Civility rears its ugly head!

[RI Swamp Yankee]

Originally Posted by Dave R

This police officer is basically saying it's OK to speed as long as you slow down when you see a cop. Great message.

He realized most people will do 40 in a 35 zone (Don't we all!) and sometimes need a reminder to slow down a bit. Doing 55 in a 35 zone is something else. The message he conveyed was "it's not about the money, it's safety". Many years after that he became one of the best Police Chiefs the town ever had.

[Dave R]

Originally Posted by RI Swamp Yankee

He realized most people will do 40 in a 35 zone (Don't we all!) .

I'm certainly guilty of treating speed limits as lower limits rather than upper limits. I don't know many cops, but the ones I know are looking for the peak reading on the radar as a decision point for the pull-over and then the attitude of the driver as a decision point for the ticket.

For your Chief, perhaps the act of slowing in his presence was enough of an attitude indicator to skip the whole pull-over part. Years ago, this was probably pretty natural.

Seems like there's a lot more folks who see traffic police as nothing more than adversaries these days... I know that when they use airplanes to clock folks headed ot the beach on 101 east, and hand out tickets by the dozens, I think of them as nothing more than revenue enhancement officers.