darin
05-09-2016, 02:25 AM
This kind of stuff makes my blood boil. Guy was going 93 in a 55 - which I just bet was artificially low. The whole "speed kills" bullshit is what governments use to affect taxation via citation.
Boggles my MIND how FREE people WILLINGLY allow themselves to be Controlled - a slave to the people they elect. Ugh. If YOU think Speed Limit enforcement keeps people "safe" you've drank the kool-aid and are beyond help. :(
Stop enforcing conformity to arbitrary speed limits designed to fine and imprison an other-wise law abiding citizen. Instead, make driver licensing more involved. Make better-trained drivers. Poor decision-making kills - NOT 'speed'.
http://jalopnik.com/never-speed-in-virginia-lessons-from-my-three-days-in-1613604053
The trooper pulled me over and said he had me on radar doing 93 mph in a 55 mph zone. I figured it would be a nasty ticket. It wasn’t, because I got nailed in Virginia, a state where the police and the courts take speeding more seriously than possibly anywhere else in America. A fun day in a very powerful car just got a lot less fun.
http://watchdog.org/199653/speeding-virginia/
“Most drivers would be surprised to learn that exceeding the posted interstate speed limit by 11 mph is considered reckless driving.”
http://jalopnik.com/what-every-driver-should-know-about-speeding-in-virgini-1669902845
That alone will help keep you out of the reckless driving boat. Although there are other types of reckless driving that you could still get nabbed for, such as simply running off the road, which usually entails a reckless driving ticket for "failure to maintain control" of the vehicle.
Also, when you drive through Virginia for a holiday weekend, pay extra careful attention to your driving and your speed. Holiday weekends are major enforcement times for Virginia's traffic laws. For example, during the 2014 Thanksgiving weekend, Virginia State Police cited 2,312 people for reckless driving and 9,789 people for speeding. That's not even including all the tickets issued by local sheriff's offices and police departments. The summer holiday weekends can have even higher numbers, with 2,673 reckless driving tickets issued by the State Police from July 4 to July 6, 2014.
http://wtvr.com/2014/07/14/chesterfield-quota-investigation/
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. - Two Virginia delegates who represent voters in Chesterfield County said they would consider banning ticket quotas at law enforcement agencies after CBS 6 uncovered traffic stop and arrest mandates at the Chesterfield County Police Department.
Lieutenant Colonel Dan Kelly with the Chesterfield Police Department said the mandates were not quotas and called them a perfectly legitimate performance standard.
A former officer with the Chesterfield Police Department came to CBS 6 investigative reporter Melissa Hipolit with concerns about the way he said the department measured officer performance. His recent review contained traffic stop and arrest mandates.
It showed the following work goals:
Two-three traffic stops per day
One arrest per day
“Failure to meet the expectation during this work performance plan will result in further disciplinary action,” the review read.
Boggles my MIND how FREE people WILLINGLY allow themselves to be Controlled - a slave to the people they elect. Ugh. If YOU think Speed Limit enforcement keeps people "safe" you've drank the kool-aid and are beyond help. :(
Stop enforcing conformity to arbitrary speed limits designed to fine and imprison an other-wise law abiding citizen. Instead, make driver licensing more involved. Make better-trained drivers. Poor decision-making kills - NOT 'speed'.
http://jalopnik.com/never-speed-in-virginia-lessons-from-my-three-days-in-1613604053
The trooper pulled me over and said he had me on radar doing 93 mph in a 55 mph zone. I figured it would be a nasty ticket. It wasn’t, because I got nailed in Virginia, a state where the police and the courts take speeding more seriously than possibly anywhere else in America. A fun day in a very powerful car just got a lot less fun.
http://watchdog.org/199653/speeding-virginia/
“Most drivers would be surprised to learn that exceeding the posted interstate speed limit by 11 mph is considered reckless driving.”
http://jalopnik.com/what-every-driver-should-know-about-speeding-in-virgini-1669902845
That alone will help keep you out of the reckless driving boat. Although there are other types of reckless driving that you could still get nabbed for, such as simply running off the road, which usually entails a reckless driving ticket for "failure to maintain control" of the vehicle.
Also, when you drive through Virginia for a holiday weekend, pay extra careful attention to your driving and your speed. Holiday weekends are major enforcement times for Virginia's traffic laws. For example, during the 2014 Thanksgiving weekend, Virginia State Police cited 2,312 people for reckless driving and 9,789 people for speeding. That's not even including all the tickets issued by local sheriff's offices and police departments. The summer holiday weekends can have even higher numbers, with 2,673 reckless driving tickets issued by the State Police from July 4 to July 6, 2014.
http://wtvr.com/2014/07/14/chesterfield-quota-investigation/
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. - Two Virginia delegates who represent voters in Chesterfield County said they would consider banning ticket quotas at law enforcement agencies after CBS 6 uncovered traffic stop and arrest mandates at the Chesterfield County Police Department.
Lieutenant Colonel Dan Kelly with the Chesterfield Police Department said the mandates were not quotas and called them a perfectly legitimate performance standard.
A former officer with the Chesterfield Police Department came to CBS 6 investigative reporter Melissa Hipolit with concerns about the way he said the department measured officer performance. His recent review contained traffic stop and arrest mandates.
It showed the following work goals:
Two-three traffic stops per day
One arrest per day
“Failure to meet the expectation during this work performance plan will result in further disciplinary action,” the review read.