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Friday, May 12, 2006

Tax Collection Badge

Another reason to dislike cops, courtesy of the NYPD. As if I needed another one.

posted by Jar(egg)head at 16:22

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am not anti-law enforcement having grown up with several people that became police officers. However, in some ways this ticketing by parking police is not much different than police radaring on 6 and 8 lane freeways during very light traffic times knowing that people pushing the speed limit during those times by even 20 mph are not creating unsafe conditions since they can do it without weaving in and out of lanes and pulling crazy stunts to keep up the speed. Experienced drivers do actually drive at speeds that the road and traffic conditions allow for including slowing down below the max speed limit when rain or other conditions exist. In the end, reasonable people that adjust their speed up or down to fit the road and traffic conditions are not the safety problem, but the nuts that will weave in and out of lanes while slashing into openings in other lanes that they just barely fit in are the vastly greater safety issue, but are almost never the ones that get caught since this often happens in heavy traffic when they may not be exceeding the max posted limit but instead are exceeding the prudent speed limit. Lets also not forget when police constantly radar on divided four lane roads where traffic is always light and whose speed limit is something stupid like 35 mph and the road is primarily through fields and does not even have cross roads. To me, much of this is not public safety, but road side tax collection that is not really different than the parking police discussed initially.

08:54  

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