Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does, but according to the article it doesn’t apply to tickets issued by camera.
Well, that, and cops.
Cops don't give tickets to other cops.
To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets
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#42That's absolutely horrifying...
Relatively small increases in speed dramatically increase the stopping distance and as such the danger of driving. Especially with a huge truck like that. That's why Amsterdam (with much more food traffic) has recently reduced speed limits a lot.
> At 30km/h, the stopping distance of a car is 13 metres. At 50km/h it’s more than double at 27 metres. That 20km/h reduction is the crucial difference between a pedestrian or cyclist surviving the impact of an accident – at 30km/h it’s estimated that 95 per cent of pedestrians would emerge relatively unscathed.
https://www.intertraffic.com/news/road-safety/amsterdam-30-s...
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#43What is the point of this article? > Like all drivers in New York State, Giovansanti is immune to consequences as long as he pays the $50 tickets So he's allowed to do this. Why are we talking about it?
Setting aside any concerns about cops being examples, public servants, etc, I'm shocked the NYPD's insurance doesn't have a problem with it. My wife worked for a County government agency in Ohio. Her job duties included driving. She was required to report all traffic citations or crashes, regardless of when they occurred (during or outside of work hours), to the County and sign an affidavit annually attesting to such…
Life as a cop is extremely different than the typical citizen, at least in most countries where I've spoken to cops, which doesn't include the US though, but I'm sure the same applies there because points everywhere.
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#44I guess I'm most surprised that there are any NYC cops who don't deface their plates: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/17/nyregion/license-plate-vi...
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#45Looks like they found the one cop on the force who doesn't obscure the license plate of their private vehicle.
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#46No doubt police should not be above the law and we should call that out. However this article reads more like hyperbolic slander.
which part is hyperbolic, and which part is slander? (remember that a statement has to be false to be slander)
It also can’t be written, or the defamation would be libel, not slander.
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#47Has he ever hit something or someone? If the answer is no, then speeding laws are too strict and must change.
I am of two minds about it. On one hand, speeding alone when done by a mature highly-attentive driver isn't really dangerous no matter the limit, because the driver has enough expertise to know what his personal limit ought to be. The residual risk is more from immature drivers, the mistakes of other cars, cyclists, and pedestrians. I have been on both sides of it. I have been the speeder who can drive very safely, a…
What you are describing is a legislation of the attitude of the average careless driver in the United States. I should be able to drive however I want until or unless I kill someone, the car should be the thing that keeps me from killing people, and anyone who doesn't use the roadway like me should be responsible for preventing me from killing them.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, that, and cops.
Cops don't give tickets to other cops.
In NYC, cops' friends are also exempt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/nyregion/mathew-bianchi-n...
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#49The solution is pretty straight forward. Fine should be scaled to your income and have an escalating multiplier for reoffense within the same category of offense with a cool down period of a few years if they don't break the law. I've brought this up many times online and people usually reply with something like "lots of people who have no income on paper but are wealthy speed" and a recent solution that I've seen po…
> a recent solution that I've seen posted is to scale the fine to the value of the vehicle.
Sweet. My vanagon has a license to speed... not on highways though, it can barely hit the speedlimit.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Traffic cameras identify the owner, the person who registered the vehicle, not the driver meaning there's no license to put points on. There is no points system (At least in NY) for registration to my knowledge.
In the UK, the owner is liable for identifying the driver at the time of the incident. This is how it works with e.g. rental cars. If the owner doesn't identify the driver, they get the points
That sounds like guilty until proven innocent.