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So only give citations after something bad has happened? What are some examples of non-ticket based traffic safety, and how will they help reduce dangerous beh

• mjevans 4y ago
  Station a police officer to direct traffic. To lead a procession. To hang out in a school zone. As a strong deterrence only. No intent to hand out tickets for minor infractions rather than literal crimes. Maybe also look for anyone on today's BOLO lists. Or just, instead of traffic specific police, put them back on beat patrols where they walk around and interact with the community in positive, peace and order, encouraging ways.
  • ryantgtg 4y ago
    Good ideas. Though I’d argue that some CVC violations can only be addressed through tickets. Window tint violations, for example, produce a dangerous situation the entire time that vehicle is in operation. No amount of traffic direction and whatnot can fix that - only a ticket to remove the illegal tint.
    • ryantgtg 4y ago
      Furthermore, I’d also argue that “fear of a ticket” is a very important deterrent to dangerous behavior. At present, the fear of a ticket is largely unfounded because cops do not seem to enforce traffic violations aside from using them as pretexts to stop and frisk (my experience is in LA). Managing traffic at distinct locations - especially if it’s known that violations aren’t enforced elsewhere - will have minimal impacts on overall driving habits. It’s the specter of omnipresent monitoring that will change behavior (to say nothing, of course, about actual engineering solutions). But that specter has to be grounded in reality, which right now it isn’t. The cops have given up, and people are starting to catch on.