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Posted: 3/3/2015 11:32:23 AM EDT
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Thought it was going to a "Respect my Authoritah" type post. Decent advice instead.
Still, in on one. |
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Dude cranks out twenty tickets a day, that's one serious prick. Sheriff departments usually don't give a shit about quotas either
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Quoted: Well they do write "made admission" at the bottom of some tickets so depending on the scenario admitting something just fucks you later. Really I would say for most people just politely take the ticket and go a get a lawyer to get rid of it. I talk my way out of tickets all the time but most people probably just dig their whole deeper View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 5 and 6. |
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#7 Move out of any area with a heavy handed police force who feels it is their duty to stop everyone for every infraction.
I grew up in a small town with a bored police force both city and county. Between age 16 and 18 I was pulled over 12 times, given tickets twice. I no longer live in an area that operates like that. |
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http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/26680063/2014/10/01/speed-ticket-quotas-led-to-demise-of-waldo-police-department
Or they'll just disband and fire your ass like in FL. |
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Quoted: Well they do write "made admission" at the bottom of some tickets so depending on the scenario admitting something just fucks you later. Really I would say for most people just politely take the ticket and go a get a lawyer to get rid of it. I talk my way out of tickets all the time but most people probably just dig their hole deeper View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 5 and 6. Not only do they write things like made admission but they will put down what you said so if you go to court and try to say you weren't speeding, they can read back your quote about why you were in a hurry. Either tell the truth and hope he lets you off or keep your mouth shut and try to fight it in court, but don't expect to do both. |
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I bet $100 if you followed any motorist unnoticed for 5-10 miles you could write them a ticket for some violation.
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I usually just tell mr. occifer to hold my beer while I piss on his leg to establish dominance. It helps bolster the insanity defense I will use later in court.
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The traffic ticket king, who has been with the sheriff's office for 33 years, issued 1,353 traffic tickets from 2013-2014 View Quote 1,353? That's it? |
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Not only do they write things like made admission but they will put down what you said so if you go to court and try to say you weren't speeding, they can read back your quote about why you were in a hurry. Either tell the truth and hope he lets you off or keep your mouth shut and try to fight it in court, but don't expect to do both. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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5 and 6. Not only do they write things like made admission but they will put down what you said so if you go to court and try to say you weren't speeding, they can read back your quote about why you were in a hurry. Either tell the truth and hope he lets you off or keep your mouth shut and try to fight it in court, but don't expect to do both. Agreed, but the problem isn't admitting or not talking, it's lying. Example: guy drives the same route every day for years, gets caught going around traffic in the shoulder, then tells the cop (who sees him drive by all the time) that he didn't know that wasn't a lane those are the type of people that get hammered with tickets. |
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3. More traffic means more police: Police target areas where the traffic is heavy in an effort to prevent accidents. View Quote |
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Well they do write "made admission" at the bottom of some tickets so depending on the scenario admitting something just fucks you later. Really I would say for most people just politely take the ticket and go a get a lawyer to get rid of it. I talk my way out of tickets all the time but most people probably just dig their hole deeper View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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5 and 6. A ticket writing cop advising drivers to "tell the truth" is very similar to the Delhi rapist saying "she shouldn't have fought back". End result, you're getting fucked no matter what. |
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The traffic ticket king, who has been with the sheriff's office for 33 years, issued 1,353 traffic tickets from 2013-2014 1,353? That's it? Yeah, I know a dude that makes that guy look like a lightweight. |
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Yeah, I know a dude that makes that guy look like a lightweight. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The traffic ticket king, who has been with the sheriff's office for 33 years, issued 1,353 traffic tickets from 2013-2014 1,353? That's it? Yeah, I know a dude that makes that guy look like a lightweight. I averaged around 1500-1600 in traffic and a guy working with me averaged over 2,000 a year. |
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I bet $100 if you followed any motorist unnoticed for 5-10 miles you could write them a ticket for some violation. View Quote And most cops ignore stupid shit like fail to use turn signal 100 feet before turn unless something else about the vehicle trips their radar choosing to focus on the "bigger" offenses like driving 10+ over or driving erratically or whatever. |
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I averaged around 1500-1600 in traffic and a guy working with me averaged over 2,000 a year. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The traffic ticket king, who has been with the sheriff's office for 33 years, issued 1,353 traffic tickets from 2013-2014 1,353? That's it? Yeah, I know a dude that makes that guy look like a lightweight. I averaged around 1500-1600 in traffic and a guy working with me averaged over 2,000 a year. A guy I work with averages a bit under 200 a month. And he still manages to handle calls and does self initiated stuff as well. He likes to stay busy. |
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A friend of mine, since passed away, was " the traffic ticket cop" for his precinct and wrote substantially more tickets than the guy in the article.
He used to tell me that there were no "quotas", but there were "productivity standards". |
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Officer issues ticket for talking on cellphone and distracted driving while he talks on cellphone and uses laptop while driving while speeding through school zone. Makes sense.
