Should our police stop being traffic wardens and actually do there jobs?

trooper3316

When a crime is reported to me, I investigate it. In the meantime, i keep the roads safe.

If you think you don't feel safe on the streets now, how do you think it would be without traffic enforcement? You would be taking your life into your hands just crossing the street.

By the way, several serial killers were captured as a result of a routine traffic stop including John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy. That is how must drugs are taken off the streets, also.

Knownow't

Has it ever occurred to you that criminals travel by cars, or do you think they walk everywhere....do you think that when they are leaving a burglary they go at 28 mph in a 30 limit, do you think that they always use their own cars or stolen ones, do you think that criminals always tax and insure their cars...having answered no to most of those you may see why Police stop cars committing offences it often leads to bigger things......but of course you wouldn't think of that.

mike w

How do you know that "all they want to do is stop cars for speeding and minor motor offences....."? Are you a Policeman? Do you know Policemen who tell you these things? I think not, and the only people that will agree with such an idiotic question are idiots themselves.

demos_jones

Far as I know, there is homicide division to do the job of investigating murders and stuff, there is robbery division to handle the robberies, there is narcotics division to handle the illegal drug, there is fraud, missing persons, and oh yeah, TRAFFIC division... So it sounds like all of them are doing their jobs. Now, in some small towns, they don't have as many divisions, so fewer peope have to do more jobs. But it's still the job, no matter how you feel about it.

Now, if you don't feel safe on the street, that's a personal bias issue with you since I've been on the streets in most major U.S. cities. Most attackers don't bother people who are alert, confident, and prepared. They prefer easy targets like those stupid enough to walk down nothing but dark alleys with $20 bills hanging out of their pockets (thank you, Bill Cosby). Now, the mugger hangs out in dark alleys. Why? Because he's nervous. He doesn't want trouble; he just wants your money. Here you come, walking down that dark alley. Why? Because you're stupid.

There ARE areas where I'm nervous to walk, but I can guarantee you that it's not YOUR neighborhood. Your fear has to do more with hype than experience, and so does your opinion of cops.

joan k

They are doing their jobs by catching people committing motoring offences. I wouldn't like to be injured by a driver who has no insurance, or is driving without a licence, or is banned from driving, so good on the Police for stamping out these offences.

StephenWeinstein

They are doing their job, which is to enforce the laws, all the laws, not just the ones that you obey.

SGT. D

Most large Police departments have a Traffic Division. What you describe above is their primary responsibility and I see they must be doing their job, since one must have gotten you.

Ian UK

Part of a Police Officers role is to enforce road traffic LAWS.

That's LAWS, you know, the things we are paid to enforce whilst we are out looking for 'REAL' criminals.

POST 1036 RCPD

No. Because a speeding car can kill other dirvers on the treets and in many cities there is a big problem with street racing and such problems like that. Its a big thing know a days

xoxoxox

just think if one of your family members was killed in a road traffic accident because of a speeding driver, and then afterwards someone turned round to you and said " stop worrying about speeding and minor traffic offences look after our streets"

would you be mad?
very

the police is here to care for everyone and no accident on the road is minor because an offence is an offence!

rhsaunders

Part of the public safety job is to keep the roads safe.

woznotwoz

Our jails are overcrowded, so much so that the Government are releasing prisoners early....
Only a tiny fraction will be there for driving offences......This goes to show you are totally wrong!!
Police aren't concentrating on driving offences in preference to anything else.

Republicans: politically spent

Traffic offenses is part of the job. Speeding can cause accidents Sure there are other crimes.... But they They do what they can

carswoody

What criminals are you talking about?....point them out and we will deal with them. Are you suggesting that traffic laws need to be forgotten about?
I dont suffer fools, so im not going to bother with a reasonable explanation, you wouldnt listen...would you?

flattley

They are doing their jobs. If you don't commit traffic offences you have nothing to worry about.
I would rather they locked up all the racist thugs there are but that's life

The truth

If ignorance was painful, you would be begging for morphine right now.

frankturk50

It is not a traffic wardens job you are describing.Minor traffic offences?are what kills more people than violent criminals defective car parts and speeding causes accidents which kill.I worry more about a car travelling towards me with defective brakes and steering than the rare occasion that I may be attacked.

Bear

I'm sorry but your question is rather shallow.

As a police officer I am obliged to deal with a whole host of crimes and offences.

Obviously murders and other serious crimes are less than the more minor offences. Therefore common sense dictates that I will deal with much more minor offences than serious ones.

The law is there to protect people and to be upheld. God help you if one of your family should be killed by someone committing a minor traffic offence!!!!

DEBORAH S

i thought traffic cops were a different department to normal crime...i think they all have their set job to do and at the end of the day some of the even minor traffic offences can cost lives and if people got away with the little things then they would be likely to just do more and more...i know its a pain in the butt when you get pulled, but its just part of life
i dont know if it was true or not but a mate of mines brother was a traffic cop and he reckons they play snooker when deciding who to pull. they set out to get the selected colours and there are different ones they go after all the time they when back at the station the one who pulls the most selected colour wins

Mr Abba

Well its their job to enforce all the laws. If you dont feel safe on your street why dont you let your local police station know, they might want to help you.

studboi

i totally 100% agree with you, its like they cater to road violations more than real crime itself its ridiculous, and all this crap about finding real criminals in cars is the result of pulling them over for going 5 miles over the speed limit or on there tags is out, or no insurance, its when they pull the criminal over when they find out there criminals, that is a good thing but at the same time every person speeding isnt a crook, and i dont feel safe either to me cops are scary and instead of protecting us from the bad guys, they like to choose the easy route and be meter maids, like the chicken s*&t they are

robert c

I agree!

Brandon J

I agree that they should certainly pull over reckless drivers and suspicious looking vehicles, but pulling people over and writing them a ticket for just going about 5 miles over the speed limit when they are just trying to get to work on time or is just old ladies coming home from the grocery store or getting them for small cracks in their windshield (like what happened to me the other day with a cop that wasn't even pulled over watching for traffic violators)is just a waste of time and taxpayer money when there are murderers, rapists, thieves, drug-dealers, illegal aliens and the sort out there for them to be worried about catching. I work in a retail store and I cannot tell you how many times cops are called over for thieves and they just make them put the stuff they tried to steal back and let them on their way, while an honest citizen like me is stuck with a $130.00 ticket for a little, cracked windshield from these same cops.

MICHAEL B

Its not the police officer who is at fault, its the police force and its policies in which the officers have to work, minor traffic offences such doing 5 miles an hour over the speed limit on an empty road are used for nothing more than revenue gathering, a form of tax, real crime gives no reward for the government and therefore gets less attention, also the tick in the box system the police are happy with, easy targets still get a tick in the box, in reality we are more likely to get a larger fine if we are average working people, than say we are state scrounging scum bags with no regard for the law or the people around them, sad but true.

rommel

judging by their performance i would say keep them as traffic wardens (its about all they are worth) and get in a decent police force to do the job.

Tony C

I agree with you completely.

charliedontsurf

Traffic violations are the way police may legally violate your civil rights and conduct warrantless searches and investigations.

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