Police Departments Need to Handle Crime, Not Speeding Tickets!

A Speedticketbeaters.com Editorial:

All over the United States police departments are out in force, beating down the low lives who rob, rape, and murder, while you sleep soundly knowing your tax money is being put to good use. Not quite…

Most police departments are under strict orders to harrass you, and steal your money for the cities gain, through speeding tickets (as opposed to attempting to handle what they perceive as unmanagable crime).

Let’s use the city of Los Angeles as an example. When one takes into account the combination of population, and the physical size of the L.A area, it becomes clear that L.A is the hardest to police city in the United States. New York City has a slightly larger population, but New York is a much smaller area physically. And L.A has one quarter the amount of cops that New York does.

With that in mind, is the LAPD stretched too thin? YES. Therefore should the LAPD be out writing speed tickets instead of managing the crime in an enormous area, with too few cops. NO!

We find it astounding that Los Angeles has not ordered its police to department to actually go out and do something productive, as opposed to spending the day looking for “53’s in a 40" to write up for speeding! But that is what they do. All day, every day! The officials that run that city (and former NYPD police chief William Bratton should know better), should be ashamed.

Attention LAPD: You have one quarter the amount of cops New York has, and have a much bigger area to patrol. “ALL HANDS ON DECK”! You have no time (in what should your busy schedules), to be harrassing the citizens of your city with speed tickets! Instead, you are supposed to be out there (every one of you), protecting them from actual crime!

Now there’s probably someone reading this, that is thinking, we’re the “dummies”. That we need to “understand that driving above the speed limit causes more accidents”. Or that “the city needs to make the money it makes on speeding tickets”. Or that “California is in a budget crisis, and now more than ever needs the revenue stream that speeding tickets provide”. Let us shoot these ridiculous concepts down:

1) RE: The false notion that driving above the speed limit causes more accidents - Every study ever conducted on the topic shows that more accidents are caused by drivers driving too slow, than by drivers driving too fast! This is not to say that driving absurdly fast, with a loud engine, drag racing, or crazily aggressively driving, are smart ideas. And it goes without saying, that drunk driving is also totally unacceptable. You are moron if you do any of those, and deserve whatever consequences law enforcement heaps on you. But the majority of speed tickets written are for 5-15 MPH over the speed limit. That means most speeding tickets being written are tickets like 42 in a 35, or 51 in a 40, or 73 in a 65, etc. Not one cop, should be spending even one second, bothering to write speeding tickets like those. Attention Officer: When you went into the police academy, was that your idea of what you wanted to do with your police work, “McGruff”? We didn’t think so!

2) RE: A city needs the revenue stream that speeding tickets provide - A cities desire to make money, is not something to burden the ordinary (non-criminal) citizens with! There is absolutely no excuse for a city to attempt to extort money from people, with over zealous speeding enforcement! Here’s some better ideas:

a) Actually fight and beat back real crime! A truly safe city, will no doubt be one that more people are attracted to doing business in, and with.

b) Eliminate the ”Traffic Division”. Shift every one of those cops to doing real police work. Not taking five meal breaks a day, in between writing speed tickets, to harmless Grandpas, cranking their Pontiacs up to a cool 51 MPH!

If you live in a city (or state) that thinks it is ok to exploit your wallet for their gain, while not handling the actual crime they should all be focused on…Write to your local politicians! Demand that they order the police to stop this nonsense, and start putting all of their resources into protecting you and your family from actual danger.

And on a related side note…To add insult to inury, 90% of the “speed limits” in the United States were knowingly set too low, so as to force every driver to be “speeding” at all times. But that is a lot to explain to you, that you will not yet understand. You do not know the law as we do, and how it is supposed to be applied when it comes to speeding enforcement. So, we’ll cover this issue, and explain this sort of stuff to you when you have an actual speed ticket that needs handling, and you have contacted us at Speedticketbeaters.com.