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DUI Without driving your car? Conviction upheld!

Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by windcatcher, May 8, 2010.

  1. Salty

    Salty 20,000 Posts Club
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    Two important points:

    1. Police officers do not, nor expected to enforce all laws all the time. - If they did, they would be doing nothing except writing vehicle citations. - They are allowed to use discretion in making an arrest. Another words in a sense, a cop is judge, jury and executioner.

    2. The law needs to be changed. Think common sense.
     
  2. billwald

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    Easy to write radar tickets But when an officer is in a marked car and wants to write a ticket finding a good ticket is not easy, at least in Seattle. When I signed on we were supposed to write one ticket a day I came close for the first 10 years.

    But if in your area a patrol officer could write 5 or 10 tickets an hour . . . good reason to install automatic radar and red light cameras.
     
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    I cant count the number of times I have seen moving violations and a police officer was nearby - but just looked the other way. I'm not talking about something minor (eg front tires over stop bar), but very unsafe & very illegal actions. I can only figure his shift would be over soon and didn't want to work overtime.
    But then again, as a driving instructor, I tend to be more attentive to unsafe maneuvers.

    Salty

    PS - Bill - I put you guys in the same boat as military - you can at anytime be in a dangerous situations -(but please don't follow me :smilewinkgrin:)
     
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