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.
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.