I also go to school in Potsdam (clarkson). I got a ticket last year because I had a radar up. I was going south on 30 just after Tupper Lake. I had just passed a car that was doing like 50. I was going about 72-75 as I passed…I was just letting the speed ease off rather than hit the brakes. Immediately after I pass i come around the corner and theres one of NYS’s finest talking to a truck driver :Idiots…no radar on, no laser in hand. I pass him and I see him in my rear view running around the truck to his car.
So I go around a corner and about 1/4 mile up theres another statey with somone pulled over but this fucktard is standing in the middle of my lane. Yelling as I approach.:retardclap
The original cop comes up and starts giving me shit about my radar. Then proceeds to slap with a 86 and 55. Complete horshit, I never was going that fast and it just so happens that 31 over is 8 pts. If he had said maybe 85 then it would have been 6 pts.:shifty
I throw garbage(especially dipspit bottles) in the Tupper Lake trooper baracks parking lot EVERY time i go past :ninja Still pisses me off
Thats complete bullshit, it is completely illegal for any police department to set a mandatory requirement of tickets issued/points given, not to say this does not happen as I know a few cops who have told me certain police departments who shall remain nameless asks you to issue a certain ammount of tickets etcc… mainly bullshit politics and make the department look good like theyre do their job, but it its illegal to have a “required” ammount of tickets on the officers end and have their job security based on it
has nothing to do with tickets per say. they rather you get a warrant arrest than anything. it’s to weed out the “rogue cops” that just sit there for the paycheck compared to the pro-active ones that are looking to make a difference in the community.
it is also used for promotional status. the more points you get, the easier it would be to get a detective or sgt. spot with a higher arrest record compared to one who doesnt.
In other words when a cop has say a “review” they cannot base pay grade/job security etc based on points/tickets issued.
Needless to say at the same time if a cop obviously isnt handing out anything hes not doing his job and his job security may be in quiestion but they cannot base that on a requirement for the ammount of citations issued
do u guys think the number of tickets given out and how picky they are about stopping you or not depends on the financial situation of the state/town/county/city/village/police station in question?
