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'Operation Air, Land & Speed' Police State

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Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:14 PM

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Virginia State Police Help With Budget Crunch

A federally funded ticketing blitz in the state of Virginia landed a total of 6996 traffic tickets this weekend. The blitz, dubbed “Operation Air, Land & Speed” coincided with frantic efforts by state officials to close a$2.2 billion budget deficit. Supervisors ordered state troopers to saturate Interstates 81 and 95 to issue as many tickets as humanly possible over the space of two days.

Officers had no trouble delivering the requested number of speeding tickets with a total of 3536 ordinary speeding citations written. In addition, another 717 “reckless driving” tickets were filed, although these most often are simple speeding tickets that happen to carry a fine of up to $2500. Driving as little as 10 to 15 MPH over the limit can qualify for this enhanced punishment. On the other end of the scale, some 310 tickets were handed to drivers who either forgot to wear their seatbelts or made a choice not to do so.

Activists with the National Motorists Association pointed out that enforcement efforts may have concentrated on areas where speed limits are expected to rise to 70 MPH following Governor Bob McDonnell’s signature on legislation raising the state’s maximum speed limit (view law). This would mean a significant number of tickets were issued for conduct that will be perfectly legal in a matter of months. The group also indicated that state police tactics may run afoul of state law.

“All officers making arrests incident to the enforcement of this title shall be paid fixed salaries for their services and shall have no interest in, nor be permitted by law to accept the benefit of, any fine or fee resulting from the arrest or conviction of an offender against any provision of this title,” Virginia Code Section 46.2-102 states.

Under the federal grant application process, state officials explained that they would pay officers overtime — at least one-and-a-half times their normal salary — to participate. This special reward for ticketing operation participants appears to violate the spirit of state law.

Since 2006, a total of twenty-three ticketing blitzes have taken place, generating 120,977 traffic tickets.

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/virginia-state-police-help-with-budge
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Friday, March 12, 2010 5:54 AM

FREMDFIRMA

As if it ever had anything to do with anything but the money in the first place ?

I did mention in another thread a nearby township having called their police dept on the carpet over having an extreme surplus of tremendously overpaid officers, yes ?

The sense of entitlement and arrogance of the blue suit mafia is approaching ludicrous, as Will Grigg points out here..
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2010/03/czars-to-serfs-pay-up-and
-shut-up.html

And here as well.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/52938.html

Which is of course, WHY many of the local townships are going after their budgets with a chainsaw, although not quite going to the extremes I did, since the petulant little bastards tend to throw the most entertaining (albeit dangerous) temper tantrums when anyone dares call them to heel and I guess they wanna prolong the whinging, cause every time these gits open their mouth recently, they put their jackboots in it up to the knee - seriously, you couldn't PAY for a better PR campaign against em than their own behavior and commentary is handing us for free on a plate.

Of course, local politics being somewhat of the crack-brained variety even BEFORE my involvement, some of the locals seem bent on deliberately provoking them, including one old codgers comment during a township meeting they the town ought to force em to have "serve and protect" tattoed on em in a rather sensitive place so they couldn't take a leak without being reminded of what their intended purpose is... a suggestion met with much amusement by the locals, and moderate profanity and a couple threats by the police union rep, as seems typical of them.
(The old codger was in fact mocking them, but it's not like they have a sense of humor in their arrogance)

The crowning moment though was a rather dignified lady who's apparently the iron hand behind that townships council interrupting him mid blather to ask "did you ever think there's a REASON no one here likes you, sir ?" - and he starts to get up, stating that he "doesn't have to put up with this..." and she tore a STRIP off him, pointing out that so long as he's collecting a paycheck from the township, hell yes he does, and that could change right here and now if he so desired.

I swear after that he looked like a guilty school child pouting, the pyschology of entitlement is THAT strong - but now that we have them by the purse strings, they will either clean up their damned act...

Or they will be replaced.

If they wanna act like a pack of goons, why should we be obligated to finance it, and if they choose to respond to budget cuts and the need to tighten their damned belts with out and out predatory conduct of the type PN notes here, well then I guess the "True Colors" under that blue are revealed in all their awful glory, ain't they ?

