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In Dallas, the number of speeding tickets the cops give are down. And the press treats this like a bad thing.
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February 29th, 2012 at 11:05 am
I was there this past weekend and saw a good number of Dallas’ finest writing tickets.
February 29th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
Well, when the weather is rainy there are often actual accidents to attend to, and who wants to get out of the patrol car in the rain just to make money for the city writing some poor schlub a ticket, when the infraction really had no impact on public safety?
Look for revenue enhancement to increase as the weather dries up this spring.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:34 pm
Mikee, these are year to year numbers. Seasonal changes are taken into account.
The surrounding burbs write lots of tickets. Dallas, not so much. And the whole point of the story was that Dallas was making more stops, but not writing tickets at most of those stops, just issuing warnings.
For example, last year, my inspection sticker was out. I got stopped by Dallas, the cop let me go after I showed him that I had been cited by Farmer’s Branch two days earlier. (The bastards.)
March 1st, 2012 at 2:14 am
I read somewhere that the effectiveness of a society’s measures against crime isn’t judged by the number of infractions caught, but the number of infractions period.