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I agree with this. However, if you were a white cop would you take the risk pulling over someone for 10-15mph over?
Well, most of the cops are white anyway and most of the city is white also, so then why not? I see what you're getting at - and do we have real information that RPD told their officers not to bother with speeding?
On the other hand, RPD definitely does do strict speed patrols on Sat and Sun mornings on 440 - I know because I work on weekends and travel on 440 around 7.30-8am. They are out in full force and it's VERY EASY to pull someone over since there's hardly anyone on the road on these weekend mornings. What's so different about that than speed patrolling at other times?
I get being an LEO has become even more dangerous after this hell year 2020, but this thread is about speeding. If you are going a certain speed, an LEO can give you a ticket - it's pretty cut and dry. I think people forget what other countries are like with no police officers at all.
I've noticed significantly more RPD vehicles this past week. Over the past few months I've barely seen any, but just this morning there was one sitting watching the intersection of Millbrook and Leesville, followed another on Millbrook for a ways, and another had a customer stopped on Capital.
Simply put, the people the speed on 440 are idiots. And there seems to be a group that thinks they drive "just fine" while speeding. Well, since you are in the 2% of that group, you still lose - the majority of speeders drive just like people who believe the Earth is flat.
The only thing I can I think for anyone driving recklessly at speed is that they don't have the requisite level of fear.
Fear of the harm they can do to others, fear of the harm they can do to themselves, fear of the knowledge to not get into situations that they don't have the space, driving skills, avoidance sense, or not having a get-out strategy figured out.
A car accident is a huge humbling experience and tends to reset one's fix on reality by instilling some semblance of fear, many of those who have never had one don't get this.
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