bubba;214232 wrote:
Yep... raiding a parking lot of ppl hanging out, not racing or harming anyone... hmm, how exactly is that protecting and serving? I could think of many better things to do with the budget to protect ppl... especially out there
shit, i dunno, i was being sarcastic.
i imagine it protects the police force's pay rates and speculations about future raises. and it serves.. the police? i guess if you find a massive source of revenue like this, you fucking milk it and enforce the living hell out of it until someone calls foul, which in this case is moot given the perpetrators are the law enforcers. i would think they have all sorts of reasons for these laws. some people have died from street racing, they cannot guarantee the saftey of modified cars, pollution is prolly a big one. I dunno.
The really handy thing is that you don't actually have to be doing anything like street racing or causing a nuicence (sp?), its the modifying itself that is illegal. They also prolly write fucktons of bullshit tickets if someone doesn't have a reciept or some paperwork on them hoping they won't show up to court or that they just pay the fine. Officers disgression is awesome because these tickets basically affect their payrate, or how nice their cars are or whatever, so what do you think they are going to do, write more or less tickets. It's not the officers job to be an expert, yet they get to use disgression? what if the guy at jiffy lube was on a commision or got some incentive for sales? damn right he'd go ahead and recommend that system flush, whether you need it or not.
i just think it comes down to a handy way of generating revenue. for example with the new rulings against the uberfines here in fargo, im guessing we will just seeing increases in tickets to make up for lost revenue, and also alot of bullshit tickets hoping people won't show up for court.