Like almost everyone else – and every cop – I “speed.” That is, I often drive faster than whatever the posted speed limit is. I do so not primarily because I am in a hurry; that is a gas-lighting term used, ironically, by the cops who are often in a hurry to catch up to you, in order to hand you a ticket for “speeding.”
This is an irony lost on most cops.
I “speed” because it’s safer. Because it’s safer to be alert and involved in the act of driving a car.
It is hard to stay awake when you drive the speed limit. It is typically set deliberately low in order to create “speeders” out of just about everyone. Including, of course, the cops who do not have to worry much about getting tickets for “speeding.”
The fact is undeniable. It is why almost no one feels guilty when they are issued a ticket for “speeding.” Everyone knows it’s highway robbery. They may pretend to be sorry for “speeding” – in the hope that maybe the cop won’t hand them a ticket. But behind our roadside mea culpas lies contempt. We know (and they know) we did nothing wrong – morally speaking. Which is why we feel no guilt about our “speeding.” Indeed, we feel affronted – because we know a wrong has just been visited . . . upon us.
This business of mulcting “speeders” for doing nothing wrong has greatly corrupted the relationship between the citizenry and the people who – once upon a time – took an oath to serve and protect.
Remember that one?
It’s one you don’t hear much anymore. Like it’s a free country – and for more or less the same reasons.
Most citizens rightly fear cops – because cops are out to get them. They sit lurking the by the side of the road, doing their best to make sure you don’t see them. This tells you all you need to know about “speeding.” If what was wanted was for people to slow down, then cops would make a point of being easy to see. Because people would slow down. But slowed-down drivers don’t meet quotas. They don’t generate “revenue.” And that’s why cops spend so much time trying to hide from their soon-to-be-victims, in order to improve the odds a “speeder” will not see them. And then they “speed” – often much more so – to catch up to and “ticket” the “speeder.”
Does it occur to anyone to ask why it is “safe” for cops to “speed”?
If the answer is they are trained to drive faster than the speed limit, safely – then why does it not fly (in court) when a non-cop “speeder” presents proof – such a certificate from a high-performance driving school or maybe an SCCA road racing license – that they have also been “trained” to drive safely at high speeds?
We all know why.
Back to the why of “speeding,” which means: To drive faster than however fast the government says you’re allowed to drive.
Yes, it’s faster – and that’s not an unreasonable reason for doing it. Time is irreplaceable. How much time is spent – never to be recovered – driving the speed limit every day, every week, for years on end. It adds up to days – if not weeks. How much time on the road vs. at home are you willing – wanting – to spend? Why should you have to spend it?
Why, because it’s safer!
That is the usual ululation.
The logic of it is silly and that is easily demonstrated. If it is “safer” to drive 55 than 65 then – logically – it is even safer to drive 45. Why not 35? Why not walk? That would be safest of all.
Speed limits – in theory – are supposed to strike a balance between absurdity and insanity. To prevent – or at least, make it an actionable offense – to drive 100 MPH through a residential neighborhood, for instance.
But how are speed limits determined?
Chiefly, by setting them according to a least common denominator standard that – per above – turns pretty much every driver into a “speeder.”
Still, it is safer to “speed” than to mindlessly adhere to the typically dumbed-down, under-posted speed limit. For one, because you’ll be driving considerably below the speed of the “speeding” traffic around you. Such speed variance is acknowledged to be unsafe – even though it is rarely the basis for ticketing. But just about everyone knows that it is safer to keep pace with the flow of traffic – which is almost always “speeding.”
It is also safer to “speed” – that is, to drive at a speed that comports with one’s abilities as well as the road and conditions – than it is to drive at a speed well below one’s abilities that is also so slow that driving becomes boring – which leads to inattentive driving. When you’re in the game, so to speak, you are a participant rather than a passive spectator. It is the difference between watching the game on TeeVeee (and falling asleep on the sofa) and playing the game.
But we’re supposed to pretend it’s “safer” to just sit there – and pretend to be driving.
Try not to fall asleep.
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Speed limit signs are good for when you are in a new area and you’re not sure how fast to drive around a dangerous corner — so it’s a good gauge of what a safe speed is. That’s the only thing they’re good for.
