Traffic tickets here in California have become very expensive. The cities and counties have become starved of funds from this never-ending recession, and they are going after people’s money in the traffic court now it appears. Last March I got a ticket for an illegal right hand turn at a red light…

Often if you do this, the ticketing officer won’t show up and you will nearly always win. There’s a chat board for MA LEOs where they give advice to people. This question comes up fairly often. Here, they get paid overtime to go to traffic court. Consequently they always show up and they LOVE pos…

There’s a small city south of me where I’ve been ticketed twice for speeding; and was not speeding in both incidents. Matter of fact, I made it a point to drive under the limit with the last one being 8 MPH under. Got stopped anyway. When I showed up for court the officer did not even appear and th…

Like I stated in my posting on the red light camera thread, some cops are no better than amoebae on the undeside of a whale turd at the bottom of the sea. Seems like I keep hearing more and more about rotten jerks like these who are a total DISGRACE to police officers everywhere. I’d go ahead and fi…

FYI, unless california has changed their laws since I last got a ticket, you have to pay court costs if you don’t fight the ticket or fight it and lose. That way, court costs are not a deterrent to fighting the ticket. The process of fighting one can be though, but that is a different story. As t…

Yes…the fines for traffic offenses are too high. The other problem is that every state has their own set of rules and there is no way one person can even begin to know them all. For example: In Kansas there is a law that says if a speed limit sign is wrong then the public still has to obey the sign. …

Are fines too high, in many cases - yes. $475 in the case cited by the OP is too high. But, folks with tea party and conservatives pushing back on high taxes, where do you expect the money to come from? You can expect higher fines. You can also expect rates for utilities supplied by government t…

“A speed limit sign is right by definition.” True…unless it was installed by mistake which this one was. If you saw a right curve sign on a road with a left turn would you turn right or left? Using your logic you would have to turn right with disastrous results.

@GeorgeSanJose, Assuming you left nothing out of your story, then yes, I would say the fine is excessive in your case. However, are fines too steep in general now? I’d argue no, based on the driving behavior I see everyday. Clearly people aren’t being deterred by the fines. Here in Ohio, the fi…

I hate to say that the police have become the new tax collector in many, if not most places. Almost 20 years ago a seat belt ticket in Seattle was over $350. I’m sure it much more now. Basically fines are the new tax, with the police as the collectors, and the police wonder why nobody respects them…

Are traffic ticket fines too much money now?

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littlemouse February 13, 2012, 11:12am 16

“For example: In Kansas there is a law that says if a speed limit sign is wrong then the public still has to obey the sign.”

A speed limit sign is right by definition.

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