Traffic Tickets: Politicians & Double Standards
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 28 Comments »By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist It was a small incident but it revealed something interesting. Not just the hypocrisy of Those Who Rule Us when it comes to the issue of "speeding" -- and much else besides. But more deeply, we ...
Florida Highway Patrol Ticket Quota Exposed
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 49 Comments »A recent article in the St. Petersburg Times highlighted the story of a Florida Highway Patrol trooper who has accused the department of firing him because he didn't write enough tickets. The Highway Patrol predictably denied having a ticket quota. They said ...
Traffic Enforcement Dollars And Cents
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 12 Comments »By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Do you think it is ever a good idea to tie a money incentive to law enforcement of any kind? Not me. It is a guarantee of corruption and abuse. (See also: The War on Drugs.) Let's ...
How To Handle Yourself During A Traffic Stop
Thursday, June 18th, 2009 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 23 Comments »By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist It's more likely than it's probably ever been that you'll get pulled over by a cop at some point in the near future. Not only are there more penny-ante laws and violations on the books than ever, ...
Tennessee Tyranny: Fingerprinting During Routine Traffic Stops
Thursday, June 11th, 2009 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 19 Comments »By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Now they'll be fingerprinting us for jaywalking. Or "speeding." Just about any (formerly minor) traffic violation. Beginning in the once-fine state of Tennessee. Southerners, it appears, are becoming just as statist as the Yankee carpetbaggers they used ...
Where Does The Money From A Speeding Ticket Go?
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 13 Comments »By James Baxter, NMA President In this land where reality and fiction are indistinguishable there is a dead legal principle that says judges and courts should not personally benefit from the results of their rulings. Obviously, there is a conflict of ...
Traffic Tickets: A Tax Increase By Other Means
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 2 Comments »By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Governments all over the country are looking for creative ways to increase their cashflow -- without a formal tax raise. Instead of filching through everyone's pockets via a new sales tax or jacking up the real ...
Study Proves That Traffic Tickets Go Up In Weak Economy
Thursday, January 15th, 2009 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 2 Comments »Not that this will be a surprise to anyone who drives even a moderate amount, but check out this story on ScienceDaily.com: A new study to be published in next month's Journal of Law and Economics finds statistical evidence that local ...
How To Fight A Michigan Speeding Ticket
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 2 Comments »The Detroit News is in the middle of a series of articles on speed limits. This article, excerpted below, gives a good overview of how to fight a speeding ticket in Michigan: But motorists often lose their cases because they aren't ...
How To Objectively Identify Unsafe Drivers
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 46 Comments »By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist For years I have been arguing that the most objective -- and perhaps, definitive -- measure of a driver's ability to drive safely is whether he or she has been involved in an at-fault accident. Speeding tickets, ...
