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RE: HPD Rolling Out New Plan To Give Tickets
Better to get a ticket than accidentally have a wreck and people lose their live or end up in a wheelchair.
Better to get a ticket than accidentally have a wreck and people lose their live or end up in a wheelchair.
I understand that completly. I really do hope this serves for good, some people drive crazy and should be held accountable for their actions. But alot of these "speed traps" in Houston don't catch these law breakers they go after people they can give the most tickets to so they can fill their quota. Can't tell you how many times i have seen people going 100 mph down the freeway, pass a cop, and then that cop pulls over the guy with the messed up break light.
Currently, there is no evidence to suggest that issuing moving violations deters dangerous driving behavior. The bottom line is that this decision does appear to be strongly linked to revenue. Perhaps not in a sinister way, but it seems like there may be an issue with funding and manpower. There are a couple of overlooked things about this that the Chief could have brought up; this decision will decrease the amount of cruisers that are on the roads at random times for issuing moving violations and in doing so will cut down on the PDs pollution, save gas, and cut down other expenses. We don't have a boom in new hires in the PD so those aren't necessarily bad things. The real problem is saying it has nothing to do with revenue when there are potential positives directly related to revenue that could be mentioned instead of using unsupported claims that it's going to lower road accidents and deaths. Obviously, absolutely saving lives should trump revenue, but when there's no substantial evidence of that actually working through a program like theirs...why leave out the good? It comes off as dubious when there are strong revenue positives that legitimately wouldn't have to do with the moving violations being issued, but rather a cut in expenses.