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Small town cops really do suck (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 23 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Small towns want every scrap of income they can get and tickets are part of it. There’s also a motivated synergy there between cop and a small town with no other crime really happening because it justifies the small town even having a cop on payroll.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Yup, they deliberately setup drops in speed limits for the sole purpose of catching out of towners

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    God I started a new long distance deive for work recently and its half on a rural highway. Like 10 tiny towns over arpund 60 miles.

    Every one...

    Outside speed limit is 55 mph

    Hit town, 45 mph

    30 feet later, 35 mph

    2 blocks in the middle, 30 mph

    Back to 35 mph

    35 mph feels like it lasts riiiiiight up to the edge of the town.

    And half the time the first drop going in and the 55mph sign going out are obscured by overgrown trees.

    Its just designed to catch people traveling the corridor.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Are there any actual dwellings around the road? If so, those speed limits are quite reasonable or even on the high end. In Europe it is 50 km/h (30 mph) if there are houses around a road, and 30 km/h (18 mph) for actual town streets. The streets are also specifically designed to be narrower and there are a lot of traffic calming measures to make drivers naturally want to drive the speed limit. This way it is safe & pleasant for townsfolk to cross the street, the town doesn't end up split in two by the highway, and if you're a sane driver you won't get fined even if you accidentally miss a speed limit sign.

    Perhaps the best solution is to make the highways go around towns completely to avoid all of this. (and then we can also work towards banning cars in populated areas)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    That gradual reduction in speed is typical for roads passing through rural towns in the US. There is often a 25mph for the town center too (or at least the most dense portion of the road as it passes through the town). These are typically rural roads, not the main highways/interstates that do this. They are usually low traffic roads where building a bypass would not be economical.

    Motorists don't like them because they have to slow down for a few minutes. Which is the greatest evil imaginable. The only reason for a lower speed limit is to scam the motorist. The ~8000 pedestrians and bicyclists that are killed each year on the roads is a small price to pay for being able to go fast through someone's neighborhood.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago*

    I'm the asshole who will drive 4 hours just to make the cop show up to court over it.

    My state doesn't have absolute speed limits, so if you can show that the speed was safe for the road conditions, you can get off.

    Or just get a paralegal to file discovery paperwork. It usually costs the city more to do that than the ticket is worth, so they'll drop it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Tickets don't go to taxes..? Just directly to the local police?

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