But no, they would prefer to hide in the bushes and harass a working man who might be going 48mph in a 40mph zone but is just trying to get to his job.

Meanwhile the layabouts and the welfare set get to relax at home.