Thanks for the tip, never thought I would need a radar detector to warn me about red lights, will most definately look into it.

 

I have had it pick up Smokey behind a overpass from 1/2 a mile away. The red light alert is upgraded every year at a cost. I don't upgrade mine so i am very carefull at red lights.

 

Its great that we live in a society that's so under control and law abiding that police can dedicate their limited resources to this petty level of criminality.

Its too bad that controlling violent crime and actually making a neighborhood a better place to live doesn't generate any revenue.

 

hmmmm....most of our parents in the 60's, 70's & 80's until the seatbelt law was enforced!!

 

I love it when people say this. Do you realize how many criminals with warrants out for their arrest that Cops catch through routine traffic stops?

 

Originally Posted by rebelheart
If cops spent more time actually pursuing criminals instead of writing those money making nuisance tickets,we would all be better off.

Arrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Please...somebody drop me from this discussion.

 

i guess everyone who drives faster than the posted limit should be hauled off too. that would be just about every single driver out there.

 

First off, "Cops" don't write red light tickets. The cameras are installed maintained and monitored by a private company that works under contract with the city to record, review, and maintain the cameras, supply the film, and process the photographs. The company receives a small percentage of each red light fine collected. The tickets are sent out to the violators by the private company, based on the registered owner of the vehicle. It's been a while since I was involved with that program, but back then I believe it was about $15.00 per ticket that went to the private company and the remainder of the collected fines went to the city and state. I wrote the proposal when our traffic division made the presentation to our city council to install the cameras. The private company supplied the cameras, film, maintenance technicians, and they mailed out the tickets. Basically there was no cost to the city to go with this program.

The cameras were strategically placed at the intersections that had the highest rate of serious injury and fatal traffic collisions. This information was based on numerous traffic collision studies done by SWITERS (State Wide Intergraded Traffic Enforcement Reporting Studies) and our daily wall pin map tracking of the highest collision intersections within our city limits.

Vehicles making a right turn are not subjected at all to the red light camera sensors. The inductive sensors are place in the roadway to record only vehicles going straight through the intersection. The sensor picks up the speed and movement of the vehicle's front tires when the white "limit line" that's painted on the roadway is crossed by the vehicle's front wheels. The sensor activates only AFTER the light turns red. Vehicles that inter the intersection on the yellow or who are caught within the intersection on the yellow are NOT photographed.

 

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop...-NcunsKc&gl=US

 

Also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eSyS...e_gdata_player

 

Anybody else here have a kid who's a cop? My only son, age 23, is a cop in a suburb of Washington DC. He's a good honest kid, a college graduate, just trying to do something to make a difference and make the world a little better instead of sitting in an office cubicle, picking his nose and staring at a computer screen 8 hours a day. Some here might think their window tint looks cool and cant understand why they get "hassled by the man" over it. I look at it as something that might be standing between my son and a criminal with a gun who, given a chance, will do him harm. Don't get me wrong, I've had my share of traffic tickets in my life, most of which I deserved. But there is a whole different side to this "cops are aholes" issue. I'm 56 years old, spent 30 years as a United States Marine, and am a veteran of three combat deployments, two to Iraq and one to Desert Storm. The last thing I want to have to do is bury my son because he gets blown away by some POS with tinted windows at a traffic stop.
So, please think before you speak badly about law enforcement. That cop might just be somebody's kid, somebody's brother or somebody's husband. The majority of them are out there doing a great job for low pay and because they really give a damn. And since I know the cop in question lurks here, let me just publicly state, we're damn proud of you, Son!

 

Tomtom warns me of red light cameras. A friend was rear ended stopping on a yellow. His lawyer got him $16,000. Seems fair to me, I stop. Window tint? Chaps my a$$ when the cop has illegal tint on his car and gets to hassle you for it. The laws apply to everyone yet they speed with immunity. I think I should have the right to make a citizens arrest or collect a couple hundred buck fine everytime I observe a cop violating the same laws they selectively enforce. Fair is fair

 

Mabe some one who can't spell "SEATBELT" would be my guess!

 

They pick this petty stuff because it takes little effort and is safer.

 

Exactly right.Every single cop car down here has illegal tint!

 

Prob why many places have had to shut down this major scam.

 

Since the cops rarely catch any criminals ,I would say the ratio of good ppl to criminals caught in trffic stops is EXTREMELY low. It is just a money making game to justify their jobs.

 

OR, can't spell MAYBE

 

I spent 36+ years in law enforcement and 90% of the felony arrests I made were the result of traffic stops for "nuisance" violations. I can count the number of "in progress" felony arrests I made on two hands, but I made many arrests for residential burglary, car burglary, weapons offenses, narcotics, sex offenses, etc., as a result of traffic stops.

 

[QUOTE=Marine One;1579897613The majority of them are out there doing a great job for low pay and because they really give a damn. And since I know the cop in question lurks here, let me just publicly state, we're damn proud of you, Son![/QUOTE]

I'd wager an educated guess that many of those who are critical of police officers wouldn't last much more than a day on the job.