"The SolitaireOne"

  People are getting upset now that the police are giving out 50  to 90 percent more moving violation tickets.   They don't like the fact that the police departments are trying to raise more revenue by spending more time enforcing speed limits etc.     But if a motorist is breaking the law does it matter what is motivating the police to do their job?   Stand on any busy street corner and see if you don't see a moving violation within 5 minutes.

Every time I get out on the road, I see people tail gate, cut each other off, not using signals, speeding through school zones, drive aggressively.  It's pretty much the same where ever I go. 

The only thing that seems to work faily well is the intersection cameras.  I noticed the number of people running red lights at the interesections with cameras has decreased.   And of course many of the ones who get caught on those cameras argue they are not wrong - again showing hard core violators are going to protest keep on violating the traffic laws.  In fact in one community the camera got a really great picture of a motorist making an obscene gesture at the camera while he ran the red light.  So I'm convinced the hard core traffic violators are not going to change their behaviour.   So, all in all, I don't think a traffic ticket quota is making much of a dent in the behaviour of most motorists.   But if everyone is really so outraged than there is a way to get back at the police departments-    "Dont break the traffic laws"     Of course if everyone would really do that the cities and counties would have to look for other ways to raise revenue - like raising your taxes.   But really the quotas are not going to stop the huge amount of hardcore traffic violators who will right after getting a ticket drive away and as soon as out of sight of the police push the pedal to the metal.