I don’t like the speed limit laws because I have to constantly watch my speedometer instead of watching the road — so those laws are actually dangerous. A HUD would help me but I have an analog speedo so it takes a split second to read it. I’m really sick of reading it all the time, I’d much rather watch the road. If I didn’t have to worry about getting a speeding ticket then I might go 5 or 10mph over once in a while but that would actually be safer. And I’m sick of the stress of constantly worrying about getting a ticket — it really takes the joy out of driving and enjoying the scenery. Ppl should only get a ticket for wreckless driving or ~25mph over the speed limit sign. This speed law has annoyed everyone for decades — it’s long overdue for we people make the laws instead of some random unknown unelected minions whose only job is to implement agenda 21.
Hi Harry!
I remember getting my first “speeding:” ticket as a teenager. I remember thinking: Why am I being treated like a criminal? An armed cop has me by the side of the road. Why? Have I hurt someone? No! I drove faster than the government said I may. Step on a crack break your momma’s back! I realized then it was just an excuse to fleece drivers and also to make it clear we’re not “free.” I realize that part a little later on.
Some bone marrow ignorant folks, in my part of
Florida, seem to believe they are the police auxiliary.
Regularly, drivers flash their lights as I blow by them.
It’s obvious to me that’s as far as their government
school brains have developed for intelligent
thought (speeders!). Or maybe they’re just retirees
from northeast states/cities. 🙂
In my neck of the woods, Libertyx, I will flash my headlights if there is a state trooper I just passed, just to give the oncoming driver a heads-up. Did that once on a back road with a semi, and he waved as I passed him, as he understood. But also, such is done to warn drivers that there is a moose on the road up ahead, which can also be quite helpful. The last time I did so, it was to warn speeding traffic (back road) of an accident that I had passed, that they were fast-approaching. I generally do not use my horn, though, and it is not a regular occurrence.
Agree Shadow – I always flash my lights for warnings – haven’t seen it done here in
retiree land.
Freakin Yankees.
Use a horn here in WA you’re likely to get shot since you just “diss’d” our new neighbors from south of the border. Sanctuary state and all.
Makes it a bit easier to scofflaw since the cops pretty much quit traffic duties. Too many complaints and lawsuits from the gimmiegrants action groups.
Life in modern America:
https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/drive-by-shooting-collision-leave-three-dead-in-yakima/article_cb96a9b8-3846-11ed-abef-273a686c77fe.html
Ain’t diversity grand!?
PS: This s**t goes on all the time around here. The gun play and also wrong way freeway travel a common event.
Good info re WA: USA, USA…
Eric, the real reason you speed is because you are a bachelor full of testosterone with a sports car, LOLROFL. Don’t try to kid us with some intellectual argument. You need the Barbie twins.
Sammy Hagar – I Can’t Drive 55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvV3nn_de2k
Back in the early 1980s I had a soft top Corvette and used to do donuts and speed as an expression of my inner needs for pussy. I can remember on the Will Rogers turnpike in Oklahoma. I was cruising at 100 mph with the headlights off under the full moon – a sheriff started chasing me so I floored it and left him in the dust.
I remember getting plenty of pussy bitd and still driving waaaay faster than posted limits.
Still exceeding every speed limit nowadays with probably 1/5 the testosterone level I had back then! Much more prudent now though in populated areas after witnessing many terrible accidents over the decades.
Speed limits shoud be set at the 85th percentile, is an argument few can deny. If 85 percent of drivers use a highway at 65 instead of 55, then the speed limit should be set at 65.
They are scoff laws to begin with. At least when you drive in packs, the cop can’t redily pick and choose who to pull over. I drive the speed limit sometimes because that’s what my ride is comfortable with, but I make no bones about the speed of other drivers.
The same goes for the full-stop at stop signs. Scoff laws. A free society call’s em as they see fit.
If 10% of drivers fought their ticket, the whole corrupt enforcement-for-profit system would collapse.
Doubtful. It would take no more than increasing “Court Costs” to the market-clearing price. Too many people fighting the ticket? Increase Court Costs that are added on when (not if) you lose.
If you had the choice of mailing in a $20 ticket or spending a full day around a bunch of losers and thugs, some of whom haven’t showered in the last month, and the magistrate just says, “Guilty, $20 plus $2,000 Court Costs”, how many times are YOU fighting it?
Solid point, Steve –
“Court costs” are obviously meant to be punitive. What the F are we paying taxes for – if not to pay for courts? No one ought to have to pay “court costs.” Including those adjudicated guilty.
Re: Safer.
Did an experiment not long ago. My wife and I had to ‘run the gauntlet’, for about 25 miles on a busy interstate on a Yamaha FJR1300. I was more concerned about her reaction than mine.
