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Originally Posted by christianchevell
You could take pictures of the area that he gives on the ticket and show the posted speed , and where you were pulled over and where the officer came off the side street and measure the distance and try to prove he did not pace you, though he was stalking you as he had been keeping a eye on your Camaro. The thing is here in Oregon you can only get a fine reduced 25% as they love to make revenue, so going to court is worthless and costs you money compared to going to work, ( a person could get 50% or more off before this obamacare nightmare/ recession happened and they tightened thier belts). The thing is you will loose, they are weighed heavily in favor of the police and the judge knows you are fighting it costing the tax payers money to make the cop show up in court, and the best chance you have is if their is a mistake such as time date or location on the citation etc......... Then it gets thrown out. Standing on your principles matters nothing or your reputation, your just one of many and a supposed opportunity to stand before a non prejudiced judge is a joke. Take it from a guy who works in corrections, and has been caught in speeding traps etc..... Police are looking for revenue, they will stalk you in unmarked cars damn near harassing you to get a ticket, they will hide behind bushes waiting at traffic problems waiting for cars to try to go around it by using the turning lane while they ignore the problem, they will hide at the bottom of a hill knowing that people have one chance to pass a slow moving vehicle when they leave a town or be stuck behind it for ten miles...... These are what have happened to me a long time government employee, disabled army vet .......... I can not get out of a ticket and sure as hell lawyers are nothing but a waste of money. Last ticket I got.... A scale ticket......up in Washington they have scales underneath the road and calculate how fast you were going over a section of road and take a picture of the back of your car....never even knowing you were in a speed trap. Pay it, save yourself the hassle, that's what they count on.....Life is not fair.
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I'm getting very tired of hearing this from uninformed people. Police are not "looking for revenue." Police are doing their jobs in an effort to keep the roads safe. A carpenter does not cut a board because it makes his employer rich, he does it because it is what is expected of him. Officers are simply trying to fulfill their job expectations so they can continue their employment and keep putting food on their own table. Most municipalities do not receive much, if any, revenue from citations, and not nearly enough to pay the salary of the Officer who issued the citation. We do not work to generate revenue for our cities/counties/states.
I'm sorry that you feel that being a long time government employee, disabled army vet means that you don't have to obey the laws. I am very grateful for your service to this country, but it does not get you out of the responsibility of following the speed limits, obeying lane restrictions or any other laws in general. I have found that when it comes to traffic citations, life is often very fair. I have tagged rich and poor, intelligent and, well, not very intelligent. The easiest way to avoid a traffic citation is to drive within the laws...