HAHAHAHAHA! Sorry, but the thought that I would risk my employment, my pension, and my honor by signing a false statement (a crime) for an offense that I knew did not happen made me laugh.
The "I¹ve had it happen to me a few times where you could tell the officer really didn¹t want to give a ticket but had to because of a quota" line is one of two things. Either the cop uses it as a line to diffuse the motorist's anger and make it seem like "he is forced to do this" or never writes summonses which makes a boss lean on him since it is not possible to drive around 8-12 hours a day and not see a traffic violation. I prefer to go to an area of high accident occurrances and strictly enforce the traffic law between 911 calls to help curb future accidents and it works. Oh, and I have used the line that my boss is there so I have to issue this summons so that a motorist would stop complaining. Bottom line - a lying about a summons is not worth losing a career over and there are plenty of fish in the barrel that you do not have to write a bogus ticket. Tom --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Lighty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't blame them. Part of speed enforcement is safety and part is > > revenue. All a municipality has to do is buy a radar or laser device > > and rake in the dough. > > > It¹s a shame that both speeding and traffic violations are needed to get > revenue. It does put pressure on officers at certain times to charge people > they KNOW didn¹t do anything wrong. I¹ve had it happen to me a few times > where you could tell the officer really didn¹t want to give a ticket but had > to because of a quota. They¹ll say things like ³Call the station, I¹ll make > sure you don¹t get any points for this on your license². > > Meanwhile, they know that about 99% of the people will simply pay the > ticket. And, even if the person disputes the ticket, the police seem to win > about 99.5% of the arguments in Jersey Shore courts. > > I wonder just how many tickets would be handed out each month if REVENUE > wasn¹t a factor... > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/Y2tolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
