In my previous life, I was a street medic for MedStar, the EMS provider in Fort Worth and 14 adjacent jurisdictions, one of which included the little town where one night, I watched a grown police officer of many years experience cry as he watched one of his town's kids being put onto the coroner's stretcher after a fatal speed-induced MVA. At the time, I didn't know whether the kid was family or what, so I didn't intrude into the officer's space. A few days later, we were in that town, again on a call, and the same officer was working it with us. I inquired as to the kid that was DOS (dead on scene) to give him my condolences - he replied that no, he wasn't family or anything like that, just another one of the town's kids that he had tried to steer onto the right path. It seems the kid had a lead foot. Sometimes, giving him warnings instead of a citation, sometimes giving him a break on the speed so as to not cost him as much. Seems it didn't work that night.Rex B wrote:Traffic tickets are just a revenue stream for most government entities.
it doesn't have much to do with public safety IMO.
Believe what you want. There may be burgs where tickets are just a revenue stream. But I know for a fact that it's not that way for most of the LEOs I've ever worked with.