Coast To Coast Street Justice (Trees And Things)

jwb: Re: Pre-ordained results.

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:35:47 EST

C'mon, Bob. For one thing, there doesn't seem to be any backing for the overtime claim except for the breathless, baseless pseodojournalistic rant of your final link. The newspaper article on this subject says the raid was paid for with a grant

MayorBob: Pre-ordained results.

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 16:13:23 EST

Are you going to seriously argue that the Riverside PD is going to blow $500K in overtime pay and not come away with enough in ticket revenues to justify the bust?

jwb: Re: Found guilty....of something

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:30:03 EST

Are you seriously arguing that the cops issued them 150 tickets for things that aren't illegal?

1fastdog: Found guilty....of something

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 11:21:07 EST

Christ on a crutch, man. What are you, 80 years old? Are you gonna be yelling for 'em to keep off your lawn next?

These kids are gathered in a parking lot, probably private property, in the middle of the night, almost certainly loitering by the legal

skeeter1: Re: You're absolutely right.

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 01:06:16 EST
Shit, I probably should have been in jail.
"These kids are gathered in a parking lot, probably private property, in the middle of the night, almost certainly loitering by the legal definition of that word, or creating some kind of other public nuisan

jwb: Re: You're absolutely right.

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 17:42:28 EST
I'm having a hard time working up some sympathy for the street racer crowd. First of all, a cop doesn't need a warrant to search your vehicle. All he has to do is ask, and you have the right to decline but 99% of people are too chicken to do th

MayorBob: You're absolutely right.

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 13:11:31 EST
Traffic accidents cause a shitload of death and injuries in the US. But the story really isn't about that aspect of it. Call them whiny, but none of the things cited in the story address the issue of accidents or street racing.
They'r

jwb: Re: Coast To Coast Street Justice

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:32:11 EST
What is this story about? The unfairness of cops protecting the public from a lot of scofflaws? It sounds like a bunch of whiny jerks complaining that they got caught.
Motor vehicle traffic is the #1 biggest killer of Americans, aside from d

skeeter1: Re: Coast To Coast Street Justice

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 01:30:39 EST
"constables from the Atlantic to the Pacific stand ready to enforce the law against grandmothers who don't pay their traffic tickets, red light camera scofflaws and phantom street racers."
I must say, I spend some time listening to a police scann

Mary Jo Kopechne: Re: You know what really pisses me off?

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:59:26 EST

But who do the cops pull over? Somebody doing 65 in a 55 on the highway.
It's like when you were in school. The teachers only punished the good students because that's the only ones it worked on. The bad students didn't

thefadd: Re: Coast To Coast Street Justice

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:36:37 EST
Did she really think that the court would just forget to reschedule?

They did in Orange County, CA.

gerrymander: Re: Coast To Coast Street Justice

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:57:57 EST
The full article on Parker paints a far less sympathetic picture than the write-up. The parking ticket is no big deal, but contempt for the justice system is. Back in 2000, Parker knew that she was enough in the spotlight to request a continuance for the c

pO157: You know what really pisses me off?

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:53:30 EST
I live in a stable area surrounded by "less desirable parts of town." It's not uncommon to try to drive through those areas on your way to and from legitimate activities and have to avoid maniac gang-bangers who think the traffic laws are some kind of advi