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Re: Cops Tailgating (and Speeding)!



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.