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Re: Cops Tailgating (and Speeding)!
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Subject: Re: Cops Tailgating (and Speeding)!
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From: gribble@primenet.com
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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 22:40:20 MST
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Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
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Organization: Primenet
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In article <stevens.78.0017A701@nr.infi.net> stevens@nr.infi.net (Trent Stevens) writes:
>From: stevens@nr.infi.net (Trent Stevens)
>Subject: Re: Cops Tailgating (and Speeding)!
>Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 23:38:59
>I've been tailgated by cops on more than one occasion, but it seems to me that
>there are many more troopers who speed! I've been passed many times while
>going the speed limit or even faster (when I didn't notice them in my rearview
>mirror) by police cars without flashing lights, sirens, or any other
>indications of pursuit.
>Are these problems as common as my experience suggests? Are there legitimate
>reasons why law enforcement officers speed and/or tailgate, other than
>active pursuit? And if there are no legal/justifiable reasons, is there any
>way for citizens to help ensure that police officers obey the same traffic
>laws as everyone else (or at least collect their tickets)?
>Trent Stevens stevens@nr.infi.net
Occassionally they are speeding to a call - if they can do it without lights
they usually find it's easier to cut thru light traffic without them on - too
many people get in a dither when they see the lights come up behind and it can
create more problems then it solves. But most of the time they are speeding
just because they know just like you do that the legal limit is absurdly low
and they don't want to poke along - and since they are the law they can break
it.
As to making them obey - it's possible to get their licsence number and call
ina complaint. In some juristictions such complaints are taken seriously but
in others they don't give a s#!t. I've called in a few gross violators but
most of the time they blow it off.