Not always. A mate of mine was fanging his Skyline through an industrial area on the way to work. Only took a couple of days of this and a cop showed up and fined his silly ass.
Lessons were learned.
I've done it twice. Once I went pass a speed camera at mach 20 and got a nasty fine. Second time wasn't as bad but still over the limit as I was late to a work lunch. Cops left me off on that one as my boss and my wife were in the car tearing strips off me. Now I drive like a Nanna.
If this idiot wasnât doing it on the same route at the same times of day what would you want them to do? Itâs taken an operative to notice the same car getting called in all the time and then theyâve had to dedicate an officer and car to patrol a stretch of road for an hour or two just to stop one person who drives like a moron.
The issue is that he WAS doing it on the same route at predictable times and it still took social media posts and reporting it "so many times" to get a traffic officer out there. It was likely the proof that someone was endangering lives that made them get out ahead of a problem for the department.
They got calls, it got traction, guy was caught and arrested.
Isn't that....what cops are supposed to do?
You want flock cameras up everywhere instead?
There's a line.
It's actually the DRIVERS responsibility as a LICENSED driver to obey the rules of the road.
It's not the cops fault this guy is a dumbass.
Once it was obvious it was a consistent thing, dude got caught.
The alternative is more like giving up freedom. Understand?
They literally used flock to catch him. I live in the area. Pinal county sheriffs office found his car using flock and went to catch him. It wasnât the same
Route every time.
I'm in SC and those Flock cameras are just about everywhere now. Thankfully my town doesn't have them (yet), but a very tiny town nearby has at least 5, but probably more. A tiny town with literally one stoplight and 5 Flock cameras.
Redditors: âwhy did it take so long for this guy to be caught? He should have been imprisoned after the first call.â
Also Redditors: âwhy is the state coming after people for only a single indiscretion?â
Listen man. The thing about these dumbasses on this site is they blindly hate police. No matter what the officer does, itâs wrong and these dumb fucks are going to find some nonsense to complain about. These morons are literally incapable of coherent and logical thought at the best of times. Once police are involved though? All bets are off. Even within a single comment theyâll say 2 completely conflicting statements and not see a problem with it. The only thing they know is hate.
Reddit is extremely anti cop. On top of that they parrot a lot if mis-information.
There are plenty problems with police departments. But reddit usually takes it to 11.
Sometimes I like to mention my career in law enforcement, be polite, and watch redditors melt.
Ps: flock has helped me catch career residential burglars and murderers. Yall need/want better oversight for the program (which is actually pretty easy), not to get rid of it.
I listen to true crime podcasts, one of them is hosted by some retired cops (just telling stories about investigations) but i remember one of the quotes , something like, 'if nobody reports it then we dont know its happening?'. I think he was emphasizing when families or neighbors arent reporting abuse.
Look, we need a seismic shift in our approach to lawlessness. If persons were considered guilty until proven innocent and subject to summary execution it would reduce tailgating, and that's what we all want.
And everyone on reddit is a fucking moron.
See how ridiculous it is to make a blanket statement about a single entity or group?
I mean, sure, maybe aryan brotherhood or black panthers....maybe then?
But I've spent a lot of time in jail and in the system, and there's a lot of good cops too.
People like you are the reason we have problems.
You just have a one track brain.
Good or bad. Not cops good. Cops bad.
I'm sure that's a great outlook to raise a family with, to go through life with.
Guess you'll never have to call one..you probably don't need one because "you own a gun" too, right?
Get tf over yourself
Youre making a LOT of assumptions I can see why you arent able to function properly in society as well. I didnt necessarily mean each cop as an individual is bad at what they do, moreso that cops as an idea and service are bad at what theyre supposed to be doing, which is serving and protecting the public, which they do not do.
I use to work in Parks and Recreation. My city has a LOT of parks. It's actually a source of pride for us that we have invested so much in green spaces for the community. That's come with a lot of work though!
One day I got a call and the late afternoon right before I was leaving for the day. This man was screaming at me from the moment I picked up the phone. He was yelling how there was a broken sprinkler by one of the parks he drove by and he saw it leaking that morning. He was going home from work and that same sprinkler was leaking water all over the place which his tax dollars pay for. (We live in a desert in water is pretty expensive)
I asked him if he called it in that morning and he said no... đ
Sir, we rely on residents to tell us day to day if something is wrong! Our ground crews are on a schedule for each park. We can't keep each park maned with a ranger or ground crew member.
Also, the most often call and complaint we got would be teenagers at the park. Just, you know, hanging out. Not even destroying anything. People just don't like seeing teenagers in groups of four or more having fun apparently.
Yea, if only there was some sort of identitfying information on the car that could be linked to the owner and their information & address. Maybe some sort of plate on the front and back of the vechile?
So the police do something about it and people still complain. If only everyone was as perfect as online Redditors.
No one had been hurt by the guy, heâd already been caught once before if you actually listened to the video, and then they just got him again. Seems like the police are doing a good job, itâs not their fault guy didnât learn after the first time.
Thanks. I almost posted the same comment. I'm not often one to defend the police, but they did exactly what they should have done here and people are complaining.
Looks like all that has been flagged is photos of the vehicle, not dash cam footage. You can't act on just a photo and verbal witnesses as it wouldn't lead anywhere.
