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Originally Posted by Vulcan
Well kudos to the officer for handing out a break but our courts are based on an adversarial system so you're pretty much a sucker if you don't fight when you think it's important.
Question, are the cops being nice guys or are they hoping, by giving out a break that they don't have to appear in court and get an easy conviction as the person being ticketed may feel as you say guilty?
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I will tell you what. I am getting to the point where I am not going to use my discretion anymore. I don't know how many times that I have given people BIG breaks and small breaks. And it never fails that there is I would say about 20% of the people that a: don't appreciate the break b: go on to do something like fight it in court just to try and see if they can see what happens or c: as soon as you tell them they are on their way all of a sudden their attidute changes to F*** you, you stupid dick for making me have to pay, I pay your salary and you should be doing something better. Instead of taking responsibility for their actions, it is someone elses fault or they will try and use the system to not own up to there mistake.
Imagine this: Police officer gives buddy a break on his speeding ticket. He was speeding 20k over and the officer reduces to 10k over. That reduces the fine and the demerits. Officer feels that buddy will learn his lesson, shows him that police are reasonable and willing to work with the guy. Then, buddy comes on to calgary puck, posts a thread explaining how he sped and that he got a ticket. Explains to everyone that the officer was nice enough to reduce the ticket. Then all these people tell buddy to fight it.....it's your right......thats why we have a court system. So buddy takes it to court and try's to fight the ticket. Forces the police officer into the court for God knows how many hours as he waits for buddies ticket to come up. Maybe it was his day off, maybe he had plans to go on vacation maybe not but instead of the officer being on the street or on his personal day off he is stuck in the court having to explain to the judge that buddy was speeding even though buddy knows he WAS speeding.
Now, since the officer had to go though all that crap even though he gave buddy a break, so you think he is more willing to give the next guy a break, maybe you, maybe me? NO.....why would he???
Unless you didn't do what you received the ticket for; then take some responsibilty and pay the friggen ticket. Quite wasting time, quit wasting money and quit ruining the likelyhood of the officer giving me a possible break in the future because of your failure to claim ownership in your actions.
ADD: As per your comment about being nice, it is about being nice.