So we did one way at the speed limit or just over in the right lane……….. brutal, lots of big trucks, etc..
Then, on the way back I stayed above the speed flow, mostly in the left and center lane.
Which was was better to her?
She said, hands down the faster way. She felt like I was more in control of our surroundings. Yup
I had a coworker once who said he got out of a speeding ticket by explaining to the cop the complex psychological reasons why it’s built into human nature to want to go fast. LOL
Parasites plain and simple.
One day, the tide will turn and the cowards will abandon their posts just like they did after hurricane Katrina. They will pretend that they never were cops in order to save their own hides.
Its not just the thrill of the thing. Probably, more a yearning, a desire to break free from the surly bonds of this mundane existence that makes me speed. As a GenXer it has a lot to do with my restless spirit. Like a caged bird trapped in a world thats way too small. Speeding gives a temporary sense of liberation. What waits around the next corner? What strange new wonders will an unknown road reveal? Its the freedom we were brought up with thats at fault. Shouldn’t be a crime. Its our parents fault for the way we were raised.
Beautifully worded, Norman. I try to avoid highways when I can. I love a good backroad and I don’t always need to speed, but there is an exhilaration of seeing acres and acres of farmland, sunny skies, and no one around. Add Danger Zone or Highway to Hell to the playlist and I am usually 30+ mph over in no time. 🙂 I don’t blame my parents, but Maverick. Watching him race his motorcycle against an F-14 at the beginning of the movie …it takes me to a happy place.
Aaah yes, Raider Girl, and another good song to speed at is Led Zeppelin’s “Rock & Roll”. Before I know it, I, too, am going 30 over the speed limit.
A very good list RG. Id add Rush, because, Moving Pictures. I do blame my parents, but in a good way. If they had paid more attention, I’d probably have been a brainwashed cubicle worker, and not the person I am today, so, thanks mom and dad.
I just plug my I-pod into my JVC after market stereo. Fire up the T-Bird and we’re off. Select rando playlist, from the unconnected device, as I prepare to commit my weekly crime. Not sure if the scenic nature of the drive reflects back on the mood of the music, or the music just makes me drive faster, but with 2 thousand songs on the I-pod they usually sync up nicely. Still only a handful that come close to Rush.
Well weathered leather, hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome, the blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware.
‘Its our parents fault for the way we were raised.’ — Norman Franklin
Those were fighting words during the War Between the Generations — guaranteed to berserk the Establishment.
Eric’s title Why I “Speed” … is doubly provocative, both for its defiant sentiment and its mocking punctuation.
Makes me want to pen a sarcastic riposte, Why I Sniff “Glue” … When I’m Not Busy Shoplifting and Stealing Cars
A while ago, a Michigan State Police undercover surveillance team blew through a stop sign and “T-boned” a vehicle which had the “right of way”.
The first thing these bastards did was to yank the driver out of the “T-boned” car, handcuffing him, disregarding any injuries that he may have incurred.
They tried to blame the driver of the car that they “T-boned”.
They almost got away with it.
Thankfully, there was a building-mounted video camera which recorded the whole incident.
Although it made the local news, the incident was swept under the rug.
…and cops wonder why they are so hated…
Here is a comparison of police practices between the USA and European countries:
USA:
Here in the USA, police are not only devious and dishonest, but some of their actions are downright criminal.
Qualified immunity provides an out (get out of jail free card) for just about any police officer’s behavior.
The cat and mouse games that they play do nothing but foster disrespect for the law enforcement profession.
The ability to lie to suspects, and even plant knowledge of a crime in a suspect’s mind in order to facilitate a prosecution (even if the suspect is innocent) are but other aspects of American police and justice system culture that need to go.
Entrapment is but another dishonest tactic, most often used for political purposes.
The “biggie” is civil asset forfeiture which makes police officers no better than the highwaymen of old, with their ability to steal a person’s assets on a whim with no evidence of criminal activity needed.
The matte black logos on black police cars is defined as subdued graphics and should be illegal.
European countries:
In Europe, police vehicles are brightly marked and are much more visible than ordinary vehicles.
Speed traps are nonexistent. Not only that, uniformed police officers are highly visible as well.
Police visibility is used to enforce traffic laws. Europeans see police visibility as a way to encourage civilized behavior.
Police officers are prohibited from lying to suspects during interrogations.
Police in Europe are not seen as adversaries but as a (somewhat) necessary part of civilized society.
To the USA’s shame, State department advisories available to foreign visitors to the USA mention the fact that it is necessary to obey a police officer’s commands, even if they seem unreasonable.
