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 What
I've learned about speeding tickets & how this
can help you too!
Hello, my name is Stacie
I've been a resident of California most of life. A
few months ago, I received a speeding ticket
courtesy of a traffic police officer in Huntington
Beach, California. The citation was for exceeding
the posted speed limit by 6 miles an hour but more
on this later. She got me using traffic radar.
My Legal Disclaimer...
First off, let me state for the record that I am
not advocating speeding or breaking any traffic
laws. By obeying all traffic laws, you are
maximizing the safety for you, your passengers and
fellow motorists on the road. Make sense?
Okay, with that said, I was doing a few online
searches on Google, Yahoo & MSN, I quickly
realized that speeding tickets represents big
business and big bucks for local courts and
associated government agencies including city hall
and law enforcement. Heck, even the auto insurance
companies profit from speeding tickets too.
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Do most drivers
speed? Out of all the common traffic
citations issued such as running a red
light, unsafe lane change, tailgating or
blowing through a stop sign, it appears
that speeding or exceeding the posted
limit is the most common traffic
violation. And speed is what us Americans
do. It's estimated that more than 78% of
traffic citations issued are for speeding
each year.
Every second counts...
Here's another amazing statistic... since
you've been at this web site, more than 10
drivers have already been pulled over and
cited for a traffic ticket somewhere in
the U.S. That averages out to be a traffic
ticket issued every second of
every single day multiplied by 365
days a year.
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Do the math and you can see that it works out to
over 35 million traffic and speeding tickets
written to drivers each and every year. That's a
lot of violations, more importantly it represents a
huge amount of income for those who receive the
fines.
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Traffic Ticket &
Speeding Ticket Quotas
On the internet, there seems to be a lot of
discussion about traffic and speeding ticket
quotas. While they are considered illegal in most
states, police departments, sheriffs, state police
and other law enforcement agencies don't call them
"quotas," but they are part of the "Job
Performance" review process.
Allow me to elaborate... if you're a law
enforcement officer that doesn't ' issue many
traffic tickets, you are preventing the government
from generating revenue. Because local governments
desperately need the income, most police
departments include the number of ticket issued as
part of each officer's job evaluation or
performance review. Each police officer should be
able to write X-number of tickets; if they don't,
they may not be doing their job at an optimal
level. And of course, that is important to the
bottom line for state, county and local
governments.
Imagine one traffic officer issuing about 30% less
than other members of the traffic squad. Obviously
traffic enforcement needs to cover its costs or
expense of operating. The more traffic tickets or
speeding tickets issued, the increased income that
is generated --- regardless of traffic safety or
not.
Speeding Ticket Fines
It was only about 10 years ago when speeding ticket
fines were considered reasonable. The average fine
in 1994 was $65 but today it's about $120 ---
nearly doubled in less than 10 years. Most local
governments are seeking every viable method to
raise revenue. Some states such a California,
Michigan, Florida, Texas, Ohio, Illinois, New York
and New Jersey have been known for tripling their
fines through "various" revenue increasing
strategies such as penalty assessments which are
merely schemes to extort more money from
unsuspecting drivers. These "penality assessments"
go straight into the states bank account and is
really nothing more than a "road tax.".
California
is considered the greediest of all the states. In
addition to having to pay a fine for the speeding
ticket, the cash-hungry courts add "penalty
assessments" to each and every fine, which adds up
to a 120% add-on penalty and is tacked onto the
traffic ticket fine. For example, let's say you
receive a speeding ticket and the fine is $150,
once you add the court-imposed penalty
assessment, the amount now owed is a whopping
$330. That is no small amount. Oh but there's even
more...
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