When I was in grad school, in Kansas City(30 years ago), I watched from a fifth floor window in one of our classroom buildings while a trio of KC police stopped on the busy street below. They opened the trunk of one of the cruisers and took out a folding speed limit sign - 10mph under the regular speed limit- and put it beside the road. After less than an hour of writing tickets, they picked up their sign and left.jimlongley wrote:
Well, back in the 60s on of our town cops used to hang a 30 sign over the 40 sign at the edge of town and bust people on radar (the old kind that sat by the side of the road on a camera tripod) and the tickets would read "10mph over posted speed."
At the time, in addition to grad school, I was a campus cop. I had heard from other campus cops that they sometimes did this when they were told to "write more tickets" but didn't really believe it until I saw it myself.
Thats what I call a speed trap.......motivated by intentional revenue enhancement without regard for what is right and ethical.