The local PD around here has actually upped their game, straightened up their behavior and is trying to be competitive - it was noted that in *every* case where a neighborhood ran them off and replaced them with private security (while taking my suggestion and requiring they live within the neighborhoods they protect) crime dropped like a rock, since the focus changed from "law enforcement" to "crime prevention", and private security mostly only cares about stuff that endangers or harms other people.

So the local PD, once some of the more thuggish of em headed for greener pastures, and having replaced them with a couple idealistic rookies who aren't so corrupt and really do seem to wanna make the world a better place, has actually stepped up their game and started cooperating with the neighborhoods instead of treating them as enemies to be conquered - to the benefit of all parties involved, cause private security has limits on what they do and the job doesn't cross over quite as much as folks think it might.

All in all, the KEY to reform seems to be pulling them up by the purse strings and making them accountable for what they do, something that has been too long in coming.

Also noteworthy is that there's a current debate over what a private security officer should be permitted to carry within the bounds of their job, centering on whether or not arming them with tasers is justifiable or a good idea - and I think it's NOT, quite passionately, which has led to a bit of conflict with some of the less savory providers who tend to hire mall ninjas, would be jackboots and police wannabes who are just drooling over the idea of being able to threaten folk with the electric bugaloo - hell, that right there is enough reason they SHOULDN'T have the damned things, cause as it currently stands in order to be issued one they have to be someone both trained and trusted with a firearm, which is AS IT SHOULD BE, and I am wholly against reducing the training and background requirements to carry a damn taser - which if you are DOING YOUR JOB effectively, you shouldn't need in the first damned place.

-Frem

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Friday, March 12, 2010 6:05 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

The parasite predator class who can't handle a real job... When county commission was voting to kill the $100-million "Justice Center", Knox County sheriff Tim Hutchinson called in a bomb threat, since he wanted to be paid $30-million as the contractor on that job (with his convicted-felon business partner without a license).

Cops are paid $200,000 overtime in traffic court, cities forced to file bankruptcy
http://piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/2008/02/cops-get-200000-salary-city-
goes.html
http://piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/2009/02/gov-employee-pays-self-18000
0-overtime.html

Quote:
Is there a quota system for New Mexico's state police?
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s1448033.shtml?cat=516

NYPD Officer claims pressure to make arrests
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/investigators&id=730535
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Police State quotas
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=18&t=42154&m=763209

Cops get $200,000 salary, city goes bankrupt
http://piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/2008/02/cops-get-200000-salary-city-
goes.html

"I'm not going to keep arresting innocent people, I'm not going to keep searching people for no reason, I'm not going to keep writing people for no reason, I'm tired of this. Our primary job is not to help anybody, our primary job is not to assist anybody, our primary job is to get those numbers and come back with them. They have to meet a quota. One arrest and twenty summonses."
-Officer Adil Polanco NYPD

"Things are not going to get any better. It's going to get a lot worse. If you think 1 and 20 is breaking your balls, guess what you're going to be doing. You're gong to be doing a lot more, a lot more than what they're saying! Next week, 25 &1, 35 & 1, and until you decide to quit this job to go to work at a Pizza Hut, this is what you're going to be doing till then. Do you understand?!"
-41st Precinct Patrol Supervisor NYPD

"It is illegal for law enforcement agencies to issue quotas for citations or arrests of individuals.... The Fraternal Order of Police strongly disagrees with this illegal action and respectfully requests you rescind this action of supervisors at the Knoxville Police Department.... If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's still a duck. It's a quota."
--Edward Daniel, attorney at law

"Cops have a[n illegal] quota system."
--Sgt. James Eagan, New York State Police (Retired), from his book, A Speeder's Guide to Avoiding Tickets

"I was put under pressure. It was like a race. How many more people can we get today?"
--arrested Knoxville, Tennessee, police officer describing the government's illegal quota

Leaked KPD emails for illegal quotas
http://piratenews.org/quota1.html

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