The israeli command and control method of policing is thoroughly ingrained in American police department policies.
We are all Palestinians and Gazans, now…
Sorry but the way you describe Europe is not the case. There are plenty of Speed Traps where Cops hide off the side of the road with their Speed Cameras waiting to send an offender a Bill several weeks later. Blitzer.de will warn a driver of these Hot Spots but that doesn’t preclude these parasites using their Mobile Trailer Cameras anywhere. Then there are the fixed Speed Cameras which are everywhere -particularly in France, Italy and Switzerland.
Thanks for the update. I described Europe as I observed it when I was there decades ago.
The unbridled use of technology for traffic enforcement is a problem.
Regards,
Before I retired I used to commute to remote fire stations for overtime because of personnel shortages. I would speed a bit but every time I got pulled over when the cop would see my uniform he’d just walk away haha.
It’s not just “speeding” by the Pigs to catch a “scofflaw”…it’s how they behave when they drive their OWN rides. I have a family member, recently retired as a Deputy Sheriff’s Lieutenant, and don’t get me wrong, he was an EXCELLENT one, having started with his department as a Correctional Officer at the jail. Whenever I rode in his truck with him, he drove as fast as he damned well pleased, because his BADGE more or less gave him that “special” privilege that would DEARLY cost you or I!
There have been a couple of 4 lane streets here where they have suddenly lowered the speed limit from 50 to 40, just out of the blue. Everyone still drives 50, and the bastards know it and can now pull over anyone at any time. It’s a moneymaking scam ran by thieving parasites.
Indeed Eric, if I’m compelled to drive slow by traffic, I often find myself distracted. Looking for something else to occupy my mental time.
Even more frustrating is that every town in the north east has lowered speed limits that were 35 miles an hour since the days of the model T to 25 miles an hour for cars they can literally stop on a dime and crash into barriers at highway speeds with the occupants completely fine.
I can only speak of the Chicago area, but most cops don’t bother even running a plate of anyone less than 15 over unless they are hunting and checking everyone for suspended licenses and such. The state police also wont bother anyone up to 80mph on the highway- the limit is 55. *does not apply to outside the chicago area, which is the upper east quarter of the state. People regularly go 75-95 on the highway here if traffic allows. Just watch out south of the city in the evening, its mad max out there. Lots of fully tinted windowed armed people with no plates driving erratically who sometimes battle eachother. But that’s why state police don’t bother- they have better things to do.
Here is a speeding ticket for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69PX152RApI
Dash cam saved from possibly losing his license and going to jail from corrupt AGW.
The photo of the two guys changing the speed limit sign says a lot about government attitudes towards “safety.” Notice they are wearing hard hats. To protect heir heads from exactly what? Bird shit? Must be hypersonic bird shit, ’cause there is, demonstrably, no other possible threat to their safety. But hard hats are “regulation,” so they must wear them.
Common sense just doesn’t enter into it.
You see the same thing in “groundbreaking” ceremonies. Ranks of pols wearing office worker clothes (coat and tie) with brand new shovels in hand and brand new white hard hats, with nothing above but blue sky. There is no safety reason, it is just a costume for a publicity photo.
“All the world’s a stage, and we but players on it.”
It follows that *all* clothes are costumes.
So, what does *your* costume say about you?
Reminds me of my dad used to say that steel toed boots only guaranteed your toes would shear off cleanly. He hated wearing them.
I find that if you drive at about 60 in a 55 then the line of cars will end up going about the speed limit. If you go 55 in a 55 then the line of cars ends up going about 50. That’s why I go 60. Plus cops won’t waste tickets only 5 miles above the limit – not enough money in it.
What I see much more concerning is how people drive much faster in snow and rain than in dry conditions. 45 in a 55 is perfectly fine in snow believe it or not.
The first real snow fall in these parts, I stay off the roads unless I absolutely have to be on them. I do not know what it is, but somehow everyone forgets how to drive on snowy, icy roads in the span of three months. It is the ones that pull right out in front of you, and then wonder why you cannot stop on a dime for them (or slow down quickly) that really irk the hell out of me. You seriously cannot wait five seconds for me to pass me? And with not a soul behind me? I joke that during the Winter we have two types of drivers: Those that drive like bats out of hell as though the roads are still free of ice and snow. And those that are so damned scared to drive, they drive too slow (especially up steep, icy hills when you need the momentum), swerve all over the place, and slam on the brakes because they simply cannot drive in said conditions. Never mind the extended darkness coming, and ole Bullwinkle that you always have to watch out for. The combination makes for a fun drive some days.
