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Oldgringo wrote: They don't want to issue citations in town because everybody is someone's 2nd or 3rd cousin or something.

Just call up all your cousins and tell them to slow down.

WildBill wrote:

pcgizzmo wrote:Here's an article and a little info on Westlake. Their ticket revenue is $42,000 per person in the town. You can say that's fighting crime but we really know what it's all about and it's not crime. It's about the all mighty $$$$ and it will continue to happen because we let it. This is a VERY sore subject for me. Sorry for the rant.

That's a lot of money per person in a town. Maybe you need to marry a lawyer to defend you for free.

LOL! Good one.

srothstein wrote:[quote="MasterOfNone"
But, there is a long history of people being stopped for similar pretexts where the reason the officer wanted to stop the car was because of an NRA sticker or because the driver was Black or Mexican, or similar profiling.

Ummm.. I can get profiled for having a NRA sticker? Didn't know that one.

Here's an article and a little info on Westlake. Their ticket revenue is $42,000 per person in the town. You can say that's fighting crime but we really know what it's all about and it's not crime. It's about the all mighty $$$$ and it will continue to happen because we let it. This is a VERY sore subject for me. Sorry for the rant.

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MasterOfNone wrote:I have no problem with LE generating revenue by ticketing people who have legitimately violated an ordinance. I hear people all the time complain about getting a ticket because "the cops were just looking for someone to bust." They admin to having done wrong, but feel that it is wrong to have been caught. If I get caught with an expired registration, it's because I was wrong, not because they were out to get me.

I believe it's totally wrong for police to generate a significant amount of revenue for tickets. We pay taxes for Police. They are here to serve and protect the public. An argument could be made that stopping speeders is doing both but not when there are other more significant crimes being committed in a city.

I've seen more close accidents generated by police running speed traps than anyone speeding. People slamming on their brakes when there not even speeding just because they see a cop car and then traffic backs up for miles because people are slamming on their brakes. It's crazy.

Also city's that make a large amount of revenue from traffic fines should be outlawed. For example. A citizen that can afford to live in Westlake pays no city taxes yet the city of Westlake contracts the Keller PD to sit on the side of 114 and write speeding tickets which produces a HUGE revenue for the city. Also city's that you would miss if you blinked when you drove by the town shouldn't be able to make money off the people driving by on the highway. Palmer, Ferris, Wilmer Hutchins, Paris, and Garret Texas come to mind.

If I were a police officer and my sole job was to work traffic I think I would quit my job. There's real crime being committed and I would rather spend my time fighting it than being a uniformed tax collector for the city.

I don't have an issue w/police patrolling the highways at night when there is more of a chance of drunk drivers and such.