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Originally Posted by jar_e

I mean if you're pushing for every traffic law to be enforced with no discretion, I just don't think that's a reasonable or commonly agreed upon sentiment.

Again it’s a slippery slope. I don’t think an officer should be allowed to give an obviously drunk driver a pass just because they’re already close to home and it’s the exact same concept. Giving police too much discretion for when they should enforce penalties essentially reduces our laws to guidelines.

There's literally tickets for anything. Our Spec Pens are 50-60 pages long and that's just the provincial one. I don't think you want every cop enforcing every traffic law that's broken.

If the laws aren’t worth enforcing it makes you wonder why we bothered to legislate them in the first place. I think people should also remind themselves that driving is a privilege not a right.

You do realize that being pulled over is a form of enforcement already right? The physical act of being pulled over is a deterrent. Not everything that happens needs to result in tickets.

Which is why our laws should reflect that so it’s not left up to chance.

So the argument is that a cop wrote you a lesser fine and now fighting it, you want to see if you could have gotten a better deal with another cop? I have no idea what other cops give as breaks. Sometimes people who get pulled over for speeding don't get tickets at all. Does that mean I shouldn't give tickets to speeders at all?

No it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give tickets to speeders at all, but it does mean there’s a problem with the system when two individuals with no priors commit the same exact same offence but receive different punishments.

Cops have a wide range of options of enforcement at every call. There are infinite amount of variables from each call. Whether its traffic, criminal or otherwise.

Yes and I’ve already acknowledged that the police need to be able to use discretion in some situations, I just don’t think a speeding ticket is on of them.

I don't charge someone who stole $8.20 worth of food to feed themselves from Safeway cause how is that in the public interest? Sure some cops will go 100%, some will go 0%, but I think arguing about getting a break is counter productive.

Yet another example of why it’s a problem. You want to be treated fairly by police and that means getting the same treatment as everybody else when you interact with them, for better or worse.