PO'd at police

[Big Bri]

My wife got a ticket about a 2 months ago, 48 in a 35. She wrote a letter to the DA and said that she knows she was speeding, and there was no excuse for it, but ask if they would turn it into a non moving violation to keep our insurance from going up. She got a letter back from the DA saying that because of her driving record (no tickets for at least 7 years) he was going to give her a pass. . . no fines at all:thumbsup:

i too don't where my seat belt all the time, mostly in town. I have gotten numerous seat belt tickets and have paid them all, wife says i should just put the belt on but i feel its my "right" not to ware it. Any way i too got a no insurance ticket on one of those stops, because i didn't have the new card in my truck. I just went home, got the new card and drive to the DA office and showed him the card and handed him the ticket, he revoked the ticket on the spot.

Good luck

 

[deepNdirt]

The cop was probably one of those typical type that always got picked on when they were a kid...They become cops to get back at society...

don't forget the part where they like wearing their Bullet proof vest because it makes them look Buff :thumbsup:

 

[Pops15]

I have been in this argument many times. Seat belt laws are there to protect society of the burden of paying for a persons bad decision, correct? My response then is, what about unprotected sex? The result of this poor decision can be sexually transmitted disease and unwanted pregnancy. Both of these outcomes cost society way more than people being injured in motor vehicle accidents not wearing seatbelts!!!!!

If we are going to have "protect society from the burden" laws should we have mandatory condom laws? Really, I am serious. Each time I say this no one has a response.

The seat belt law has NOTHING to do with protecting society from dumbies. It has EVERYTHING to do with "probable cause" and revenue!!!!

By the way I feel wearing a seat belt is the safe thing to do. How many TBNers wear the seatbelt while on their tractors? That is also the safe thing to do.

I have a response. VERY GOOD POST!!!!!!:thumbsup:

 

[tallyho8]

don't forget the part where they like wearing their Bullet proof vest because it makes them look Buff :thumbsup:

I have to disagree with this statement. We have a very fine deputy who might be dead now if he hadn't been wearing his vest while arresting a train robber who killed the conductor.

Yes, they do still have train robberies in New Orleans.

Suspect in murder of CSX train conductor arrested in shooting of JPSO deputy | NOLA.com

 

[deepNdirt]

I have to disagree with this statement. We have a very fine deputy who might be dead now if he hadn't been wearing his vest while arresting a train robber who killed the conductor.

Yes, they do still have train robberies in New Orleans.

Suspect in murder of CSX train conductor arrested in shooting of JPSO deputy | NOLA.com

OK...your right! I retract and re-word this coment......
I should have said to make them feel Bulletproof.

 

[Hooked_on_HP]

Wouldn't it have been easier for the cop to write me a warning ticket for the insurance card and if I didn't have it the next day then issue me a citation? This is a small town with a population of 5000. I work 1 block from the police station and go buy it every morning for the last 23yrs. The old saying was" to protect and serve". the new slogan should say TO GENERATE REVENUE
Bill

 

[Artimus]

Man, brutal responses.

While I agree that you were in the wrong, he could've let the insurance thing slide. I have shown cops my insurance card before that was expired and they let it go. It seems like everytime I turn around I have a new insurance card in the mail. I know I don't always have the current one.

In this day and age I don't see why your proof of insurance is not verified online by the cop in the car.

A good amount of people who claim to have insurance but no proof do not. If the officer would have let him go and he had a wreck down the road and no insurance, it would have been his butt. We all want law enforcement to do their job and ticket the other guy but not us. What if someonee the cops let go for no insurance then hit you? What would you say about his lenienncy then? If he has insurance the case will be dropped. If he doesn't then he is finded as he should be, no harm no foul.

 

[brin]

Just a couple of comments...First the Cop needed to write some tickets and he did and they were numbers..he was making his numbers. They were not good tickets....you showed him your previous insurance card and explained , he could have and should have given you a warning and a pass and cautioned you to wear your seat belt and you would have appreciated it and been on your way., Instead he got his numbers for the day ( Police slang ) and cost you a day of work and some money for the seat belt fine.

Next...before seat belts were required, I had a fried who wrapped his oldsmobile around a phone pole and it was on the drivers side..If he had been wearing a seat belt he would have been held in place and crushed. Seat belts should be optional..the government intrudes into too much of our lives. I'm done now.

 

[two_bit_score]

Starting 1 July 2010, in Virginia it will be taxation by cops. What were once minor traffic violations will now be wreckless driving with huge increases in court cost and fines.

mark

Our government seeks to pick our pockets in any way possible. Trumping up traffic fines is one of their favorite ways to do so. Everyone can find some validity or societial benefit from almost any law on the books. The question we have to ask is 'is it really necessary?'.

Motorcyclists and bicyclists don't have seat belts to worry about. Like I said I wear the seat belt but recognize that the government telling me to is just so that they can pick my pocket if I don't. This also makes me distrust the government quite a bit on other things.

I'd a whole lot rather the cops be out trying to solve some real crimes than harrassing people about seat belts.

 

[brin]

A good amount of people who claim to have insurance but no proof do not. If the officer would have let him go and he had a wreck down the road and no insurance, it would have been his butt. We all want law enforcement to do their job and ticket the other guy but not us. What if someonee the cops let go for no insurance then hit you? What would you say about his lenienncy then? If he has insurance the case will be dropped. If he doesn't then he is finded as he should be, no harm no foul.

The Cop still allowed him to drive away...How about that..so if he indeed did not have insurance, nothing was accomplished that a warning would not have done. If the Cop really wanted to enforce the law and protect the public he would have either called to verify or followed the OP home so he could show his proof of insurance but this cop wanted to write a ticket and he did.