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srothstein wrote: Refusal to pay the surcharge means your license gets suspended.

As you can imagine, the program is under review now. Not many people paid the surcharges and most just kept driving on a suspended license.

Driving on a suspended license with no insurance, or a previous DWLI (driving while license invalid/suspended) conviction is a Class B misdemeanor. Which, incidentally is the same level offense as your first DWI, but much easier to prove. I have a guy dragging his to court this week...not sure what his defense is, but we will see.

While it sucks getting tickets (even I got popped in '09), take that element out of traffic enforcement and see what you get.

A neighboring city voted to take down thier red light cameras, and it's now awful. I see people running a light almost every cycle. Are some people out there just writin what they can? Sure. I'm more in line with what Mr. Rothstien described, but they are out there.

For our dept, our motors guys work high accident and complaint areas, along with things like school bus operations.

Fangs wrote:

roff wrote:the lady officer told me to get out of the car and come between my car and her car.

I was under the impression that LEOs have stopped putting people between two cars on the side of the road since drunk drivers have a tendency to squish people between the vehicles

Some agencies haven't moved past it. I still cringe at some of the things I see troops do.