• brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Advanced for both you AND the cops!

      Some cops do like sitting on exits to hide with their radar guns 😒 obviously better than sitting on the shoulder though. Imagine having kids at home and risking your life while already having a dangerous job. Pulling people over on the shoulder instead of taking them to the next exit is the worst.

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        5 months ago

        Wait, is that still a thing? I’ve never seen cops with speed cameras outside of movies. It also seems quite overkill seeing there’s mobile speed cameras too these days. Around my city there’s like three that get moved every few days, alongside the many stationary speed cameras.

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          5 months ago

          Americans hire too many cops and then have to invent busywork for them to do instead of solving actual crimes.

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          5 months ago

          In the US speed cameras are viewed as revenue generating devices, instead of devices meant to protect the public safety. So most places have laws against them because the voters see it as “you just want to charge me for speeding” instead of “people breaking the speed limit are unsafe and need to be stopped”. So instead speeding is mostly enforced by actual police on the road (or pulled slightly off the road) using radar guns. The idea being if you were speeding enough to make a policeman bother to turn the siren on, track you down, and issue the ticket, you must have been doing something pretty unsafe.

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          5 months ago

          Mobile speed cameras huh, I’ve seen those - in photos from Europe.

          Cops radaring, not an uncommon sight in California! And Southern California seems to have cops all over the highways.