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Armsmaster2112 t1_j1wsg33 wrote

Short answer, cops here don't give out as many tickets and that skews the data.

Or at least that's the answer that's said every other time I see this pop up. Sounds reasonable to me though.

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Jawaka99 t1_j1x4u4w wrote

You pretty much need to be driving on the wrong side of the highway to get pulled over nowadays. Hell, the police can't even chase you if you steal a car.

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ophelias_tragedy t1_j1x9rsu wrote

I mean, I got pulled over on Rt 6 a couple months ago for going 10 over driving to class. The state police are the ones who pound down on tickets, I’ve never worried about my town police pulling me over unless I drive crazy

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AhbabaOooMaoMao t1_j1z3wb5 wrote

There was a time during the pandemic when the line at traffic court was null. That time is long over.

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AhbabaOooMaoMao t1_j1z3ssk wrote

May this be your last dumbest comment of 2022!

What does chase policy have to do with traffic enforcement?

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PG-Glasshouse t1_j1xk2oj wrote

There is zero risk of being pulled over if you are within 15 mph of the posted speed limit. If eighteen wheelers were no longer unofficially permitted to cruise at eighty it’d seriously fuck up an economy that has become accustomed to it.

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AhbabaOooMaoMao t1_j1z413n wrote

Got me wondering about the extent of this. Has anyone crunched data on this?

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volanger t1_j1xy6lo wrote

Pretty much. We find our police through taxes; other states find out through tickets, so they're inclined to give out more tickets, even for petty shit. Our cops aren't.

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effinx t1_j1z0j7g wrote

Brought you back to a 1 from 0, not sure why you were downvoted.

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lizardRD t1_j1xhxr0 wrote

Yes! I was just having this exact conversation with my cop brother in law on Christmas Eve. As someone else said you have to basically be driving on the wrong side of the road for the police to even do anything.

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Small_Conference5874 t1_j208lri wrote

I remember my dad specially teaching me that the left lane is fast lane, 10mph over speed limit minimum, i move to a different state and i suddenly get a ticket for doing 5mph over like wtf

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crankygeese t1_j24yoyp wrote

I never see state police on the highways anymore. One of the few times I did, someone was going 90, weaving in and out of traffic, went right past the cop and nothing. The cop didn’t pull them over.

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