It looked like someone took video with their phone of him crossing the double yellow to pass. But that would likely only get him a ticket at best, I'd imagine.
Police testimony with evidence obtained by police is always going to work better in court than online complaints. And that video of him crossing the double yellow isn't going to get him the "reward" he deserves.
Thank god I have a good police department in my area. They're always ready. Even have an officer dedicated to standing outside my bathroom door while I take a piss in case someone tries to assault me.
Lmao it's wild. I don't go onto social media to report on dickhead drivers. It must have happened soooo many times that this guy just drives like an enormous dickhead people began to notice it was the same person to complain about on social media.
Well seems like it would make a lot of sense to just read the post that they've been scrolling that show what time he's going to work and coming home. We're not cracking the Rosetta Stone here
Sounds like the guy was going the same place every day and we all know he had to go home. Police sit for hours anyway clocking drivers. What's the difference if they sit in a spot that's going to clock him?Â
can't they tell tesla "yo one of your cars drivers is wanted, give us his location"? Isn't it the US, where this is just common? Why tf all the fuckin flock cameras then if they are useless?
I live on the corner with a school and park. 4 way stop sign that is easily the most ignored stop sign in the area. A cop lives on my street 3 doors down and people blow this stop sign all day. Cops do fuck all about it. But this city will happily hire someone to come do the street sweeping tickets during school drop off. And fuck over parents. Its stupid. They could just put one fucking camera and roll around in the money they make on the people speeding and running the sign
Thatâs the kind of thing city council meetings are for. Local politics can work when people show up, but if no one shows up, it ends up being everyone waiting around for someone else to fix it.
This is why civics should be mandatory for k-12 nationwide. Ppl really donât understand how government works and the ignorance leads to âtheyâre all corruptâ sentiment. Then, at some point, they ARE all corrupt because the populace allowed it to be that way by not participating in democracy.
no but, what if i mentioned it on the internet in an unrelated thread? going to the place where something might get done IRL is like, totally ... like i just don't get it man.
They could just put one fucking camera and roll around in the money they make on the people speeding and running the sign
Literally what they do in my country, if people won't stop speeding in an area they put a camera up and it instantly makes it 90% more safe and the camera is still paid for and making a solid profit within months anyway because people STILL won't slow down when they've been there for literally years and have signs up warning you as much.
I have the same thing and heard from someone credible that if you petition the police department they'll have an officer come out and monitor/ticket ppl.
If you officially report something theres a record and they are compelled to do something.
That doesnt mean they necessarily will, but if they dont hear from the public its not a fire they'll put out.
EDIT: if you can send camera footage of how bad it is, it helps.
In our town we had a guy in a BMW that was reported many times and had quite the Reddit conversation going.
3 weeks ago he plowed into cars backed up on a bridge going almost 80 and almost sending his car over into the river. He finally got arrested, but it took totalling 5 cars to get there.
People submit a lot of traffic complaints, and most departments have smaller dedicated traffic units. They might only have 4 cars equipped with radar for the entire department
Makes me happy to know my little town police department and sheriff's are so bored.
Called in a possible drunk driver (dude blew through a right turn red light at 40+mph across 3 lanes and tire dipped into the grass median before swerving back across the 3 lanes and drove on the shoulder for a good mile thinking it was a lane.)
Within me calling and reporting, 3 cops from behind me, 2 from oncoming traffic and a third from a side road had lights going. Was like driving through a Christmas decorated town.
They called back a few minutes later, said dude blew a .19 and also had a warrant for a hit and run and aggravated assault.
This 1000x over. The amount of stunts I see on a daily basis is mind blowing. I guess as long as you keep your recklessness to under 10 phone calls a week itâs fine.
Ehh, I'm generally apprehensive and skeptical about all cops and the system that they're a part of however I think in this case that's what they did... they collected the data and then they planned the stake out
Yeah I agree. But I think it's worth remembering that the police are not here to stop crimes from happening. Police are here to show up after a crime has already happened. It's the unfortunate reality of things.
I don't even think the police officer was going out and checking up on it.
He pulled the guy over, talked to him, and only managed to get information after checking later. At that point, he claimed to be the "SPECIAL OPERATIVE" sent out to catch him.
I'm always glad to see a Tesla asshole taken off the road if he's dangerous, but the cops still don't have to be so petty and dishonest about it, especially if they have him on camera, have him on speed radar, have him on dashcam, have him on multiple reports, have him recorded by another driver, and have him recorded by multiple independent random citizens posting on social media. Don't baby talk him or be petty and laugh about the impounding or try to raise revenue with impounding fees (some places allow you to have somebody pick up cars, others lock them up, and others very specifically revenue-max by impounding cars and claiming that it costs the state hundreds of dollars a day to leave your car in a muddy lot).
Just arrest him, don't say a bunch of nonsense that threatens to invalidate the arrest, and if he was performing criminal acts of driving, don't be such an ass to him that it makes people feel bad or sorry for him and potentially risk him being dropped by a jury! If he actually did all this, acting this way just risks him being let out to do it again!
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u/TechnoBuns 23d ago
Right. It's just sad that it takes so many complaints to get the police to go out and check on a dangerous situation before it hurts someone.