Police Issued More Than 54,000 School Bus Citations to Motorists in 2018-19

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Anonymous wrote:Rockville PD likes to do bus stings once in awhile. I saw one in action on Shady Grove. They caught 3-5 cars at once. It was perfection.

Good to hear! Hope to see more of these.

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Anonymous wrote:My only concern is where does the money go? If the county sent out 54,000 tickets at a cost of $200 per ticket (as per the article), then the county made $10,800,000. It even half of those tickets were issued by officers, then it could be as high as $12 million dollars (as per the article, officer citations are higher).

Where is all the money going? Is it flowing back to MCPS? Who is holding the school board accountable for how these funds are spent?

Why would it do that? Montgomery County Police installed the cameras and issues the tickets.

If the cameras are installed on MCPS buses it would only make sense that the police department that uses the school district's school buses would get a kick back from it. Without the school buses the county would not be raking in the dough. DUH!

Without drivers who pass stopped school buses, the county would not be raking in the dough.

Don't want to get a ticket? Don't pass a stopped school bus.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My only concern is where does the money go? If the county sent out 54,000 tickets at a cost of $200 per ticket (as per the article), then the county made $10,800,000. It even half of those tickets were issued by officers, then it could be as high as $12 million dollars (as per the article, officer citations are higher).

Where is all the money going? Is it flowing back to MCPS? Who is holding the school board accountable for how these funds are spent?

Why would it do that? Montgomery County Police installed the cameras and issues the tickets.

If the cameras are installed on MCPS buses it would only make sense that the police department that uses the school district's school buses would get a kick back from it. Without the school buses the county would not be raking in the dough. DUH!

Without drivers who pass stopped school buses, the county would not be raking in the dough.

Don't want to get a ticket? Don't pass a stopped school bus.

How is this correlated to the discussion of money flow back to MCPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My only concern is where does the money go? If the county sent out 54,000 tickets at a cost of $200 per ticket (as per the article), then the county made $10,800,000. It even half of those tickets were issued by officers, then it could be as high as $12 million dollars (as per the article, officer citations are higher).

Where is all the money going? Is it flowing back to MCPS? Who is holding the school board accountable for how these funds are spent?

There is no money. MCPS doesn't get a dime.

Police don't get a dime.

[Anonymous]

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How is this correlated to the discussion of money flow back to MCPS?

What "money flow back to MCPS"?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We have gotten a few that are bull shit - we were stopping but triggers the camera anyway, or had evidently stopped a millimeter ahead of where we were supposed to. They just print the tickets bc they know people won’t fight them.

I also didn’t know that you are supposed to stop even on the other side of a six lane road with a meridian (even when the kids aren’t going to be crossing). That seems excessive.

You don’t have to stop if their is a median. Divided road don’t apply

plus1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My only concern is where does the money go? If the county sent out 54,000 tickets at a cost of $200 per ticket (as per the article), then the county made $10,800,000. It even half of those tickets were issued by officers, then it could be as high as $12 million dollars (as per the article, officer citations are higher).

Where is all the money going? Is it flowing back to MCPS? Who is holding the school board accountable for how these funds are spent?

There is no money. MCPS doesn't get a dime.

Police don't get a dime.

WHAT???????

[Anonymous]

So if the police doesn't get a portion of this money and MCPS doesn't see a dime, again the question: What are these millions of dollars in fines going towards? It seems incredibly unreasonable that the county has not been forthright in this issue. There should not be this much lack of transparency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My only concern is where does the money go? If the county sent out 54,000 tickets at a cost of $200 per ticket (as per the article), then the county made $10,800,000. It even half of those tickets were issued by officers, then it could be as high as $12 million dollars (as per the article, officer citations are higher).

Where is all the money going? Is it flowing back to MCPS? Who is holding the school board accountable for how these funds are spent?

There is no money. MCPS doesn't get a dime.

Police don't get a dime.

