Comments on: Time for a Ticket https://windypundit.com/2006/02/time_for_a_ticket/ Classical liberalism, criminal laws, the war on drugs, economics, free speech, technology, photography, sex work, cats, and whatever else comes to mind. Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:38:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: T F Stern https://windypundit.com/2006/02/time_for_a_ticket/#comment-317 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:38:32 +0000 http://www.windypundit.com/?p=340#comment-317 Having served 20 years as a uniformed cop I find it slightly amusing that some folks think this way. I wrote tickets, quite a few. If I made a mistake I would call the person at home and tell them to send me their copy so I could void it out, show up in court where I would explain the error and have it dismissed. I once had a watch with a button on the side that changed the date in the window. Somehow it got pushed in between the first ticket I wrote a guy and the second ticket I wrote. I never noticed it until later that day when I was filling out my work card. I thought it odd that two differnt dates showed up in one day. It was a minor point of law but I called the guy at home and we both had a good laugh.

I’m not saying that some cops might stretch the truth, be poor observers or any number of reasons for going to court; however, it has been my experience that most cops go the extra mile in doing what is right. Some have a very small window of “grace”, such as “rolling stops” at stop signs, just a few miles over the posted speed limit radar tickets and other chicken shit tickets that get written. All that being said, I would hope my point gets across that a huge majority of the tickets written are justified and the idea that it would be considered even slightly that cops lie to make their work card look better is not only improbable; it’s insulting.

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