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I just wrote the "productivity goal" for the month. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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A guy I work with averages a bit under 200 a month. And he still manages to handle calls and does self initiated stuff as well. He likes to stay busy. I just wrote the "productivity goal" for the month. This guy is a definitely a over achiever. When I worked for SLMPD I probably averaged around 20-30 a month and most of those were from accidents that I handled. Being a 1 man car I caught all of the shitty calls in my area. |
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This guy is a definitely a over achiever. When I worked for SLMPD I probably averaged around 20-30 a month and most of those were from accidents that I handled. Being a 1 man car I caught all of the shitty calls in my area. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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A guy I work with averages a bit under 200 a month. And he still manages to handle calls and does self initiated stuff as well. He likes to stay busy. I just wrote the "productivity goal" for the month. This guy is a definitely a over achiever. When I worked for SLMPD I probably averaged around 20-30 a month and most of those were from accidents that I handled. Being a 1 man car I caught all of the shitty calls in my area. 20 tickets a month was "the number" for regular patrol guys, they didn't have to be traffic tickets though. Most guys wrote parking tickets to get their numbers. |
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Quoted: I grew up in a small town with a bored police force both city and county. Between age 16 and 18 I was pulled over 12 times, given tickets twice. I no longer live in an area that operates like that. View Quote |
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I still remember driving with my speed demon friend ...untill we hit the town line for Claverack, NY. He slammed on the brakes
looked at me and said "30 means 30 in Claverack, not 31 or 32". Seems a bunch of high schoolers burned every new radio car to the ground many years ago at the po-po there are STILL on a tear. I'll wail up 9 and STOMP the brakes at the town line. Funny thing is theres ALWAYS a radio car lurking somewhere closeby...... |
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33 years on the job and he's out there writing tickets? Did he piss someone off or does he just like to do that?
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I wish the police here would write more tickets. Crazy drivers put law abiding citizens at rish. Driver have no fear a ticket, and so they drive accordingly. It's like the wild wild west, and not just at rush hour. I can't remember the last time I saw a car pulled over for a traffic violation. |
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Huh. He must be the only officer in Onondaga County who hasn't written me a ticket.
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If I did what the Officer said I did I usually just admit to it. People (mostly young) think there is going to be a Perry Mason style trial over you doing a California stop at a stop sign. I am just polite and say "you got me". I wasn't paying attention and "hey beautiful day today isn't it ". I just talk polite and treat them with respect. I have a clean record and don't drive like an asshole. I almost always get a warning and in the rare case I don't I go to trial, plead guilty and the judge drops the points and I pay the fine.
If it were a murder case I would keep silent and hire an attorney. For a simple traffic violation you would be surprised how just being a normal polite person gets you. I don't play the rolled up window games or all the other bullshit people do and rarely have any issue. I also don't get pulled over often because I drive sensibly (maybe once every few years). I don't sweat traffic stops and just talk to them normally and I am honest. Truth gets you out of more simple traffic violations than anything else. My .02 |
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Problem I saw was that he got a performance award based purely on the number of tickets written without regard to quality or accuracy. What donut fucking standards.
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I wish there was some sort of program that allowed me to pay a couple hundred bucks/mo for the privilege of exceeding the speed limit by XXmph. That way, they'd get their revenue and I don't have to keep such a close watch for them.
It's all about revenue generation. If it was about safety, the fines would be $1000 for every 1mph over the speed limit - no one would speed and they wouldn't collect their speeding taxes. |
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Quoted: So, your local cops let you off with a warning almost 90% of the time, and you're bitching? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I grew up in a small town with a bored police force both city and county. Between age 16 and 18 I was pulled over 12 times, given tickets twice. I no longer live in an area that operates like that. No the local cops stopped me and every other kid to conduct fishing expeditions 90% of the time. It was blatant and obvious that they were doing it. One friend had a lifted pick up truck, every weekend he was stopped so the cop could check the height of his bumper. It was the same cop every weekend. Another friend with a factory installed radio in his Ford Escort was stopped on numerous occasions because his stereo was too loud. Burnt out license plate light, you get stopped. Snow covering part of your license plate and you get stopped. I was even stopped once so the officer could "check my registration". Not sure what that was about. At the time my mom was even pulled over a couple times for things line a burnt out license plate light. There is a big difference between "protect and serve" and stopping everyone for every little thing hoping to catch them on a bigger violation. |
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Well they do write "made admission" at the bottom of some tickets so depending on the scenario admitting something just fucks you later. Really I would say for most people just politely take the ticket and go a get a lawyer to get rid of it. I talk my way out of tickets all the time but most people probably just dig their hole deeper View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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5 and 6. This. I'm amazed at the number of people who don't know about this. 1. It is less expensive long term because it will usually be negotiated to a no-moving violation and not deduct points or be reported to your insurance. 2. Attorney will handle everything, there is no need for you to take off of work, go to court or to pay the fine at the DMV office. 3. It is especially useful when you get a ticket out of state |
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Good thing his city does not have any violent crime or gang activity. Must be such a nice town where officer friendly can just hang out and ticket people all the time.
I bet everyone there feels safe. |
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Quoted: I wish there was some sort of program that allowed me to pay a couple hundred bucks/mo for the privilege of exceeding the speed limit by XXmph. That way, they'd get their revenue and I don't have to keep such a close watch for them. View Quote Back in the 90s if you were an out of state resident living in Michigan that is basically how it worked. Michigan didn't share ticket information outside of the state. So you could get unlimited number of traffic tickets in Michigan and your home state would not find out about it. A friend of mine, also from outside Michigan, called it his speeding fee. They also have absolute no fault car insurance. If your car is damaged it is on you to pay for it to be fixed. That again benefited out of state cars, you could hit someone and your insurance would not find out about it unless you filed a claim to fix your own car. |
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This. I'm amazed at the number of people who don't know about this. 1. It is less expensive long term because it will usually be negotiated to a no-moving violation and not deduct points or be reported to your insurance. 2. Attorney will handle everything, there is no need for you to take off of work, go to court or to pay the fine at the DMV office. 3. It is especially useful when you get a ticket out of state View Quote Varies by location. Our traffic court had no plea bargaining and the lawyers lost most of their cases. |
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