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.
In my town of roughly 300k there are only two main east/west corridors. One was four lanes and one is six. They cut down the four lanes to a meandering brick two lane road with bike path and lots of expensive plants and medians. The speed limit is 25. If you go 32 you get a ticket. (I think it’s $250.) I’ve actually seen them stop people at 30 (because they were right behind me and keeping an even distance.) But supposedly you can’t write a ticket until it’s seven miles over the limit. They have a bunch of 18 year old cops on this route and I suspect they hired them only to write tickets and nothing else.
This has wildly increased traffic on the 6 lane road. At an open meeting the commission tried to reduce that road from 6 lanes to two bike/walking lanes (there are sidewalks on both sides) and two bus and high occupancy car lanes and two traffic lanes. The stated purpose was to “force everybody to use the bus.” (The buses largely run empty. People complained so much they bought busses you can’t see into.)
This town has two universities and four lower level schools, it has a county government, a city government, it’s the state capitol and there are lots of federal offices. This town has NEVER elected a Republican. The current mayor is an out and out communist.
The public safety excuse is one of the biggest pantloads imaginable, ain’t it?
And also so they will be less likely to be accused of "racial profiling" (i.e., hassling the underclass, which is a major power base of the Dem party).