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Originally Posted by Joeaksa
Darisc,
The speed limit is the law, so the cops and highway patrol officers giving out the speeding tickets are fighting crime, because anyone speeding is breaking the law.
Yes, most of us agree that it would be nice to have them off chasing people who break in our houses, kill, rape or molest kids and so on but then they have to do both and if someone goes over the speed limit, they are going to get nailed.
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The whole "speeding" thing is just shooting fish in a barrel and does very, very for public safety. Isn't that what it is all about anyway? Isn't that the justification for the limits in the first place and the enforcement thereof..
The trick in the city is for cops to zap you on the off-ramp. The highway may be a 55MPH limit - but the ramp is a city street with a 30MPH limit. Gotcha!
If you want to trace where accidents come from and injury and deaths on our roads - yes, there are many, many, many better things the police could be doing.
Road rage, drunks, druggies, following too closely and driving like an idiot is against the law too. I would rather see enforcement being applied to where it may do some actual good.
I am not for using technology against citizens - but I would love to see unmaked police cars with video equipment - to just cruise along in the middle lanes of our highways - and just keeping up with traffic - record and prosecute some of the madness that roars by...
