What's the deal with motor vehicle violations?

Besides the point, which is of course, "Canada blows. USA! USA!" [1][1] I may need to point out that this post is sarcasm at some date in the future.Edited by NoNukes, : GOJF card added

Police in many situations are not held accountable when I think they should be. We have discussed a number of examples in this thread, and we've been discussed how bad decision making does not result in punishment. Fix that and you make some progress.

The assumption here is that drivers, left to their own devices, would travel at the speed of light if possible and that there is no reason other than getting caught to travel at a lesser speed.If people are going to simply tack on 10 mph to whatever the posted speed limits are, then perhaps their assumptions about what will draw a ticket will have to be proven wrong. Almost nobody has ever seen posted speed limits of 80 mph. Perhaps the behavior we see now won't be duplicated at speeds that high. Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Traffic tickets in general? Yes, many localities issue warrants for people who receive speeding tickets or other moving violations and then fail to show up for their court dates. But generally speaking, you can clear those things up by simply showing up at the clerk's office sometime before the po-po finds you and making your payment. There's nothing new about failure to show up for court being a crime. The court cannot tell whether you forgot or if you are just expressing your contempt for the judicial system. Yeah, I think issuing a warrant is probably justified.That said, I think an arrest for unpaid parking tickets is pretty special. I've hadn't heard of that before. I just remembered that I have an unpaid ticket at Duke university. Yes, that's a pretty serious issue. In some cases people who are currently self sufficient can be driven into complete poverty by the court system. You shouldn't be able to go to jail for parking tickets. I don't see any difference between that and debtor's prison.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

The conviction and sentence may very well be unconstitutional. There are some exceptions such as using profanity as part of fighting words or as part of a speech inciting violence, but those activities are already unprotected speech. Yelling profanity just for the purpose of expression enhancement, surprise, or because you whacked your thumb cannot be criminalized.

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