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Where was this? Mexico?
3 second pause at “Am I being detained?” LOL, that stops them in their tracks! Good job.
Maybe if a speeder injures you or someone you know, you’ll realize that “copblocking a speed trap” is ignorant.
Underoath,
That’s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read. Speed traps are nothing more than a revenue stream for the State, and cops are nothing more than the State’s tax collectors. To see a good example of ignorance, check the mirror.
@underoath
If memory serves, you and the other officers here and on Police One didn’t think the cop doing 120+ was such a big deal. We see cops routinely ignoring traffic laws.
More often than not, speeding is just an easy way for the local government to get money. In my own town, we’ve had an epidemic of redlight running, but they don’t have enough cops to sit at redlights and deal with it. But they have officers for speed traps. More likely, it is easier and more profitable to write speeding tickets.
Most of these traffic laws, though important for safety, are treated more as a revenue source than anything else. In Tallahassee FL, a man proved that when they put up a redlight camera, the shortened the yellow light at the same time. They actually made driving MORE dangerous in an effort to collect easy fines.
I remember when driving down US 41 with my brother, the speed limit was 45. Then we passed a sign saying 55. Yehaw, now we can make some time here. Good thing I was watching the woods. Two hundred feet down the road, behind a tree, was a sign dropping it back to 45.
So I’m hardly impressed with your concern with copblocking a speed trap.
If the “speeder” slows down because a copblocker warns that person of a speed trap ahead, isn’t the same purpose served?
IF slowing traffic down was really something the police wanted to do, they would set the example at every opportunity through open presence at the beginning of a nice straight away where people like to speed and through police adhering diligently to the posted limit as opposed to motoring along at whatever pace they feel is good for them.
A cop in the left lane of a 55 MPH highway doing 55 MPH will ensure more drivers do 55 MPH for a lot longer than 4 ding dongs hanging out in the turn outs catching one in however many “speeders”.
Speeding is not a crime, by the way. Damaging another person or person’s property is. Speed traps are revenue enhancers and tools of the neighborhood busy bodies to control their neighbors.
What part of “the oath” is about stopping speeders?
It’s funny to me how a cop can cry about someone copblocking a speed trap but it is perfectly alright for a fellow cop to exceed the speed limit. I had one pass me on the interstate a couple of days ago. I was doing 75 and this clown passed me like I was backing up. No lights, no siren, just pedal to the metal.
And police wonder why they are rapidly becoming one of the least-respected professions?
Here is a good police article:
http://mashable.com/2012/10/09/police-social-media/
Underoath it amazes me when people like you complain about a guy cop blocking a speed trap helping speeders? He is standing there with a sign that is SLOWING people down! Yet you think that some how he is helping speeders and promoting fatal car crashes!? I know from experience that my big yellow SPEED TRAP sign slows down more people than any LEO hiding down the road. We are just helping LEO’s slow people down. It’s citizen law enforcement cooperation. It’s public service promoting public safety.
I just want to thank the guy in this video. You are doing a great public service and you handled your self well when the looter approached. The only thing I would have done different would be to get the LEO’s name and badge number. Oh and I bet it was a citizen who went and tatteled on you.
If slowing people down was the goal, cops would put up their own signs just to mess with people. And do radar once in a while just to make people wonder.
I need to apologize for something that maybe didn’t even show in my post. I mistook “UnderOath” for “HonorYourOath”. Now that I recognize my error I am wholly relieved! HONORYOUROATH is a patriot and a freedom lover.