National Protest and 'disband the cops' discussion (please review page 1)

[Kraut783]

She wanted tickets done to generate income for the city. He told her no, she went bigly mad.

Sometimes it's not the cops wanting that income generated, it's WHOM you voted FOR that's the issue.

It's rarely the cops that get the income...I can only speak for two departments I have worked for. The income generated from citations, and this includes citations written by code enforcement, went into a city account...not the PD's.

 

[AWP]

A number of towns here in FL are essentially funded by the local PD's tickets. In turn, that drives funding for the PD, so if the mayor and council are losing money, the PD loses an officer or two.

 

[The Quartermaster]

A number of towns here in FL are essentially funded by the local PD's tickets. In turn, that drives funding for the PD, so if the mayor and council are losing money, the PD loses an officer or two.

To be honest, the Jersey, York, Conn, and Mass trash deserve it for the way they intentionally drive. The 95 in Florida is where all the assholes from the north come to collide.

 

[policemedic]

My state is similar to @Kraut783 's AO. The portion of the fine from a traffic ticket that is designated for the municipality that wrote it goes into the general fund. And believe me, it's a small fraction of the fine.

One of the things I really liked about policing in PA is that ticket quotas are straight up illegal. You could go your whole career and never write a mover, and there wasn't anything anyone could do about it. You could stop 500 speeders and give them all warnings unless you were on a special detail like 'click it or ticket'.

 

[ThunderHorse]

She wanted tickets done to generate income for the city. He told her no, she went bigly mad.

Sometimes it's not the cops wanting that income generated, it's WHOM you voted FOR that's the issue.

Mabton has less than 2000 people. How do they even have a police department? (of two). Trying to understand how they have a city council of 6?

 

[DA SWO]

She wanted tickets done to generate income for the city. He told her no, she went bigly mad.

Sometimes it's not the cops wanting that income generated, it's WHOM you voted FOR that's the issue.

The citizens of Mabton got the Mayor they voted for.

 

[GOTWA]

My state is similar to @Kraut783 's AO. The portion of the fine from a traffic ticket that is designated for the municipality that wrote it goes into the general fund. And believe me, it's a small fraction of the fine.

We had a couple of red light cameras in Tucson before we voted them out. The private company that installed them was taking 2/3 of the ticket price.

 

[Kraut783]

Just to add, ticket quotas are illegal in Texas, which is a good thing...keeps any kind of speed traps of the old days from happening. You will rarely find patrol officers writing a lot of tickets, traffic stops...yes, a ton...but not many tickets. Now our traffic units write a bunch of tickets....they are given areas to work based on either accidents, or public complaints....so very targeted areas.

We use to have traffic cameras....mainly at locations that had the most T-bone accidents that caused serious injury to fatal accidents. We ended up getting rid of them, but at the time there were effective. But, because an officer didn't see the violation or write the ticket...they were only civil citations, not criminal.

 

[ThunderHorse]

We had a couple of red light cameras in Tucson before we voted them out. The private company that installed them was taking 2/3 of the ticket price.

Scottsdale has these parked all over the place ready to snap a photo of ya.

 

[Muppet]

My state is similar to @Kraut783 's AO. The portion of the fine from a traffic ticket that is designated for the municipality that wrote it goes into the general fund. And believe me, it's a small fraction of the fine.

One of the things I really liked about policing in PA is that ticket quotas are straight up illegal. You could go your whole career and never write a mover, and there wasn't anything anyone could do about it. You could stop 500 speeders and give them all warnings unless you were on a special detail like 'click it or ticket'.

And yet, a certain cunt brother in law, local cop says this shit still happens on the down low. Why am I not surprised?

 

[AWP]

To be honest, the Jersey, York, Conn, and Mass trash deserve it for the way they intentionally drive. The 95 in Florida is where all the assholes from the north come to collide.

US 301 was so bad, AAA once posted a travel advisory for 3 towns which I think were Lawtey, Starke, and Waldo. The SL was 55 and they would drop you down to 35 in a ridiculously short amount of roadway. The 35 is where they usually nabbed you.

95 isn't horrible minus the FHP. Every now and then I'll see Flager County SO and maybe Jacksonville SO on 95, but the FHP folks out of the Deland barracks are no joke. Wolfpacks at the end of the month (hmm...no quotas there, right?) are somewhat common. I think the Jacksonville barracks handles down through St. John's County with Deland taking that swath of 95 and I-4 up to...Seminole County I think.

Mabton has less than 2000 people. How do they even have a police department? (of two). Trying to understand how they have a city council of 6?

In the case of Waldo and Lawtey above, the number of residents was rather low (818 and 670 respectively in 2023). They used the local PD almost exclusively to generate revenue. Most of the actual law enforcement was handled by the county Sheriff's Office.

As for council sizes and all...local Southern politics.

 

[Devildoc]

NCSHP does not have quotas, but some troops do have troop-level competition and leadership often look the other way.

 

[DA SWO]

US 301 was so bad, AAA once posted a travel advisory for 3 towns which I think were Lawtey, Starke, and Waldo. The SL was 55 and they would drop you down to 35 in a ridiculously short amount of roadway. The 35 is where they usually nabbed you.

Starke, an incredibly accurate name.

San Antonio to Abilene is a lot of two-lane roads. 65 to 55 to 45 to 35 in half a mile. I braked hard the first time and my wife was like what? 30 seconds later we saw a cop with someone pulled over. Same scenario, 3 towns in a row.

 

[Muppet]

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