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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
If you talk to cops in there 50's and 60's they most likely will tell you they don't like the "Police Science" of today. The application of safety has been turned around. They don't focus on people, they focus on the rules because that is what they are taught.
I don't have issues with all Police Officers. I have stated before, there are some real good guys and gals out there, but there are some miserable A-holes and that group is growing. Policing used to be about Public Relations, but now it's about bullying and intimidation and profit. It is these guy's where the system fails. It's these "laws" that give these A-holes the excuse needed to make others miserable. Someone in this thread questioned weather quotas happen? They do.
I would rather all the money spent on making these acts and enforcing them get spent on education. I'd rather see educational PSA's on proper merging in busy streets or the dangers of distracted driving shoved down our esophagus than a scare tactic and cash grab that only helps the police or city. It's a direct conflict of interest! I'd rather a probationary license restriction on distracted driving issues. Or parents check a box on a form, when kids get there license, agreeing to more discipline for distracted driving.
The way I see it happening now is one of those a-hole types will see me switch a CD or my coffee does spill and hit my leg or something happens that distracts me temporarily and I get pulled over because of a no tolerance a-hole bully cop wants to make my life miserable too...
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PSA's don't work cause they don't scare people. Believe it or not, some people are still scared ####less of being pulled over by a cop and learn from that experience whether they get a ticket or not. Financially, some people know that they can't risk the $172 fine and won't break the law to prevent that. Knowing that risk of getting caught is a deterrent to people. Not all people, but some. That alone covers a chunk now who will drive more safely cause they aren't distracted. Majority of people won't do it simply because now its "the law".
Its not a conflict of interest, as all the money goes to the province. So its not a complete circle that if CPS writes a ticket, CPS gets the money. I guess CPS is funded by the province to an extent, but unfortunately that's the way the system works and you're not going to get around that.
Furthermore, cops in their 50's and 60's policed in a EXTREMELY different time than now. The liability, the risk, the public perception, has all changed and none of it really favours the police. I'm baffled you think the "application of safety" has been turned around, especially considering Calgary is one of the safest cities in the nation to live in. CPS is consistently ranked high in satisfaction from public surveys and in public acceptance. I don't know where you live but if you live in Calgary, you're very ill-informed.
Furthermore, CPS is cutting somewhere in the tens of millions out of their budget in the next few years so policing is far from a profitable, or else CPS would run in the black. You seem to have quite the bad taste in your mouth about policing but I'm a strong believer that people like yourself either bring it upon themselves or they're bad drivers in general and get pulled over than more than once a year.
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