David Kanapsky – choke on your food, ya fat fuck. Enjoy the Google love asshole.

Quit holding back Likwid, tell us how you REALLY feel.

[chuckling]

Traffic laws exist for safety, not for revenue.

That may have been true before Rob, but it no longer is.

I received a speeding ticket not long ago (written for 5 over – yes I was doing more), it got knocked down to impeding traffic. While it would have been 2 point on license and $120 fine, impeding would be no points but $60 more.

The line ups for fines was a double line about 15 people to each line.

This may help understanding also, why this has become a revenue issues for cities and counties and not protection:

[quoteTraffic fines help fill city coffers
Officials increasingly target drivers to bolster budgets

Grim economic conditions are forcing some communities to rely on traffic cops to increase revenue by writing more tickets, police and elected officials say.

“When I first started in this job 30 years ago, police work was never about revenue enhancement,” Utica Police Chief Michael Reaves said. “But if you’re a chief now, you have to look at whether your department produces revenues. That’s just the reality nowadays.”

A Detroit News analysis of court and police records from 2002-07 shows many Metro Detroit police departments have drastically increased the number of moving violations issued in what some people say is an effort to offset budget shortfalls caused by the sluggish economy.

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“A portion of the tickets our officers write helps pay their salaries, but the rest is profit for the city,” said Priebe, a former Taylor police officer. “ ’Profit’ may not be the right word to use in government, but that’s pretty much what it is.

“Obviously, revenue isn’t the only reason our officers are out there — but I wouldn’t be telling the truth if I said it wasn’t a consideration.”

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Warren Officer David Kanapsky came under national media scrutiny recently when it was revealed he had written about 5,000 traffic tickets in 2007. Kanapsky, whose prolific ticket writing was highlighted in July on ABC’s 20/20, accounted for nearly 10 percent of the city’s ticket writing last year, when there were 54,100 tickets handed out in Warren — a 20 percent increase over the 44,809 tickets written in 2002.

But Warren is hardly alone:

• In Romulus, there were 12,040 tickets written last year, which represented a 136 percent jump from the 5,091 violations written in 2002.

• The number of violations in Plymouth rose from 440 in 2002 to 2,584 in 2007, a 487 percent jump.

• In Detroit, there were 126,007 traffic tickets written in 2002, and 245,249 written in 2007.

• Southfield police wrote 13,724 tickets in 2002; in 2007 they wrote 31,795 tickets for an increase of 131 percent.

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“When elected officials say, ‘We need more money,’ they can’t look to the department of public works to raise revenues, so where do they find it? Police departments,” said James Tagnanelli, president of the Police Officers Association of Michigan union.

Detroit News

There was this town near Columbus OH that used to do crap like this. The “Town” was 3 blocks long and wrote over $300,000 in speeding tickets per year. They kept that up for several years before the town was dissolved.

here is some info about the town of New Rome.

http://columbusoh.about.com/od/columbusfranklincounty/a/newromesucks.htm

W.

“realitybased”bob – Well that’s very mature of you, lik.

Yeah, yeah, I know.

sanity – Likiwid I take it you have run into the funding scheme through this particular ‘tax colloector’ (ticket writer) of the city?

Most definitely. I even traveled in from out of state to contest it. It was a matter of principle.

I have always paid other traffic tickets because I was always guilty. I wouldn’t have even thought of contesting them. I just paid up. No more of that! I’m challenging all of them from now on. The government has stolen too much of my damn money already and sometimes it’s those little egregious 100 dollar scams that just pushes someone into pushing back. Fuck ‘em.

David Kanapsky – choke on your food, ya fat fuck. Enjoy the Google love asshole.

Warren Officer David Kanapsky came under national media scrutiny recently when it was revealed he had written about 5,000 traffic tickets in 2007.

That asshole gave ME a ticket. FUCK HIM. I was innocent of “stopping in the middle of the road”, pay your hundred dollars and shut up. I wasn’t even allowed to say anything in traffic court.

David Kanapsky – eat a dick.

I don’t have the exact section in front of me, but it’s my understanding that those cameras are not legal in North Dakota. Maybe someone not on their lunch break can look up and post the relevent subsection of the Century Code.

If cops want to be respected (and they should) they should quit being revenue officers and become peace and safety officers again.

Lik, what’s your opinion on this guy again? I’m not sure I understand.