WARREN and CLINTON TOWNSHIP COPS are just awful for this kinda thing…They love to write these silly ass traffic tickets. There has to be a quota to fill or better yet, Im sure they have to write the tickets or lose their job because they are letting more and more of them go each month it seems like. So if writing tickets generates more income for the state they can afford to pay them. Logical. But it has to stop, and soon enough they will get their just deserves.

WARREN ESPECIALLY!!! *cough* *cough* Mr. Stratford

Police say, “[B]etween Jan. 16, 2008, and May 21, 2008, there have been no accidents reported. During that same time frame in 2007, there were four crashes reported.” Good. Let’s get rid of more signs.

And to all the cops who eagerly punish us for doing what they do, give me a break.”

What a joke. This site is very good at promoting things that mean nothing and try to make them into something.

Accident rates at one location during the winter months means very little. It is said that the accident rate went from 4 accidents down to 0 accidents for the same few week period in the winter season. It could mean as little as having an ice storm one winter and not the next. You have to be kidding if those kinds of statistics mean anthing.

1) what speed is “safe” is depends on the driver and the conditions. I know the State can ill tolerate individual differences among people, but the fact is some folks simply are capable of driving faster than others. Everybody is not a newly-minted 16-year-old driver or an 80-year-old great gramma, or a distracted soccer mom with four kids in the back of the van. Road conditions vary depending on weather, etc., and it’s best that each individual driver exercise the judgment to deal with those conditions as they arise. Not to slap on everybody unrealistic speed limits made more for 16-year-olds or 80-year-olds than for the majority of the population.

2) “Speed kills” only if you collide with something.

You’re not likely to collide with something when you’re on open road in good conditions — or even in heavy traffic, as long as it’s of uniform speed. If everyone’s going 80, you can’t hit each other.

You’re a lot more likely to collide with somebody driving more slowly.

It’s far safer to have at least one lane where everybody’s at high speed, than forcing faster drivers to weave through several lanes of vehicles all going a hodgepodge of speeds.

Every driver knows how cool it feels when traffic is flowing at the same speed. It’s almost a mystical oneness with the other vehicles.

Then you see it coming up ahead. One idiot is sitting in the fast lane doing 60 and another’s in the middle lane doing the same. They could easily be over in the right lane, but simply don’t have the consideration to do so. It spoils everything. Suddenly, you either have to slam on the brakes or do some fancy ducking and weaving — and *that’s* where accidents happen.

Smooth unimpeded traffic flow, at whatever speed, is not only safe but is the most logical and efficient way to use a roadway — rather than having a mile-long clump of traffic here, then a mile of open (i.e., wasted) road, then another clump and so on. Roads are often likened to arteries. When this sort of thing happens in your literal arteries, you’re gonna be treated to a “grabber” real quick.

The answer to this is bringing back — and enforcing — the concept of fast and slow lanes. My dad, who never had an accident in his life, taught me on my first long-distance trip at the age of 17. How hard would it be to have signage designating one (or more) lanes as 65 mph, and another as 75+? Or simply more of what we already have: “Slower Traffic Keep Right” and “Left Lane For Passing Only”?

Just as in any other sector of life, it’s foolish to tell people how fast they can or can’t move. Let the slow be slow. Let those who can, go faster. I have concluded that the national speed limit policy, whatever the pretexts under which it was instituted, is kept in place simply as a handy way to instill fear, self-limiting behavior and conformity to arbitrary dictates on the roadways and off. It is those of us who are more individualistic who *are* more likely to speed. So the law covertly targets individuals and free-thinkers and marks us for punishment. That’s why I recently suggested over on another blog that if people want to overthrow tyrannical government, they should start with disregarding ridiculous and petty laws — such as many traffic regulations — whenever the deem it possible and wise to do so.

The most recent occurrence a few months ago, I’m in my house watching TV when I notice the police chopper overhead and a bunch of flashing lights outside. Then the unmistakable sound of someone hopping the fence and tripping over my AC unit.

I called 911 to report that the person the police are chasing is in my yard. I offered to lock my dogs inside and let the officers into the yard.

The 911 dispatcher would have none of that; she asked me to go outside to get a description of the person!

I just let the dogs out and the guy hopped back over the fence.

Every 911 call should be answered to the best of the department’s ability. We are almost always required to answer them all. I understand some departments are busy, but a real and confirmed call MUST be answered.

I’ve seen this kind of attitude before in some agencies. Unless these people are weeded out they will continue to dilute the image of the majority of law enforcement.