John B. said: (quoted from post at 18:16:09 01/22/13) Everyday at the start of their shifts the police have a meeting and go over their agendas for their shift. They need so many tickets for a given time.
I was a cop for over 20 years. What you wrote is horse puckey. Yes, you need to have enough tickets at the end of the month to show you are actually doing your job, but there's no morning meetings outlining any "agenda". You watch too much TV.
As far as giving the ticket to an old lady in a white out, it used to be that you could put that down to environmental conditions. The insurance companies in my state complained about that for years. Eventually the accident reports got changed and you couldn't use environmental factors any more. So then we were using the "Other human error" box for a while after that and in cases like this would annotate something along the lines of "Op V-1 became disoriented during white out conditions and was unable to bring V1-1 to safe halt before leaving roadway." or something to that effect. Well, the insurance companies and bean counters nixed that idea too, so that option disappeared. At the end when I was getting ready to retire the only non-ticketable accidents were car-deer type accidents. Yes, it's about revenue- for the insurance companies- and no, in many cases the cop has little discretion in whether or not a ticket is issued.
In this case, I would first talk to the DA or whoever prosecutes these matters and see if a reduction or dismissal could be had. If not, I'd ask for a jury trial.
This post was edited by Bret4207 at 04:11:39 01/23/13.
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