Hi Shadow,
You’ve touched on one that triggers me. These dicks who will do just what you said – pull out in front of you – and then not accelerate. When they could have waited the 5 seconds it would have taken for you to pass them and then pull out.
I had one do just that, and passed the guy who did this to me after we got around the corner. The guy then proceeded to tail gait me to my next left turn, about 5 miles up the road. I was waiting to turn left, as there was another car in front of me. The crazy fool stopped in the middle of the road (55 MPH, ha ha) to roll his window down to yell at me. I did what someone did to me in high school: I looked straight ahead and ignored him. All-the-while thinking that this is the reason why I drive with my car doors locked. And if a sailor read my thoughts, he would have blushed, that is for sure, ’cause I was hopping mad.
Hi Shadow,
People who do what that guy did are entitled narcissists and incredibly stupid. You have no idea who you might be screwing with on the road these days. Are you ready to get beaten up – or shot – over some petty slight on the road? I do my best to just avoid idiot drivers, as you did. I get around them – and go about my business. I try not to give them any prior indication of my next move. I just make it – and am gone.
It’s a shame Andy Griffith mocked the concept of “citizen’s arrest”. All have forgotten the popo work for us, not the other way around.
I have nothing but contempt for “law enforcement”. Years ago, Eric wrote that the concept of law enforcement was brutal and nihilistic. That’s stuck with me and is what I think when I see local, county, or state police mulcting the citizenry.
Of all the great treasons committed by the progressives, the application of scientific analysis where inappropriate is probably the worst. The basic premise of the scientific method is summed up as: Propose a hypothesis, test the hypothesis with controlled experiments and observation, present a theory that can be confirmed by your peers. If the theory is sound (by peers replicating your research), it will be accepted as fact. If not, well, back to the chalk board.
The notion that politicians can apply these ideas to government and humans is merely an alteration of Jefferson’s concept of each state being an experiment and the best ideas accepted through federation. But instead of each state doing whatever they please and others observing, we get the progressive idea of “experts” scientifically studying social behavior and then writing legislation that promotes such behavior. The idea that one can know the exact speed for every situation, every vehicle, and every driver is patently absurd. Yet here we are.
But it’s no worse than jamming children into classrooms with 30 other kids, teaching at the exact same pace, in the exact same way and expecting the same outcome. Of course little Johny can’t read, he’s got “ADHD.” So lots of happy pills for him and if he can’t keep up… special ed! At least little Johny will feel good about himself, and maybe get a job pushing a broom if some new arrival or robot hasn’t snapped up that job. Back in the day he would have had a few meetings with the “board of education” before finding his way to shop class, where he’d thrive in active learning. But in the Learn To Code™ educational system he’s learning disabled.
Human beings are all the same, you see. Even though when it comes time for your vote, well, we’re all lovely individual snowflakes, no two alike.
>finding his way to shop class
A good friend of mine was hired to teach “industrial technology,” a vague specification which the school district thought would mean wood shop and drafting. My friend had other ideas, and his students actually chose their own original projects, which, times being what they are, tended towards alternative energy, among other things.
His class was wildly popular, and attracted an assortment of students, ranging from those with outstanding grades headed for university to those one step away from juvenile hall. All contributed, and benefited from the experience.
The school district regarded him as a threat, because they could not control him. After ten years, he got tired of looking over his shoulder, and decided to move on. Predictably, upon his resignation his program ceased to exist, though it had once been featured in Wired magazine.
One alarming car ride I had was years ago as a passenger in a city squad car driving to a law enforcement meeting at another city. On the way this charming young cop was speeding while cheerfully describing stomach churning ways to silently dispatch enemy soldiers with one hand he learned while serving in the middle east. At a stoplight he suddenly turned on the siren, popped the gas and did a 180 across two lanes of busy traffic laughing and explaining he had missed a turn. But of course it was fine because he was “law enforcement”.
This attitude exhibited by cops I believe is the biggest problem that leads to the others.
They seem to largely believe they are our betters. The rules don’t apply to them. If they do it, it’s ok.
As demonstrated in the Stanford prison experiment, what they become are slave drivers.
It is inconsistent with a free society to have arbitrary rules, enforced by those with powers to act in violent ways toward peaceful people.
It is worse when those enforcers believe themselves to be above the laws they enforce and that they are constantly under attack by the populace they enforce said laws against.
