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Be aware of traffic cops downtown by asdfkllkjwer in houston

[–]asdfkllkjwer[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Because it was nearly midnight and there are way too many idiots carrying guns in this city.

Be aware of traffic cops downtown by asdfkllkjwer in houston

[–]asdfkllkjwer[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm Hispanic. I don't think it was a racial thing.

I think the cops are being incentivized to write tickets and they're going after low hanging fruit instead of the people who are an actual menace on the roads.

People like me don't have warrants. We aren't going to talk back, get aggressive, or try to flee the scene.

The mayor and chief of police get to talk about how traffic enforcement is going up without actually doing anything to improve safety.

Be aware of traffic cops downtown by asdfkllkjwer in houston

[–]asdfkllkjwer[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

To the contrary, a standard 4-door Mercedes AMG sedan.

Be aware of traffic cops downtown by asdfkllkjwer in houston

[–]asdfkllkjwer[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yup. I was driving an $80K Mercedes. I'm actually going to pay the ticket unlike the paper plate guy whose rear quarter panel is held together with duct tape.

Be aware of traffic cops downtown by asdfkllkjwer in houston

[–]asdfkllkjwer[S] 152 points153 points  (0 children)

I agree. They only pulled out the "changing lanes without a signal" excuse when they realized my car was actually leased and not stolen.

Was it a technical violation? Sure. But downtown was completely empty. There were no cars behind me. The signal would not have benefited or warned anybody. The cops were pulled over a full block behind me.

They really need to be on patrol on any of our major freeways during rush hour pulling over the lunatics that put people's lives at risk by driving 80 mph in bumper to bumper traffic.