Speeding Ticket Given After the Fact?

[pac201]

we ain't playing kick the can here...:D

oh yeah, if you're old enough to remember it, you probably will take responsibility for your actions...

[RoadKingTrooper]

Easy guys. I'm just asking a question. I don't think it's wrong for me to want to know my rights as a citizen. Protect and serve. Thanks for answering my question.

Easy dude! Know your "Rights" LOL

Too many are concerned about their "Rights" :rolleyes: While shirking their responsibilities that go along with them.

You see it isn't a something for nothing world. Responsibility and duty go hand in hand with your "Rights"

Most mature adults already know this;)

[lawduck]

I saw a guy the other morning at the gas station that I knew had a suspended license.

As I sat there in the parking lot I filled the ticket out and sent it to him via mail.

[greg72982]

And just for info, every ticket we give is "after the fact". The courts frown on it if we cite people for offenses they will likely commit in the future.

I'm such a great cop that I actually know that they will speed before they even do it, so I then cite them as a preventative measure. Citing people after clocking them is for rooks.

[Bob Loblaw]

Protect and serve.

whoever came up with that "slogan" needs a kick to the taint.

[phantasm]

whoever came up with that "slogan" needs a kick to the taint.

Isn't that LAPD? I don't work in LA. I don't protect & serve.

[Bob Loblaw]

I just love how the .01% of people who we deal with that are douchebags like to throw that out as a reason why we are the real a$$holes when we're just doing our jobs. "Arresting me/ticketing me/telling me that my husband throwing a cup of water on me isn't actually a crime and telling me to grow the F up? Geez, you prick...way to 'protect and serve.' Aren't there some real criminals out there for you to find? Go eat some donuts."

[Sharpe]

Wow. I hope officers posting in here don't treat the public in person with the same level cynicism and sarcasm they do online. Is this forum more for venting frustrations with ignorance and petty BS that we have to put up with on a daily basis? If so, that's not why I joined.

Flame away.

To the OP (who's probably not reading this anymore and won't ever come back), "entrapment" is when you are specifically enticed to commit a crime by law enforcement, then arrested/cited for that crime. For example, if an officer painted over a 55 mph speed limit sign with 65 mph, then ran radar there and wrote everyone tickets as they whizzed by, that would be entrapment. Also, just FYI, you could sit right across the street from a tavern and pull people over all night long for DUI (if you developed further probable cause like swerving in and out of the lane). One of the reasons for that is that the officer didn't entice anyone to go to the bar and get drunk.

As for being out of your vehicle, there are statutes of limitation, but they are measured by months and years. I've written a highly-deserved ticket ("Too Fast for Conditions") and sent it in the mail once. I knew the guy (knuckle head) and saw him and his vehicle and its license plate. He paid it.

As further example, we once had a call of a drunk driver (speaking in plain terms here) which included a license plate number. The dispatched officer finds the car parked at home, knocks on the door, asks them to come outside, performs field sobriety, and arrests them for DUI. Never even saw them driving, mind you (but they admitted to it). Not sure how well that would have held up in court with a competent defense lawyer, though.

So, you're screwed. Shouldn't have been speeding. Now you gotta pay the "speed tax." Be a man about it. Choke it up and go pay your fine like every honest person does. Not a big deal unless you're making a habit of it.

[Creeker]

Wow. I hope officers posting in here don't treat the public in person with the same level cynicism and sarcasm they do online. Is this forum more for venting frustrations with ignorance and petty BS that we have to put up with on a daily basis? If so, that's not why I joined.

Flame away.

...So, you're screwed. Shouldn't have been speeding. Now you gotta pay the "speed tax." Be a man about it. Choke it up and go pay your fine like every honest person does. Not a big deal unless you're making a habit of it.

WELL....

Now they'll NEVER come back... :cool: