do you know how many people have been arrested on a class B misdemeanor for "exhibition of acceleration?" when that law was changed, they added an element in order to prove exhibition of acceleration. it has to be "in connection with a drag race." a drag race is defined as "two or more vehicles." i know first hand that there have been quite a few people arrested for that when all the elements were not there. it was solely based on the lack of information by the arresting officer. doctors aren't required to study the latest medical procedures, but it behooves them to do so. cops should stay abreast on legislative changes just the same.txinvestigator wrote:
It seems that there is a deficiency in the training/updating of our LEO's. We really need to push the DPS and TSRA to notify PD's of the changes and finer points, and request that these agencies conduct briefing training, etc.
unfortunately, there are a bunch who don't. i see our guys screwing that up all the time. you can almost be assured that the media won't give a lot of publicity to the traveling exception. we saw that when they went crazy over the license plate frame law, but failed to ever mention the move over act, a far more important piece of legislation, in my opinion.
the lack of publicity and the failure of agencies to actually recognize the change will result in a lot of people being arrested. most law book updates only come out once a year or so. when i mentioned the passage of HR218 in briefing one day, everyone looked at me funny. that was a 10 year old bill for crying out loud!