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LAuraduv I really can't get mad at someone just doing their job. I'll leave aside the ridiculous amounts of things that states want to regulate about driving though.
I will say that a lot of our tickets today are a result of the war on drugs.
Drug offenses are the single largest block of crimes that are out there. Crime statistics are what give budgets for law enforcement.
Because of the War on Drugs huge increases in police personel have taken places as well as huge increases in salary for police officers. This usually means that there has been a large increase in police forces all across the nation.
Your basic front line police officer is ill-equipped for drug interdiction, the problem that gave him a job, however he is well equipped for traffic patrol. And in many municipilaties that is the vast majority of the duties that their police have, even though they have greatly augmented police forces for the so-called war on drugs.
So when you are driving through some small town and you see more police on the road than seems possible, you know where it comes from lol.
The justification, crack wars, the result, your speeding ticket.
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