Quote from: Will on January 14, 2024, 09:22:40 PM
Out of curiosity, do you see many police or troopers working the roads like you have in the past? The reason I ask is I'm in law enforcement and staffing is down, at least in my state. Combine that with the "defund the police" movement, post COVID and new generation of work force you aren't seeing much enforcement to have an impact in behavior. What occurs in court is a different story.
From what I have seen, I believe the lack of speed limit enforcement on the really congested interstates and other main highways is strictly a function of vehicle numbers. It is more dangerous for police to enforce speed limits than it is to just let the traffic flow at whatever speed is "established" by drivers. Speed limits are set only as a protection against liability.
No police officer in his right mind is going to try to pull over one driver out of hundreds going twenty-miles-an-hour over the speed limit in bumper-to-bumper traffic on a congested highway. My motto is "go with the flow". The danger on our highways is people going way faster or way slower than the majority, whatever speed that majority is driving...and/or those crazies that think they are in a Nascar race.
Again, it is a function of traffic congestion. On our interstates around here, where traffic is still somewhat light, I will consistently see numerous officers patrolling our highways...and often with cars pulled over and writing tickets. Nonetheless, they rarely pull anybody over unless they are going way over the posted speed limit. However, get into the bigger cities where the traffic is heavy, and even though everybody is going way faster than the limit, you rarely see anybody pulled over.
I don't think it has anything to do with "defund the police". It is strictly based on the consideration of the safety issues involved.
