I thought the police are supposed to protect us (weapon, state, world)
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I'd be curious to know of one house break-in where a cop was actually present, unless the cop was the one doing the break-in. Cops show up after the fact and take a report. Cops are the biggest "gang" in the U.S. and the one that gets away with crime most often.
As if raising the speed limit would help. If they raised it to 70, people would do 85. If they raised it to 80 people would do 90.
The phrase "9 your fine, 10 your mine" is commonly used. If you are 9 miles over the limit or less, cops generally don't bother. 10 or more then you are playing with fire. Would it bother you if they did raise every speed limit by 10mph BUT made more efforts to enforce people going 1mph over the limit?
Good question, we all know if this ever happened, the same people would still be here complaining about that one stupid cop that gave them a ticket for going 1 over.
This thread is chock full of children who kno nothing about laws and policing. This is exactly what the youth of our country have turned into. They don't want to obey a single law and just want complete chaos. It's really a shame, the youth of today is going to be the world's complete downfall and destruction.
The cops around my area have been writing "speeding" tickets for doing 1 mph over the posted limit....1 mph!! Speedometers can vary more than that! I feel so much safer!
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Originally Posted by Rggr
The police aren't there to protect you specifically. By writing you a ticket for breaking the law, they hope to be protecting everyone else.
I got nailed with a $160 ticket last Sept for no turn signal. I Was in the median, turning. The thing is I did put my blinker on, but it turned off, like when you move the steering wheel. So cop gets behind me and nails me for it anyway.
Where I live they have a section on the highway where everyday there is a unmarked Dodge Charger that pulls over people left and right. It is about making money, and who decides to make tickets so gawd damn expensive? Mother ****ers...........
Use signals correctly and don't speed, and you'll avoid tickets in both the above cases. I just don't understand what's so hard to understand about that. Either obey traffic laws or stop complaining about the consequences when you don't.
The cops around my area have been writing "speeding" tickets for doing 1 mph over the posted limit....1 mph!! Speedometers can vary more than that! I feel so much safer!
It's not the police's responsibility to ensure your speedometer is calibrated correctly.
The cops around my area have been writing "speeding" tickets for doing 1 mph over the posted limit....1 mph!! Speedometers can vary more than that! I feel so much safer!
I don't intend to say that there aren't officers that are ridiculous; of course there are some that are overbearing, as it sounds like you have found. There are bad examples of any profession.
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As it always has been
