SFPD eliminates motors?

nakedape

Well-known member
Jeez, it’s like homework in here. But I started it!

It’s not camera enforcement, it’s people authorized to cite using additional photographic evidence. Like body cams support prosecution or exculpate. No, it won’t work with masks, obviously.

City traffic enforcement: they must be lumping in parking cites to those stats! I work with long time cops and live next to, wait for it, the eastern traffic division of SDPD. I literally line up with the motors in the morning and observe them ignore 2-3 red light runners right in front of us. Priority calls guarantee low infraction enforcement here. SF is similar. I don’t know about in between but I’m am aware of the correlation between stops and additional crime investigation. Opening random front doors would result in a lot of crime being discovered, but the threshold for vehicles is so low, it’s the very definition of low hanging fruit.

I had an injury and rehabbed at the same clinic preferred by police in Marin county. It was full of uniforms every visit. There were more motor cops in there than in proportion to the force as a whole. I had on gear so we spoke about it. Much like civilian riders, the job has inherently higher risk of serious injury or death. Like the presidential escort motor deaths. WTF is up with that?

About reported vs observed crime. Police don’t really hold anyone to account on a large scale. People hold themselves and others to account, arrest and jail is just a pit stop on the way to a judge or jury. PD are the middlemen so to speak and most crime is reported by non-LE entities, not observed. I get why it’s frustrating to actually develop a case and have the dumbass political DA kick it back, but let’s be real, the system is broken. Almost everything the DA does to keep that 90% conviction rate perverts justice, and undermines LE.
 

JHicks

Basically Homeless
Not quite. You must pull right and yield to any authorized emergency vehicle with at least one solid red to the front (21086a). No need for a LEO to be piloting it.

Thanks for the correction. The meter maid force wouldn't be able to have that light is what I was getting at.
 

MR662

AFM #662
Jeez, it’s like homework in here. But I started it!

It’s not camera enforcement, it’s people authorized to cite using additional photographic evidence. Like body cams support prosecution or exculpate. No, it won’t work with masks, obviously.

City traffic enforcement: they must be lumping in parking cites to those stats! I work with long time cops and live next to, wait for it, the eastern traffic division of SDPD. I literally line up with the motors in the morning and observe them ignore 2-3 red light runners right in front of us. Priority calls guarantee low infraction enforcement here. SF is similar. I don’t know about in between but I’m am aware of the correlation between stops and additional crime investigation. Opening random front doors would result in a lot of crime being discovered, but the threshold for vehicles is so low, it’s the very definition of low hanging fruit.

Pre_covid I would write approximately 150 tickets a month for moving violations such as cell phone use while driving, stop sign violations and speeding at 15+mph over the limit. Our department as a whole would write approximately 1000 citations a month. We are a city police department so Im not sure what google source your using for your data, but you are incorrect.
 
Pre_covid I would write approximately 150 tickets a month for moving violations such as cell phone use while driving, stop sign violations and speeding at 15+mph over the limit. Our department as a whole would write approximately 1000 citations a month. We are a city police department so Im not sure what google source your using for your data, but you are incorrect.

MR662, no coffee for you.

You gotta pump those numbers up if you are going to get that easy bake oven.


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KooLaid

Hippocritapotamus
I literally line up with the motors in the morning and observe them ignore 2-3 red light runners right in front of us. .

Oh man, imagine if they did pull over EVERY single one of them every time. The people might be inclined to feel that they live in a police state out to harass people and collect money from the working poor.
 

Shaggy

Zoinks!!!!
Oh man, imagine if they did pull over EVERY single one of them every time. The people might be inclined to feel that they live in a police state out to harass people and collect money from the working poor.

Mod Warning:

This post stinks of snark. LEO bashing in this forum is prohibited.
 
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tuxumino

purrfect
I think the SFPD has to motor divisions, the guys on Harleys and the Honda squad that rides Suzukis. Are they going to eliminate just one or both? The dual sports seem useful in SF.
 
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