Quote:
Originally Posted by Wormius
The unfair aspect is that they're wasting resources by being there and ticketing drivers that they know will be speeding in that area. Public safety is served by them acting in a preventative fashion to pour cold water on any thoughts of gunning it to 140kph in the passing lane (having a marked police car parked along the side of the road leading up to the passing lane would be an example).
Me, driving through there at 140kph, and getting ticketed and losing my car is no deterent to any future drivers who come through that section of road. So, I fail to see how the police are helping anybody.
|
gets you off the road, helps me out right there
They are being preventative, they are taking dangerous speeders off the road ... so what if they know they are going to be there, it's no different from them setting up in other locations.
The fact that you still have people who do the 40km/h or higher over speed limit in known speed traps shows that you do need the cops to patrol that area.