Coffee Texas Police Department.

[TexHill]

There are several small Texas towns that are notorious for having police departments solely to write speeding tickets. Coffee City just happens to be the worst example.

[ThirdWatcher]

There are several small Texas towns that are notorious for having police departments solely to write speeding tickets. Coffee City just happens to be the worst example.

IMHO, public safety will never get out of the current “crisis” until issues like this are resolved. As Stickman said, writing tickets sometimes does more damage than good. The people we serve have to believe we have their best interest at heart (the law must be administered in love as it says in The Word).

After I retired I went to work for a smaller municipal police department The Sergeant told me he expected one ticket a shift. I replied “tougher people than you already tried that one with me”. If a ticket was warranted I wrote it (usually out of crashes). I’ll be damned if I’ll write someone a ticket just to please some idiot Sergeant.

[jsbhike]

IMHO, public safety will never get out of the current “crisis” until issues like this are resolved. As Stickman said, writing tickets sometimes does more damage than good. The people we serve have to believe we have their best interest at heart (the law must be administered in love as it says in The Word).

After I retired I went to work for a smaller municipal police department The Sergeant told me he expected one ticket a shift. I replied “tougher people than you already tried that one with me”. If a ticket was warranted I wrote it (usually out of crashes). I’ll be damned if I’ll write someone a ticket just to please some idiot Sergeant.

Growing up it was rare to take a trip in to town without seeing local cops grossly exceeding speed limits, having someone pulled over writing speeding tickets, and/or tail gating others with the occasional violating a traffic control devices tossed in the mix as well. Oddly enough, running stop lights didn't seem to be that big of a deal based on seeing several violated right in front of cops.

Not a high crime area, but the few murders that occurred tended to go unsolved.

[ThirdWatcher]

... Oddly enough, running stop lights didn't seem to be that big of a deal based on seeing several violated right in front of cops...

Running red lights and stop signs was my pet peeve. The first fatal crash I ever investigated involved an adolescent male who ran a stop sign and was killed. He should have been pushing 60 now but he never even made it to adulthood. (I still remember his name, all these years later. R.I.P.)