Glenn_Richards's Blog

Quotas. Always been there but now they are higher.

Some towns here are always extra busy enhancing revenue. Altamonte Springs has a real racket going on. Anyone who has ever been to their traffic court can attest to that.

They don't need to issue more speeding tickets to make up for the lower property taxes - they can just add a $.10 tax to the gas prices and hit EVERYONE at the same time...

Candy - I would agree with you except that it usually seems like it's the guy who was doing 8 mph over the limit who's sitting pulled over on the side of the road - as the idiot(s) doing 20mph over the limit cruise on by.

I have a quota that I must meet every month..

I have to write at least 4 tickets or 4 warnings a month.. I still have my slightly used ticket book, but have gone through several warning books. ;o)

1-3 miles over? sorry you can fight that and win..

This last week, I've seen Longwood and Lake Mary PD on I-4,running radar.

mscsailor~
Have you done research? To those of us that know who's on I-4, working I-4. To those who post things like you just posted. Show the ones in the know just how ignorant some of the public can be.

Example: FHP- they work auto accidents on state highways & write tickets. Thats their job function.

Local city and county agencies have dedicated units that only work traffic details. those are the ones you see writing tickets and at auto accidents.

the rest of the onduty officers are answering calls or patrolling neighborhoods.

Now you've been educated. ;o)

mscsailor~ in your perfect world we would only be seen when you wanted us.. We wouldnt be stopping speeders, we wouldnt be allowed to stop at dunkin donuts for a cheap coffee and use the bathroom, we wouldnt be sitting in our cars at a gas station or in a hwy median typing a report while the car & our presence offers a deterrent.

In your book police officers are always wrong, we never do anything right.. So why should we exsist? what would you do in our shoes? Please tell us so that we could be educated.. :o)

My street is underposted at 25mph. The houses are set back 50', no congestion, no schools, no playgrounds, very little traffic. It should be 35-40mph. Rather than do some good and catch real speeders, the sheriff's dept. takes it easy. They sit on the side, and just walk into the street and flag people over. That is theft.

I really like when people call them "speedtraps". The majority of time the officers are standing out in the open on the side of the road, no trap there. If people would pay attention instead of talking on their cell phones, text messaging, reading books, newspapers, maps, putting make up on or whatever else they are doing instead of paying attention to the road and whats going on they wouldnt be "caught" not "trapped" like people prefer to say. I have an idea, as crazy as it sounds, TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT YOU DO AND DON"T BLAME EVERYBODY ELSE FOR WHAT YOU DO. That goes for everyday actions not just speeding down the road so totally absorbed in yourself that you speed, drive drunk or run others off the road because you had to comb your hair. And for you mscsailor, GROW UP, don't blame the Police or Deputies, blame the goons in our society that create all the crime that is out there and could care less about any other person on this earth.

No pegasuswing that is called getting a citation because you think you should be able to drive faster then the posted speed because the houses are set back 50', no congestion, no schools, no playgrounds, very little traffic. If you think it is underposted then try and get it raised, until then drive the posted speed limit and you wont have to worry about getting a ticket.

I drive I-4 frequently back and forth to Tampa. I drive 75 to keep from getting rear ended.The drivers going by me at 100 speed right past the troopers in the median and are not caught.By the way, I come home at shift change of the Tampa Police Dept and they are hauling butt and breaking the law so they can go home. NOT in persuit of anyone.

sabaii sez - "Tampa Police Dept and they are hauling butt and breaking the law"

Not just Tampa, but everywhere. We all see it. Cops speeding with no emergency. ow many time have you been passed by a cop (especially FHP!) on the 408 doing about 15 over for no reason. It is a symptom of the cop mentality.

I drive a black 06 mustang and I swear they pull me over just to pull me over!!! I am sooooo frustrated - I have had police officers actully follow me home and give me a ticket after I have stopped my car and gotten out to go into my home!! I had one officer going the opposite direction actually turn around and say it "looked like I was going too fast" - didn't give me a ticket but made me late for work - and No I was not speeding - I don't dare - I always set my cruise control in Volusia. I had another officer pull me over and refuse to show me the radar - I should at least be able to see what he said he clocked me at - I had just left a red light and there was no way I was going 45 mph - I do have a stang but it is a pony - not a GT. I just think that will all the other problems in Florida - someone going 5 miles over the limit should be left alone.

Really Quotas? I have a friend thats written one ticket in 20yrs. lol, so no theres no quotas some are more inclined to write more than others..

Most agencies dont run lights & sirens to calls, but need to get there quickly. Thus it gives the public something else to complain about..

Brokergirl~ You should have known, you bought a guy catcher car... lol

I remember one night we had a lady pullinto a gas staion in her 06 mustang. next thing she knew there where four cops drooling over her ride. they didnt care about the girl just the car and what better person to ask questions than the owner. ;o)

I was pulled over about 2 years ago for making an Illegal u-turn. I pulled up to the light and didn't see the sign. When the officer pulled me over hel pulled my record and saw that I hadn't had a ticket in more than 10 years. He said to me "wow dat es pretty good, Ju can no say dat no more" told me to sign here and have a nice day. What a pr1ck. So now I hate cope, especially rican ones.