Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:…is the end of the police pullover. After COVID I can count on one hand the number of traffic stops witnessed. Numbers state (Fairfax was in the news but MoCo as well) that senior officers are leaving in droves - and guessing rookies are too nervous after all of the excessive force incidents to pull anyone over. The highways I take to work are now for race cars…

https://www.ffxnow.com/2021/10/28/fairfax-county-police-grapple-with-understaffing-retention-issues/

LOL what? You think "all of the excessive force incidents" come from speeding tickets? You think that rookies don't think they can write tickets without using excessive force, so they're not writing tickets? And that's bad? The inside of your brain must be fascinating. "I noticed cops aren't doing their job anymore. Must be because people don't worship cops enough. Something something woke antifa something something."

If you think OP's brain is weird, you should hop on over to the Political Forum

I agree. I’m on the west coast, and rarely see anyone get pulled over.

Anonymous wrote:…is the end of the police pullover. After COVID I can count on one hand the number of traffic stops witnessed. Numbers state (Fairfax was in the news but MoCo as well) that senior officers are leaving in droves - and guessing rookies are too nervous after all of the excessive force incidents to pull anyone over. The highways I take to work are now for race cars…

https://www.ffxnow.com/2021/10/28/fairfax-county-police-grapple-with-understaffing-retention-issues/

LOL what? You think "all of the excessive force incidents" come from speeding tickets? You think that rookies don't think they can write tickets without using excessive force, so they're not writing tickets? And that's bad? The inside of your brain must be fascinating. "I noticed cops aren't doing their job anymore. Must be because people don't worship cops enough. Something something woke antifa something something."

Anonymous wrote:I see them all the time.

The biggest story not being reported is the failure of automated driving to deliver on its promises and the low likelihood of it doing so in our lifetimes.

I strongly disagree.

Automated driving, per user, kills significantly fewer people than human driving! As usual, it's not a technical problem, it's a behavioral problem. Humans have a hard time accepting injuries and deaths when a machine made the decision, because that's a loss of control that a human brain isn't quite ready for just yet. The much higher toll due to human error is for the moment, infinitely more acceptable, since every human thinks: "I drive better, I am more careful, it won't happen to me. But if a machine makes a mistake, it could be me."

We saw the same thing for Covid vaccines: the technology was there, and vaccine penetration was low in certain places. Our technology has always outpaced our brain's capacity to evolve to accept it immediately. We're still prehistoric little hominids in our hindbrain.

Cops used speeding as pretext traffic stops which was the problem.

Cops don’t like to write traffic tickets because it’s not “real policing” to them.

There is no “I’m afraid to write speeding tickets”. That’s not a thing.

I drive on Little Falls Parkway every day and see cars pulled over all the time. I always arrive too late to see why. I've never seen as many cars pulled over elsewhere on my round (Old Georgetown Rd, River Rd, Rockville Pike, East-West Hwy). It's a mystery.

I see them all the time.

The biggest story not being reported is the failure of automated driving to deliver on its promises and the low likelihood of it doing so in our lifetimes.

Good. VA was too aggressive with speed enforcement.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is definitely pulling people over. I regularly see officers doing radar on the Taft Bridge and recently on Nebraska Ave NW by Wilson HS.

MSP and VSP are also pulling people over on 495/66/270/95

Yeah but that’s just for ‘revenue enhancement’ - fines to fund DC’s rapacious social engineering budget - that’s not for speeding, dangerous driving, racing.

What are they pulling them over for if not for speeding, dangerous driving or racing? If they are using the radar presumably it is for speeding.

I see lots of pull overs where I live. I think the police department recently increased funding to handle the increase in speeding issues. It has gotten worse since Covid. Not sure if people got used to empty streets when most places were shut down.

This is not true. I 've seen more police pullovers, even on the beltway!

I just got pulled over in Fauquier County the other night. First ticket in 25 years

Anonymous wrote:DC is definitely pulling people over. I regularly see officers doing radar on the Taft Bridge and recently on Nebraska Ave NW by Wilson HS.

MSP and VSP are also pulling people over on 495/66/270/95

Yeah but that’s just for ‘revenue enhancement’ - fines to fund DC’s rapacious social engineering budget - that’s not for speeding, dangerous driving, racing.

DC is definitely pulling people over. I regularly see officers doing radar on the Taft Bridge and recently on Nebraska Ave NW by Wilson HS.

MSP and VSP are also pulling people over on 495/66/270/95

…is the end of the police pullover. After COVID I can count on one hand the number of traffic stops witnessed. Numbers state (Fairfax was in the news but MoCo as well) that senior officers are leaving in droves - and guessing rookies are too nervous after all of the excessive force incidents to pull anyone over. The highways I take to work are now for race cars…

https://www.ffxnow.com/2021/10/28/fairfax-county-police-grapple-with-understaffing-retention-issues/