Fuck Cops...Really.

[David88vert]

It's almost like your giving them an excuse. If you or I were speeding to get too work to make money for our homes and got pulled over and ended up late for work due to them wondering why I'm carrying say... 60 in a 45. We all know and they all know when most people travel to and from work. They wait.... and wait... some even wait hours to catch the few people whom are behind schedule for whatever reason. Just to make $$?

If it was such a problem with the cost of jailing people then how or why in the world is there such a large and exploding population of jailed individuals? Stop trying to cover it with money. There are many other things our tax dollars could be going to instead of to the gas tanks of wasteful large luxury sedans.

Budget projections - learn how they work, and why they have estimation plans well in advance. It is about money. They order cars, construction of jails, etc. on budget projections. Then they have to pull in enough revenue to make those budgets. This is not the federal government. City, state, and counties, are supposted to not run a deficit - by law.
Tickets bring in a lot of revenue.

There are enough people committing crimes that require an arrest - that is why jails fill up. Look at their budgets though - guess where a large portion of the jails budget comes from.

[blaknoize]

Budget projections - learn how they work, and why they have estimation plans well in advance. It is about money. They order cars, construction of jails, etc. on budget projections. Then they have to pull in enough revenue to make those budgets. This is not the federal government. City, state, and counties, are supposted to not run a deficit - by law.
Tickets bring in a lot of revenue.

There are enough people committing crimes that require an arrest - that is why jails fill up. Look at their budgets though - guess where a large portion of the jails budget comes from.

Budgeting on a projection, maybe if the businesses budgeted within reason there wouldnt be such a hustle to make $$ to meet the projection and dragging everyone else along for there projected income mark. Meeting a "quota" for the day to satisfy greed for which juristiction has the best rides and facilities has nothing to do with paying top $ to a force that clears the streets of real criminals.

Speeding is speeding, but filling up the jail house with innocent drivers does not help a community. Do u not drive in certain areas of your city, in the subburbs or those small, random towns that EVERYONE slows for, because the traffic cops are oppressive but in the actual town/city itself is riddeled with drugs and violence?

I've lived in one of those and also used to commute through one of those. Particularly Hanging Rock, OH: check the links HERE"It is regularly labeled a speed trap as the state auditor reported $109,186 in mayor's court receipts in 2000 compared with $3,106 in property taxes",

HERE this is one example. Or South Bloomfield signage discrepancy HERE When these areas are riddeled with drugs and sex crimes, violence and the like that I've been around most of my life.

So dont give me that little kid stuff about bugeting, they'd rather take the easy route and make $$ than to "protect and serve."

This does not even include the $$ they can SPEND on using marked roadways to enforce speed limits via aircraft. Come on man, all the $$$ we push into enforcement comes out as a display of prowless whether than protection. I'll add one more example near the area I live now:

RIGHT HERE the lovely world of Westerville, albeit this isnt a drug ridden area (its actually wealthy, very wealthy) the cops are oppressive here to. Like following me into work because the officer failed to check my front plate fast enough, so he decided it was fine to follow me, pull me over in my parking spot outside the office and hold me in my car till he verified.

[Elbow]

Budgeting on a projection, maybe if the businesses budgeted within reason there wouldnt be such a hustle to make $$ to meet the projection and dragging everyone else along for there projected income mark. Meeting a "quota" for the day to satisfy greed for which juristiction has the best rides and facilities has nothing to do with paying top $ to a force that clears the streets of real criminals.

Speeding is speeding, but filling up the jail house with innocent drivers does not help a community. Do u not drive in certain areas of your city, in the subburbs or those small, random towns that EVERYONE slows for, because the traffic cops are oppressive but in the actual town/city itself is riddeled with drugs and violence?

I've lived in one of those and also used to commute through one of those. Particularly Hanging Rock, OH: check the links HERE"It is regularly labeled a speed trap as the state auditor reported $109,186 in mayor's court receipts in 2000 compared with $3,106 in property taxes",

HERE this is one example. Or South Bloomfield signage discrepancy HERE When these areas are riddeled with drugs and sex crimes, violence and the like that I've been around most of my life.

So dont give me that little kid stuff about bugeting, they'd rather take the easy route and make $$ than to "protect and serve."

Yep.

[David88vert]

Budgeting on a projection, ...

Here is a very pro-cop article that backs up with a study, exactly how they have a minimum amount of citations that they are to write each shift.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...g=content;col1

Remember - this is a pro-cop article which is biased for them. Even then it focuses on revenue.

To all others - I have no problem with cops writing tickets, but don't kid yourself - they are not doing it because they get a warm and fuzzy feeling "to protect and to serve". They are writing tickets because they are told to by their superiors. Do you really think that the departments could get their funding from the city/county/etc general fund, if they weren't productive? If your a cop, ask the city manager how much revenue he expects to be generated through traffic enforcement this year, and how he arrived at his budget numbers.