How are the Cops like where you live?

[mlmooney89]

Do you know how much the chances of a person dying goes down between 30 and 20mph?

If someone is hit by a car at 40 mph they are 90% likely to be killed.

If someone is hit by a car at 30 mph they are 50% likely to be killed.

If someone is hit by a car at 20 mph they are 10% likely to be killed.

If it is posted as 25 but you go 30 you are putting someone's life in danger. The reason it's posted that low is because they take into consideration how many pedestrians are usually around and how safely someone can drive. Heaven forbid they might have researched it a bit before throwing up a random number.

Yeah......-or- county and city coffers need to be filled, payrolls need to be funded.    

Speedtrapping is speedtrapping, of all of the things we could defend that cops get up to, this one....?  Honestly, I don't think that it;s a big deal, I understand their need to produce revenue, and that speed limits exist for a reason...but there's no sense in blowing it up to some heroic cops saving lives routine.  They're writing tickets.

So pedestrian safety mean absolutely nothing. Sure sure.... no. But even if it was for money reason you still broke the law and they have every right to ticket you. You broke the law you deserve to be punished. I've been ticketed for going over the speed limit and I didn't complain that I got caught doing something illegal I paid my fine and said I was sorry. It's extremely childish to get upset over being punished for something you did that you shouldn't have.