Please Pay This Surcharge So We Can Afford To Write More Tickets
August 7th, 2008 Posted in Traffic Tickets
According to the New Jersey Courier Post, a New Jersey state legislator wants drivers to pay for increased police patrols:
Sen. Jeff Van Drew, D-Cape May, is proposing a $40 surcharge on all motor vehicle violations and using the money — estimated at $160 million — to help municipalities pay for police.
Half of the money would pay for the State Police Rural Patrol Program, which provides full-time and part-time police response to 89 small towns across New Jersey. The other half would be distributed proportionally among municipalities that have with full-time police departments.
New Jersey towns are so excited about the possibility of extra cash that they are “rallying”:
Representatives from some of the affected towns, and the New Jersey State League of Municipalities, will rally today in Buena Vista Township, Atlantic County, in support of Van Drew’s bill, S-1976.
And Van Drew wants that cash so bad he even has a backup plan:
As a backup plan, Van Drew said he intends to press the Governor’s Office and Treasury Department officials to let local governments keep the money paid on tickets and violations levied by the State Police in their rural towns. That money now goes to the state to help support the cost of the State Police.
If you read the article, you’ll notice that safety is not mentioned once. Not even in passing.
Their intentions are not disguised, they simply want more money from drivers.
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I have a model idea.
Give all the fine revenue to a charity that has no say in law enforcment.
Second, pay the departments bonuses based on how few accidents they have instead.
The profit making motivation of law enforcment is a cancer upon it that needs to be cut away.
How about this proposal in Illinois…?
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1095739,CST-NWS-blago07.article
Govenor Goblowawitch wants to use ticket money to fund other programs with speed cameras.
How about no illegal speed/red light cameras?
(and how about setting real speed limits)
You don’t do evil to do good.
(Big city crime can be almost eliminated by ending the war on drugs.
That takes the profit out, and the entire enterprise collapses.
and how about not having the city/state infringing on the public’s gun rights.)
These goose-steppers are out of control. It is high time past for the citizenry to remake government into the servant, and not the master, of the People…
I don’t understand the reason why the court is making profit by putting its citizens into “violation” stand in the court. Are there any other positive and more effective ways to generate budget?
Let me share my experience with you:
I got a traffic ticket, did dress well, then go to the Princeton Municipal Court in New Jersey, try to talk to the procecutor to enter a plea bargain. The procecutor was very tough to the professionals who dressed well, came from NYC or other towns, particularly the Asian Americans. The procecutor treated others e.g. white, blake, Indian, Hispanic Americans much better, let them go free or with reduced charges.
here recently(Sept.2008) a cop in Nj wrote me a ticket for being suspended. Although I presented my current driver license, which was an out of state driver license,he claims my Nj drivers license was suspended.Since I no longer have NJ dr..license I no-longer worry-about issues in NJ.Because I have valid out-of-state driver lic… Why would this cop stoop so-low and write a ticket? I do & will go before a municpal court judge soon. Orlando in NJ/9-21-08
I recently received a bill from the LDC Collections for NJ State Surcharges. I haven’t lived in the state for over 14 years. I called the number and was told that I had a ticket in 1994 and the $100 surcharge to that ticket is for 3 years, and I only paid one year because I no longer live there. I was told that it doesn’t matter where I live, I’m charged. Now, 14 years later that $200 is $1847.23 because of interest and collection charges and they are going to send it to the credit bureau. Oh, and the notice is titled SEcond Notice. Only 2 notices in 14 years? Is this legal? Can they hold me responsible for driving surcharges when I don’t even drive in their state?
I got ticket for speeding at NYC I live in NJ how many point speed nyc?