Street racing. Up 42% this long weekend compared to last year.
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Misleading title. The charges were up 42%. Probably none of them were actually in a race.
Over 6000 speeding tickets? That's insane to me and a clear indication that the limits are too low, in my opinion anyway.
Maybe the novelty of the "new" law is wearing off so people are going back to driving how they used to?
Over 6000 speeding tickets? That's insane to me and a clear indication that the limits are too low, in my opinion anyway.
Maybe the novelty of the "new" law is wearing off so people are going back to driving how they used to?
OpenGambit
Banned
6000? thats nothing. I bet thats less than one tenth of 1 percent of vehicles in Ontario.
how many of the 20,000+ charged with that farce since it's inception were actually "street racing" in the common sense version of the term in the first place?
I like the fact that they still use the term street racing....lotsa grannies who applaud swiping those evil fast machines need to see their minivans on the hook after blowing into a transition zone going 20 over
interesting how the article suggests that the "racing" behavior has dramatically increased in one year while the death rate has plumetted...and I can't recall a huge increase in the #s on the force out there
hmmm.....the turbospin should be entertaining because turbomath suggests it should be the opposite no?
wouldn't a dramatic increase in this dastardly behavior result in a dramatic increase in deaths?
+1.
Keep in mind Im lazy and didn't read the article, but I bet you the Star didn't even give the reader something to compare the 6000 tickets to. By itself it looks like a big number, until you put it into perspective. It's like when Harper refuesed to go to some world event, claiming it was too expensive, when the relative cost to the gov would have been .000001% of the debt. The relative cost to the gov, basically worked out to be less than a penny.
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Since 'street racing' isn't street racing, I'd say that's an even money bet.
I think that it's more likely they did a blitz for that particular charge, rather than people actually changing their behaviour.
Tripletrouble
Well-known member
I don't know about everyone else but my attitude towards speeding has certainly changed since this bill 172 bs. I'd be on a country road cruising along and glance at the speedo and think," holy shmoke,25 kms over", and get off the throttle quick. Now I think."oops, no problem still got 25kph to go".
Too many Cops chasing to little crime
I read an interesting article in Maclean magazine regarding the law of diminishing returns on increasing police budgets and how the current trend in increasing court and law enforcement budgets is unsustainable.
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/08/25/t...s/#more-210105
It basically says what many members on this forum have said for years. The police issue tickets to create revenue to justify their ever increasing budgets.
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/08/25/t...s/#more-210105
It basically says what many members on this forum have said for years. The police issue tickets to create revenue to justify their ever increasing budgets.
SiNNeR
Well-known member
the moment you get your head around the fact that the province , every city withen it & every police force is corperation.
life and its events becomes exceeding easier to understand
RichinOville
Well-known member
I love bill 172. In the country, in the old days, I'd aim at doing no more than 20 over. Now I aim to stay below 30 over. In their hunt, they don't want to miss a chance to get a 50 over, by pulling someone over for doing less than 30.
42% more people caught "racing" with fewer deaths over last year? "nice catch", that will be great for the provincial coffers <sarcasm off>. i guess that means speed doesn't kill if we had fewer deaths and more speed.
This is absolute ********.
I've been riding since June, and driving for 5 years. All of my near accidents (never had one...hopefully never will), have involved ****ing retards on right/left turns turning into the wrong lane. In fact, this week I turned left, made eye contact with a driver BEFORE turning that was going right, and she STILL swerved into my lane. She didn't even realize I was there till I punched her window while riding (yes she was THAT close).
And the cops are busting people for speeding alone? Speed doesn't kill people, stupidity and ignorance kills people.
I've been riding since June, and driving for 5 years. All of my near accidents (never had one...hopefully never will), have involved ****ing retards on right/left turns turning into the wrong lane. In fact, this week I turned left, made eye contact with a driver BEFORE turning that was going right, and she STILL swerved into my lane. She didn't even realize I was there till I punched her window while riding (yes she was THAT close).
And the cops are busting people for speeding alone? Speed doesn't kill people, stupidity and ignorance kills people.
One thing that I've gleaned from this article is that your average taxpayer annually pays $500-$1000 on policing in the era of ridiculously low and falling crime rates. I want 20% of that to be allocated to job-creating environmental and/or infrastructure improvement projects. Of course, the more jobs there are out there, the less of a need for policing there would be, so the police budgets could be reduced even more.
I'm sure my elected government sees all of that and is fighting to give me value for my tax dollar
I'm sure my elected government sees all of that and is fighting to give me value for my tax dollar
油井緋色;1651440 said:
In my commute to work, before 6:00am every weekday, I could write no less than a dozen tickets for illegal turns if I was a cop. It's a law that's simply not enforced, anymore. If you stop enforcing, people stop obeying.
long weekends are always zero tolerance (aka blitz) weekends. which means overtime for the police. people in a hurry to get from point a to b or people just out enjoying the roads. and since we are over policed we will see more tickets handed out to generate revenue.
with the cops working so much over time, are they too tired to do their job? are they able to make sound judgements when deprived of sleep for so long?
