2. Anyone wishing to acquire or sustain a motor vehicle license should be required to pay a $500 annual fee for the privilege of said license.

2. This is a reminder that driving is a privilege, not a right.

You are flat out wrong.

Driving is a statutory RIGHT!

The liberals have beaten this "privilege" crap into your head and now you actually believe it!

The only time it was a privilege was when mommy and daddy had to sign for you to get the licence not after you turned 18.


The law is clear in all fifty states.

If you meet the driving statue you have an absolute RIGHT to drive.

It can only legally be revoked if your status of meeting the statue waves.

 

I know what you meant, but if I meet a driving statue I'm checking into rehab right away

 

However you lose sight that the offender has still committed an infraction, which allows the officer to issue the citation.


Hey Cops get a salary for enforcing laws lets call that a bribe.

 

A bribe is in addition to standard compensation. It is also compensation outside of authorized and proper channels. They get the salary regardless of how many tickets they issue (theoretically at least).

 

Why do you guys keep forgetting that a infraction is being committed which is what the ticket is being issued for?

 

It is no secret that some cops make things up. It's just that simple. This kind of behaviour encourages stretching the truth/circumstances to fit a ticket. It encourages full enforcement of the letter of the law without consideration of the intent of the law. It is, pure and simple, a money making exercise.

"To serve and protect" doesn't generally coincide with "use to make money". The two are at cross purposes, eventually. This kind of incentive only emphasizes that point.

 

Let me put it to you this way: would you consider it wrong to give a cop a $10 certificate NOT to give you a ticket?

If so, why? Because you're asking him to "break the law"? The law is interpretive - that's why we have the courts. An officer has the right to use personal judgement in how the law is enforced. Giving him an incentive that promotes only one side of the law (the letter) is asking him to alter or exclude the other side (his judgement), or vice versa.

It's baloney, plain and simple.

 

They aren't being given an incentive to give a ticket to a specific person.

Many departments keep track of the number of arrests each officers performs. In many cases this is used (in addition to testing) to help decide on promotions (which lead to pay increases)

Why don't you guys just admit that you don't like cops? You want to be able to break the laws that you don't like with impunity.

Next time you are getting mugged or your S2000 gets broken into call one of your fellow cop hating internet buddies. I'm sure they will rush over to help you

 

Not if they're writing stupid tickets to get a $10 coupon.

 

Let's give Dick's gift cards for catching Vandals and Thiefs of S2k, I bet that sounds ok now right? :TOOLS: