It really isn't any extra work to cite a driver who has a lawyer. It's extra expense for the driver, though, and possibly a nice overtime call-out for the cop.
I had a few dozen tickets contested with lawyers, and the driver was only acquitted once. She ended up spending $3000 dollars on a $242 cite. If she had been going less than 40 mph through that residential street, it would have cost her zero dollars.
Worked for a buddy of mine while I was in the truck.
But he was only doing 10 over.
Anything under 5 is considered a chicken ticket by cops.
Worked with ex state trooper years ago he is the one who first gave that tip.
Never needed it myself im the grampa driver everybody is cussing.
I never wrote a cite at less than 10 over the limit, and only rarely under 15 over. I'd tighten tolerances up a bit for residential areas with kids and bad conditions. On all moving violations, I wanted to be able to come into court and explain the hazard, not just the violation of the statute. If I wrote one for you, you had it coming.
Of course, that also meant that I was always being pestered for not writing enough cites. If I were going to cost somebody time, money, and whatever else, it was going to be because they were creating an unjustified risk to other people on the road. That said, I never once had a sergeant or lieutenant comment on the quality of my cites or on my near-perfect record in traffic court. I did get told, "You need to pick those numbers up," on a regular basis, though.
A member of my bass club moved to a municipality that doesn't do ticket quotas for that very same reason.
He says he is way happier now.
He said now he does more of what he became a cop for in the first place.
If you're giving tickets to speeders I'm all for it if they are not going with the flow of trafic.
But have seen cops sitting at the bottom of steep inclines handing them out like Halloween candy.
That is wrong on so many levels.
I agree completely. The terrain shouldn't be creating the violation--the driver should. I think it's too easy to lose the proper emphasis in law enforcement, especially when administrators are relying too heavily on stats instead of what is actually going on.
I never lost sight of the fact that every cite or arrest I made was going to be a big deal to the person on the receiving end. Some people need that sort of attention, and I was willing to give it to them. When enforcement becomes an end to itself, though, you lose context. Worse yet, you lose humanity. Everything becomes a number, a statistic. Both the police and the regular citizens just become cogs in a bureaucratic machine.
It really isn't any extra work to cite a driver who has a lawyer. It's extra expense for the driver, though, and possibly a nice overtime call-out for the cop.
I had a few dozen tickets contested with lawyers, and the driver was only acquitted once. She ended up spending $3000 dollars on a $242 cite. If she had been going less than 40 mph through that residential street, it would have cost her zero dollars.
she got ripped off. My forman got dwi reduced to littering for 1500.00 and it was his 2nd one.
Worked for a buddy of mine while I was in the truck. But he was only doing 10 over. Anything under 5 is considered a chicken ticket by cops. Worked with ex state trooper years ago he is the one who first gave that tip. Never needed it myself im the grampa driver everybody is cussing.
I never wrote a cite at less than 10 over the limit, and only rarely under 15 over. I'd tighten tolerances up a bit for residential areas with kids and bad conditions. On all moving violations, I wanted to be able to come into court and explain the hazard, not just the violation of the statute. If I wrote one for you, you had it coming.
Of course, that also meant that I was always being pestered for not writing enough cites. If I were going to cost somebody time, money, and whatever else, it was going to be because they were creating an unjustified risk to other people on the road. That said, I never once had a sergeant or lieutenant comment on the quality of my cites or on my near-perfect record in traffic court. I did get told, "You need to pick those numbers up," on a regular basis, though.
A member of my bass club moved to a municipality that doesn't do ticket quotas for that very same reason. He says he is way happier now. He said now he does more of what he became a cop for in the first place. If you're giving tickets to speeders I'm all for it if they are not going with the flow of trafic. But have seen cops sitting at the bottom of steep inclines handing them out like Halloween candy. That is wrong on so many levels.
I agree completely. The terrain shouldn't be creating the violation--the driver should. I think it's too easy to lose the proper emphasis in law enforcement, especially when administrators are relying too heavily on stats instead of what is actually going on.
I never lost sight of the fact that every cite or arrest I made was going to be a big deal to the person on the receiving end. Some people need that sort of attention, and I was willing to give it to them. When enforcement becomes an end to itself, though, you lose context. Worse yet, you lose humanity. Everything becomes a number, a statistic. Both the police and the regular citizens just become cogs in a bureaucratic machine.