WHAT???????

Who gets the money if you get a red-light camera ticket, speed-camera ticket, or regular police-officer-issued ticket?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if the police doesn't get a portion of this money and MCPS doesn't see a dime, again the question: What are these millions of dollars in fines going towards? It seems incredibly unreasonable that the county has not been forthright in this issue. There should not be this much lack of transparency.

Who gets the money if you get a red-light camera ticket, speed-camera ticket, or regular police-officer-issued ticket?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My only concern is where does the money go? If the county sent out 54,000 tickets at a cost of $200 per ticket (as per the article), then the county made $10,800,000. It even half of those tickets were issued by officers, then it could be as high as $12 million dollars (as per the article, officer citations are higher).

Where is all the money going? Is it flowing back to MCPS? Who is holding the school board accountable for how these funds are spent?

There is no money. MCPS doesn't get a dime.

Police don't get a dime.

I think the company that installed these actually went out of business or something. These camera installs are not cheap and managing the system is expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FANTASTIC!

People drive around buses All.The.Time in my Silver Spring neighborhood. Even the parents who drive their kids to the bus stop. I don't understand it! You are dropping your OWN kid off at the bus stop, and then you zoom around the bus??

Glad they are cracking down.

I got a ticket from one of these. A bus stopped in front of a day care curb. I was three lanes away on the other side of the bus where there is no sidewalk. Since there was no median on this four lane road, I was breaking the law. If there is a median separating the right two lanes and left two lanes, then passing the bus is legal.

Apparently, these bus tickets have clogged the local courts, since the buses are required to run the yellow flashing lights for at least 100 feet(?) before deploying the red blinking stop signs. A lot of bus drivers don't do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My only concern is where does the money go? If the county sent out 54,000 tickets at a cost of $200 per ticket (as per the article), then the county made $10,800,000. It even half of those tickets were issued by officers, then it could be as high as $12 million dollars (as per the article, officer citations are higher).

Where is all the money going? Is it flowing back to MCPS? Who is holding the school board accountable for how these funds are spent?

There is no money. MCPS doesn't get a dime.

Police don't get a dime.

I think the company that installed these actually went out of business or something. These camera installs are not cheap and managing the system is expensive.

No, the FBI shut them down for bribing public officials.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:FANTASTIC!

People drive around buses All.The.Time in my Silver Spring neighborhood. Even the parents who drive their kids to the bus stop. I don't understand it! You are dropping your OWN kid off at the bus stop, and then you zoom around the bus??

Glad they are cracking down.

I got a ticket from one of these. A bus stopped in front of a day care curb. I was three lanes away on the other side of the bus where there is no sidewalk. Since there was no median on this four lane road, I was breaking the law. If there is a median separating the right two lanes and left two lanes, then passing the bus is legal.

Apparently, these bus tickets have clogged the local courts, since the buses are required to run the yellow flashing lights for at least 100 feet(?) before deploying the red blinking stop signs. A lot of bus drivers don't do this.

Stop for a stopped school bus means stop for a stopped school bus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FANTASTIC!

People drive around buses All.The.Time in my Silver Spring neighborhood. Even the parents who drive their kids to the bus stop. I don't understand it! You are dropping your OWN kid off at the bus stop, and then you zoom around the bus??

Glad they are cracking down.

I got a ticket from one of these. A bus stopped in front of a day care curb. I was three lanes away on the other side of the bus where there is no sidewalk. Since there was no median on this four lane road, I was breaking the law. If there is a median separating the right two lanes and left two lanes, then passing the bus is legal.

Apparently, these bus tickets have clogged the local courts, since the buses are required to run the yellow flashing lights for at least 100 feet(?) before deploying the red blinking stop signs. A lot of bus drivers don't do this.

Stop for a stopped school bus means stop for a stopped school bus.

A scam is still a scam. Bribery is still bribery. Tickets that aren't verified are still not enforceable.