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What is the most over aggressive type of traffic enforcement in your area? In my town, it's pedestrian crossings. Now first, I understand the need to enforce pedestrian crossing laws. But the way they do it here, is just pure revenue generating.
Below is a picture from the police department, showing a police decoy using the crosswalk. The first issue is the location of the crosswalk. It's 50 feet before an intersection, that has perfectly good crosswalks. Who in their right mind puts a crosswalk 50 feet before an intersection? A city that wants to write a lot of tickets, of course.
If they tried their little sting operation at the intersection crosswalks, they could write about five tickets in an hour. At this stupid crosswalk, they can give tickets to 50% of the cars driving on the street. The cops just stand in the street and wave all the violators into a gas station parking lot, and give them all tickets drive-thrw style, as you can see in the other pictures. It's ridicules.
It's not much of a problem for me. I'm ready for it. I can spot the cops up ahead, before I even see their decoy. But I have to feel sorry for unsuspecting visitors are just out looking for a place to eat lunch, and end up with a $150 ticket.
What are they writing tickets for? are cars not yeilding to pedestrians?
Yes, the decoy steps off the curb, and any cars that don't immediately stop, get waved into the gas station parking lot, where about six cops are writing tickets for failing to yield to a pedestrian in the crosswalk. The cars in the left lanes, probably can't even see the decoy from their lanes.
We don't have many speed traps around here, so I guess this is the way they make their money. Incidentally I drive through this area every day, and I never have to stop for any legitimate pedestrians at that crosswalk. People just don't cross there. That crosswalk is just totally pointless, except for a reason to write tickets.
Here is the view when you are approaching the crosswalk. The gas station parking lot where they write the tickets is the next drive way on the right.
Could he legit or could be a lil shady.. depending on how far the decoy is in walk... if they sprint out etc. If decoy barely has foot in farthest to right in that pic and car in far left lane is right at walk already, def shady.. I betbif people clogged up the local court day after day over the tickets theyd be under a microscope to make sure its all legit.
The Palm Bay Police Dept in Florida is a police state thanks to them. They set ridiculously low speed limits, and all you see are cops shooting radar all day. It's annoying to drive anywhere in that town.
Yes, and a lot of these so-called "law enforcement officers" would be quaking in their uniforms if they had to take on a real bad guy. Writing tickets - no problem.
I was once driving on a 7 lane road (3 lanes on each side with a center turn lane). The speed limit is 45 miles per hour. Its a commercial area of town, bordering on the suburbs, with large stretches between stop lights. There are small cross streets that just have stop signs. It would be rare for a person to drive a car across this street given how wide it is and how fast people drive on it. Instead, when coming out of a side street, they would turn left or right.
One day, I was driving on this stretch and I was the last car in a group of about 8 cars.
At some point, I saw a man standing in the center of the turn lane. Given that the other cars were blocking my view, I did not see him until I was maybe 30-40 feet away from him, traveling at 45-50mph.
A cop then pulled me over and said that I violated the law of right-of-way for pedestrians even in unmarked crosswalks. The person I saw in the middle of the turn lane was an undercover officer and it was a sting.
It was completely unrealistic to think I could have stopped for this guy given the speed I was traveling and his location on the road.
I decided to go to court to contest it and the cop never showed up, so it was dropped.
The whole thing really pissed me off though. I could see getting pulled over for that had it been a residential street where people actually crossed. But it was completely ridiculous on this particular stretch of road.
I pass same set up, 50 feet away from intersection, twice a day. It's legit, as there is a large parking lot across the street from a whole bunch of businesses. I actually think, city did well offering people faster crossing.
Well, everything is enforced by the North Pole (Alaska) police. They will stop you over anything they decided to think about. So, if you ever drive to visit Alaska, keep an eye peeled when driving for the police through North Pole.
Remember that traffic-law enforcement is not really about safety, but about making money.
Could he legit or could be a lil shady.. depending on how far the decoy is in walk... if they sprint out etc. If decoy barely has foot in farthest to right in that pic and car in far left lane is right at walk already, def shady.. I betbif people clogged up the local court day after day over the tickets theyd be under a microscope to make sure its all legit.
This is California. If they put a foot off the sidewalk, you have to stop, or you get a ticket.
Hell if you see some one walking out of a building, and they look like they might want to cross the street, you'd better stop.
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A city that wants to write a lot of tickets, of course. 
