Tempus Edax Rerum said:Actually it does, especially when speeders tailgate in horrendous driving conditions like rain, sleet, or snow.Harrison Bergeron said:Daveisabovereproach said:FLBear5630 said:Well, the number of people that die in traffic crashes. Look up the numbers, 43k in 2021, 1.1 million injured. It is not a small issue, yet giving that ticket or enforcing enough to keep speeds down can make a bigger difference in numbers than the "big stuff". But you can't prove a negative, slowing down that minivan may reduce those numbers. I see the numbers everyday, when we have a fatality it is a big deal. Most people don't think the minivan or the F150 with the 40 something golfer is worth pulling over.Daveisabovereproach said:FLBear5630 said:Problem is that we are not enforcing speeding and aggressive driving. The Highway Patrol and Traffic Units used to patrol for the safe operations of the roadway. Now, if it isn't a felony requiring Black Para-Military gear it isn't a big enough deal. This is that Spec Ops environment I was talking about, everyone is some Special Op or it has no value.Daveisabovereproach said:
I'd rather have traffic cameras than get pulled over for doing 8 mph over on the freeway when at least once per week I see drugged out 20-year-olds doing 110+ in their Dodge Challengers weaving in and out of traffic on 75 through Dallas, forcing everyone to slam on their brakes. How come we never see those guys getting pulled over? The reason is because cops don't really want to enforce traffic laws, they want to hand out tickets to middle-class dudes with families and a mortgage that they know are just going to pay the stupid fine instead of taking a day off work to fight it so that the city can get an easy paycheck. Traffic cameras are police state BS, but the current paradigm also is BS
Talked to a Paramedic, said he was a Spec Ops Fire Dept Paramedic, doesn't do the common stuff anymore. Same with Police, they are all special units. Asked about traffic safety, not their units thing. They do the hardcore policing. Really? What happened to doing the job? Safety of 150k people a day on a corridor is not a big enough thing?
There are a lot of things that will drive you nuts if you look into them. Yet, we are supposed to go to an "Our Heros" luncheon. I don't attend anymore. I am more a fan of the guy running and moving stuff out of the travel lane in the Orange Vest or the Paramedic that works the normal shift every week or the RN that works the floors. I am sick of adrenaline junkies being the ones getting the credit when 90% of life is done by others every day.
It's the same thing with the military. Every single ex-military person you run into was a Navy SEAL or was protecting embassies and doing cool James Bond stuff. There are no cooks or people changing the oil on vehicles or things like that. I have a couple police friends at church. There is a major recruitment issue in most police departments. A lot of cops are cool with that, because it means lots of overtime. Wife and I briefly lived in Duncanville after we got married, and a local cop told us that there was a grand total of 7-8 cops on duty at any given time. That gave me cause for concern (if you know what Duncanville is like), and it caused me to start concealed carrying regularly. When you need them, police are conveniently going to be busy giving traffic tickets to dudes in mini vans, and as you mentioned, they're not going to be bothered to respond quickly unless it's a bank robbery or something high profile
Yeah I totally get that, my point is that the argument could be made that speed cameras could free up cops to respond to other crimes. Speed cameras are also a black-and-white thing. If you're speeding, you're getting a ticket. It would eliminate the current paradigm we see of selective enforcement based on convenience etc that I've described in my other post.
Speeding does not cause accidents. Driving slow in the left lane causes accidents.
Cops should ticket idiots not passing in the left lane and anyone driving in the middle lane driving slower than the speed limit.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/car-accident-statistics/
That's such a moronic response I'll just toast your aggy diploma and move on.