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Unit 5302 · 03-29-2002, 10:16 PM

True about the city council and mayor deciding on what to enforce, but not true on how to enforce it. While there are technically laws in place to prevent "quotas," the quota is really a tool for the promotion to higher levels. Don't pull enough people over and write tickets, don't get a promotion. The St. Cloud, MN State Patrol office chief, and the State Patrol were recently named in a lawsuit by a deputy who was passed over for promotions because of his low ticketing rate.

By the way, Chris, since cops pick on people who they know the average Joe Blow doesn't care about (Sports car drivers etc) going to the city council meetings and complaining doesn't do a damn thing for ya. If anything, it makes you a target.

The Hennepin County traffic violation ticket has gone from $72.50 in 1995 to $105.00 in 2001. Over double the rate of inflation. There are way more unmarked cars on the road than ever before, and these cars specialize in pulling people over all day, every day. The city isn't going to do anything about it, they make a killing off of all the tickets. When you go to traffic court, an arraignment officer of the city sits you down, has a look at your ticket, then offers to let you off with the DMV, and reduce the charge to something that doesn't go on your insurance in turn for you pleading guilty and the money then goes to the city. I see people pulled over all the time here on the highway that runs through town. Might as well label it "Revenue Strip Road." Write 5 tickets a day and you've paid your own salary, the car payment, and paid for the operation of your department. Course, there are so many ticket writers and cars that they HAVE to write tickets to pay for it all, otherwise it wouldn't be in the budget. It's a catch-22. Write more tickets to pay for more officers, and more officers and better equipment means you have to write more tickets. Sickening. The cops don't give a crap about most crime. They're out writing tickets so they can justify an overpopulation in their workforce that doesn't do much of their job.

As the years have gone by, it's gotten more and more ridiculous.

Hey 1BAD89, Kat Finley's site is really nice. It's not super busy at the moment, but more traffic has been flowing through in general. Very good people there, and no flaming. www.themustangnet.com If you feel like checkin it out, give it a look.

03-29-2002, 10:16 PM	#11
Unit 5302 Registered Member Join Date: May 1999 Posts: 5,246	True about the city council and mayor deciding on what to enforce, but not true on how to enforce it. While there are technically laws in place to prevent "quotas," the quota is really a tool for the promotion to higher levels. Don't pull enough people over and write tickets, don't get a promotion. The St. Cloud, MN State Patrol office chief, and the State Patrol were recently named in a lawsuit by a deputy who was passed over for promotions because of his low ticketing rate. By the way, Chris, since cops pick on people who they know the average Joe Blow doesn't care about (Sports car drivers etc) going to the city council meetings and complaining doesn't do a damn thing for ya. If anything, it makes you a target. The Hennepin County traffic violation ticket has gone from $72.50 in 1995 to $105.00 in 2001. Over double the rate of inflation. There are way more unmarked cars on the road than ever before, and these cars specialize in pulling people over all day, every day. The city isn't going to do anything about it, they make a killing off of all the tickets. When you go to traffic court, an arraignment officer of the city sits you down, has a look at your ticket, then offers to let you off with the DMV, and reduce the charge to something that doesn't go on your insurance in turn for you pleading guilty and the money then goes to the city. I see people pulled over all the time here on the highway that runs through town. Might as well label it "Revenue Strip Road." Write 5 tickets a day and you've paid your own salary, the car payment, and paid for the operation of your department. Course, there are so many ticket writers and cars that they HAVE to write tickets to pay for it all, otherwise it wouldn't be in the budget. It's a catch-22. Write more tickets to pay for more officers, and more officers and better equipment means you have to write more tickets. Sickening. The cops don't give a crap about most crime. They're out writing tickets so they can justify an overpopulation in their workforce that doesn't do much of their job. As the years have gone by, it's gotten more and more ridiculous. Hey 1BAD89, Kat Finley's site is really nice. It's not super busy at the moment, but more traffic has been flowing through in general. Very good people there, and no flaming. www.themustangnet.com If you feel like checkin it out, give it a look.