I'm fighting a Houston ticket for an "obstructed front plate" which is mounted on one side of the bumper rather than the center. The cockfag cop claims that it cannot be on the driver side and can't be read due to not ~5° angle. This is less of an angle and the same position as an Evo, lol. I got it on the Katy Tollway.

One of my friend in HS did the same thing in a speed trap zone near my HS. He had an old pizza box that he wrote "cop ahead" on and held it up when cars would pass. Eventually another cop went by and pulled over. He booked it out of there and was not caught.

my ticket for was obstruciton of a driveway. i was not obstructing it, i took a pic and the judge agreed.

And you wasted how many hours of your day to try to prove your innocence...

Cops give cops a bad name in general. Mostly becoming a cop is about the power trip to satisfy their personality disorder and becoming a cop also likely has something to do with the C or D student they were in high school. Only a fraction of what they do on the job is really beneficial to society.

Bob

had to take 2 hours of personal time and spent a few dollars at rite aid printing pictures. meanwhile she got paid overtime.

Turning a profit off citations and the penal system in general is an infringement on liberty and tyranny in the most pure sense of the world. Roping someone into a criminal penalties system over license plate decorations and minor technicalities is something the justice department should be involved in as an abuse of power.

Brain's was probably a non-moving violation that did not involve any points, but rising insurance rates and difficulty having future tickets resolved is always worth considering before just admitting guilt and paying the fine.

Perhaps ironically, I think all the technology that allows cops to be more efficient makes them much more maligned. A couple of decades ago, an officer would "walk the beat" and might stop and chat and you would see the same faces on a regular basis. Now, they sit in their cars, messing around with their laptops and the only time you ever interact with an officer is during a negative encounter.

Edit: And I try to make a distinction between traffic cops and most other types, particularly detectives. "FTC" is specifically designated toward the former. There are worthwhile detectives out there trying to actually serve a positive role in society.

hell if I was going to pay $50 for parking were I did everyday for over a year.

she argued in court it was hard for her to turn her truck around at the end of our cul-de-sac and that's why she ticketed me. But that wasn't an option on her little parking device, so I got one for obstruction.

I also had to jump through hoops to get a court date, and every step of the way they warn you that if you lose you have to pay $61 in court fees, making the ticket $111 if I failed to prove my case.

I've never had it so hard to get a parking ticket resolved, and I've probably had at least 10-15 dropped in court/through mail. I've never had to argue with the issuer like I was at a Judge Judy taping for a freaking parking ticket!

I agree.

Bob

Automated photo ticketing machines seem to be the ultimate in ticketing efficiency. And yet when they do set up that highly efficient trap we force them to put up a fixed sign warning that that people are losing liberty and about to be taxed by a form of law enforcement.

If law enforcement becomes a major source of revenue then it will ever become harder for the average person to live their life without being caught being a criminal. Everyone must be a criminal for that system to work.

It is even worse when the profit motivated privite sector gets involved. That is how fascism works.

Bob

You mean like how my county leases two traffic cameras and I am assuming montoring and support from a private company for $19,000 a month. Heard this on the news the other day and I was pretty disgusted. Tax dollars at work right there. Not that I really blame the company for taking the business. I am much more irritated that they are dedicating so many resources to policing two intersections that are not even overly dangerous, just very busy.

drones.

You would be surprised how much money those automated ticketing companies pay to politicians directly, and for lobbying and propaganda. Hell they were even exposed bombarding online message boards with paid trolls on the subject on many occasions.

Interesting how they can reason an intersection near me that never had a serious injury accident in the last 10 years now generating on average several hundreds of dollars a day in ticket revenue for American Traffic Solutions is making things safer for the community.

American Traffic Solutions is a privately held Venture Capital backed company largely owned by Goldman Sachs.

Bob

Shoulda been a cop man, corruption at it's best.

The amount of money thrown at politicians does not suprise me at all because it makes good business sense to do so. The thing that suprises me is that people seem to see this as the business being evil and therefore try to regulate the business as opposed to regulating the politicians. Businesses will adapt however possible to make money. It is the politicians that should be held to the standard of not being influenced by financial gain. People say this is unrealistic and maybe it is but I personally expect politicians to be held to the highest standard. The only standard I hold a business to is the law, nothing more.

that's why im the admin here! and I also like making a crap ton of money.

It’s kind of a circular argument. Not all regulation is bad and no regulation is often much worse.

Private companies shouldn’t be allowed to put up private for profit ticketing machines to take from the public with the force of government and law enforcement.

There ought to be a law against that.

Oh no we don’t want any regulation against the free market which would harm business. We can't make a law because that would be regulation.

Well we should elect people to represent the will of the people in government making the rules and implementing the funtions of government if we don’t like how business is behaving or the loss of freedom.

Can’t elect good people to government because they are too corruptible by money.

Right wing supreme court – “Corporations are people” “Money is Speech” You loose.

In this State several city referendums resulted in the public voting out the cameras and some elected officials were also voted out based on this issue.

The courts recently ruled the referendums of the people in this matter were not binding because the cameras were for their own good and the elected officials were the ones to make those decisions. You loose.

Scary times we live in.

I'm fine with the private sector getting involved in law enforcement, but the contracts need to be "firm-fixed price" rather than "indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity". This still supports a free market, but does not motivate increased quantities. "Throwing my ass in jail" should not financially benefit any government nor individual.

I lost the picture back in the iPhone days (good riddance), but I had an image of my car driving through a green light, and a citation for running that light. My only option was arbitration in Arizona which required me to appear in person. lol

Red light cameras are as much of an infringement on my rights as Border Patrol and DUI roadblocks, and I can't believe this nation lets it happen.