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If Public Safety officers really cared about safety, they'd do like Ohio and be visible on the highways at all times, and ride amongst the traffic on the roads like everyone else. Just the sight of them slows people down.
But no, they wanna hide in their little cubbyholes and pop out with gotcha tactics. It's always about revenue with these folks. It quit being about safety when the 55mph speed limit was instituted. It was their ticket to massive amounts of revenue. That mentality has never went away even though that speed limit did.
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Originally Posted by desertdetroiter
Yep. Straight cash homie.
If Public Safety officers really cared about safety, they'd do like Ohio and be visible on the highways at all times, and ride amongst the traffic on the roads like everyone else. Just the sight of them slows people down.
But no, they wanna hide in their little cubbyholes and pop out with gotcha tactics. It's always about revenue with these folks. It quit being about safety when the 55mph speed limit was instituted. It was their ticket to massive amounts of revenue. That mentality has never went away even though that speed limit did.
With NC facing a $2.5B budget shortfall it's probably just the beginning
"Protect & Serve" has definitely been replaced by "Feed the Coffers"
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Sounds good to me. 5mph waived, after that each 1 mph over the limit = 50$, plus court costs..after 10MPH over the limit, each 1 mph = 100$
And sooooooooooooooooooooo much safer, easier, and more lucrative than collaring real criminals. No messy investigations, prosecutions, and costly jury trials, the gavel comes down, you're guilty, pay the clerk, see ya.
And sooooooooooooooooooooo much safer, easier, and more lucrative than collaring real criminals. No messy investigations, prosecutions, and costly jury trials, the gavel comes down, you're guilty, pay the clerk, see ya.
It's an easy fine to not achieve, drive the speed limit.
Too many people speeding? Well raise the speed limit then. But no, gotta generate that revenue for the city coffers. I don't buy for a second that they are doing this in the name of safety.
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