Yeah, Texas is notorious for their 5 officer police depts. serving 50
residents along wide open highways. Revenue enhancers as they are know
here. Legislation is supposed to be introduced to get a handle on this sort
of speed trap. I like Ky.'s law: No police courts, no JP courts. All
traffic tickets are assigned to district court. Fines collected go to the
state, and are used to run the entire court system, based on court system
needs across the state...This leaves little to no incintive for speed traps,
especially on the open highway where ridiculously slow limits are set
specifically for the "revenue enhancement" officers...
Phil O. (retired cop, hated to write traffic tickets anyway unless actions
were absolutely unsafe)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Kelly" <lollipop487@home.com>
To: "Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>; <jim.pernice@wichita.edu>;
<autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: state troopers
> ACtually, we don't do 55 here, either. :) Neither do the trucks. The last
> speeding ticket we've received was in Texas, a really trumped up one--too
> long a story--but it was during the Dukes of Hazard days. We were hauled
> into the basement of the courthouse, and the judge actually had on a white
> suit. The kids were impressed. :) $65 bucks, as I recall.
> --Pat K
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