I know blogs include how to avoid getting a citation issued in the event you are stopped for your driving behavior. I do not recall seeing any postings which will assure that you earn a ticket. Here is my input as a police officer. I personally don’t give citations to everyone. If a driver can t…

I hope the police take into account how many priors the offender had and you take the time to run the plate. That and the severity of the offense should be among the deciding factors. I really didn’t care how contrite the driver is, if he was a habitual offender and driving 15 mph over, he could be …

06 speed6, thanks for what you do. I appreciate it. Thanks for the info from your side. I have never gotten out of a ticket but did have 2 reduced by being honest. First a woman cop reduced for me not giving her a hard time since she was a lady cop and second I was asked if I knew how fast I was goi…

It’s a long story but I have accepted some speeding tickets and told a true story to get out of one. Honesty isn’t always bad. Although the State Trooper didn’t apologize for stopping me, I drove away with a sense that she really cared about doing her job well. It wasn’t my good looks that got me o…

The issues I have with enforcement will rarely, if ever, have anything to do with what any specific, individual officer thinks or how s/he makes decisions about when & why to issue tickets. But I suppose its nice to hear the anecdotal musing of one specific, anonymous officer from whoknowswhere.

Oh boy. I have a lot of respect for law enforcement but I think the kid that wrote me up at 10:00 at night on my 50th birthday could have at least wished me a happy birthday. 200 mile trip after working at my uncle’s auction all day and 40 in a 30 without a soul around. The other thing I fail to …

The other thing I fail to understand when law enforcement talks about unsafe driving, is that in 1965 I drove the same highway posted at 65 day and 55 night. 65 was safe. Now the same road is 55 and 60 is unsafe. Probably because there are 10 times as many cars traveling that road now then there w…

Some officers in my little corner of the world take personal offense at the most ridiculous of meaningless violations, For instance, at a major intersection with a railroad crossing bisecting it, traffic often ignores the red traffic signal and makes the left turn while the train has all other traff…

Rod, mike, and Bing…in my opinion, you guys are discussing relevant factors and what IS important in deciding when to write a ticket. Knowing that some cop might not give one guy a ticket because he had a better “line” then you, would tick me off as a motorist. A rolling stop through an intersectio…

Last winter I was in a part of town where I seldom visit. The store which I was going to visit, was on the other side of the street, and I made a U turn to get to a free parking spot there. An overzealous policeman was going to give me a ticket for “crossing a double yellow line”. Except that the st…

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Barkydog December 22, 2011, 9:25am 2

Sure I took it to court, local speed trap, I got pulled over as a guy was passing me on a 4 lane roadway. I was like that car was passing me, and you pulled me over? So I saw the attorney, got it reduced, Do not get me wrong, I love the police. I love the job the police do, but contested my ticket, god if we were all perfect we would not need a legal system.

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