[John Rogers]

The earlier post about police brutality when getting tickets for running/not running a stop sigh got me to thinking. In almost every city in the San Diego area there are places where police cars sit and wait for people to break a law that most times is never enforced. I know of one on Las Vegas, Huntington Beach, Venice Beach, San Diego, La Jolla, Delmar and of course in my home of Chula Vista and it is very interesting to watch. I was eating lunch at the Burger King near the Costco on East "H" street a few days ago and the police were raking the tickets in, here's how and what I think they were writing for: Going west bound there is a right turn lane and it DOES NOT have a green arrow, so you can guess what happens next. The m/c officer stands around the corner and waives every car that fails to stop (about all of them in a 20 minute period) into the Pep Boys parking lot where other officers hand out the tickets. Almost everyone is a Mexican woman talking on their cell phone ($$$$$), NOT wearing their seat belt ($$$$$) and kids in the back jumping around with no car seat ($$$$$$$$$) and of course the failure to stop ($$$$$$). There may have been some others and I did get to see 3 cars get towed and the women were sure pissed off it seemed!? From what the ladies at the credit union up the street tell me that is done at least once a week, maybe more often!

There is one that is also run outside the court houses in Chula Vista and also San Diego on DUI arrest days and that pulls everyone over and I hear 80% of the cars get towed as the driver just lost their license!

If anyone else has interesting spots like this feel free to list them......