Vom Brunhaus K9
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New Jersey you had better be silent ! there has been least 4 major incidents NRA & Evan Nappen made aware of resulting in SERIOUS charges on drivers. Just say give me the ticket Im on my way to a family medical issue.
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kbm6893
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Check your math. If I did 10 car stops a tour, MAYBE one STOP would result in summons issued. Often multiple summonses written per driver. Some drove off with 4 or 5 summonses. Yeah, that's 90%. Guess I exaggerated the 98%. Overwhelming majority get a pass
So one stop per tour resulted in summons written. That's 5 stops a week resulting in summons written. Average of 1.5 written per stop gets me my 30 a month.
is it that hard to understand? You can throw a stick up in the air and it will come down on somebody breaking some VTL law. 30 a month was easy, so MOST of the people stopped were pulled over and let go, and the bad guys got the summons.
Some days I'd write zero. How busy the radio was. The weather. Or if I didn't encounter any lowlifes deserving of one. Other days I'd come in with 10 written on 2 drivers.
Try not to compare Chattanooga cops to real big city cops. Not the same thing at all. Not a whole lot of cats need rescuing from trees in NYC. Then again, that's the FD's job.
And truth be told, I seem to remember the CO wanted 25 parking summonses and only 10 moving violations. 35 total for the month. Parking summonses were instant money for the city. No chance of winning in court for the defendant and the cop didn't have to go testify in traffic court , which meant he was either on overtime if he worked midnights (which I did), or taking the cop off patrol to go to traffic court, which reduced coverage. So how many stops you think I needed to make to come up with 10 movers?
Keep in mind 200 cops assigned to each precinct. Figure 140
On patrol. 10 movers a month times 140 cops is 1400 movers written per month. 150 bucks a pop if guilty. Say half are. That's $105,000 in revenue generated per precinct, and there are 75 of them. But throw in housing PSA's and transit district and it's another 20 precincts or so. Call it 100 buildings generating those numbers and it's 10 MILLION per month. 120 Mil a year. And that's not county highway patrol or dedicated summons guys.
Parkers took no time at all. Partner would drive the car while the passenger ran the plate in the computer. Summons was filled out as we cruised by so just slap it on windshield. No chance of irate driver coming on. Slap and run.
Let's look at that. On Sunday's, cars are triple parked outside churches. Nothing written in VTL that allows that because it's a church. But cops don't write them. The community would go nuts. So how's the guy who is making a delivery feel that he gets one for double parking for 5 minutes, while 50 people do it every Sunday for over an hour? And now it's on video? Cop giving a pass to 50 triple parked cars while the rest of the area has to pay? Not fair, is it?
Or we could have just gone over to one of the 4 firehouses in my command and written every firefighter parked on the sidewalk, or double parked, or even on a fire hydrant!
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ChattanoogaPhil
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My math is right on. It's your stories that keep changing.
Body cam will help with that.
Common Core, PA style.
kbm6893
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My math is right on. It's your stories that keep changing.
Body cam will help with that.
Your math isn't even close to spot on. I just explained it. If you don't see it, there's nothing I can do.
cmort666
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You make an AWFUL lot of accusations about people whom you don't know... especially for somebody who's left himself wide open to a LOT of speculation as to his own activities on the job.
If I were you, I'd think long and hard about going down that road.
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That's enough.
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