The reality is that American police are a standing army, often equipped with actual military surplus gear. How can anyone be free with an occupying force living among them?
My solutions are:
No crime without unless a victim’s rights have been violated
2x penalties for police that break the law
End of qualified immunity
Police must carry personal liability insurance to keep a job
Constant mental evaluation to remove paranoids, egomaniacs, alcoholics
Randomly selected citizen oversight panels with power to remove officers
The police have embarked on a decades long PR campaign to ‘Back the blue”, “support our local police”, and respect “officer friendly”. It will take a while for the wool to drop from the public’s eyes.
Boy your last paragraph is spot on! The PD in my city are super active on “social” media. It’s almost like they have a PR firm running the damn thing. Meanwhile the “force” for our super small city grows and grows. Every few years there’s another millage put up for a vote here, that if not passed, “our property values will surely plummet!” lol
Hi RS,
That’s one of the biggest problems with the AGW’s of today, most of them are ex-military and act like we’re the enemy. As far as I’m concerned, they are the enemy of what little remains of our “freedom”.
Indeed, Mike –
Even here in my rural county, the deputies look like they’re ready to air drop into Fallujah. The two who waylaid me over my Farm tags approached my truck as if I were an escaped killer. One of them – the one who came to my window, the other stayed behind ready to unload his Glock in my corpus – ostentatiously touched my truck’s bed side, so as to leave his fingerprint. You know, in case I shot the dude and took off.
Or why CODE ENFORCEMENT Officer are prominently armed and ARMORED. What are they gonna do? “Hut-hut-hut” someone that’s let the crabgrass on the front lawn get too high, or has cobwebs on that clunker in the driveway or back yard?
Yes in the city I was at the cops got totally jacked up when it was time to do a swat team raid in their special all black swat uniforms. You would think they were about to conduct a lightening raid instead of busting a neighborhood meth lab.
Funny how the Johnny Tactical types seem to be impotent against the armed Venezuelan gang terrorizing Colorado, though… maybe they just like to just play dress-up instead of actually stop crime?
I got a ticket a couple of weeks ago, first one in years. I am old enough that I have the “speed trap” thing pretty well figured out, so I never get busted that way. But this guy just came over the hill in the opposite direction with his radar on.
It’s a total hassle. Everyone know that if you’re a cop, related to a cop, a lawyer, a judge, or some kind of high-profile person, they will cut you a break unless something else happens, like an accident. But I can’t afford the points on my license because insurance rates have already gone insane even without points. And I was thinking of getting a CDL. So I gotta a lawyer friend of mine to represent me — he’s a part-time prosecutor in an adjacent jurisdiction, LOL. He’s pretty sure they will plead it down.
It’s a scam, it’s just going to cost me money. I’m sure the cop sped away as soon as he finished writing the ticket.
Sorry to hear about this, X –
I counsel a good radar detector, such as the Valentine 1. I never drive without one.
I had my dog with me and he didn’t get shot, so maybe I did OK??
Traffic infractions are not crimes. Traffic charges are ex parte (derived from a one-sided or strongly biased point of view) and do not support the presumption that speeding is unsafe. See Jim Crockett Promotion, Inc v City of Charlotte, 706 F2d 486, 490-491 (CA 4, 1983).
Indeed, Arrow –
The difficulty lies in getting enough people to grasp that punishing “what might happen” based on a subjective decree about “safety” is to grant unlimited authority to the state, since there is no objective way to counter the argument that “something might happen.”
I would submit that the universal contempt of cops (except those that are in GovCo and their family and fans) is the result of Nixon’s 55 MPH mandate. Within hours that which was legal was now “illegal” and it was enFORCEd with vigor.
And it never stops.
A road that I travel daily had been 55 MPH for over 30 years (since we moved in this house) and overnight it was 45. Why? Nothing had changed in those decades. No, that’s not right. The industrial park that was booming down the road is now a shell of its former self. Yet, the “speed limit” was reduced 20%.
What it means is that a majority of a given legislative body or some lone bureaucrat decided it must thus be so. Well, I disagree. Your “opinion” isn’t any better than mine, nimrod.
Sometimes I speed and sometimes I don’t but at least I drive in the slow lane.
As for the mulcting of the populace by pulling them over for the crime of speeding; we all know this is done so as to go on a fishing trip for more crimes.
Sadly the cops who ignore junkees and gang bangers shooting up on the streets feel that ticketing you for speeding is a better use of their time. And yet people say their “our” police.