City Traffic Tickets, a Pedestrian’s Perspective or Just Plain Ole Entrapment?
Recently published by Examiner.com, writer Tim Karo gives us an interesting take on a practice being used by the San Francisco police department to issue traffic tickets, but his narrative is eerily similar to that of a pedestrian’s:
We are all over the place and by the time you realize it, it’s too late "you're busted". I will give you a hint as to where you might find us, we are on Geary St, at the beginning of the avenues, sometimes we are further down the street going towards the ocean. Occasionally you can find us on Sunset Boulevard, going north on the other side of the bridge, underneath the elevated section of Sloat Boulevard. Have you figured out who we are, probably not as of yet.
There are days when I will be a pedestrian attempting to cross Lincoln Boulevard on multiple occasions wondering if you will see me, sometimes you do, most of the time you don’t. I will point you out to my friends who are waiting around the corner, then I will sit down on my stool, and try to cross once again, meanwhile my friends will have pulled you over and you will be trying to explain to them why you didn’t stop, when I was in the crosswalk.
I’m the San Francisco police department and my members are in small teams all over the community, in this case we are in the Sunset and the Golden Gate Park areas writing tickets, we hide behind cars or other obstacles preventing you from seeing us until it’s too late.
His narrative brings up a topic worth mentioning. Are the California Police Departments simply trying to get drivers to slow down and be more conscientious while driving, especially when it comes to pedestrians? Are they motivated to ‘show’ drivers how vulnerable pedestrians are in busy cities? In these tough times of cutting budgets and declining revenues, it sure makes one wonder. To have a police officer step off a curb, from a location that they know is highly subject to visibility and then cite the driver, sounds a bit like entrapment don’t you think?
Of course all police, from San Diego to Butte County will publicly deny any type of department “quota” or revenue-generating program, if you have police in the Bay area intentionally creating a circumstance to potentially cause harm to the ‘so-called’ pedestrian and the driver, it really makes you wonder if the practice is propagated by a quota system. Incidentally, quotas and similar revenue-generating programs are forbidden according to California Vehicle Code.
You be the judge. If you have a position on this subject regarding traffic tickets, please feel free to contact us at Fightspeedingticketsonline.com, a service provided by TicketBust.com or at 800.850.8038.
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