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Re: Cops: Can't Live With Them, Can't Live Without Them



Jamie Yanak (JamieYanak@oai.org) wrote:

: They give tickets for wreckless driving too, and for the same reason they
: give them for speeding: to prevent anarchy on the road. Besides, if you go
: far enough

I think the police should encourage wreckless driving.

: Tickets cost money because there is no other viable way of punishing
: people for such an infraction.

Tickets cost money because the state likes to collect as much tax revenue
as it can. 

: Would you rather spend time in jail for speeding? How about 1 day for each
: mile an hour over the limit, doesn't sound very reasonable to me, but it
: might end speeding as we know it! Or how about speed 3 times and lose your
: license.

: If you don't beleive that's the reason, let me ask you: When you're late
: and you want to speed, but change your mind and don't, is it because you
: thought you might get injured doing it, or because you thought it might
: cost you $100

: You don't have to answer, fines for speeding work, that's why they have them.

Fines for speeding DO NOT work.  Most everyone on the road speeds to a 
certain reasonable extent.  It just gives them some incentive to be careful.


: When cops get in accidents responding to calls it is *usually* because of
: some idiot that wasn't paying attention, and didn't see the strobes, or
: hear the siren because their radio was to loud.

At least where I live, police officers are not only driving dangerously
when responding to calls.  They typically will make any traffic move when
they have room to do so -- including running red lights, making illegal
turns, and even speeding.  This does not include when they are actually
responding to calls.  Of course we are idiots for not driving off into the
shoulder of the road to avoid the cop who runs a red light, with no 
strobes or sirens on, because he's ready for that next pot of coffee. 

: He was responding to a call where a pregnant woman was seriously injured in a 
: vehicle accident, and he caused another death during his response. After his
: conviction, don't tell me other emergency personnel didn't re-evalute just 
: what's in it for them to put themselves in danger, to get there in a hurry,
: when *you* need help. You just can't have it both ways.

Who wants it both ways?

: in the way they won't let somebody "get away from me," but the truth is it's
: no fun flying down the street at 50 mph, not knowing what drive the next
: dumb-shit is going to pull out in front of you from.

I suppose the public is just "dumb shits" to you.  Most of us just want 
to get from point A to B in a reasonable and timely manner, and the State 
wants to make an extra $100 here and there.