Posted on 03/04/2023 6:42:27 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Any knowledge about the WAZE app?
In FL, citations, probation and incarceration are second only to tourism for government revenue.
They should spend more time getting the most dangerous people on the road ... left lane drivers ...
It’s great - if the cops like sitting in one specific spot and only that spot, or if someone has gone through an area in the last hour or less and noticed a speed trap set up and notified the app.
So, it’s useful, but there are obvious holes in realtime coverage. My best practice recommendation is to use Waze and a Valentine One Gen2 radar/lidar detector unless your local law enforcement is VASCAR only.
Do you mean people passing all the slow people, or do you mean people who drive like they’re enforcing the speed limit in the left lane instead of with the prevailing flow?
The latter ...
The police are the standing army the Founders warned us about. Someone on here try to change my mind.
A police officer has a difficult job. I get that. And I’m sure you do too.
But you know who else has a difficult job? A waitress. She’s on her feet all day long. And she has to deal with rude customers. All for the hope of a tip. Even with all that stress, we want a waitress to be polite and professional. We do not want her to escalate small problems into big ones.
We should expect the same from a police officer.
Unfortunately, too often that’s not what we’re getting. Too often they treat everyone like a criminal. Police officers, we are the middle class. You really do need our support, as much as we need yours.
Once passing a radar revenuer (I was not speeding) I gave the middle finger. He pulled me over to harass me.
It’s WAY easier to collect revenue from Granny going slightly fast than to catch actual criminals.
I have NO respect for them.
Those are ‘left-lane bandits’.
I was pulled over for flashing my lights at oncoming cars to warn them of a speed trap.
The officer who pulled me over was red in the face. Wanted to know if I was in distress. Said if I wasn’t in distress he should impound my vehicle to inspect it for mechanical difficulties. Did I want that?
No.
Then why was I flashing my lights at oncoming cars?
“I was just reminding my fellow citizens to drive safely.”
He got redder in the face…then told me to get the hell out of here.
I short..the cop stopped you to harass you and intimidate you. Yet another reason to not back the blue.
I called cops once in my life.
I had detained two people attempting to “Burgle” my home when my family was there. Cop explained to the perps how lucky they were to be alive. They were local kids. We knew the parent. Never saw those kids again or had any other problems.
Word got around.
Is 5 years considered a quick and speedy trial????
So you would prefer no police?
I suppose they need to define the role of the police to either exist for public safety or revenue generation. Yellow light times and unjustifiable speed limits are a fairly good proxy to which view a particular community takes. I drive a krapton all over the west for fun, and while there are definitely assclowns on the road constantly switching lanes, unsafe passing, and tailgating inches from your bumper, and driving 20mph faster than everybody else regardless if it’s clear and dry or blizzarding, I find the vast majority of drivers sync up and traffic will naturally flow to the conditions. Even if sometimes it is 20mph above the speed limit.
Those aren’t drunk driving check points. If they were they would not site people for suspended licenses, vehicle registration, and anything else they can come up with. They are just flat out check points.
Nah, they probably see it as “obstructing justice.”
No victim, no crime.
Might take a while for people to realize that we’re chattel thanks to legal mumbo jumbo word magick.
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