tickets ? police encounters ?

[carnageehw]

Originally Posted by .Kevin.

It's against the law to have a 'quota' they mark their performances monthly and what tickets are issued for due to making sure no one is abusing power and for promotions etc. So unless they are trying to get a promotion it is just the cop being an idiot, because even then - speeding tickets etc are just pity.

25km/h over the limit is a ticket anything higher is public endangerment can lose your license etc.

Atleast that is how it is here in Canada.

source; my uncle is the deputy sheriff in my town and my brother is a patrol officer in another city.

25km over the limit won't get your license taken away.

16km over the limit and you will get points on your license, anything over 50km above the speed limit and you will get your car taken away on the spot, and charged with "Street racing".

But you're right about no quotas. I find it hard to believe that ANY place has quotas they have to meet. I hear it a lot though, and it's the same thing with drive test centers. There is no actual quotas, but there is over sight to see if power is being abused, or to see if a cop is just sleeping on the job and not giving out anything.

The part that annoys me though is that cops speed all the time. You shouldn't really give people a ticket if you're just going to go out and do the exact same thing.

[carnageehw]

I hate speed traps with a passion normally reserved for Tom Brady and the Patriots. But I do understand the need for revenue. What I think they should do instead is give out "following too close" tickets.

It's much safer to be doing 20k over the limit with nothing around you than it is to be driving 2 under really, really close to someone.

[silver_echo]

while they don't have "quotas" per se, if a cop does 50 tickets one month and then 10 tickets the next, their superiors will think that they are slacking(even if they are not)... often times, at least in larger cities, officers become a victim of their own success if they happen to trip over a really good location for catching speeders...

[carnageehw]

Originally Posted by silver_echo

while they don't have "quotas" per se, if a cop does 50 tickets one month and then 10 tickets the next, their superiors will think that they are slacking(even if they are not)... often times, at least in larger cities, officers become a victim of their own success if they happen to trip over a really good location for catching speeders...

Around here, the speed traps are all in the same areas. I'd be surprised if it wasn't the same everywhere in the world.

Areas with flat, long stretches, a lack of traffic lights but an unusually slow (likely because of schools or houses close by) speed limit are always speed trap areas.

[silver_echo]

Originally Posted by carnageehw

Around here, the speed traps are all in the same areas. I'd be surprised if it wasn't the same everywhere in the world.

Areas with flat, long stretches, a lack of traffic lights but an unusually slow (likely because of schools or houses close by) speed limit are always speed trap areas.

at least in spokane, there are enough areas that work(schools, parks, into and out of the city, main roads that have multiple speed limit changes) that they rotate them...

[DebbyM46227]

In 42 years of driving, I've only received one ticket - 2 years ago for not wearing my seatbelt. I've been pulled over for other things but always have managed to talk my way out of getting a ticket.

[rick996]

46 years driving (legally) -0 tickets! Mainly due to the luck of the Irish.